CategoryPro Blogging News

There is a good article over at Wired on Wikis and in particular – Wikipedia. I’m a regular Wikipedia user and often wondered how it got going – now I know. thanks to Rachel for the tip

This morning I spent a couple of hours with Blogger and Podcaster Cameron Reilly. Meeting face to face with other bloggers is always an interesting experience but to do it with a podcaster added a new slightly surreal element. Not only have I been reading what he writes daily for ...more

Duncan has started what looks to be a very worthwhile series of posts over at the Blog Herald on Ethics and Blogging – something that we all need to be continually challenged on. His first post is on giving Attribution where due or crediting your sources – something i ranked ...more

Does anyone want to sponsor me to go to Gnomedex 5.0? I’d pay the entry fee but I think the flight to Seattle from Melbourne might be a bit of a killer.

One of the very first investigations that I ever did on blogging was into the idea of ‘length of stay’ on blogs. It was 18 months ago that I began to dig into the topic and got a bit of attention with the following post. I thought I’d repost what ...more

Dave Sifry writes about the increase in numbers of blogs over the past few months in State of The Blogosphere, March 2005, Part 1 and comments on a disturbing trend in the many new blogs that are starting – Spam Blogs. ‘There is a dark underbelly to these numbers, however: ...more

Trevor Cook is writing a fascinating conference paper titled Can blogging retain its revolutionary fervour? Trevor’s thesis is ‘that as the blogosphere matures it will increasingly come to resemble ‘traditional’ media.‘ Its an idea I’ve wondered about myself over the past few months. Some of Trevor’s observations are spot on ...more

In continuing my last post on the BlogAds survey – I thought I’d make a few other little observations – nothing too profound – just what stood out to me as I read through the result. Probably the more interesting responses for me in this survey were: – 92.1% of ...more

Just running out the door for the day (its a long weekend here) but saw that Blogads have released the results of their reader survey for blog advertising. Looking forward to having a look through their results tonight. Adrants summarizes it as follows: 75% are over 30 75% are men ...more