Don’t get too excited it will take a while for everything to settle, but it looks like it is Google Page Rank update time again. This means your blog could shift around in search results leading to more or less traffic. For those of you getting higher page ranks you might be able to leverage [...]

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Looks like we have made it to another Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Aye, today be Talk Like a Pirate Day! On this fine day, everyone can talk like a pirate all day long. ‘Tis a fine way t’be speakin’, and if ye’ disagree I may make ye’ walk the ol’ plank and send ye’ [...]

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Over on The New York Times, you can start to understand how bloggers are slowly shifting corporate opinions and actions with their article on business travel bloggers starting to change the way companies treat travellers.
He had reserved a room at the Muse Hotel near Times Square, with the understanding that the rate would include [...]

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If you want a shot at winning a one week complimentary stay (for up to 4 people) at a beach front apartment in Estepona on the Costa del Sol Spain, you should check out Darren Rowse’s Problogger.net. He has a new group writing project up that is sure to receive many responses as the topic [...]

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Sarah talks about her work and how it went ahead and added a blog, rather than a traditional site.
The store is more of a design showroom than a generic, cookie-cutter furniture store. So instead of creating a traditional website, we decided to go with a blog. Authored by the designers, and managed by me, the [...]

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Recently, I put up a post on why people blog, and really it brings up another subject that has been highly debated in my family: personal blogs are too personal.
Many blogs, including my personal one, discuss my family members, friends, and people I come into contact with in great detail, and some of them [...]

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I got an email from the Performancing team just today announcing the Performancing Exchange. It’s supposed to be a “FREE marketplace for the professional blogging community.” Nick Wilson also posts on the Performancing blog:
After much discussion with members, we are about to launch the Performancing Exchange (http://performancing.com/exchange). The title above pretty much says it all, [...]

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Dealing with comment spam is getting harder and harder, even BloggingPro has taken a hit or two lately by various spamming methods, and we use Akismet here.
Lorelle goes over some interesting content specific spam that she has recieved lately.
These new comment spammers look for related keywords and post a vague but specific comment related to [...]

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When I first started writing a journal on my site, it was nothing more than an html news page that I kept updated using my favorite text editors. Later, I was introduced to PHP, and wrote some simple scripts that helped me keep my site updated, without worrying about coding html every time I had [...]

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The practice of linking to other websites is traditionally the domain of blogs. In efforts to provide adequate citations, bloggers oft link to, and even quote, external sources, and this may include competing sites or blogs. However, it seems that mainstream media (MSM) outfits are now adopting this.
From the NY Times:
The Washington Post, The [...]

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Well, audio podcasting has become more popular than bloggingg these days as Nielsen//NetRatings announced today that 6.6 percent of the U.S. adult online population, or 9.2 million Web users, have recently downloaded an audio podcast. That is almost a full 2 percent higher than those publishing blogs, which currently sits at 4.8 percent of the [...]

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Time flies when you are fighting spam. It seems like only yesterday they were at the two million spam mark but now Akismet is showing over one hundred million spam blocked.
This will probably be the last spam milestone we blog for a while, but a few hours ago Akismet passed 100,000,000 spams blocked. Whoa.
When [...]

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An interesting idea that is starting to gain some attention is the idea of blogsitting, a service that would connect bloggers with a bit of extra free time, looking for exposure to blogs where the primary writer is taking a break, but does not want the site to do the same.
Darren Rowse takes vacations [...]

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The interview over at Blog Herald is also about other things in regards to b5media, but I think the most interesting area of the interview is Jeremy Wright’s thoughts on the “death of blog networks”.
Jeremy Wright is the President of b5media, a very popular and large blog network.
Many are proclaiming the coming death of blog [...]

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The Blog Herald, one of the sites I used to frequent quite often, has got a new, more spiffy look. Their old look had an almost Kubrick style to it, and the new one looks much more like a newspaper. I think it is a little too white for me, but we will have to [...]

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We are not even half way through the week, and the blogging world is a buzz with some recent developments of bloggers moving from their full time jobs to go into the world of startups. Rober Scoble recently left Microsoft, and Om Malik has decided to become only a contributing editor for Business 2.0 magazine. [...]

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Darren Rowse is getting ready to receive his first child into the world, and as all other parents out there know, it can be a crazy time for the family. Darren has let it be known that he is planning on taking around two weeks off, and has set in motion a plan for his [...]

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Another court has ruled that site owners are not liable for comments on the site.
From techdirt:
It happens all too often that some website owner in the US is sued with claims of libel over comments on that site in an open forum. We usually point to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and note [...]

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Updated from Akismet and b5media.
Jeremy Wright, President of b5media, recently contacted me to let me know the inside scoop on their purchase of Akismet. Continuing b5media’s tradition of being very transparent about their business moves, Jeremy has given me the answers to all of my questions.
The reason b5media went and purchased a full commercial license [...]

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Wisdump, the new name of WhiteSpace, has a great article up where Scrivs says that when you are moving from an old blog design to a new one, you should package up your old one and give it away to the masses to have. Not only can it be a great promotional tool by including [...]

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