The past year has been one of the most rewarding periods in my (yet short) life so far. With a chance to try out full-time blogging, I got a chance to build up a range of blogs, forge relationships with tons of bloggers (and PR staff, unfortunately ), and of course, generate a (relatively) [...]

Experienced software entrepreneur, Dharmesh Shah, recently posted a list of 8 “magic” numbers software entrepreneurs should try to strive for when building a startup if they want to win the Web 2.0 “lottery” (think multi-million dollar valuations and acquisitions). And for some reason or another, looking at it prompted me to visualise those numbers in [...]

Performancing has officially launched its latest service, Performancing Exchange (PE), in its quest for world blogosphere domination. Basically, it’s supposed to be “…a classifieds style marketplace for the professional blogging community…” where everything from blog auctions, paid blogging stints, partnerships and services can be advertised.
But for the most part (currently at least), it’s a job [...]

Unwinding, but instead of dumping all blogging activities, you write some more – just on something you’re either more comfortable with or just so weird your brain doesn’t register it as blogging. That’s what “uncorking the juices” means to me. Yes, you’re probably calling me a nut at the moment, but I can’t blame you [...]

Only two days back, I was blasted (by many, many emails) by a blogger after I politely refused to exchange links on one of my tech. blogs. The primary reason I gave was that I had a policy of no link exchanging on that blog, and if you take a look at it, you’ll see [...]

blogHelper was deemed to be Really Awesome only a few days back, so you might not have expected me to participate in yet another one of those viral “I’m a [insert something here]” kind of projects so quickly.
But like the previous one, Darren Rowse’s “Are You a ProBlogger?” quiz was just too much fun to [...]

Ever spend 8 hours blogging, but generating less than a third of what you wanted to write in that period of time? If you have, then you’ll surely appreciate Easton’s 9 tips on wasting your blogging time at BusinessBlogWire (yeah, you read that right).
Here’s the gist of his thoughts:

Use blog search tools ineffectively.
Read too [...]

Most of us bloggers know what Google AdSense, Yahoo Publisher Network or Chitika eMinimalls are – to the extent that they line our pockets, that is. How many really know anything about how pay-per-click advertising started? What the hell is “Wanamaker waste”, for example?
Why is it that every pundit is predicting online advertising to grow, [...]