Pro-bloggers start your engines, this could be the opportunity you have been waiting for. Rupert Murdoch, emperor of News Corp has hinted that the current subscription charges to access The Wall Street Journal website may be abolished. Mr Murdoch, who signed a $US5.6 billion ($A6.6 billion) deal last month to buy Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, told a New York conference that offering the website ... Read full entry

Who was the first "pro blogger"? Who was the first person to make some sort of monetary income from their blog or online journal? Before continuing let's define "pro blogging" for the sake of this discussion to mean an individual deriving an income from their personal website, online journal, or blog. My nomination for the title is Jennifer Ringley, and her now defunct website "JenniCam". Launched in 1996, before the word blog had ... Read full entry

Take A Tour of ProBlogger HQ: see the rather tidy and organised workspace of the Pro Blogger himself, Darren Rowse. You can also leave links to photos or footage of your blogging office, should you likewise wish to show off! Silverlight: from MicroSoft. Will this kill Flash? Silverlight as in silver screen? Nyssa Brown is a self taught digital artist, freelance web designer, amateur photographer, and blogger ... Read full entry

The kottke thing continues to reverberate around the blogosphere, as is to be expected. I haven’t looked at all the opinions or commentary, but his initiative has certainly stirred up some lively debate.Angie McKaig, for one, questions Kottke’s business model, or apparent lack thereof. What is his focus? What does he actually ... Read full entry

By now we’ve all heard what Jason Kottke is doing. For those still not in the know, listen up. Kottke has thrown in his day job, to take up blogging full time.Now this is something any blogger of note will, or should, be watching very closely. Kottke believes it is possible to make a living ... Read full entry