Saturday, August 5th, 2006

Changing Your Blog’s Domain Name: Oh, The Pain!

I’m sure some of you have noticed that there has been an interesting blog domain name change in the past week or so. Yes, it was Dell’s decision to change its corporate blog’s name from one2one to Direct2Dell - with a corresponding shift in domain name.
Oh, The Pain!
WTF? Any individual blogger would have thought twice […]

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Book and Movie for Blogger of One Red Paperclip Fame

If you thought a house was the only reward for Kyle MacDonald’s creative paperclip trading efforts through blogging, think again.
It seems his story has attracted the likes of publishers and producers, with a recent news release confirming that he has landed a book deal with Random House, and a film deal with DreamWorks.
This just […]

Friday, July 28th, 2006

BlogKits - A Disappointing First Look

BlogKits, one of the two blog-centric Cost Per Action (CPA) ad networks we looked at last week, released a small list of merchants and offers available two days back. Did I mention small?
I’m feeling a bit underwhelmed by the offers that are being showcased at the moment (just six), with a couple of them involving […]

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Technosailor Redesigns + Restructures (and So Will blogHelper)

After two weeks of labour, Aaron Brazell has completed the redesign of Technosailor - with key restructuring (or rather, re-architecturing) having taken place. Two new “views” have been implemented to supplement the current reverse chronological blog “view”. They are the Conversation view where recently commented posts float to the top, and the Best Of view […]

Friday, July 21st, 2006

Increase in Transparency in Professional Blog Design Pricing

Professional blog designs were once not only luxury items (and still is, and should be BTW), but also mysterious things which had their costs shrouded from the public eye (a.k.a. the average blogger). After all, having to ask for a quote can be pretty daunting.
But with a kickstart from Chris Pearson early last month, it […]

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Two New Blog-Centric Ad Networks

Blog-centric ad networks aren’t new. We’ve had Blogads for years now (4 years to be exact), and only in May this year, we saw BlogHer launch an ad network aimed at female bloggers. For the big boys (e.g. Boing Boing, Techcrunch, etc.), we have Federated Media.
This isn’t stopping two new ones from popping up though. […]

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

No Matter How Late You Are, Don’t Screw Yourself

When I wrote yesterday’s post suggesting the use of two forms of linkblogging (speedlinking-linkblog-style and semi-linkblog-style) when you’re “late to the party” (i.e. late at blogging on breaking news), I couldn’t have predicted that Darren Rowse would promote a post by Tony Lawrence on how you could screw yourself by linkblogging poorly onto ProBlogger’s front […]

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

If You’re Late to The Party, What Should You Do?

Yesterday, three pieces of news were all the rage in the tech. blogosphere.

FeedBurner Eats Blogbeat
Yahoo! Homepage Gets Remodeled
YouTube Hits 100 Million Milestone

Ken Yarmosh at Technosight says this is part of the “me-too” mindset - where only a few blogs provide the scoop (signal) while the rest are plain noise.
But Nick Wilson (from Performancing) rightly argues […]