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Topix Starts Crawling Blogs
Topix.net has started crawling blogs. They announced yesterday on their Weblog that they’ve added 15,000 blogs to be crawled. This is significant news on two fronts. Firstly it is yet another way to get your blog exposure. Similarly to being indexed by Google News if you can get into the ...more
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Top Entrepreneurial Blogs
About.com’s Entrepreneurial page has a list of the Top 10 Most Practical Blogs for Entrepreneurs. It’s a pretty decent list of blogs – most of which are on my daily reads list. Here they are: Small Business Trends Just for Small Business WorkHappy.net Duct Tape Marketing Home Office Voice Sacred ...more
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Entrepreneurial Interview
Solo Tees just published a 5 question interview with them – questioning me around the topic of Entrepreneurship and my blogging business. I hope you enjoy it.
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Is the bubble back in online media?
It’s the wrong end of the day for me to be digesting much of this article but Is the bubble back in online media? looks like an interesting read over at Online Journalism Review. It’s got comments from a variety of ‘experts’ on some of the recent sales of new ...more
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Blogs n Dogs
Blogs n Dogs not only wins the award for one of the quirkiest conference titles but also looks like it could be one well worth attending – with some interesting topics being covered: * Managing your public life online * Blogging and the arts: Web 2.0 independent music publishing, photographers ...more
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Blogging as a Business – Business Structures are Key
I’m feeling quite grown up today – I’ve recently hired an accountant and today we’re getting together to talk company structures, bookkeeping, tax and the like. One of the stressful parts of starting a blogging business has been getting the administrative side of things up and running. I’m not at ...more
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Bloggers SUCK – Lessons from Forbes
Forbes has an article in it’s latest edition attacking blogs. It’s called Attack of the Blogs (subscription required). I’ve decided not to read it – mainly because to do so I’d need to subscribe to their online section. Part of me (the cynical part) actually wonders if the whole article ...more
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Opinion on Pajamas Media
I’ve had quite a few people ask me what I think of the Pajamas Media launch that is approaching. I don’t really have any comments to make at this stage except to say that it looks like an interesting concept and am looking forward to seeing how it goes. Wired ...more
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Comment Spammers Sink to a New Low
I just saw something that made my stomach turn. A ‘comment’ left on this blog that read: Help save the people in katrina! Donate money to the red cross! :) -Jakob The link then went to viagra (no follow tags used). That has to be one of the lowest examples ...more
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