31 Days to Building a Better Blog: Name of the link says it all. This is growing into an incredible set of links, pages, blogs, articles and talent. Every blogger that is remotely interested in blogging as an art/profession/talent/something they can improve, should look at that page from time to time.

AdSense Bad For Bloggers I take it back! Darren, over at ProBlogger, says that he earned between $10,000-$20,000 last month from AdSense. Now, he can get that much because he has 20 blogs, not all of which are about geek stuff (and he says ProBlogger earns terribly) so he has a wide variety of ads. ADSense is not bad for ALL bloggers, just bad for bloggers of the “technical” variety.

Startups For Cheap: That is definitely something to think long and hard about. Anyone working on a cool startup and need a cheap idea(s)/support(er)/communicator person?

MIT Weblog Survey A bunch of places have reported filling it out and some good might actually come out of it.

Microsoft Recruiting Paid Bloggers Many professional bloggers are already poo-pooing the idea but I am not ready to discount MS yet. Microsoft has failed in the content game before but they do seem to have strong groups of people that “get” blogging and promotion through blogging (ala Channel 9, Scoble etc.). CNET has done a marvellous job at content blogging followed closely by others such as Weblogs Inc and Gawker Media. Persistent Microsoft with fair guidance from their own blogging gurus might just hit the mark this time. I cannot imagine the resources that a Microsoft blogger would have at their disposal and what they could produce with those resources. Thanks Threadwatch PS: I am quite tired of the phrase “get blogging”. Successfull Blogging is about faithful and clever journalistic marketing and not some tech savvy utopian ideal that only certain people are privvy to. Everyone gets blogging and good/useful […]