Yesterday I looked at 5 methods for being creative. Today I’d like to look at some attitudes to build into your approach if you want to be a more creative person: 1. Curiosity I’ve written previously on the topic of curiosity because I’m convinced that it is an essential skill ...more

ShoeMoney and MediaWhiz (the owners of Text Link Ads) have today launched a new ad service – Auction Ads (aff). I’ve been lucky enough to dig around the back end of Auction Ads this last few days and it’s a professionally designed ad service that I think will suit some ...more

I’d like to welcome Glen Stansberry from LifeDev (feed) to Problogger. Glen has offered to write a series of posts looking at how to use creativity, productivity and organization to improve your blogging skills. With the blogosphere ballooning to gigantic proportions, more and more blogs are springing up in every ...more

Yesterday we reported that AdSense were testing new ways of showing the ‘Ads by Goooogle’ links on their ad units. Today there’s confirmation that it is indeed a test which is being done on a minimal number of impressions of publishers ads. The following was the response from AdSense to ...more

I was just surfing over at Amazon tonight (I’m trying to spend a gift voucher – anyone got any recommendations for cool books/CDs on there?) and I came across a book being released this week – Frank Warren’s “My Secret: A PostSecret Book” (aff). Its a book bouncing off the ...more

During the Last Group Writing Project (on the topic of Lists) I was quite overwhelmed by the number of entries. The list that we ended up with had a total of 301 lists. The main problem with the final list of entries was that despite containing a lot of great ...more

A few weeks ago Google announced a partnership with Viacom (NYT Coverage) to allow their AdSense publishers to put video clips (MTV video) on their websites with embedded advertising in them. In the last 24 hours they’ve begun to roll out the program and a select group of publishers have ...more

There comes a time in many blogger’s lives when they are faced with the decision of whether to let a blog die or whether to continue with it. This week I want to explore the why and how of letting blogs die. You see there are many great resources around ...more

Fellow Aussie entrepreneurs Ben Barren and Michael Leone have today unveiled and officially launched gnoos – a local (and global) search tool that aggregates the most current Aussie blogs. I’ve been playing around with it during it’s beta test and it produces some great results. I’m looking forward to seeing ...more