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This week’s group writing project is now officially closed with 80 submissions (see the complete list here). Thanks to all who participated. Now the ‘judging’ of submissions begins. Head to the full list from this week and do a little surfing of what people have written. While there is no ...more

Perhaps my post on remembering that blog readers are people was a touch too ‘warm and fuzzy’ – so I thought I’d balance it with another characteristic of blog readers that it’s well worth keeping in mind as you blog…. that being that…. Blog Readers are selfish! Ok – that ...more

Chitika have announced a new version of their WordPress plugin that works with WP2. The improvements include: The plugin configuration is now done through the WordPress options tab. No need to edit the files. To put a eMiniMall right into your blog post, there is now a little button on ...more

David Pogue from the NYT has a good interview with Ana Marie Cox, blogger from the massively successful Wonkette. She’s also recently been hired to become Washington editor of Time.com as a result of her blogging. In it he asks her about how she got into blogging (Nick Denton discovered ...more

Dave Sifry gives a few basic tips in next month’s Wired on how to get more traffic to your blog. It’s pretty basic stuff but has a few good points (his headings are in bold – my thoughts after each with links to where you can read more on each): ...more

103bees is a free tool for analyzing inbound search engine traffic. As with most tools of this nature you use it by adding a small piece of javascript code to your template and it then goes to work analyzing what SE the traffic is from, what keywords they come to ...more

Breaking News!!! Your blog’s readers are people. Have you ever lost sight of that fact? If you have – you’re not alone. I suspect that most of us as bloggers forget it from time to time. In the busyness of life, in pressure we put on ourselves to post regularly, ...more

I had an email today from two different newbie bloggers who wanted me to pass their thanks onto contributors of the current Group Writing Project where bloggers of all levels of experience are sharing how they’d do things differently if they had to start their blogs again. Here’s a quote ...more

Dr Dave has written a warning for WordPress users regarding a possible security problem. He doesn’t go into details (probably a good thing) but warns people to turn off the ‘Anyone can Register’ option on your WP blog and delete any guests that you’re unsure of. He writes: “Leaving it ...more