There is a great post up on Read/WriteWeb about bloggers, the types that are currently out there, and where the blogosphere may be heading. It is a bit long, but very enjoyable, especially if you are interested in blogging for a variety of reasons.
Here is a snippet from the article:
It was a good conference and […]

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Read/WriteWeb has an article up that shows the results of two polls they ran, one was in January of this year, and the other was earlier in July. They ask where we read and manage our RSS subscriptions. I am all about online RSS readers, and it seems like I am not alone, with the […]

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So the news broke, and some of my colleagues in Bloggy Network have already expressed their opinions when it comes to Google buying FeedBurner for $100 million dollars and so I wanted to recap some of what they have said, and add in my own thoughts on the acquisition.
Ahmed believes that this will provide Google […]

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So the news broke, and some of my colleagues in Bloggy Network have already expressed their opinions when it comes to Google buying FeedBurner for $100 million dollars and so I wanted to recap some of what they have said, and add in my own thoughts on the acquisition.
Ahmed believes that this will provide Google […]

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Big news today for those of you that have been jealous of WordPress.com’s statistics, they are finally a plugin for those of you hosting your WordPress blog elsewhere. Much like Akismet, the new WordPress statistics plugin called Automattic Stats has been released. It is a service based plugin, that requires a WordPress API key.
I […]

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Over on BusinessWeek’s Blogspotting has posted some interesting details, it seems like the growth of new active blogs has slowed over the last few months, and they are going as far as to say that we are peaking, at least in the English speaking world.

Here’s his answer: “The number of new posts per day that […]

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The title of this post is the same question that is being asked at WPDesigner.com today in hopes of judging a fair price for what I assume is a custom WordPress theme. I have priced getting one created before, and the price for me has ranged from about two hundred dollars, all the way up […]

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Over on franticindustries they have a list of the top forty blogs according to their FeedBurner subscribers. While it isn’t precise, and he even mentions going about it in an unscientific way, he still releases his results and they are fun to read.
Here is a snippet from his article:
However, FeedBurner, for some reason, isn’t […]

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Peter van Gerner recently e-mailed me to let me know about a survey he is running which is focused upon bloggers and social bookmarking. The results will be published on his blog, and it only takes a few minutes to complete. The survey closes on the 14th of March, so please take a look. If […]

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Abe Olandres has written an article on the Blog Herald about how bloggers are paid and how they should be paid. He mentions a few things blog networks could do to make their writers happier including things like:

Traffic Bonus
Seniority Bonus
Performance Bonus
Travel & Training
Schwag Bags

I love his write-ups for each section and totally agree with his […]

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If you love tracking your blog’s statistics, there is one piece of software that has had a lot of press, especially today, as Shaun Inman’s Mint gets an upgrade. Shaun talks about the changes on his newly redesigned site, as well as the upgraded design of HaveaMint.com. He also launches a site to track the […]

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Darren Rowse pointed out some startling news, it seems the deal between Performancing and Pay Per Post wasn’t set in stone, and has now fallen through.
When I saw it, my jaw dropped as many of the people I know were not happy with Pay Per Post taking over Performancing’s Metrics blog stats package, and now […]

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It looks like four seconds is considered the average cut-off mark now for getting something readable on the screen of your visitors, before they stop waiting and move on, so optimizing your site is ever more important, even with the adoption of broadband around the world, you still need to make sure your site can […]

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Tris Hussey talks about a post that Lee Oden wrote on RSS Readers.
Lee mentioned that his biggest RSS subscriber base was via e-mail. Not bloglines, or anything else, but e-mail. People still love that delivery system, and if they have an e-mail account, they don’t have to subscribe to another service. I like RSS […]

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Let me preface this by letting you know that I am Canadian and as such I have a sweetspot for blogging statistics for my own country.
Over on Canoe.ca, a popular news and information site, they have an article up that takes a look at the popularity of blogging in Canada, and while there are […]

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There have been many reports about the Google Sandbox over the ages of blogging, but recently Pearsonified has put up a great graphical look at leaving the Sandbox, and I thought the article deserved to be featured here.
It really is amazing how powerful Google is in terms of pushing traffic all over the Web. […]

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I recently stumbled upon a July 2006 report by PEW Internet entitled Bloggers: A portrait of the internet’s new storytellers (PDF) and I was intrigued that the word WordPress did not appear on the text a single time. In the telephone survey done to determine blogger- and blog-related data, the most used blogging platform was […]

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