What is a Blog?
So what is a Blog anyway? It’s a good question to ask at the beginning of a Blogging for Beginners Series as it is a question I am asked every week. There are a number of ways I could answer this question ranging from the broad to the highly technical. ...more
Pro Blogging News
How to Blog: Blogging Tips for Beginners
Update: See our more recently published posts on the topic of starting a blog at How to Start a Blog in 5 Easy Steps and how to make money blogging. Welcome to my How to Blog – Blogging Tips for Beginners Guide. On the page below you’ll find links to ...more
Start a Blog
75% of ProBlogger Readers Don’t run Ads in RSS
Last week’s poll asked – ‘Do You Run RSS Ads in any of Your Blog’s Feeds?’ The results: * Yes: 17% (43) * No: 75% (190) * I don’t have a Blog: 8% (19) Total Votes : 252 Comment on the poll were at this post. PS: there is no ...more
RSS
blogging.org – for sale
James Cox is selling blogging.org if you’re in the market for a ‘blogging’ oriented blog URL. found via blogging.wurk.net update: Also Blog Network Forum is for sale also
Pro Blogging News
YPN working to introduce Direct Deposits and Increase Ad Relevancy
Jake from Crimson Light has had a conversation with YPN employee Ray Devlin about upcoming features for YPN and has found thaty direct deposits are one feature that they are looking to add (no date given). They are also work on ad relevancy and other ways of speeding up payments. ...more
Yahoo Publishing Network
Must-have WordPress plugins
NewsForge has an interesting piece on Must-have WordPress plugins which might help some of the bloggers who’ve been asking me about good plugins for WP lately. Found via Weblog Tools Collection
Blogging Tools and Services
Light the Torch – Olympics Blog
In case you hadn’t heard – b5media is having some fun with an Olympic blog over at Light the Torch where we’ve opened it up for others to join us in the blogging frenzy (it’s a group blog with bloggers each representing their own countries – there are even Aussies ...more
Blog Networks
3Bubbles to add Real Time Chat to Blogs
TechCrunch has information on a service that I know will interest some ProBlogger readers seeking to create discussion around their posts. It’s called 3bubbles (to launch next week) and is an Ajax based chat system that you can add to your blog posts (via your templates) which will allow readers ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Insular Linking on Blog Networks
jkOnTheRun has an interesting story on how Blog Networks can get pretty insular with their ‘source links’ (ie crediting where they get stories from). The example given is one where the writer (jk) had been credited as being the source of a story on a Weblogs Inc blog (which was ...more
Blog Networks