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BlogFlat is a new blog host, powered by WordPress MU, that launched last week. They position themselves as an alternative to other blog hosts with more options, and more freedom really. This from the about page: What do i get after signing up? Your own subdomain (name .blogflat.com) Tons of nice WordPress themes More tons of useful WordPress plugins Customizable CSS code Your own e-mail address (name @blogflat.com) - SOON! SEO tools .more and more BlogFlat will also highlight blogs in various categories and award them prizes for being good, a nice idea if any. Check it out if you're interested in a new blog host. Possibly Related PostsTalking Niche Hosting With the WarhammerBlogs.com Founders

The Apple Tuesday notebook event, where new MacBooks were announced, and drove traffic to a lot of gadget focused sites and blogs. One of those are Engadget, which got a mammoth 14 million pageviews on that particluar day, according to a leaked internal mail reposted by TechCrunch. They reported 1.3 million uniques, so that's almost 11 pageviews per person. That's a record for the site. Weblogs Inc. as a whole served 23.9 million pageviews, and 3.4 million uniques, another all-time high according to the internal email. Possibly Related PostsAOL Cuts Blog Budgets, Signs of Things to Come?Weblogs Inc blogs suffer major outageAloha Hawaii Geek Week!

At the "Affiliate Doctors" session of the recent A4UExpo one of the audience members asked a question about what you should do when launching a new site. One of the key things I suggested in my answer was to get into the mindset of your readers and prospects. Understanding your audience is vital, but trickier when you first start. If you already have a working blog, though, you have a ready-made focus group! Readers as Focus Group Just attracting a community of readers will give you real insights into your audience. Find every way you can to encourage feedback, comments, suggestions and interactions. Every week I spend time on chat and the phone outside of my consulting calls, because I want to keep in touch with my readers. On top of that I have my blogging forum which is a wonderful source of interaction, while obviously helping people get the answers they need! If you provide your feed over email, use your real email address so that people can simply hit "reply" to get in touch wit

Britney Spears is all about success these days, it seems. The new single, "Womanizer", tops the US charts, and now she relaunches her website. With a blog, written by Team Britney (that's PR speak for, well, PR people I guess), and some video posts. Here's the welcome video: Check out the new Britney Spears site, the blog, and the videos, if you're into that kind of thing. Possibly Related PostsHow Long Are You Willing to Listen or Watch Blog Content?Captions Coming to YouTube12seconds.tv Release API, I'm Still Not Convinced

Industry Happenings The world of blogging has seen the giant of all giants come aboard. Google have just purchased Korean blogging company Tatter and Co. for an undisclosed sum. Tatter owns the blogging platform Textcube very popular in Korea which has

For wealthy Asians, mobile phones and Blackberrys are much more than a way to stay in touch, with a survey finding portable communication devices increasingly being used to watch videos, take pictures and surf the Web. The Synovate-Pax regional survey of

pm blogger Syed Azidi Syed Abdul Aziz who was arrested for posting allegedly seditious material in his blog kickdefella has had his bail extended to Nov 21.

blogs around the theme of poverty. The Australian initiative was launched last year, and this year the organisers count on reaching out to ten millions readers around the world. Blog Action Day is a non-profit activity organized by the Australian

The dominating Apple-focused blog traffic this week has been -- not surprisingly -- all about the new MacBook lineup. Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) introduced the new notebooks at a special event Tuesday, and while online chatter has been all over the map,

- Subsidiary of iWeb Technologies, internet hosting infrastructure provider, iWeb Group Inc., has launched a new blog designed as an industry benchmark. iWeb was one of the first Internet hosts to use the blog as a means of communication with its