Archive for August, 2007

Quick And Dirty Favicon.ico Creation For Your Blog

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Here's a quick way to create a favicon.ico for your blog. Of course there are more complex (and probably arftul ways to do it), but this will get the job done. Install a copy of Screenhunter, if you don't already have it. Capture your logo Hustle off to the Free Favicon Generator ...

New Creative For Review Me

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

I've been noticing that bland Review Me creative on a number of websites and I've created one that not only jazzes up the image a bit, but really conveys the message behind the program in a clear and concise manner. Let me know what you think of this new creative!

Kuwaiti Blogger Released After Jailing

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Talk about unfair. Bashar Al-Sayegh was arrested and jailed for a comment made in his blog by an anonymous commenter. The good news is, he's been released. Of course, other Kuwaiti bloggers aren't happy about what his case represents. Al-Sayegh was arrested following a comment made by an ...

Google Text Ads Versus Image Ads

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

More experimentation here at Blogging Monetization Headquarters. This one was the easiest of all. I had been running a combination of text and images ads for quite some time on all of my blogs and decided to see if there was a difference between the revenue derived from text ...

Movable Type 4 Now Released

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Six Apart is a company that has been pivotal in the blogging movement with their innovative software, and today they released Movable Type 4, which is clearly their most impressive release to date. "Movable Type 4 is the largest release in the product's history and introduces significant content management and ...

What Should Work Versus What Does Work In Blogging

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Anytime you see a list of all the criteria that make up a blog the list makes complete rational sense. All of the factors are logical and certainly must assure your ultimate success. But the funny thing is, when you go out in the "real world" and look ...

Blogging Banned By UK Military

Friday, August 10th, 2007

No more blogging about military experiences for military personnel in the UK, according to the BBC. Blogging and sending text messages about military matters is now banned without permission, the Guardian newspaper has reported. It follows the row earlier this year when two members of the Royal Navy held captive ...

Is Facebook Killing Blogging?

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

This is one question that I haven't given a ton of thought to. That is, until, I saw Stuart Dredge, ask this very question. He thinks that the Web 2.0 phenomena of personal blogging is very dead. The same goes for Twitter. I got all fired up about micro-blogging, ...

A Labor Union For Bloggers - Get Real

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

A labor union for bloggers is one of the ideas to come out of the yearly Kos convention. The ideas for unionizing are part of a grand vision of the world where blogger s seize control of the power structure in a bloodless coup. The effort is an extension of ...

341 Posts - 101,000 Comment Spams

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Do you think comment spam is an ongoing issue? I do. Tell me that doesn't just border on anti-social and pathological! How bad is your spam problem?