I've mentioned Australian INfront founder, and web designer about Sydney, Justin Fox's latest personal blog before, but in a blogosphere choke full of make-money-online and blogs-about-blogging ... blogs, it is refreshing to read something again that is the no-strings-attached real deal. I feel like I've been sitting here all these years watching the world go by, in my "only dead fish go with the flow" sort of way, while ... Read full entry

The key ingredient in the success of a corporate blog is a bevy of groupies, or readers who are fanatical about your brand. The first few readers to your blog will invariably be your brand fanatics. These are the people who want to go out and source new information about your brand. These are the people who speak about your brand to all their friends and swear by your ... Read full entry

One Post Wonder is a graveyard for blogs especially reserved for those with just one post. I wonder what became of the author of Billionaire who seemed to be especially ambitious: This site is reserved for individuals who are actively pursuing substantial wealth as their primary life focus. Needless to say, this site is brand new and will be evolving over the next few weeks. Watch for our ... Read full entry

Sydney digital creative Nic Hodges reposts a blog he, and friend Tim, wrote during their travels to Mexico and Cuba in early 2006. Havana. "You wanna buy cigar? Cohiba? I give good price!!" What a crazy place. It's hard to reconcile the obvious poverty and shortages of basic necessities (like toilet seats, bottled water, some foodstuffs) with the sometimes ostentatious wealth (the dudes driving audis). The city is ... Read full entry

Julian Cole launches an index of the Top 50 Australian Marketing Pioneer Blogs, with a long time favourite of mine BannerBlog at number one. The list will be updated quarterly. I realised after nearly 2 years of blogging, I really didn't have any idea of who was blogging around the topic of Marketing in Australia. I decided to make this list in order to shed light on the Australian ... Read full entry

Tell everyone about your company's brand new blog, and do nothing more. Never post anything. The easiest way to have a blog that's crappy: Set up the blog, post once, and then never. post. again. This tip's great because it involves no work on your part. It's like you never created a blog at all. Which might have been better...

Frank Warren from PostSecret Shares His Blog's Tipping Point Frank Warren on the primary, and very straightforward, reason PostSecret has been successful. My story might be a little different because my blog is dependant upon anonymous users mailing me silly, sexual or shocking secrets on postcards.

Thesis Theme for WordPress, by Chris Pearson. If I ever opt for a three column, magazine style, layout at disassociated it will look a little like the Thesis Theme. Lovely work :)

Old skool web design pal, Filipino designer extraordinaire, and "on-again off-again blogger since 1999", Jose Illenberger, has recently relaunched Redberger. I'm loving the simple, yet elegant, design... more blogs need to look like this. Jose's 2001 inception of Redberger, the Preaching Season has to be one of my favourite sites of all time :)

Cow For Sale John Cow is once again looking to sell his "make mooney online" parody site, and bidding has opened at the SitePoint Marketplace. For a cool $50,000 however it can be yours right now. Personally I think you'd need to sell A LOT of money making milk to recoup that investment, but that's just me. You do know I am convinced the John Cow site is run ... Read full entry