End of the month, another quick blog update. Traffic slowed down a tad, due to a shorter month, no MacWorld, and the host server going down. Still ended with about 40K uniques.

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Uh. So a while back MyBlogLog, which was acquired by Yahoo! a while back, are finally requiring people to use a Yahoo! ID to log into MyBlogLog. So today, I logged in (first time in a while) and merged my Yahoo! ID with my MyBlogLog account.

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Here are two posts regarding the subject of blog advertising that I found interesting:

David Airey who believes his blog is being penalized by Google in their search results as the result of a few paid links. The item of contention seems to be the lack of “nofollow” on said paid links, implying that his site was giving an SEO benefit to them for cash.

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The third Webomatica contest should be fun for all involved. I’m looking for bad video game ideas.

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Every few weeks, I do a quick assessment of the general direction this blog is headed. I’m quite satisfied with its current progress and everything above and beyond recently has been icing on the cake. However, there are still some areas for improvement.

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Woohoo. Hard to believe, but this is post number 1,000.

I think this blog is now about a year and a half old and it’s been an entertaining ride.

Highlights: Three front page diggs, links from Valleywag / Techmeme / various others, iPhone correspondent in the field, writing for the Blog Herald, contests, funny / unique responses to posts.

Lowlights: Disparaging comments, scads of spam, site going down, fatigue.

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