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TIME Wins Linkbaiter of the Year Award
Time Magazine have pulled off the Link Bait of the year with their Person of the Year Award. They’ve named ‘You’ (and me) as the winner of the award. By ‘You’ they give the award to anyone involved in user generated content – that’s social media, blogging, video sharing etc ...more
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Speedlinking – 15 December 2006
Chris has finished his excellent series of video casts on 7 Essential WordPress Hacks at Tubetorial. Today’s your last chance to vote for ProBlogger in the Weblog Awards – we’re 150 votes behind the leader of the pack and battling for 2nd place so far. Pimp Your Work has a ...more
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Speedlinking – 10 December 2006
Kevin reflects on 9 keys to networking via blogs for introverts (bouncing off Rob May’s How to Network: For Introverts) something I think I need to read as the king of introverts! Leon asks What is SpeedLinking? and tries to come up with a definition of it, looks at who ...more
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Full Text Feeds Or Partial RSS Feeds? – Another Test Case
The old Full Feeds vs Partial Feeds debate is back with Digital Inspiration posting Do You Publish Full Text Feeds Or Partial RSS Feeds? It’s actually an interesting post because Amit demonstrates the impact of moving from partial feeds to full feeds upon Digital Inspiration. He noticed a jump in ...more
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What People Searched Yahoo! for in 2006
Searching for a topic for a new blog? One approach is to look at what people are searching the web for and Yahoo! has helped out today by providing us all with a series of Top Ten Lists of 2006 in different categories. Of course there are only so many ...more
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Speedlinking – 6 December 2006
Two announcements are echoing around the blogosphere today: Jason Calacanis today announced he’s taken up a new job after leaving AOL Entrepreneur in Action (EIA) at Sequoia Capital. The Blog Herald’s new owners have been announced as a network called the Bloggy Network Ltd – not to be confused with ...more
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The Blog Herald Sold
Congratulations to Matt who has just announced that the Blog Herald has been sold…. again (it could be the most bought and sold blog going around with another sale or two). There’s no mention of who bought it or how much it was sold for but Matt has decided to ...more
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Google Reader Creates a new ‘A List’
After months of frustration with Bloglines and an increasing array of bloggers reviewing Google Reader very positively I decided a couple of days ago to make the switch – at least temporarily to test GR. I’ve been using it for a couple of days now and am getting used to ...more
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The Death of the Page View and the Ongoing Challenge of Monetizing Websites
Steve Rubel has posted a post titled The Imminent Demise of the Page View which puts into words a conversation that I’ve been hearing an increasing amount of publishers talk (and worry about). The crux of it is that with the rise of pages using Flash and Ajax pages are ...more
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