CategoryPro Blogging News

Good Storm is working on a service for bloggers called MeCommerce which effectively puts a little book, DVD and CD store right on your sidebar. At a first look it doesn’t seem much different to running Amazon ads in your side bar until you click one of the products highlighted ...more

Congratulations to PaulStamatiou.com for landing a ‘Blogger Internship’ at Yahoo – another blogger finding indirect opportunities opening up as a result of their blogging activities. I’m predicting that the second half of 2006 that we’ll see a lot more of this type of thing. found via blogHelper

Sportsbook BetUS.com has started taking bets on which blog will top Technorati’s Top 100 on New Years Eve this year. It’s a shameless self promotion really but it’s is a novel way of making money blogging so I thought I’d link up. I doubt anyone will beat Xu Jing Lei ...more

Gilad has produced a WP plugin that resolves the non-www/www/index.php issues with WP and that redirects them all to one consistent location. Peter Forret has been tracking down blog spammers and found one in Austria (via the newly designed BlogHerald) WP’s Theme Viewer has relaunched with a new design – ...more

I don’t generally post every announcement that we make over at b5media but this is one that I think fits with the ProBlogger focus of bloggers finding new ways to build commercial blogs. Today we’re announcing four new cobranded blogs with VIP Fan Clubs – the official fan club and ...more

iZachy has a very interesting post comparing email newsletter services called – Are Your Subscribers Getting Your Newsletters?. In it Ken (a different Ken to the last post) compares services from FeedBlitcz, Squeet, FeedBurner and Zookoda. I’m not completely sure on the accuracy of it all for all readers and ...more

It looks like AOL’s relaunch of Netscape is underway. At this point it’s happening as a beta at http://www.beta.netscape.com/. First impressions They are obviously looking to compete pretty directly with Digg but on a wider range of topics (or channels). Their ‘votes’ set up is very digg-ish. One thing I ...more

Marketing Sherpa has opened nominations for their Marketing Blog and Podcast awards. Their categories are: B-to-B marketing Search marketing Affiliate marketing Email marketing PR Advertising Marketing to a specific consumer demographic (ie. women, kids) Blogging or podcasting as a marketing tactic Viral, word of mouth, buzz, social marketing Small business ...more

Melbourne paper, The Age (Sydney Morning Herald had it too) features an article today titled Why bloggers blog which takes a walk through the blogosphere (with a distinct Aussie flavor) talking to bloggers about their motivation for blogging. It features some of my favorite bloggers including Claire Robertson from LoobyLu, ...more