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Ben, sounds like you accomplished a great deal last year and have much to look forward to this year. Looking forward to blogging back and forth with you!

Enjoy dad-hood!

204 for BusinessBlogWire, out of about 650 FeedBurner subs. I'd guess that the Know More Media network has maybe 5,000-7,000 Google Reader subcribers (around 20,000 FeedBurner subs total).

Great ideas, Chris! Now I REALLY have no excuses. :P

I like this, Doug! Win-win - it fits the spirit of blogtipping quite nicely. :)

Love coComment. It's tracked over 2,000 of my comments and attendant conversations.

Awesome poem, man!

Sorry for the hit-and-run Mark ...

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Thought you'd like it. Great to meet you!

To borrow from an old Simpsons episode - if you're not there, you'd better be dead or in jail - and if you're in jail, BREAK OUT. :)

Two ears, one mouth. Listening is greater than talking.

Great thread here - thanks for rolling this ball, Chris.

Jim, isn't that Marketing Experiments Journal article amazing? Glad to see more folks studying this in depth.

Carry on the fine YouTubing!

Sounds great! I look forward to reading your blogtipping adventures. :)

Nerdilicious indeed - I don't know whether to be thrilled or terrified that I understood everything you just said. :)

Know More Media (the blog network I'm a part of) has like 100 blogs claimed in Technorati and we've experienced intermittent problems of various kinds all along. You did the right thing by just complaining out loud about it - they tend to come help quickly!

Nice to meet you.

Aaaawesome Doug!

Why not? Best of luck, James!

Tip 11: Open Your Mouth. Blogging is a talker's realm. The early bird gets the worm, and the blogger who goes the extra mile in making and strengthening personal connections will excel.

That means commenting at a blog or whipping up a post even on an off-day. It means throwing any fear or hesitation out the window. It means LAUNCHING the thing like you would a rocket - with as much fanfare and awe and commentary as possible.

Love the image. Love #2 especially - la pasión es MUY contagiosa.

Really? Only takes me 3 hours each day to do everything.

J/K - Really true, it takes your whole day if you really want to excel.

Welcome back, Ben! Nice photo of you, BTW ;)

Great points by both of you. I think it helps readers and search engines alike when blog posts have a headline and content that correspond well in terms of their scope and breadth. You can have a really long post about sea otters that covers a lot of mini-subjects within the larger realm of sea otter-dom ... but at least it's still about that one thing. That said, you could split things up into smaller chunks - sea otter news in Sri Lanka, sea otter mating habits in springtime, etc. It does depend somewhat on your readership.

Anyway I went to the store the other day and ... oops, this applies to comments too. :)

Some people get it and some don't. Ben, you officially get it. This stuff is genius.

Minimalism at its finest. Way to go, Ben!

Sweet list, Pete. Thanks for saving the rest of us a lot of time!

Thanks Ben. The project is a good one. It's not a take-over-the-world project - just maybe a shake-things-up-a-bit, see-what-new-things-we-can-learn kind of a thing. I'm looking forward to getting through all 500. There have been many folks helping together and it's coming along nicely so far.

Ben, great job. I love how an unwritten tenet of our blogtipping subculture encourages tipping bloggers that your readers might not yet know about. All three of your tippees here are new to me.

This deserves a link. Well done!

Just stumbled across Unphotographable.