CategoryPro Blogging News

I’m back from a very quick 36 hours away to make the most of the long weekend here. While I was gone there was plenty of action around the blogging community. Here are a few of the stories that have caught my eye so far as I’ve scanned my RSS ...more

Lorelle’s post Fear Not WordPress 2.1 and WordPress Plugins is an essential read for those WP bloggers scared of upgrading for fear os losing plugin functionality. David from Blogging Pro writes a post – Making it Easy to Subscribe to RSS feeds on your blog. Lorelle from Lorelle on WordPress ...more

Akismet have launched a new plugin – version 2.0. It has some great new features which should enhance it’s performance including a search feature (something I’ve been testing the last few days – it’s great), the ability to to discard spam on old posts, a spam counter widget (so you ...more

If you’re in Sydney or will be there for adTech – Sara from the Bargain Queen has mobilized the Sydney Weblogger Meetup Group for a get together at the Arthouse Hotel on 7 February from 7.00pm. Details of the Meetup are here. I’ve already RSVP’d. Hope you can make it ...more

Bill Belew at The Biz of Knowledge puts together a list of 66 Successful Bloggers and What they can teach you (taken from a book by Ted Demopoulos titled What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting – aff). There’s some great blogs there if you’re looking to ...more

Another big announcement over at Performancing’s blog today (seems to be one a week at the moment). New CEO, Chris Garrett, has announced that they are closing Performancing Partners down. This comes of server woes, the resignation of Nick Wilson as CEO, the calling off of a sale of Performancing ...more

I mentioned this in passing last week after my interview with Shoemoney – but today we’re officially announcing the next Elite Retreat San Francisco which will run between 19-20 March. I’ll be one of the leaders/speakers on this 30 seat conference and I’m really excited about it. Other Speakers are ...more

Arieanna is has been pondering around the question of what her niche is. She ends up deciding that it’s about ‘community’. She decides that the description of ‘community activist’ probably describes her best. Probably a good description for many bloggers. WordPress 2.1 is available for download as a release candidate. ...more

I’ve seen a lot of people quoting the recent Nielsen//NetRatings study which shows how newspaper blogs have seen 210% increases in traffic in the last year. While I think it’s an interesting thing I also do wonder whether it’s as big a deal as some are reporting it to be ...more