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…
Yesterday I posted a video from the website Free IQ. I’ve been browsing the site for the last day or so and I’ve found some fantastic audio clips, videos and pdf books.

So what is Free IQ?
Free IQ is a place where people can exchange ideas through video, audio and text. Some of the products on the site are free whilst others require you to purchase them. The standard of the free products is high though, check out the blogging section to see what I’m talking about.
If you register with Free IQ you can…
Just a quick post to announce the winners of July’s referral competition
The competition was pretty poorly received so in future I don’t think I will be doing a competition like this again (it’s sometimes trial and error with these things!).
The following people referred a few members and will be getting $50 sent to them via paypal (email me if you have won) :
cmanlong
shypys
Since $100 of last months competition wasn’t used, I will be adding a 2nd debate around August 15th with $100 in prize money 
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