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Curiosity might kill cats but it can bring life to a blog. One of the characteristics that I’ve observed many successful bloggers having is ‘curiosity’. Wikipedia defines curiosity as: “any natural inquisitive behaviour, evident by observation in many animal species, and is the emotional aspect of living beings that engenders ...more

Do you post out of what you know or do you blog intuitively? On the recommendation of Brian I’ve started reading Ogilvy on Advertising (aff) over the last couple of weeks. It’s a fairly dated book in some respects but it’s fascinating to see how many of the principles have ...more

Here’s a quick observation that I’ve made (by no means is this what I consider to be conclusive research – but it’s interesting anecdotal observation). I run a number of newsletters on my blogs. On two of them I’ve noticed that on the day that my newsletters go out that ...more

One last post about my Blogging For Chickens Project for the week. The total donated is now up to 80 pairs of chickens donated ($800AU or $600US). I’ll continue to collect donation for the rest of the weekend but will close it off on Monday morning. Thanks to all who ...more

A couple of links today for workaholic work-at-home entrepreneurs: LifeDev writes an insightful post on the Myths About Working From Home Solostream has a good post on Strategies to Resolve Work/Life Imbalance

Thanks to everyone who has sent me email and IM to let me know that Google is updating it’s page rank at the moment. It does seem that there is an update under way from what I can see. As usual you can check your Future Page Rank here on ...more

I was really excited to hear about the launch of Robert Scoble’s Video Blog in the past week. It certainly caused a stir around the blogosphere as it got lots of mentions on launch and some pretty positive reviews from viewers. When I saw some of the segments included in ...more

The ‘list’ is a popular (and effective) style of blog post that appeals to many bloggers (and their readers). However in chatting to a few bloggers lately using lists can also be something of a trap at times – especially using the ‘mega list’. nb: by ‘mega list’ I mean ...more

Yesterday I had an unexpected phone call. It was from Michael from Google. Now while I do chat to a few Google employees occasionally it’s always at odd hours of the day and usually via email – but this was an afternoon call and via phone. Different…. The accent was ...more