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A couple of related links that came through my inbox this morning: The Stop Snark Manifesto – One blogger’s attempt to end Blog Snark-i-ness Handling Hate – Andy Hagans on ‘Hate’ in the blogosphere

Mathew Ingram has an interesting discussion going on around the topic of Is a blog without comments still a blog? after the flack that Russell Beattie has gotten from not using them. Russell decided to cut comments largely for time reasons as far as I can see it – he ...more

In a recent poll which asked ‘how long have you been blogging?’ I was surprised to find that 43% of readers of ProBlogger either don’t have a blog or have been blogging for less than 6 months. 60% have been blog less than 12 months. As a result I’ve begun ...more

There is lots of news around today about Google’s upcoming launch of the so called ‘GBuy’ payment product and how it will rival eBay’s PayPal system. This has potential to impact Pro Bloggers – many of whom use PayPal in their day to day activities and many who would love ...more

Richard MacManus has a good round up post that takes a look at what he calls the increasing array of Meme Trackers that are pretty popular these days. He ranks Memorandum as the best (he’s a long time fan) but others that he looks at (some that I’d not come ...more

Those of you who don’t read Blog Herald might have missed the news that the previous sale of that blog fell through in the last week. As a result they’ve started an auction process over at SitePoint Forums. Last time I checked the bidding had risen to $19,000 – still ...more

David Sifry has posted the first part in his latest State of the Blogosphere series of posts. This first one as normal picks up the topic of ‘Blogosphere Growth’. The summary statements: Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half ...more

Peter from pc4media has posted asking readers what their Post to Comment/Trackback Ratio? is. Peter’s PCTR (did I just make up a new acronym?) is 0.75 if he doesn’t include trackbacks and 0.66 if he does. Here’s his calculations: ‘1694/2245 = 0.75 (My old methodology.) 1694/ (2245+ 339) = 0.66 ...more

Duncan has been wondering what to do with his Weblog Empire domain for some time now and today announces the launch of it in it’s version 2 incarnation. He describes it as like a dating agency for your blog where you can post about your blog and look for partnerships ...more