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Of Zen Computing wrote a very nice guide on how to start your own blog. The guide covers from paid blogging platform to self hosted blogging platform. So if you are new to blogging, the guide is good enough.

The act of blogging is quite simple: start a web site, publish content on that web site, and present it to the reader in reverse-chronological order. Your blogging software will take care of the “reverse-chronological” bit automatically, so all you really need to concern yourself with is thinking up what to publish.

Blogging software is any system that you use to manage the content on your blog. Blogging software organizes your content, archives, categories and files, and generates the code necessary to turn that content into a navigable web site that visitors can find, browse, and possibly interact with.

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As much like Yahoo’s Y! Links, Google just released Google Related Links.

Google Related Links use the power of Google to automatically bring fresh, dynamic and interesting content links to any website. Webmasters can place these units on their site to provide visitors with links to useful information related to the site’s content, including relevant news, searches, and pages.

The demo is take a look at this blog’s footer.

So, what is it Google Related Links?
Webmasters can place Related Links units on their site to provide visitors with links to useful information, including related searches, pages and news. Any webmaster can host a unit on their website and start serving links to content that is targeted to the topic on that page.

How do I add Related Links to my site?
Simply choose the format of the unit you’d like, copy and paste the Javascript code onto your page, and when a person visits your site we will provide them with dynamic links to related news, searches and pages.

Why isn’t my Related Links unit showing up?
Your unit may not be showing up because the content on your website may be inapporpriate, or you may have modified the javascript code. If you have further questions.

How does this product help webmasters?
Related Links uses the power of Google to automatically bring fresh, dynamic and interesting content links to any website. They provide a fast and automated way to display related searches, pages, and news on their sites.

Can I get paid to place Related Links on my site?
Not at this time. We hope that with this product, you can make your site even more useful to your visitors by providing them with links to information they are interested in.

Are Related Links available to just AdSense publishers?
No, we believe that this product is useful for anyone who has a website. You do not have to be an AdSense publisher to use Related Links.

When will Related Links graduate from Labs?
Currently, we are still working hard on ways to improve this product. We hope that our user feedback will help us to make this product much better.

Details here.

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Having a poll in your blog may invite interest for your readers to participate more in your blog. One of blogger that i know who always have a poll in his blog is Darren from Problogger. He will use the poll results to tell his readers the conclusion of his research in blogging.

Now you can have more interesting for your poll feature by having an poll using AJAX. The service is from dPoll. See the sample below. Isn’t great? It can be embedded into your Wordpress post!

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Hey guys..try to look at this guy’s blog, compare it with my post here. Do you think he is a newbie who testing his blog? His contents exactly copied from my site. I am not sure what he was thinking when he wrote copied my post but dude, please stop doing that.

Why? I already had bad experience due to my lack of knowledge in blogging when i started blogging 3 months ago. On September 9th 2005, my name was all over the prominent blogs such as Problogger and Blog Herald, i was labelled as content theft. Darren also labelled me as shoddy blogger.Please read the lesson i learnt and my tips in crediting authors in my blog here.

But, what was happened really thought me a lesson, and make mistakes will happen in order to be a good blogger. I was adviced by great experienced bloggers such as Darren Rowse from Problogger and local Malaysian bloggers to be more careful and be serious while you writing. Thanks Darren. To the owner who copied my post, please remove that post if you intending to test around, write your own post. Content is king. I am not kidding. Don’t do copycat. You don’t know yet the true power of the internet. You can be famous and infamous in just one night.

Sincere,
Apex.

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Previously, i mentioned about how to handle the spam comments problem in Wordpress.Matt from Akismet has updated the plugin.Now with version 1.1 of the Akismet plugin (which you can download here) we’ve given it an interface more like the moderation screen in WordPress so you can review the whole comment before deciding to mark it as not spam.

This is an optional update, if you’re happy with the version of Akismet plugin you’re using now feel free to continue with it.

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