CategoryPro Blogging News

Duncan challenges a statement made by Adam L. Penenberg in an article in Wired News that ‘no one has gotten rich off blogs in the West’. I tend to agree with Duncan on this one and wonder if Adam really thought through this statement before sending his article off for ...more

It looks like Google are releasing something that sounds a lot like MyYahoo! that integrates a lot of their services onto a new personalized home page. Initally planned for a June 30 launch, the new home page option, part of an internal project called “Fusion” aimed at better integrating Google’s ...more

Simon Canning wrote a feature in The Australian that touches a bit of blogging and advertising. It largely focuses upon MSN Spaces which it claims makes up a third of all Australian blogs (estimated at 360,000 in number). I’m a bit skeptical of these figures and wonder how their source ...more

One of my favorite bloggers, Toby Bloomberg from diva marketing, has been interviewed over at Robert Scoble and Shel Israel’s book blog – Naked Conversations: Interview: Toby Bloomberg. Here’s a snippet that got my attention – Toby talking about how blogging has impacted her business: ‘Surprisingly, blogging has done something ...more

Jacob writes an interesting piece on Selling Blogs as someone who has been on the buying end of things in his purchase of CSS Vault: ‘A blog in my opinion is groomed and gets its personality from the author/creator. How can this atmosphere be recreated when the site is no ...more

JSLogan has a rant about Blog Coaching – The Next Big Rip Off In The Business Blogosphere? – he doesn’t pull any punches and writes passionately about his dislike for the increasing number of blog consultants that promise to revolutionize any and every business with a blog. ‘I don’t disparage ...more

J.Ryan writes an interesting post at guerrilla news network on a strategy USWeb.com is using to promote clients using blogs. In short they are paying bloggers $5 to write nice things about their clients – even suggesting what such posts might include in them. Here’s a taster of a longer ...more

Fellow Melbourne bloggers James Farmer from Incorporated Subversion has just launched a blog that has gone straight to the News Aggregator named Blogsavvy. James writes about Blogsavvy: ‘Blogsavvy is part a creature of me wanting to write about blogging a lot more, part result of my belief that blogs are ...more

The Word Press forums have an interesting thread running with a warning NOT to use Google’s new Web Accelerator with Word Press. In it they link to an article over at O’Reilly Radar which is a little frightening: ‘Some users of 37 Signals’s new Backpack web application started noticing yesterday ...more