Bloggers Buzz

A reminder that the Legal Advice about Blogging event is still seeking questions:

When it comes to your rights as a blogger do you know them? If your answer is like mine then you might want to check out Got a Legal Question About Blogging? at Simplenomics where Mike will be hosting Bob Silber, international authority on Internet Marketing Law.

Blogtorial has an article 14+2 Tips To Finding Better Web Hosting that will provide assistance to those thinking of hosting their own blog on their own website.

Tags: web hosting, blog hosting, websites, blogs, webhosting

Blog Republic has continued their The Blogger Interviews with an interview with Razib Ahmed:

Razib Ahmed is a blogger for Know More Media (KMM) Network and he works for two blogs at KMM- SouthAsiaBiz.com and IndianRaj.com. He has been a freelance journalist for more than 10 years in Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. He has published over 400 reports and features in more than 20 newspapers in magazine in his home country. Before entering into professional blogging, He mainly wrote about business, computer and gadgets in Bangladesh. He is one the leading IT (Information Technology) writesr of his country and has presented several articles on IT related issues in seminars. He also worked as University teacher for some years. However, his main passion is writing. Razib is 31 years old.

Tags: bloggers, interviews, professional blogging

Copyblogger continues the Magnetic Headlines series with the latest installment, 10 Sure-Fire Headline Formulas That Work

Tags: blogging, blogging tips, headlines

Blog Republic has discovered that google has a powerful rival. All evidence now points to Darren Rowse being more powerful. Exclusive details at Blog Republic!

Tags: darren rowse, google, humor

Blog Republic has continued their Earn Money Blogging Series with part 9 Crafty linking is the key to big money blogging:

One of the keys to making money blogging is to “direct” visitors to pages that are most influential and profitable for you. Exactly which pages on your blog these are might remain a bit of a mystery, but with some investigation, you should be able to discover them. Certain pages will result in high CTR, or conversions, that will directly result in you increasing your earnings.

Continues at Blog Republic

Tags: blogging, linking, professional blogging, money, revenue

WordPress.com has just added two buttons to the recently updated admin bar to report as spam and Report as Mature. Details are:

The first is “Report as Spam.” Occasionally a spam blog (or splog) makes it through our defenses and starts filling WP.com with junk. It’s hard to describe a spam blog, but you’d probably know it if you saw it. We treat these with extreme prejudice. In the past helpful community members like drmike have reported these through the feedback form when they come across them, but this button hopefully streamlines the process.

The second is “Report as Mature.” We try to keep the public areas of WordPress.com family-friendly, so if you come across a blog that primarily deals with adult topics you can report it using this button and someone will take a look at it to properly categorize it.

That’s pretty much it. Each of these systems is human reviewed, so if you’re not sure about something just submit it and we’ll make the final decision. Thanks for your help in keeping WP.com spam-free.

Tags: blogging, wordpress.com

Edition 3 of the WordPress Podcast has aired and included:

# An explanation of the problems we’re having with iTunes, podPress and the reason why there was no episode released last week.
# WordPress v2.0.4 released this weekend.
# WordCamp 2006 is this Saturday!
# Bryan Veloso joins Automattic. (Possibly to head up Shuttle?)
# headzoo’s Live plug-in.
# WordPress-phpMyAdmin plug-in.
# BloxPress2 theme.
# Minimalist Blue 1.0 theme.
# ClickTale, ClickDensity and Crazy Egg.
# Sourdough bread and chocolate from San Francisco.

Tags: blogging, podcasts, WordPress, WordPress podcast