
Find Out if You’re a REAL ProBlogger
Are You a ProBlogger? Here’s a Quiz to Find out for Sure! What did you score? PS: In actual fact it’s me testing the wbquiz plugin – don’t take it too seriously :-)
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How to Leave a Positive Impression on Other Bloggers Through Comments
Lorelle has been doing some great blogging recently and her latest titled How NOT to Comment on Comments has a lot of wisdom in it. She outlines 5 main ways to make your comment count when you leave it on someone else’s blog: 1. Say Something Intelligent 2. Ask Something ...more
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How to Use Interviews On Your Blog
It’s time for another reader question… Eric Allam from 52 Reviews asks: Hey Darren… I’ve read many an interview from problogger, and I was wondering if you had any tips for getting people to agree for the interview?” Thanks for the question Eric – it’s a good one and something ...more
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The Eternal Quest for Uniqueness
What makes your Blog Different? This is a question I think that most bloggers would do well to ask. We’re living in a time when ‘content’ is being produced in vast quantities by large numbers of individuals and organizations. I heard recently on the radio that the internet now contains ...more
Writing Content

Dave’s State of the Blogosphere
Dave Sifry has posted another State of the Blogosphere post based upon the stats that Technorati is tracking. Highlights this time around include: They are now tracking over 50 million blogs What they are tracking is now 100 times bigger than it was 3 years ago It’s doubling in size ...more
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Topix Adds News Trend Tracker
Topix.net has launched a new design and a few nice new features. The look is a little cleaner than it’s previous incarnation but of more interest to me is it’s new graphing feature that lets you look back over a year’s indexing of news sources to see how many times ...more
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Ten Tips for Becoming a Top Digg User
Marketallica has an interesting article by a top 100 Digg user who shares his tips for being successful on Digg (as a user). The english isn’t great (but then again neither is mine at times) but the tips give insight into Digg userland. 1. Recognize Big Stories 2. Track Pulse ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Speedlinking – 7 August 2006
Just a couple of quick WordPress related links today: Michael Pollock shows us how to set up a video blog (or How to add Flash video to your WordPress Site) Max Limpag shows us how to use WordPress to run a magazine news website
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FeedBurner Testing ‘Networks’
Just stumbled upon a post from Brad Feld who is blogging about a new “networks” approach that Feedburner seems to be beta testing. Brad is coordinating a Venture Capital network and defines networks as: “a collection of blogs that fit within a particular topic. The goal is to create high ...more
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