Bloggers Buzz

blogHelper has continued the instructional series How to Use WordPress for a Portfolio Site covering:

• Most recent project(s)
• Featured project(s)
• Image-based project “tagging”
• Portfolio-Blog integration

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, WordPress, Blog Design,

BusinessBlogWire has asked Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today the question How to Stop Bog Content Scrapers? His answers include RSS Feed security and reporting content scrapers to advertisers.

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, rss, plagiarism, blog tips,

Blog Republic has announced that Ryan Williams joined the Blog Republic:

The newest member of the Blog Republic is here and his name is Ryan Williams. Ryan is a veteran gamer who will be blogging about that very subject at Planet Gadgets. At 19, Ryan is an Englishman who loves everything about games.

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, blog networks, blog republic,

Qumana has provided a hack complete with screenshots to overcome problems Using Qumana with Blogger Beta.

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, qumana, blog editors, blog tools,

blogHelper has released a new WordPress plugin, Most Popular Categories by Posts that displays a list of the most popular categories in a particular time period based on the number of poss assigned to your categories.

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, plugins, WordPress, categories,

Feedburner has announced additional features added to their email service:

Subscription management

* Activate, deactivate, and (now) delete individual email addresses
* Receive an optional email when people subscribe or unsubscribe

Communication preferences

* Customize the subject line and body text of the confirmation email sent to subscribers after they opt-in to receive your feed by email. (Handy for using hundreds of languages other than FeedBurnerese.)

Email Branding

* Customize the subject line and title of the email that is sent to your subscribers
* Add an image or logo to appear at the top of HTML email messages
* Change body and headline text fonts, sizes and colors, as well as text link colors

Delivery Options

* Choose your timezone
* Select a two-hour delivery window within which your daily digest will be sent

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, feedburner, subscription services,

Techcrunch reveals that Pilot invites go out for Microsoft’s AdSense competitor:

Microsoft’s long awaited contextual advertising platform, named ContentAds, sent out the first invitations today to prospective participants in its pilot program. Starting on “primarily” (their word) MSN owned sites, Microsoft says that ContentAds will place advertisements using not just keywords but also demographic targeting, geo-targeting and incremental bidding tools.

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, microsoft adcenter, blog advertising, advertising,

Pronet Advertising has written Increasing your blog’s readership covering the aspects of Conversation, Selfishness, Content, Unique, Unexpected and Usability

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, blogging tips,