
Video and Blogging
Over at b5 some of our bloggers are beginning to experiment with video in their blogging. Sean at our boxing and wrestling blog is doing Predictions Posts using YouTube. He’s also brought in a friend on some and the results are pretty cool – two guys chilling out and arguing ...more
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Will You Reboot on May 1st?
This post has been submitted by regular contributor – Aaron Brazell There’s been an unofficial holiday on the web for the past 6 years or so. It’s called the May 1st reboot and it refers to the date that web designers have chosen as “spring cleaning” day. The day is ...more
Blog Design

Lessons from a Celebrity Blogger
The following blog case study was submitted by Derek – a celebrity blogger. In it he reflects upon 7 lessons he’s learned in building his blog from 50 to 1500 uniques per day since March. Derek Hail – stealing celebrity dignity and fame was launched on March 13th of 2006. ...more
Case Studies

The Cost of Comment Spam
It seems that bloggers everywhere are giving up the fight against comment spam – Or it least it seems that way to me. I’m not going to start naming names but this week as I’ve read a number of fairly high profile and active blogs I’ve noticed that there is ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Celebrating 34
Today I turn 34. It’ll be a pretty low key day with most of the celebrations happening on the weekend (not too big a deal this year but we’ll have a good night Saturday night). So lets talk presents…. Ok – I’m kidding, i don’t need anything but there is ...more
ProBlogger Site News

Google bans Mango Sauce from AdSense
There’s a fascinating story over at Mango Sauce today that recounts it’s blogger’s (David) interactions with one representative at AdSense who has banned Mango Sauce from AdSense over what it says are violations of the program. The AdSense team member says that MS has content for mature audiences which violates ...more
Adsense

Pheedo’s RSS Ads System Launches
Speaking of RSS ads, Pheedo has been testing their ad service for the past couple of months and are launching this week according to Mark at Weblog Tools Collection. Mark writes that it’s a system for WordPress ads but I can’t see on Pheedo anywhere saying it is exclusively a ...more
Advertising

FeedBurner Ad Network Add Automated Advertiser Signup
FeedBurner have just announced a new automated feature for advertisers to sign up to their Ad Network. Instead of having to go through a manual process you can now do it in a much more streamlined fashion. The process is to: Select a channel that matches your target Create an ...more
Advertising

BBC Continues to Explore New Media
The Guardian reports that the BBC is redeveloping their online presence to be much more new media focused: ‘The BBC today unveiled radical plans to rebuild its website around user-generated content, including blogs and home videos, with the aim of creating a public service version of MySpace.com.’
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