CategoryPro Blogging News

One of my favorite web design sites, Stylegala is up for sale over at Sitepoint. David, it’s owner, just emailed me to let me know the news and I’m going to be fascinated to see how the auction goes. If you’ve got a spare $30,000 (USD) you could just pick ...more

After my post New Blogging Rhythms where I talked about finding myself moving to a new rhythm of blogging due to the busyness of life I’ve decided to make Monday ‘ProBlogger Intergalactic Writing Day’ (perhaps slight too grand a name). I’ve set myself some goals in terms of numbers of ...more

I wondered how long it’d be before someone offered a Blog Backup service – now they have. It’s still in beta and has a 10MB limit on it (when I backed up ProBlogger this week it was 134MB) but it could be useful for some. Found via Weblog Tools. Jon ...more

Here’s a few interesting links that I found on my travels through RSS-land this morning: Steve is blogging at new blog Why My Blog Stinks about different aspects of blogging that you should do if you don’t want your blog to succeed. It’s kind of a reverse psychology ProBlogger which ...more

Which 3 Blogs or Websites would you most love a link from? Why? I’d be interested to see a list of lusted after links to see what blogs are mentioned repeatedly. Share you top 3 in comments or write a post about it and leave a link to the post ...more

“Why is New Media becoming popular?” After being introduced to a friend of a friend as a ‘full time blogger’ the other night at a pub I was asked the above question by the friend of a friend. He accepted that ‘New Media’ is popular – but was at a ...more

The Boston Globe has a piece today on plagiarism and blogs which points to a blog that I’ve been reading for some time now via RSS – Plagiarism Today. ”’A-list bloggers don’t see much copy-and-paste plagiarism because their popularity insulates them,” said Plagiarism Today’s Bailey. ”Unknown bloggers aren’t plagiarized much ...more

If you’ve ever been to a conference you know the anticipation connected with the Schwag Bag which comes filled with bribes gifts from vendors hoping that by giving you a pen, t-shirt, condom, coffee mug, USB drive that you’ll buy their product, give them a favorable review or use their ...more

Topix have launched their publisher platform which enables publishers to sign up to allow Topix to let them use their content in their system on a revenue share basis. To join you need to have a full feed from your blog and the content needs to be your own. There ...more