CategoryPro Blogging News

Scott Karp from Publishing 2.0 has a fascinating interview with Arianna Huffington from The Huffington Post on their recent decision to allow their top Commenters to Bloggers on the site. The idea is pretty simple – Paul Berry explains in the announcement post: “Reading through the comments on our site, ...more

There’s a nice project happening in October called Blog Action Day that is attracting a bit of attention today after it’s launch. The concept is pretty simple – bloggers around the world all committing to post on the one topic on the same day. The first day is October 15 ...more

Digital Inspiration reports that Blogger have added a new feature that allows their users to add comment policies to their blogs. Excellent idea. BlogHer is currently running. This is one of my favorite Blog conferences to watch (from the other side of the world). If you’re there and blogging the ...more

Congratulations to the team behind AuctionAds who today announced that they’ve been acquired by Media Whiz. Well done Jeremy and Dave – don’t spend it all at once!

Time for a Reader Poll – the question is – ‘How Many Different Blogs Do You Personally Post to Each Week’. Note – this isn’t about how many you own, or how many blogs you have that are inactive – I’m looking for how many you actively are a blogger ...more

Read WriteWeb points to the relaunch of one of my favorite organizational tools – Backpack. Anne shares some ways that Writers (and I guess that means us bloggers) can help stop global warming. b5media is currently hiring for 5 new positions including server ninja, junior tech support, editorial director, executive ...more

Just over one month ago Yaro Starak launched a great new Blog Mentoring program called Blog Mastermind. When I first announced the program the reaction to it’s launch was mixed. Quite a few readers signed up, others decided to wait and see what those who signed up said about it ...more

Get your Red WordPress T-Shirts – now available. Chris G ponders the topic of Short Term Gains vs Long Term Value in blogging and observes some bloggers going for instant gratification – perhaps at the expense of long term benefits. One of my favorite blogs, Slacker Manager, has just been ...more

Read Write Web points to FoldSpy – a tool that allows webmasters to see what part of their site is above the ‘fold’ on different browsers. Quite a useful concept if you’re optimizing your ad positioning. Blogging Pointers has just finished a series looking at a variety of blog time ...more