CategoryPro Blogging News

Voting is open for the $5000 Blogging Scholarship. There are some good bloggers in the list but after a bit of consideration I went with Paul Stamatiou (who I’m a regular reader of and admire as a blogger). It is a bit of a difficult one actually as there is ...more

Google has continued to integrate blogs into their news site by extending their ‘Alerts’ service (that emails you any time any site in their new index writes on a particular keyword) to cover blogs also. This is very cool (I should say that the ‘idea’ is cool – I’m yet ...more

I’m back from our few days away. Thanks to everyone for your well wishes for our little break. It was a nice time away although we had some pretty below average weather and I’ve come back with the flu unfortunately. I hope you enjoyed the mini-archives series that I ran ...more

A friendly public service announcement for those engaging in global communications…. Daylight Savings started here in most parts of Australia over the weekend. I’m told it also ended in many parts of the northern hemisphere. While it signals the start of summer to us Aussies I generally find that over ...more

Loren posts that Google will tomorrow launch a Custom Search Engine which will allow publishers to create their own specialized Google Search Indexes made up of specific sites. This will include a revenue sharing model that is similar to what AdSense offers through it’s search box. Loren quotes a Financial ...more

Steve Rubel has written a couple of posts in the last two days reporting on how Google is integrating their blog search more and more into their Google News service. This gives bloggers even more incentive to use Google’s Blog Pinging Service (the main way that Google suggests you get ...more

ProBlogger reader (and a mate of mine) Matt Glover is having a Group Drawing Project over at his blog Chewing Pencils. In it he’s inviting bloggers to draw Christmas Cartoons. It’s a pretty similar format to my group writing projects – but Matt’s will actually have a winner – chosen ...more

I was just surfing over at Amazon tonight (I’m trying to spend a gift voucher – anyone got any recommendations for cool books/CDs on there?) and I came across a book being released this week – Frank Warren’s “My Secret: A PostSecret Book” (aff). Its a book bouncing off the ...more

Over at b5media’s internal blogging forums there’s an interesting thread going on where the question was asked (by Jason) – ‘what do you do for a living?’ So far the answers show a real diversity of occupations – from business consultants to stay at home moms, to pro bloggers, to ...more