According to a news story in Net News Daily, two teenagers from Scotland have created a social blogging platform on WordPressMU and BuddyPress called Scotblog. Scott Campbell and Nathan Adam, both 13, decided to launch the site after they spotted a gap in the market. “The internet needed a cool new social blogging site,” said Campbell, who lives in the North East of Scotland, “We provide a user friendly, fun, safe interface, which is easy for anyone to use.” Scotblog.net is free and

P2: The New Prologue is out for WordPress.com bloggers to play with. Based upon the Prologue WordPress Theme that has been called Twitter-Meets-Blog, this is a form of social networking microblogging WordPress Theme. The announcement offers more information and a video, but this is not a WordPress Theme for everyone. It is designed for multiple contributor blogs or groups, allowing people to communicate Twitter-style with each other. The WordPress Development Updates blog uses Prologue.

Over the last day or two a new social network by the name of Likaholix has been released by two former Google employees. I’ve only just signed up in the last hour or so but like what I see so far. I’ve also been given 500 invites to the closed alpha for ProBlogger readers (be fast, I just gave away 100 on Twitter and they went within 15 minutes). Skip the rest of this post and Give me the Invite Code - here it is. Likaholix is a little hard to describe and is best experienced - but

“Should Legal Blogs Ever Be Monetized?” asked by @chrischeatham on Twitter. “Should I try to make money on my blog?” is a question I hear a lot from bloggers of many niches and while ultimately the answer will vary from blogger to blogger depending upon their own circumstances and the focus of their blog - there are some topics which present challenges when it comes to monetization. While I don’t pretend to be an expert in the legal blogging niche I suspect that as

This week’s Blog Herald WordPress News is WordPress News: iPhones Up, WordPress Widgets API, 2.8 Delayed, International WordPress.tv, and More, and I’ve covered a lot of WordPress news you can use: iPhone for WordPress is in the iTunes store. WordPress Widgets will use new Widgets API as of WordPress 2.8. Security authentication will improve with OAuth in future versions. WordPress 2.8 delayed. WordCamps in Hong Kong and China coming up. International languages embraced on

How has the economic downturn impacted your blog earnings? Team Nirvana recently emailed to ask me what impact the recession has had upon my blog earnings - it’s actually a question that I get quite a bit when talking to friends and family - (I guess everyone is asking it about everyone’s jobs at the moment). In answering the question here I want to acknowledge that this is not one answer for all bloggers. As I’ve pondered the question for my own circumstances I’ve