CategoryPro Blogging News

Two days ago I linked to a couple of people who had written about what blogging had bought them and asked readers to tell us what blogging had enabled them to buy also. Little did I know what the response would be like – even though it is a weekend. ...more

digg / Sports has just launched and sports bloggers everywhere are cheering!

Blogging bought Jayvee a new DSLR Camera (good choice Jayvee). He also points to the car that blogging bought Rick, the camera, xbox and LCD Monitor that it bought David and the house it’s paying off for me. What has blogging bought you? Or… What are you hoping it’ll buy ...more

Lee Dodd at the new Earners Forum discussion forum has just posted an entry on his blog celebrating their 3 week anniversary. I’ve been watching the forums for the last week or two but haven’t had time to jump into them yet but from what I can see they would ...more

I’m slowly getting through all my RSS feeds from being away – almost there! Here’s some more posts that caught my eye from the past couple of weeks: Cybercafe Experiments provides a tutorial on how bloggers can use the Lightbox script to ‘snazzy image loading effects’ on your blog with ...more

Nick Denton has announced that the content sharing partnership that Gawker had with Yahoo has ended. The reasons – it didn’t generate them much traffic, didn’t seem to convert them many new readers, the demographics of Gawker and Yahoo didn’t really match up and Valleywag’s coverage of Yahoo Media head ...more

Jason Calacanis has posted a post that could be the begin of professional social bookmarking (someone better register prosocialbookmarker.com). He’s offering to pay 12 or so top users from sites like digg, reddit, MySpace, Newsvine, Delicious and Flickr to submit posts to Netscape. Read about it at his post at ...more

I’m not back yet from my couple of weeks off (the interview series and guest blogging will continue) but have started wading through my bloglines account to see what I’ve been missing. Here are a few posts that have caught my eye from the last week or so so far: ...more

Nick Denton has a fascinating post regarding a restructuring of the Gawker blog network – it’s called Battening down and in it Nick outlines some of the changes Gawker is making (ending two blogs and reshuffling staff on four others. The reasons for the changes are five-fold: Decreases in Advertising ...more