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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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