Infrastructure

Posted by Matt Craven

Earlier this week, Jeremy Wright asked about the backend infrastructure of the various blog networks. This was in response to a fascinating survey published over at Pingdom showing the OS, infrastructure, and other information about 7 large sites, including TechCrunch and others.
While I don’t pretend to speak for the hosting industry - or any […]

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March 3, 2007 0 comments

My new column and part-time gig at 901am.com

Posted by Matt Craven

I’ve long been an admirer of what David Krug is up to over at 901am. He’s covering relevant news sprinkled with witty opinions and great insights into what is happening in the world of blogs and social media.
I’m honored that David would ask me to contribute - my first post is up talking about blogging […]

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February 2, 2007 0 comments

Reflections on my time at The Blog Herald

Posted by Matt Craven

It’s now public that we’ve sold The Blog Herald to an undisclosed buyer.
I wanted to take a few moments to reflect on my time as Publisher at The Blog Herald.

Taking Over
When we first took over The Blog Herald on February 25th, 2006, we were coming in behind a very strong blogger in Duncan Riley. […]

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December 3, 2006 5 Comments

Tony Hung interviews Matt Craven over at Deep Jive Interests

Posted by Matt Craven

Tony Hung, a blogger of ours over at The Blog Herald, spent some time last night interviewing me about a number of topics, including The Blog Herald, our recent changes, and the divesting of parts of our blog network over the last few weeks.
Other than the “bloody divesture” commentary, it’s a pretty good read :)
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November 26, 2006 0 comments

BlogMedia, Problogging, and the road ahead…

Posted by Matt Craven

Our company has been in existance in one form or another since 1994. We finally got around to moving beyond an informal business relationship and incorporated in 2001. It was in 2005 when we decided that blogs were a growing market - and since we had more than a passing interest in new […]

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November 25, 2006 8 Comments

1 Year as a Professional Blogger ( My Story. Behind the scenes of the blog networks)

Posted by admin

It’s been one year since I quit working.
It’s been one year since I told my boss goodbye.
I have been tempted to go back to work.
I have thought long and hard about going back.
But everytime I just decide it aint worth my time. Trading time for dollars is just nuts especially when I get nothing […]

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August 22, 2006 7 Comments

Successful Blog Merger part one

Posted by admin

Ok,
So the successful porting of College-Startup and ProBlogging has been accomplished. Now time to move onto stage two. Slapping the old College-Startup theme on ProBlogging and settling in for the long haul. Sorry for the dust and I’d like to talk to you about the future direction of the site.
ProBlogging will be reborn as […]

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August 14, 2006 1 Comment

Blog mergers

Posted by admin

This blog will die soon, and be reborn like the Phoenix. I will be merging College-Startup and ProBlogging in the weeks ahead as well as upgrading a few things around the place so bear with me here. It’s been an ugly ride lately around this domain hopefully we can change that.
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August 12, 2006 1 Comment

Having An IPO for Your Blog

Posted by Ben

“Initial Product Offerings” are hugely important for your blog. Whether its a theme, or whether its a helpful pdf, or even selling buttons. You can’t miss out on an opportunity to give something away for free! Or even better sell something if you are an established blog. Here’s what it does. It creates great opportunities […]

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August 10, 2006 4 Comments

Five Steps to Becoming a Four Figure Blogger

Posted by Ben

Hi, My name is David Krug. I own a variety of blogs and am a jack of all trades master of none. I have some really cool ideas of what to do with this site. But for the time being I will saturate my appetite for sharing ways people make money on blogs that is […]

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August 2, 2006 9 Comments

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