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One Day Blog Silence In Honor Of The Victims Of Virginia Tech

Steli Efti is one of the most good natured souls I have met whilst blogging, and is truely an educator. As such, I feel it is fitting that he has started this initiative to hold a one day bloggers silence 30th April to honor the victims of the Virginia Tech tragedy.

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Bloggers Choice Award – Want More Votes? (group project)

Bloggers Choice AwardsI have spent some time today scrolling through the hundreds, neigh thousands of blogs that have so far been nominated for the Bloggers Choice Awards.

It is damn hard finding you!

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

I have been a little tied up this week to respond to a number of things and I have always tried to respond as quickly as possible. Please forgive me.

Thinking Blogger Award

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Mike Sansone Cracks The Secret Code to Removing Nofollow From Typepad

For two years people have been struggling to remove Nofollow from Typepad so they can share the link love with their regular visitors who add great value to the conversation on the host blog.
Many blog owners are unaware that the links people leave on their blogs are shrouded with a “link condom” which tells the major search engines to ignore any links left that provide a benefit to the blog community.

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How To Be An A-List Blogger? – My Shortest Post Ever

Rob nails at least one aspect of it.

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Do People Use Feed Counters to Show Off? Top 10 Ways to A Massive Subscriber List

Feedburner for as long as I remember have provided a daily updated feed counter that you can display on your blog. The way the feed count is updated is actually fairly complex as they mentioned in an announcement yesterday that some publishers might notice an increase due to algorithm change.

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Technorati Can’t Cope With Twitter, coComment, Blog Networks, and Blog Rolls

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Technorati simply can’t cope with new forms of blogging and RSS feed generation. I am not talking about splogs, which seem to still be rampant, and reblogs, likewise, but totally legitimate alternative unique content sources that are effectively blogs.

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Best Of Blogs Awards – For those struggling to have their voice heard

The one thing that irritates me about all the “Best of” blogging awards is that they are always, without exception won by the blog that can encourage enough of their own readership to vote for them. Obviously they have the high readership because they write quality content, and have been established for a lot longer to build up their readership, but in some cases that means they win the prizes, year on year, almost by default.

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Terapad Review | Overview and Bugs

A new blogging platform has recently launched called Terapad, so I thought I would take a look.

It is designed to be a complete all in one solution, with not only blogging but also more advanced features such as forums and Paypal support.

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How a Blogroll can kill your Pagerank

I followed a link from Digg a few minutes a go, read the story, and as I frequently do on any site I visit, I snooped around a little.

I actually do exactly the same every time someone writes a blog post referring to me and pings my blog. It is the polite thing to do, and maybe I can add something to the conversation. It also allows me to relate any comment to the person who is writing about me, either positively or negatively. Everyone is entitled to opposing views. What is often important is why they have an opposing view, and it isn’t always obvious.

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How to move your blog or start a new one

21 Surefire Tips for a Successful Blog Launch also contains some great information. Whilst I Digged it, I don't agree with the original comment on Digg.
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