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When I started to take over this blog from Chris Crum, one of my first posts was about NaBloPoMo back in ‘08. I was wondering if there are any new contenders for this year (’09) that are up to this?

If you are unfamiliar with NaBloPoMo (shortened for: National Blog Posting Month), it is a challenge for bloggers to post every day (including weekends) for a full month revolving around a topic/theme (as delegated by the official website).

Any previous NaBloPoMo’ers around that want to share their experience?

Hello! I’m Chad, and will now be providing the frequent content for this blog. I would like to commend Chris on his contributions to this amazing blogging resource. I am honored to blog here in his stead, but be on the lookout for occasional posts from him on here in the future.

Guess what? Blogging has it’s own month! If you are familiar with National Novel Writing Month (commonly known as NaNoWriMo), blogging now has it’s turn! National Blog Posting Month (nicknamed NaBloPoMo) is a challenge to write one post a day for the rest of the month. Are you up to this challenge?

There are various prizes (now I have your attention?) to be awarded to bloggers that win this contest–mostly donated by others that are contributing to this project.

If any of you out there are participating in this challenge, make yourself known by leaving a comment. It will be interesting to see how many readers of this blog are contenders of NaBloPoMo.

Flock is a web browser, which is built on Mozilla Firefox, and it has just left beta. The draw to Flock as opposed to other browsers is its social integration, which includes that for MySpace, Facebook, Digg, YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket and Twitter. Mike Sachoff talks a bit about it here.

what’s probably most intersting to bloggers though, is that Flock also includes a built-in blog editor, which is compatible with TypePad, Blogger, WordPress, Blogsome, LiveJournal, and Xanga (Flock recommends WordPress, TypePad or Blogger).

According to Flock:

Once configured, Flock remembers your username and password for one or more blog accounts. To confirm that your account information has been saved, open the accounts and services menu by clicking on the Display Accounts and Services button in the top bar. The button is represented by a picture of a key. If the account was added successfully, the account will appear in the My Accounts section of the Accounts and Services sidebar.

Your browser can also automatically publish blog posts to a notification service, such as Technorati. A notification service alerts people when you post a new blog.

I haven’t used Flock yet, but I have to admit it sounds kind of cool. They have more details about the blogging capabilities here.

What are your thoughts on Flock? Anybody used it for blogging?

First of all, thank you to everyone who decided to participate in my first group writing project. We had a total of 16 entries… I was hoping for a few more but I didn’t promote the project as well as I should have. Hopefully we can get more people involved next time.

Below you will find the final list of entries. You have one week to check them out and post a list with your favorite ones. To make sure every vote is counted please send me a link to your list of favorites. Voting is open to everyone, even if you didn’t participate in the project.

I had fun reading through the entries… there are some really good ones!

• How To Play Tailgating Games by Dave Lamm
• Fixing a Windows Unmountable Boot Volume by Bret Sweeden
• Twitter: Why It’s So Great And How To Effectively Use It by Tibi Puiu
• How to Target Social Media with Specific Posts by Steven Snell
• 12 Tips for Seniors Accepting Awards by Carolyn Bahm
• How to Improve at Chess by Mark Radford
• How to Blog ? My Top 10 Blogging Tips by Dexter Panganiban
• How to Hire an Attorney by Andrew Flusche
• How To Start A Blogging Business by John Crickett
• How to break religious attitudes and learn from anyone by Robert Henru
• How to Start Reading Blogs by Brad Shorr
• How to Support Our Veterans’ Education Benefits by Kevin Hodges
• How To Run An Awesome Group Writing Project by Jacob Share
• How to Keep Parents Happy When You’re Sticking Them with Cookie Dough by Jim Berigan
• How to SURVIVE a 26.2 Mile Marathon by Sandra Sims
• The (X)HTML Document by LearningNerd

I don’t know if you noticed but PureBlogging finally reached 1000 RSS subscribers! Yep, the little counter up there sits on 1040 subscribers as I type this post. To celebrate reaching this milestone I thought we should give something away.

What about money? Everybody likes money, right?

Here are the rules:

• Write a “How to” post. No matter what your niche is, you should be able to come up with a “how to” post… “How To Start A Blog” or “How To Find A Date” or “How To Paint Your Toenails.” You get the idea. Please only submit new posts… old posts will not be eligible for prizes.
• Please consider putting a link back to this post so that your readers know you’re participating. It is not required - but it would be appreciated to help spread the word.
• Use the contact form and send me the URL of the post, the title and your name.
• Once the final list of entries is published, you should browse through them and post a list of your favorites. You can pick a top 10, top 5, top 3… whatever you feel like. (Please don’t include your own entry on this list.)
• Points will be awarded to the entries selected on your list of favorites and the authors of the 3 entries receiving the most points will win $100 each.
• Entries can be submitted until midnight of next Tuesday, May 27. I’ll post the list of entries on Wednesday, May 28 and then give you guys a few days to post your lists before announcing the winners.

And there you have it. You even get to decide the winners!

Good luck and have fun!

Great job everyone! The Comment Contest took a little longer than I thought but you guys finally came through.

PART 1 (Comment # 3500):
The comment # 3500 was posted by Phillip from Affiliate Lounge. If your looking for information affiliate marketing be sure to check out his blog.

PART 2 (Spread the Word):
The randomly selected winner for Part 2 of the contest is… egon from Contestu.com. If you’re looking for more contests be sure check out his site.

Congratulations guys! Send me your PayPal/Entrecard email addresses and I’ll send out your prizes.

Thanks again to everyone who participated. I really appreciate you taking the time to get involved. Now, anybody have an idea for the next contest?