When you start up a brand new blog, unless you are already well known in the industry, it can be hard to gain a large following of subscribers very quickly.  And since many people judge a blog’s success based on those crucial subscriber numbers, it makes sense to start off with a bang to get your blog lots of attention.

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Ranked by Technorati, according to the number of sites/blogs linking to each, this is week #109 as posted by The Viral Garden blog. The number you see after the blog name is how many sites/blogs that Technorati claims have linked to the blog in the last 6 months.

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Below you’ll find my (Darren Rowse - ProBlogger.net) latest update on how I make money blogging (this is something I post about every few months - although it’s been a over six months since I last did it ).

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Ever wonder or even worry if you’re Do(ing) the Right Thing (Spike Lee) when it comes to properly giving credit for information in your blog posts that you either quote or paraphrase? It’s formally called “attribution” and it basically means giving credit where credit is due. It’s the opposite side of the fence from plagiarism, which basically means stealing content from others. It’s convenient, but not necessarily valuable or correct, to just give a “read more” link to the original source of your reference. Unfortunately, that’s more than what some of us may have done a time or two as we matured in our blogging abilities. Believe it or not, there are kind people out there whose passion it is to encourage a higher caliber of blogging by using attribution, amongst other skills, properly. Jonathan Bailey at BlogHerald and PlagiarismToday is one of those people. How to Provide Attribution in the Blogging World is an excellent tutorial worth reading…a few times at least!

In light of recent content attribution controversies, this article provides some simple steps to help bloggers determine proper attribution for material they include in their blog postings. read more@blogherald.com

We’re looking at OpenSocial carefully and feel that we may potentially have a lot to contribute once the API is fully baked and OpenSocial has matured a bit.  …read more

Performancing is all about encouraging bloggers to make good blogs. And this year, we’re going to recognize the best blogs in the business with the first annual Performancing Blog Awards.

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