More and more bloggers are using in-text advertising services such as Kontera to earn extra revenue on their blog. It’s something that is frustrating me more and more.

Daniel from DailyBlogTips posted today that bloggers should Stay Away from In-Text Advertising. Leroy from Green Lama then posted about it and said that In-Text Advertising is Not Evil. I’m not sure where you all stand on this one but i for one agree with daniel 100% on this. I really do despise these ads and iits putting me off reading a few…

Performancing have released a new clean wordpress theme called Gangway. It’s a very well designed theme which im sure would suit a lot of blogs out there (though i recommend modifying it a little to suit your blog).

Name of Theme : Gangway
Download : here
Demo : here

This plugin was released the other week. It’s a plugin which allows you to add your skype status to your blog. There are various buttons you can display

Show Call - Show the call me button.
Show Add - Show the add me to skype button.
Show Chat - Show the chat with me button.
Show Info - Show the view my profile button.
Show Voicemail - Show the leave me a voicemail button.
Show Sendfile - Show the send me a file button.

I use skype all the time but im not sure if im too keen on adding a skype button…

Just about every blog is covering this but incase you haven’t read it i thought id cover it

HD DVD, a sponsor of Digg, asked Digg to remove a story which had a HD DVD key noted on it.

Digg replied through their blog.

Hey all,

I just wanted to explain what some of you have been noticing around some stories that have been submitted to Digg on the HD DVD encryption key being cracked.

This has all come up in the past 24 hours, mostly connected to the HD-DVD hack that has been…

Due to the nature of blogging, there is a tendency for posts to get lost in the blogs archives. It can be incredibly frustrating when informatitve high quality posts you spend a long time writing get lost in your blogs archives. This is particularly true for posts in the first few months of a blog. Some blog genres tend to get low traffic at the weekends too, something Brian Heys brought up in his ‘Do you blog at weekends?‘ post the other day. Certainly, web development and business related blogs like…