- Mani shares a few tips on developing stickyness on a blog – read more on keeping first time readers on a blog in my previous series on the topic.
- Chris writes – Fear of Blogging, or What Bloggers Can Learn from Shakespeare.
- Technorati have announced a new look and ‘refreshed’ site in the last 24 hours.
- Blogg-Buzz is a Digg like site – specifically for bloggers to submit their posts to. There’s not a heap of action there yet but it could be one to watch.
- There are so many contests around on blogs at the moment (I wonder if I had anything to do with that….) – here’s a novel one. SEO Related Lyric Content (prize $1000).
- 101 Essential Blogging Resources has…. 101 Essential Blogging Resources!
- The story of today is that the rumors of Google buying Feedburner seem to be true. What this means for publishers is anyone’s guess at this time although the reaction to the story that I’ve seen so far around the blogosphere today have been very mixed (I like some of Andy’s points here). What do you think?
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My biggest problem with Google is that even for a 5 figure blogger like me they’re impossible to communicate with quickly when you want to ask a question or tell them about a problem
So I hope Google leaves Feedburners customer support team alone and they don’t turn into a secretive bunch of people like the rest of Google
Hey Darren.
Btw, the 101 Essential Blog Resources is from Adnan/Blogtrepreneur not from 101 Essential Blog Resources lol!
Google has a history of buying applications and making them available for free. (eg: The blogger.com paid version.) So they may make the advanced Feedburner features free after sometime too.
Hopefully Google will keep the Feedburner support team in place. And maybe – learn a thing or two from them and improve their adsense-adwords support too.
Hi Darren,
just in case anyone else goes and is a bit disappointed: Blogg-Buzz looks to be invite-only – that said, you can apply for membership via the contact form.
Now THAt said, I am not sure that they get the “social” part of “social computing” :) Do you know if there is a reason that they are doing this? The wisdom of the crowds punishes people who over-self-promote on Digg, so I am not sure that they have to worry about that? Could be wrong, maybe they are just being cautious because it is low-volume yet and they don’t want their polls to be skewed by the overly-zealous.
Cheers, Andrew
PS: the invite from Blogg-Buzz just came through – six minutes is nothing to wait for a personal vet :)
I like it, thanks for the link :)
Cheers, Andrew
Blogg-Buzz is invite only to prevent non-bloggers from joining. But don’t worry we accept all bloggers, just let us know the blogs you own :)