CategoryPro Blogging News

Technorati have just announced a that they’ve got a new most highly ranked blog on their Top 100 – a blog by Xu Jing Lei which has previously been left out of the list but which has a mass of inbound links.

Those readers in Melbourne or Sydney might be interested in a seminar called ‘Changing Media Landscape’ that Slattery IT is putting on later this month. The topic: “How is the Australian media landscape evolving? The race is on for consumers and workable business models! This seminar brings together an impressive ...more

Steve Pavlina has written another of his comprehensive articles (7000+ words) on the topic of making money from a blog. It’s filled with loads of advice from his own experience of his last 19 months of blogging in which he’s built his own blog’s income to a level of $200 ...more

Dominic Foster has written a post on Benefits of Working From Home which, as the title suggests, outlines some of the upsides of working at home: Choose your own hours Get to see more of your family Save money Maintain sanity Save time He explains each and makes good sense ...more

Comment spammers are getting trickier. Today I had a comment which I thought was from a regular reader of ProBlogger. It had their name, their email, their URL but the comment was a link to a parked domain with just ads on it and the IP address was not the ...more

Philip Lenssen has put together an alternative Technorati Top 100 list, based upon Google Backlinks. The results are a significantly different for quite a few blogs with Instapundit climbing from 7th to 1st, Talking Points Memo by Joshua Micah Marshall climbing from 35th to 2nd and Daily Kos going up ...more

Over at b5 some of our bloggers are beginning to experiment with video in their blogging. Sean at our boxing and wrestling blog is doing Predictions Posts using YouTube. He’s also brought in a friend on some and the results are pretty cool – two guys chilling out and arguing ...more

BlogExplosion have announced that they’ve been sold for in excess of $100,000. Congratulations to them and to Jeremy for brokering the sale.

Over at Kottke.org Jason (and his guest blogger Greg Knauss) reflected last week on the two types of bloggers (found via LexBlog): Referential – ‘uses the link (sometimes referred to as ‘link blogging’) as his fundamental unit of currency, building posts around ideas and experiences spawned elsewhere’ Experiential – ‘inwardly ...more