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Robert just sent me an email telling me about a post that he’s written summing up the ‘Habits of Effective Bloggers’ group writing project that we did last week. In it he’s collated the Habits suggested by the 80 participants and has come up with a list of 50 habits. ...more

Performancing has announced a new service called ‘launchpad’ which is a place for people to post new gadgets, plugins, services, sites and blogs aimed at the blogging community.

I just saw an ad that I haven’t seen before over at Engadget. It’s placed between the end of individual posts and the ‘recent posts’ section. The ad is labeled twice as ‘Advertisement’ but is also very well blended with the rest of the site with it’s heading in the ...more

The reader submissions for the Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers Group Writing Project have continued to come in over night – 13 more to add to yesterdays 16. Once again I’ve posted them all to the central page with yesterday’s submissions. I’m really excited by the quality of some of ...more

Robyn Tippins has just posted a short podcast interview with me talking about blogging, now I got into it, how I transitioned into doing it for a living, how PR and marketing people should pitch bloggers, things I’d do differently and a few tips on blogging and monetization etc. Listen ...more

I just came across a story that makes me quite angry but also has an important lesson in it for bloggers on shared servers. It concerns the story of idolbloglive.com – a blog about Amercian Idol. As you’d expect with a blog on the topic of American Idol it’s a ...more

Thanks to the many bloggers who have been responding to my group writing project on the topic of ‘habits of highly effective bloggers’. I’ve created a central page for linking to all of the submissions from readers here and started the list off with the submissions below. It’s not too ...more

I’ve just stumbled across and interesting discussion on a cooking blog that seems to have overstepped the mark when it comes to using another cooking blog’s content. Head over the Culinary Arts Simple Shepards Pie recipe and then to Simple Recipes Easy Shepherd’s Pie recipe. The Culinary Arts version gives ...more

Early results after 24 hours on this week’s poll show that 12% of ProBlogger readers are earning over $1000 per month from blogging and 4% are earning over $10,000 (making them six figure bloggers if they average that over a year). At the other end of the spectrum 25% don’t ...more