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If you’re looking for experience working for an amazing blog researching Web 2.0 companies and products then you might like to head over to TechCrunch’s behind the scenes blogs CrunchNotes where they are advertising for a Research Analyst/Intern Position. This would be an amazing opportunity to learn from an experienced ...more

I’ve been watching the news buzzing around the blogosphere of Robert Scoble leaving Microsoft to go to PodTech with fascination for the last few days. I’m not fascinated by it really for the news itself (although it’ll be interesting to see how Robert approaches the new roll and whether it ...more

I’ve been wondering when this would happen but it seems that Digg is soon to widen it’s topic coverage from just technology related bookmarking to other arenas: ‘Digg, the collaborative tech news site, will soon branch out beyond geekdom. At a Web 2.0 panel at the eBay Developers Conference today, ...more

The Blog Studio have just released another of their free WordPress templates. This one is called STTP (Straight to the Point) and it comes in Blue, Green and Red. You can see a working version of it here (blue). Ahmed has a timely post (if you’re into the World Cup) ...more

It’s been a while since I did any speed linking – so here’s a few links I’ve been meaning to blog about from the last 24 hours. Asha emailed me yesterday to let me know about a tutorial she’s written on How to place Google AdSense ads between blog posts ...more

I thought I’d have a little more fun with the website graphs and have plotted some competing sites against each other: First Google (left) vs Yahoo (right) – very interesting to see how simple Google keep their homepage in comparison to Yahoo Secondly the battle of the tech blogs – ...more

I’ve known a few bloggers to get cease and desist letters from lawyers from time to time but today I saw a first – a preemptive one to Boing Boing around the anticipation that BB will stream FIFA World Cup matches. Now there’s a great way to engage the blogging ...more

David at Blogging Pro has a piece on why b5media has decided to buy an Akismet license. In short – with 125 active blogs the load of comment spam is massive and we were finding that other tools were just not killing enough of it. Here at ProBlogger I’ve been ...more

Mark Cuban posts on Why I think ClickFraud is far greater than imagined. The whole click fraud thing continues to nag at me as a publisher who is attempting to make an honest living. I know as the current state of play stands that things are good for honest folk ...more