Nate Whitehill wrote a post 2 days ago entitled ‘What Motivated You To Start Blogging?‘. He is asking for readers to send their answers via email or in the comment section of the post. It will be interesting to see how different people got into blogging.

I have been blogging before I even knew I was blogging. When I first started using the internet I used to post on forums frequently, very frequently. My thoughts, rants, questions and answers were being posted on the internet but they were scattered across dozens…

I’ve now been back in the UK for a month and in that time I have slowly settled back into normal life, by normal life I mean working regular hours. The bulk of my internet work is now done Monday to Friday.

Of course, being self employed on the internet gives me a lot of freedom with my time and I am able to work the hours I want (as long as the work gets done). The reason I choose to work Monday to Friday is pretty simple, it’s the…

I touched upon this subject a little in my ‘Top 10 mistakes new bloggers make‘ post in June and in my ‘John Chow‘ post yesterday . Specifically I spoke about how a lot of new bloggers are just repeating what other bloggers are saying and that many are scared to voice their own opinion as they don’t want to rock the boat. The blogosphere is huge and with more and more blogs springing up every day it gets that little bit harder to make you and your blog stand out…

John Chow is one of the most popular bloggers in the blogging world. Love him or hate him, you can’t deny the man’s ability to generate buzz and make money from his blog.

One aspect of the ‘John Chow’ phenomenon which has confused scientists for the last year is the high percentage of new bloggers copying everything to do with his blog. Instead of just listening to John’s advice about blogging, many new bloggers are simply copying every aspect of his blog. A case of monkey see monkey do. Perhaps if the…

Released a few days ago, the hope in dark theme from kalinawebdesigns has an adspot area built in and is widget ready. Worth a look if your on the lookout for a new skin for your wordpress blog.

Info & Download : here

I received an email on Tuesday from a website called FeedM8. The site makes allows your blog to be read more easily on mobile phones. There are a lot of services like this on the web but since they have taken the time to email me directly about this I thought I would post about them

Once you have signed up you can add your blog details. You can then see an example of how your feed will look like on a mobile. Here’s what the Blogging Tips feed looks like…