
Using Posting Schedules to Maintain Momentum
Maintaining Momentum in Blogging Series Another strategy for planning ahead that many bloggers use is to create a postings schedule for themselves. This can happen on a range of levels (from informal to very structured) but is often a great way to give some level of structure and motivation ...more
Creating Content

TechCrunch Redesign Update
A few days back I linked to the design saga around the TechCrunch Redesign where the redesign of this popular blog came under significant critique. The design was done by Rachel Cunliffe from Cre8d but it was pretty obvious that there was some level of different perspectives between designer and ...more
Blog Design

YPN Publishers Experiencing Down Time
I’ve had emails from 4 different YPN publishers who tell me that the ads on their blogs are not showing and have not been for most of the day just gone by. Forums like Digital Point’s YPN down? thread seem to confirm that the problem is more widely spread than ...more
Yahoo Publishing Network

Lessons from an Umbrella Salesman
Warning – Tangent Ahead Yesterday I was in the centre of Melbourne and got stuck in the rain (no comments from my interstate friends please). I had left home without an Umbrella and quickly made the decision that I needed to buy one as I was going to be spending ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

How Many Ads Should a Blog Have? – A Visual Breakdown
Photoshopblog has an interesting post that highlights (in visual form) the breakdown of different components of Engadget – specifically looking at the amount of the blog dedicated to the article itself, comments, site navigation, advertising and Weblog Inc navigation. See the full visualization here. The post under analysis is quite ...more
Advertising

Hitting Comment Spammers and Plagiarists where it Hurts
I’ve decided in the last week or so to take my own fight against Comment Spammers and Content Thieves to the next level. Every day I find people wasting my time and trying to make a quick buck from my blogs in ways that are either illegal, malicious, morally corrupt ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Monday – ProBlogger Intergalactic Blog Writing Day
After my post New Blogging Rhythms where I talked about finding myself moving to a new rhythm of blogging due to the busyness of life I’ve decided to make Monday ‘ProBlogger Intergalactic Writing Day’ (perhaps slight too grand a name). I’ve set myself some goals in terms of numbers of ...more
Pro Blogging News

Speedlinking – 14 May 2006
I wondered how long it’d be before someone offered a Blog Backup service – now they have. It’s still in beta and has a 10MB limit on it (when I backed up ProBlogger this week it was 134MB) but it could be useful for some. Found via Weblog Tools. Jon ...more
Pro Blogging News

TechCrunch Redesign Creates Discussion on Blog Design
I was chatting to an artist friend of mine about an exhibition he’s currently involved with that is causing quite a stir in some circles here in Melbourne. I asked him whether the extreme reactions that the exhibition caused bothered him or not and his reaction was that he was ...more
Blog Design