CategoryPro Blogging News

Cameron Reilly and I have had a couple of breakfasts recently and both times we’ve talked about having a Melbourne bloggers get together. Of course with the busyness of life I’ve not done anything about it – but today Cameron has by posting a survey for Melbourne bloggers to respond ...more

I’ve been watchign the Blogebrity Blog with interest this week – it’s been quite an amusing read and a great example of how a blog can get some big inbound links and a lot of buzz from the blogosphere with a little controversy, humor and by listing some big blogs ...more

Interesting interview in Business week with Jeff Jarvis this week which examines his move to About.com and how he sees his work there unfolding: ‘Jarvis explained that about 50% of his time will be spent as a consultant on content development at About.com, the service that the New York Times ...more

Gary has started another ‘challenge blog’ where he’s recording his journey to a Six Figure Income in 12 months (he’s inviting others to join him). It’s a similar concept to Nadav’s 12 weeks $100 a day challenge (a challenge that it looks like most of those who’ve joined up will ...more

Ever wonder what a problogger does while on holidays? Arieanna is posting about her and Ianiv’s holiday with her posts Mmmm Blog-zza and Can we say laptop? I’m tempted to say that its sad – but truth be known it reminds me a lot of my last holiday to New ...more

Will Pate has an interesting post which includes A New Model for Paid Blogging where he suggests that companies who are paying bloggers to blog for them use an incentive system to work out how much to pay bloggers for their posts. ‘Assign points for increases in hits to the ...more

Google are willing to pay Blogger’s using their Blogger blog system $50 to drop by Google HQ in California to let them watch you blog later in May or early in June. Get the details at Blogger User Testing

This is not really ProBlogging news but I couldn’t pass it up. Singaporean students are being encouraged to blog in the inaugural inter-school blogging championships. I wish they had this type of competition back when I was at school! ‘Nine junior colleges and 43 secondary schools will slug it out ...more

I’ve been following Blogtalk Downunder at Michael Specht’s blog – wish I were there.