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Last week’s ProBlogger poll took a tongue in cheek look at Blog Awards and asked readers to identify their favorite one. The results were overwhelming on two front. Firstly by the number of voters. While polls in previous weeks have had over 1000 respondents (sometimes in much shorter time periods) ...more

Don’t spill your Coffee on your Computer’s Keyboard.

Each day I get 10 – 20 emails from readers suggesting posts that they’ve written that I should link to. Here are three from the last 24 hours that I enjoyed: The Most Effective Way To Increase Your Readership, And It’s Free! 10 Tips to Improve the Comment Section of ...more

$14,000,000 Update: Ok Gang – my apologies for not warning that the link contains some information that some people might find offensive. I’ll give you the lowdown here instead…. The story – the domain sex.com has apparently just sold for $14million (USD).

Just a quick link (mainly to remind me to read it later) – Mister Snitch has an interesting piece looking at Gather.com – a service (currently in beta) which will pay content writers money for their content based upon traffic levels generated.

Really disappointed to see that PubCon 11 which was advertised to be on in Australia in February is now being advertised to be taking place ‘early-mid’ 2006. Looks like pulling it together was a little more work than they anticipated. Hopefully they’ll get there eventually.

Interesting piece over at AdAge by Simon Dumenco titled a blogger is just a writer with a cooler name where he argues that blogs are just websites and that there shouldn’t really be as much focus on it (found via Adrants). He explains it better. ‘And it occurred to me ...more

The Mystery blog being sold by Jeremy is the Blog Herald. From what he’s been writing the bidding has been strong with bids now rising to be above $72,000 in the private auction currently being held. I think the ‘private’ part is that it’s happening in private and not private ...more

The 2006 Australian Blog Awards are on over at Collective Apathy (the one previously run at Kek’s blog) with voting opening today. The voting is pretty sophisticated (preferential system) to the point where it’s actually a bit of a process to do so. You need to register at Collective Apathy ...more