Monday, November 03, 2008

Blogged

Blogged.com is about discovering what the best bloggers are blogging about right now, and about finding the blogs that will interest you the most. Blogged is updated throughout the day to bring you the latest and most interesting posts from our index of more than one million blogs.

Blogged.com is a place for both readers and bloggers.

Saturday, November 01, 2008

A Set of Principles for Successful blogging

There are so many books on how to create a blog that will be successful. But with so much reading, one can forget those steps. Here's a list about skills and habits that are important to help you meet your goal.

Taking Your Blog To The Next Level

A good article that provides some insight on how own a blog that you can run like big business: hands-off, by employing others to do your work and taking the left-over profits.

How to Design for Ads in Blog Design

Anyone who has been reading blogs for than a few days will notice that there are two common types of ads in blogs. Those two types are Google adsense, which is essentially a bunch of text with links and banner ad blocks, which often comes in the size of 125 x 125. Then there are three places it often gets placed, the sidebar, inside of a post, or at the bottom of a post.

10 Ways to Find Readers for Your Blog By Leveraging Other Online Presence

One of the simplest ways to grow your blog’s readership is to leverage other places that you have an online presence.

Chocolate & Zucchini

Clotilde

Chocolate & Zucchini is a blog written by Clotilde Dusoulier, a 29-year-old Parisian woman who lives in Montmartre and shares her passion for all things food-related -- thoughts, recipes, musings, cookbook acquisitions, quirky ingredients, nifty tools, restaurant experiences, ideas, and inspirations.

Blog's Eye View

Blog's Eye View
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Skype Blogs

Blog about the latest Skype news, written from the perspective of the people who work at Skype.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

50 Beautiful Blog Designs

We strongly encourage designers to break out the common layout conventions, experiment with new approaches and risk crazy ideas. Show what you are capable of!
Showcase of Beautiful Blogs

Food Network and Blogging Habits

The best blogs are ones that are updated frequently in order to build a relationship with its readers. Someone who does this admirably is Tyler Florence.

Six Steps to a Stress-Free Blogging Habit

If most of us managed our money like we managed our blogs we’d either be bankrupt or deep in debt. We certainly wouldn’t have any savings!

Have you thought of adding gadgets to your blog?

You can make your blog site more useful by adding gadgets to your blog site via Blogger. Check out the YouTube presentation below for more help.

Are blogs becoming obsolete?

Dwight Silverman offers his thoughts on why blogging is so 2004.

Monday, October 06, 2008

Henry Bloget

The one-time Wall Street darling is trying his hand at journalism after being barred from the securities industry. He says blogging isn't always easy, but at least he laughs more.

Saturday, October 04, 2008

Starting a blog?

An interesting article on how not to get sucked in the page-view trap.

Feedburner may not be hearing your pings

Feedburnerlogo150.jpgBlogging is a fast medium, that's one of its advantages over traditional media. There are bloggers who specialize in reporting fast about breaking news on a wide variety of topics. Most of those bloggers use Google's RSS publishing technology FeedBurner as a middleman to deliver their posts to subscribers and capture analytics.

Habari the new WordPress?

WordPress may be one of the best blogging platforms around today, but that hasn't stopped a worldwide community of developers from thinking they can do better. There's a new game in town and they're called Habari.

State of the Blogosphere

Review Technorati's latest report on the state of the Blogosphere 2008 report.

Technorati Authority

Friday, October 03, 2008

Next Post Previous Post Big Blogger Pay Cuts At b5Media



Toronto based b5Media is changing the way it pays bloggers in its hundreds-strong blog network, according to an email memo sent out to partners by CEO Jeremy Wright.

Seven blog news trackers compared

Sites like Techmeme, Blogrunner, and Technorati have been tracking the hottest blog posts for quite some time. Now's a good point to take a look at what makes these sites (and others) individual and different from Google's blog search.