CategoryPro Blogging News

Search Engine Journal’s Loren Baker has just sent me a picture of him wearing a ProBlogger T-Shirt on his recent visit to Google Japan’s offices. Very cool! I always said if a reader sent me a picture of them wearing one I’d link up so here’s a link to a ...more

My apologies once again to readers who use Bloglines to follow ProBlogger but unfortunately it seems my feed has been out of action for the last day or two – again. As I look down my own list of blogs that I follow using Bloglines I notice that the little ...more

Google have just launched it’s Page Creator – a free system that lets anyone with a Google ID to create a webpage quickly with a WYSIWYG technology. Users get 100 megabytes of storage space to make their page. Here’s a screen cap of the sign in page (click to enlarge): ...more

On Sunday I’m on an informal panel that has the brief to discuss the following question, which I thought I might as well open up here for some discussion. Here’s the session brief: In the US right now some of the most influential technology writers are not journalists, they’re bloggers. ...more

Jason Kottke reflects on the year that he asked his readers to support him through donations in a post titled Oh, what a year. His three week fund drive earned $39,900 from 1450 donations. Is he going to do it again? ‘I’m not going to be asking for contributions again. ...more

Steve Rubel presents The Four P’s of Blog Marketing: Passionate, Purposeful, Present and Positional. ClickZ reports that Digital Ads are expected to hit $23 billiion by 2010 – gulp fiftyfoureleven.com writes So Your Content Has Been Copied, Now What? Jeremy Wright talks about how MySpace IS the new Blogosphere

Today has been a massive day of blogging for me. While I tend to have full days with moments to relax – today was full steam ahead. I woke up to find that Lifehacker had picked up the Blogging for Beginners series which was bringing in considerable traffic and quite ...more

I’m seeing a bit of buzz around today about BlogBurst, a service that allows bloggers to submit their feeds to top tier news outlets (like Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle and Houston Chronicle) for republication/syndication. To use it you need to publish full RSS feeds, not have ads in your ...more

Scott Jangro writes MonoBlogs and DiaBlogs Trevor Butterworth writes another blogging is dead type post as does Daniel Gross (via Henry) Ted Demopoulos writes a post on how blogging can help local businesses (via Kevin) Matt from WordPress writes that someone out there is impersonating him and trying to get ...more