Well the dust is settling on a rather interesting time on the web. People have been virtually begging for a page rank update these last few months, and now it’s arrived, they’re probably wishing they hadn’t!
I’m going to attempt to avoid repeating everyone (rare, I know) as there’s plenty out there to read about the [...]

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The main reason that I removed the Blogcatalog & MyBlogLog widgets from this blog was because they would frequently prevent the blog from loading. Although it was more the fault of my theme, which loads the sidebars first (and is not easily fixed), it was a fact that if the widget didn’t load, nor did [...]

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As part of David Aireys first anniversary giveaway, Lisa Gates had the misfortune to win a blog review from me, instead of something useful. So here it is

Lisa runs the blog Intrinsic Life Design, which seems to be a blog about improving your writing (and therefore, your blogging) and the way you go [...]

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If you are sitting reading this, and would like to try your hand at blogging, but are thoroughly perplexed at the thought of templates, plugins, SEO, FTP and all the rest – all you want to do is write – then this review of Thoughts.com may be just what you are looking for.

Thoughts.com is a [...]

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I was tagged about 300 years ago by both Maurice and K from ShanKri-La with the blog improvement meme, and thought I’d better get around to doing it before they forget all about it……
A post with this title should probably be about two thousand points long, but I shall attempt to keep it down to [...]

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I don’t know about you, but I’m really not feeling it for blogging right now. It’s not just writing, although I’m not bursting with inspiration, but I’m not getting much out of my reading either, there seems to be a lot of bad feeling and general negativity around.
A lot of it seems to be emanating [...]

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Always on the look out for interesting new ways to earn about $35.32 over the course of 12 months (Enough sarcasm about adsense) I was quite interested in the new WidgetBucks advertising system, which has been featured recently by both John Chow, and Darren Rowse.
WidgetBucks works by serving shopping related ads based upon categories chosen [...]

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That is the question……
Whilst you can find yourself asking that question before any post, especially if you’re about to give another blogger a good shoeing, I’ve found myself asking it just recently every time a ‘hot topic’ comes up.
DealDotCom, Blogrush, WordPress 2.3 are all very popular right now, yet for every five posts about one [...]

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