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My post last week on What’s Wrong with Blogging has proved to be the hottest post on ProBlogger this week. 45 people have left comments and trackbacks (so far) so its obviously hit a nerve. The discussion is ‘negative’ in nature as I’d asked for (although one or two couldn’t ...more

Scrivs has been writing some interesting information about the 9 Rules network and how it all operates. People want to know the ‘catch’ and Paul is doing his best to show that there is no catch. There are not rules about having ads on your site, no rules about how ...more

Jason Calacanis posted a couple of days ago on Weblogs Inc’s new Comment Spam Fix – The Star System – which allows bloggers to award commenters ‘stars’ for productive comments. They have the new system up and working at TV Squad and it seems to be being received pretty well. ...more

You gotta love stories of online success like this one: ‘Lastminute.com, the British online discount travel agency and icon of the former Internet boom, has agreed to be bought by US travel group Sabre Holdings in a cash deal worth 577 million pounds (843 million euros, 1.075 billion dollars)….’ Read ...more

ProBloggers everywhere will love Google’s latest feature – the Google Content Blocker that removes annoying content from pages so that readers just see ads. I like this section especially: What can I do once the content is removed? Click on the ads: Just click ’em (you don’t even have to ...more

Blogtalk Downunder is getting close now – and some of the papers being presented are truly mouth watering stuff. Papers released so far include: Chris Chesher – Paper – Blogs and the crisis of authorship ZedTycho.com: Kevin Leversee, Barry Steele, Scott Farrell & Mark Neely – Panel – Desire Lines, ...more

It seems that Google is considering integrating its Blog application – Blogger – with its email application – GMail if recent comments by Google’s Biz Stone are anything to go by. He also says that there is the possibility of an ‘enterprise Blogger version’ as well as new features like ...more

Rachel at Designer Blogs has a cool post with 7 different blog layouts used by top bloggers – classified (with pictures) into navigation, sidebar, design and content. She’s even got pretty pictures!

There seems to be an increase in the frequency of postings in Adsense forums from publishers noting that their earnings have slipped in the past few days. Of particular note is that a number of publishers are reporting drops in their ‘per click’ earnings (to get this figure divide your ...more