I posted in my personal blog this morning about the number of subscribers being significantly lower today at Blogging Tips. The number of subscribers at Blogging Tips was 1079 yesterday and today it’s sitting at 538. My initial thoughts were that either my server was down yesterday or that Feedburner stats are incorrect. Since I know my server was not down yesterday I assumed that it was a glitch and it would be resolved in the next few days.
Darren Rowse has just confirmed my assumption that there is a glitch with…
There has been a lot happening in the blogging world this week. I haven’t posted about them as yet so I thought I would do a summary for those who have missed these events. Enjoy 
Google dishes out PageRank penalties
The biggest story of the week is undoubtedly the news about Google dropping the PageRank of some of the most popular blogs and websites on the web. For example, ProBlogger went from a 6 to a 4 as did CopyBlogger and Blog Herald (Daniel from DBT has a good list here). Some have suggested…
I posted in August about the Blog Action Day campaign where thousands of blogs agreed to post today about the environment.
I am the first to admit that I am not the most concious person in the world when it comes to the environment. I never litter, I try not to buy things that I don’t need and I do my best to switch off my TV and laptop when I’m not using them however I know I can do more. For example, my brother and his fiancee take things down to…
One of my favourite blogs, North X East, is up for sale at SitePoint. The auction started off very low so I placed some bids myself but the auction price quickly went higher and higher (and rightfully so).
The latest bid is $3,500 but with 2 weeks to go I can see this site going for at least 5 figures. Best of luck to Collis Ta’eed with the sale, here’s hoping he gets a good price for it
Let’s hope the new owner continues the great work that Collis started.
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It seems like controversy follows John Chow around like a bad smell. Andy Beard today posted about another blogger who paid for a review from John Chow and then complained about the cost.
The blogger in question is Alvin Phang from Gather Success. Alvin had paid for a review of his site Atomic Blogging on John Chow (see JC’s review here). A day later he raved about the traffic he was getting from the review.
5 days later Alvin did a U-Turn and wrote a post called ‘The Most Painful US$400 I Ever Spend On…
