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China’s Ban on Blogger Blogs (and Possible Workarounds)

There has been much speculation about China’s recently imposed “blanket ban” of all Blogger powered blogs. Some believe this is intended to quell references to the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square incident, while others wonder if this is a technical difficulty as hinted on Blogger’s Known Issues page.

In either case, this ban affects blogs hosted on the *blogspot.com subdomain (approximately 275 million) and also those who use a custom …

Written by Amanda Fazani from Blogger Buster
Posted on May 25th, 2009 and filed under Around The Blogosphere, Blogger
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That’s What I Call Dedication!

I’m not aware of any website which recognises the most dedicated bloggers online but if there was, I’m sure John Chow would be in there challenging for a trophy!

On Tuesday John got taken into Hospital because he had gallblabber stones. Incase any readers doubted that he was blogging from his sick bed, he posted again a few hours later to prove that he really was blogging from hospital….

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on December 4th, 2008 and filed under Around The Blogosphere
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Pint Sized Blogger Receives Letter From Obama

CT Moore emailed me today about a 7 year old who got a letter from Obama, 5 days before the election. No doubt this only made the news because it involves the President Elect but what interested me was the kids age.

Apparently the blog was setup for a school assessment. A part of me is encouraged by a kid so young getting into blogging though a big part of …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on November 13th, 2008 and filed under Around The Blogosphere
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What’s In My Feed Reader

I mentioned in a previous post about goals that my early blogging days saw me as what is now termed a “mommy blogger”. As my interest in blogging grew, so did my passion for finding other blogs about blogging, technology, and writing. I still have some mommy blogs (OK, more than “some”–a lot) in my feed reader, but I find that I am mostly reading tech blogs now. I have some …

Written by Melanie Nelson from Blogging Basics 101
Posted on October 31st, 2008 and filed under Around The Blogosphere
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Small Potato Refunds WPDesigner ThemeClub Members

Those who have been using Wordpress on their blogs for more than a year are sure to remember Small Potato (real name Tung Do), the former owner of WPDesigner.

Tung built up WPDesigner into one of the most popular Wordpress design blogs on the net but earlier this year he decided to go travelling for a while and decided to …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on October 23rd, 2008 and filed under Around The Blogosphere
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Blog Action Day : Poverty

Today is Blog Action Day, a yearly event which aims to raise awareness about important issues with the help of bloggers. This years focus is on Poverty, something which affects even the richest countries in the world.

Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on October 15th, 2008 and filed under Around The Blogosphere
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Bloghology Launch Blog Community

I got chatting to Vasilis Pasparas yesterday and he let me know about Bloghology’s new blog community. Instead of developing a forum (like BloggingTips has), Vasilis has developed a more traditional social community, with a similar vibe to FaceBook or Bebo.