Written on May 10th, 2007 at 04:05 pm by Darren Rowse
Melbourne Bloggers Meetup - 23 May
Melbourne Bloggers - you’re invited to come out for an evening of fun and networking at the Melbourne Bloggers Meetup.
Follow that link for full details and to RSVP and come have a drink with me on Wednesday 23 May at the Horse Bazaar Bar in Melbourne’s CBD.
Pass on the invitation to anyone you think might be interested.
PS: for New York Bloggers - stay tuned for an announcement tomorrow with more details of the NY event that we’re planning for 9 June.
Written on May 10th, 2007 at 01:05 am by Darren Rowse
5 Ways to Enhance Your Creativity
This week I’ve been exploring the topic of Creativity and how to be a more creative blogger (see the previous posts on the creative process and attitudes of creative people). The first part explored methods of creativity, yesterday I shared some attitudes of creative people and today I’d like to get a little more practical and will share a few ways that I one might bring a little extra creativity into their lives.
1. Stimulate Yourself
Most of us know the theory of ‘what goes in determines what comes out’ pretty well when it comes to our physical bodies - however the same principle applies when it comes to our minds.
I find that the more I stimulate myself with a variety of new sounds, sights, ideas, conversations, tastes, people etc the more creative ideas that seem to come out. I’m no scientist but am assured by friends who study this type of thing that stimulating your mind with ‘new’ things is very good for it.
So you hereby have permission to take yourself to see a movie, to read a book, treat yourself to a magazine, to make a new friend, to buy yourself a new CD, to try a new radio station and even to take a trip and visit a new culture!
Regularly stretch and exercise your brain and you’ll be surprised what it can produce when you call on it to perform.
2. Give Yourself Space
When it comes to physical fitness we know that exercise is a good thing - but so is rest.
I once heard of a study that was done on different groups of people to determine how much work they should do each week to be most productive on an hourly basis.
The finding was that six solid days work and one day with complete rest was the best balance for being productive.
If you’re anything like me, life’s pretty busy and the concept of space or rest can be a challenge - however if you want to be a productive and creative person you need to prioritize it.
I find that the best way to have times of relaxation in my week is to schedule them. Grab your diary and block out time to ‘just be’ over the next few weeks.
I give myself hour long breaks each day (at least one), days off each week and longer breaks off every few months.
PS: there are different types of ’space’ that it can be worth giving yourself. The above might just sound like I give myself complete time off - however I also give myself space in my work to be creative.
For example, every week or two I set myself an hour or so to do some brainstorming. I’ll sit down with a notebook or my computer and either just write (free flow) or will sit down with a particular idea or problem that I want to work on and brainstorm around that. While these are ‘work’ times they are always done offline with the phone off and in a place where I know I won’t be interrupted. There is usually a very open agenda and it’s all about letting my mind take me where it takes me. It’s often in these sessions that I get great ideas.
3. Mix Up Your Environment
A few months ago I had a realization that really challenged me.
1. I spend most of my day in front of my computer - online.
2. I rarely have creative ideas when sitting in front of my computer - online.
3. Most of my creative ideas come when I’m out and about interacting with people or in different settings - offline.
My most creative ideas come when I’m not at home sitting in front of my computer - yet that’s where I spend most of my time. Hmmmmm.
Since having this realization I’ve started being intentional about going out more.
Now, if I’ve got a meeting, I schedule it for a cafe, park or bar.
Now, if I have to spend a morning writing posts or training material for b5, I do it offline in a cafe, at a mates place or even in the backyard.
4. Be a People Person
I’m an introvert. In fact some of the personality tests that I’ve done rate me at the most introverted level possible. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the company of people - it’s just that I don’t get my energy from interacting with others - I get it from being alone.
So I’m introverted - however I also know that if I give into my introversion too much that I’m depriving myself of something that I need to sustain myself - both emotionally but also creatively.
People bring new ideas, perspectives, questions and experiences to the problems that you’re attempting to solve in your own work. It’s when these new perspectives come together with your own that the creative sparks often fly and some of the best new ideas come to life.
So this little introvert has been on a bit of a mission lately - to spend more time with people - real people (and not just those virtual friendships that so many of us are used to having). I’m trying to do this both on a friendship/mateship level but also intentionally as a business strategy by finding a handful of creative people who I can regularly hang out with and swap ideas, brainstorm and dream with on a semi-regular basis.
5. Record Your Ideas
Those crazy and zany creative ideas that begin to come when you start stimulating yourself with new things, creating space, mixing up your environment and hanging out with creative people can come at the most unexpected times. The problem is that unless you have a way of capturing and processing them they will only ever remain as a fleeting thought - soon to be forgotten.
There are many ways to record ideas like this. Here are a few that I’ve used lately:
- Idea folder on desktop - for those times that the ideas hit me while I’m in front of my computer - I jot them as a text file and park them in a folder on my desktop.
- Memo’s on phone - I’m increasingly relying upon my phone to keep me organized (it’s synced with my computer’s calendar) but also to help me capture ideas. I’m constantly adding memos to myself.
- SMS yourself - since getting a phone with a better memo function I don’t do this as much but I used to text message myself all the time with ideas
- Leave yourself a voice message - sometimes it’s not practical to write yourself a memo or text message and you need to capture an idea verbally. I do this my calling my mobile phone, from my mobile phone which then diverts me to my voice mail service where I leave myself a message with the idea that’s buzzing around in my head. In a sense this becomes a dictaphone of ideas. In recent times I’ve stopped doing this and have started recording my ideas on my phone in video to replay later.
- Notebooks - yes, very un-webby - but effective. I’m a moleskine fan and try to have one with me when I’m on the road and needing to capture longer ideas but am unable to use my computer.
I’m sure you will have other ways of capturing creative ideas (please share them below). However you do it, the key is not just to get them down - but to work out how to refine them and do something with them. I suspect that most well intentioned creative types have a method of capturing ideas - however if you’re like the challenge is in collating them. Most of us probably have notebooks, phones and computers full of ideas (not to mention the 400 post it notes gathering dust on our desks) however we don’t actually ever go back to them.
I’m attempting to spend a little time at the end of each day going through all my notes and writing them down in an ideas document on my computer that I regularly return to. It seems to be working so far.
By no means do I have a monopoly on this ‘how to be creative’ stuff. Having chatted to many of you I know that enternetusers readers are some of the most creative people going around and I’d love to hear your ideas on the topic.
When are you at your most creative? How do you get yourself in a creative zone?
Written on May 9th, 2007 at 04:05 pm by Darren Rowse
Top 5 - Group Writing Project Day 2
Today is the first time that I’ve run a Group Writing project where the submissions have come in faster than I am able to read them all (I will read them all though!). You readers have blown me away today by the sheer numbers of you throwing yourselves into this project and by the creativity and diversity of your approaches.
Today we’ve had 242 submissions which on top of yesterdays 132 means we’ve already hit 374 bloggers participating (around 30 more than our previously most popular project - with still 2 days to go).
If you haven’t put your post in yet - there’s only two days to go. To enter and go into the draw for the $1001 prize read the instruction on this post and get your submission in.
The Prize and Why Chitika Rocks - #4
As a little thank you to the sponsor of this Group Writing Project (did I mention they’re putting up $1001?) I’m writing a mini series of comments about the - My Top 5 Reasons that Chitika Rocks. Today we’re counting down to number 4.
One of the best converting ad units from Chitika that I run on a few of my blogs is the Related Products Unit (RPU). These units simply look at the keywords that you suggest to them (I link them to the headline of my post) and then provide a text link to 3 related products. These are CPC units and they convert brilliantly - especially if you place them at the end of a post about a product (ie these won’t work as well on non product related posts).
Even though these ads appear at the bottom of my posts they convert as well (if not better) than ads I have above the fold. They’re gold! RPUs wont work for everyone (and Chitika do have a few requirements for publishers before they allow them to be used but if they let you into the program I’d highly recommend testing them on a product related blog.
Today’s Submissions
Warning - before tackling this list (and you’ll want to!) you’re going to need some supplies. Grab a coffee or beer (a six pack would probably be enough) as well as a snack (or two). There are some great reads in this list - please surf by as many as you can, comment, link up and spread some group writing project cheer!
Here are today’s submissions (PS: after the list is a list of the most clicked on links from yesterday’s submissions):
- 5 Ways to Be Macho in Italy by Ms. Adventures in Italy
- 5 Back-to-Basics Strategies For Renewing Your Energy by Ririan
- Top 5 Top Blog Posts in SEO by Michael Jensen
- Top 5 Ways Ignorant Advertisers Lose Money to Google via AdWords by Richard Ball
- Jackie Chan’s Greatest Fight Scenes by Chris
- Top 5 Steps to Redirect Traffic from Your Old Site to a New One by Friedbeef
- Top 5 reasons why a Saab should be on your radar by Swade
- Top 5 Tools Every Blogger Should Use by Scott
- My top 5 addictions by Jen
- Top 5 things about the Shih Tzu by Suzanne Roman
- 5 Steps to Pimp Your Mac Desktop by Jon-Michael St. Amant
- If Only I Could Read Just 5 Blogs! by Jonathan-C. Phillips
- Top 5 Special Health Tips -Part 1 by Doris Chua
- 5 livros para ler ainda este ano by Lu Monte
- Top 5 Monkey Songs by Martin Breton
- Shut Up And Write by Eli James
- Top Five Things that Dictate my Time by Rebecca
- 5 Reasons To Work From Home (or call in sick) by OHSucker
- Top 5 ways to connect online with the 50+ marketing demographic by The Savvy Boomer
- Blog Tasarımında 5 Temel Hata by Utku Tönel
- Snatch! Top 5 Tips on How to Be an Excellent Cell Phone Snatcher by Karlo Licudine
- Five reasons why an internet business might not be for everyone by Mike
- Top 5 Glimpses into my Secret Nude Diary by Jennie Rosenbaum
- Top 5 Reasons Why I Will Never Be Able To Get Rid Of My Beer Belly. by Ah Pek
- Top 5 Ways To Stop Being a Perfectionist by Krista
- Top 5 methods to increase comments on your blog by Thilak Raj Rao
- My ‘Top 5′ Favorite Blogs by Anuj Seth
- Top 5 Business Startup Myths by John Crickett
- Top 5 Great Birding Moments by Trevor Hampel
- 5 Reasons to Use That John by WishBoNe
- Top 5 Easy Ways to Create Information Products by Gobala Krishnan
- Amazing Benefits of Rapid Mental Math by Gaurav Tekriwal
- Mých Top 5 webů 2.0 by Jan Marcinek
- Top 5 Reasons GPS Tracking Makes sense by Dave Starr
- Top 5 National Peace Initiatives by Jay
- Top 5 hacks for Yahoo Messenger by Sahil Gupta
- Top 5 Tips for the College Grad by Kim Roach
- TOP 5 cviků pro krásné paže a hrudník by Martin
- Songwriters: Top 5 Ways to Cure Writer’s Block by Don Makoviney
- Top 5 Ways a Blog Can Earn You Money by FloodofDollars
- 5 Top Myths Foreigners Have About Ukraine by Alexander Radich
- Top ————————- after 3 years of blogging by Ming the Artmaker
- Top 5 Things Moms Should Keep in the Family Minivan by Neena
- 5 Reasons Why I Make Wine and Beer by benevert
- Blogging Networks: Top 5 Pros and Cons by Singhania
- Five Reasons to Participate in Group Writing Projects by Lars-Christian
- The Top 5 Things I Hate Drawing by Matt Glover
- My Top Five Motivational Quotes by Dave Das
- Toddler holding on tight? 5 tips for working at home. by Theda K.
- Top 5 ways to love your wife by Jayson Joseph Chacko
- 5 Top Things I Miss About Harare, Zimbabwe by Sharon
- Five Games You Need To Play To Live Well by Yehuda Berlinger
- Top 5 Free Ways to "Start" Generating Traffic to Your Blog by Ankesh Kothari
- Top 5 Things That Kill a Band by Jo
- Top 5 Reasons why I Hate Parallel Programming (Sometimes) by MIchael Suess
- Top 5 Ways To Identify a Bad Listener by Derick
- Top 5 Eco-Friendly Flooring Options by Cameron
- Top 5 Affordable Hobbies: Big fun on a little budget by Paulm51
- What Are Your Top 5 Travel Dreams? by Stacy
- Top five: free and ready to user php and javascript scripts by Steph Vrech
- Top 5 OS X Command Line Utilities For Administrators by Slaptijack
- Top 5 Zombie Video Games of All Time by Erik Zempel
- Upside down God by Julie McKown
- Top 5 Tips for Beating Blogger’s Block by Joanna Young
- My Five Top Firefox Plugins by Nenad Ristic
- 5 Reasons Why Every Business Needs a Newsletter by Simon Payn
- Top Five to Do While You Live by Mark
- You’re Pointing Out Vista’s Flaws. Cancel or Allow? by Marvin Sum
- Top 5 most influencial swiss designers by Mirko
- The 5 most important features to look for in a new sports watch by Blaine Moore
- Flying Travel Annoyances by Nick
- Top 5 Reasons Personal Fiance Blogs Are Better Than The Media by Canadian Dream
- 5 Reasons Queen’s Market Must Be Saved by Jon Tillman
- Top 5 Cutest Gadgets Ever by Cutie
- 5 semplici regole per raddoppiare la velocità di Emule by Davide
- The top 5 reasons RSS is so great by Allan
- Top-Five Wedding Planning Blunders by Rhonda
- Top 5 Twisted Videos (but still OK for a 10 year old!) by Vern
- top 5 reasons your website can go into google supplemental results by Sante
- Top 5 Reasons To Save For Retirement Now! by Retire Happy
- 5 Things You Should Know About Your Audience…from a tap dancers perspective! by Terrence Taps
- The top 5 Joost alternatives by SoftVision
- Five ways Shiatsu has changed my life by Tony Brown
- Five Hard Truths of Freelance Writing by Anne Wayman
- Top 5 Ways To Define Your Own Personal Style by Gala Darling
- Five Reasons Property Managers Need to Develop Better Online Programs by Erin
- The Top 5 Strangest Things I’ve Learned While Blogging by Robert Hruzek
- Top 5 Reasons Monster Trucks Are Taking Over America by Harry L
- Top 5 Reasons I Started and Continue A Personal Finance Blog by Sun
- Flyfishfanatics Five Fabulous Flies by Rick Passek
- Fly Fish Fanatics Five Fabulous Flies by Rick Passek
- Top 5 DC Things To Do This Summer by Francoise Galleto
- Top 5 Youtube Videos by Nitesh Bhasin
- Top 5 things to do with all the Top 5 lists by Rajaram S
- Top Five Ways to Stop Content Theft by Ashish Mohta
- The Top 5 Most Half-Baked Ways I’ve Tried to Earn Money (And What I’ve Learned) by David
- Os 5 melhores aplicativos Adobe Apollo by Marcos Lavorato
- I’m a stranger here myself by Jul
- The 5 Most Amazing Flowers in the world…plus 5 more by Stuart Robinson
- 5 Excuses for NOT Being Creative…and Why They’re Invalid. by ShadowsEdge
- Top 5 AdSense Tips for Forums by Ryan Ferone
- Top 5 Ways to Improve E-mAil Effectiveness by Danny Flamberg
- The Top 5 Google Whores I Want To Meet by James Pegram
- Michael Scott Negotiation Tactics and My Top 5 Negotiation Tips by Tripp Atkins
- How to tell if you are stuck in the 90s - Test Yourself by Yoav
- 5 best places to go while visiting Acadia National Park by Norman Sargent
- Five Things I Hate About Microbudget Movies by Scott Eggleston
- Top 5 Jogos Gratuitos (Free Games) by Newton Wagner
- Top 5 Reasons ShoeMoney May Be The Anti-Christ by Don
- Top 5 Pains in My Arse by stupidtom
- Top 5 Physical Therapist Recommended Body Hacks by Eric Robertson
- 5 Top Ways to Jumpstart Your Brain in the Morning by Ellen Weber
- Top 5 Ways To Achieve Early Retirement by Canadian Money
- Top 5 iPhone Rumors of All Times by Stephane Dion
- Top 5 Reasons to Hate GTD by Andrew Flusche
- 5 Essentials for a good brewpub by Al
- Top 5 AdSense Boo-Boos by Eric Giguere
- The Top 5 Keys to Managing Adult ADD by Jennifer Koretsky
- 5 Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Investing in a Biotech Company by Brian Orelli, PhD
- Top 5 Wealth Secrets by Chee Kui
- 5 Top European Cities I’d move to next by Juergen Horn
- Top 5 Philanthropists by Blain Reinkensmeyer
- Top 5 Australian beach locations for the IT commuter by Vincent McBurney
- Another Old Movie Blog by Jacqueline T. Lynch
- 5 Simple Strategies For Stress Management by Robert Monteux
- Кое ме стимулира да продължавам / Топ 5 стимула by Atanas Yanev
- Top Five Web Messengers To Access Yahoo Messenger On Web… by abhishek bhatnagar
- Summer 2007 Fashion Trends: Top 5 to Buy Now by Rebecca Mielke
- Top 5 language related peeves by Lulu
- Top 5 Things to Do to Make Money Investing Stocks by StockTube
- 5 Superheroes in the Bible (better than Spiderman 3) by Josh Rives
- Special Edition: Top 5 Doggie Facial Expressions by Erin Moore
- Top 5 Green Companies to Put Your Dollars Behind by Crystal
- Top 5 Good Reasons to Sell a Stock by Q
- Top 5 Blog Contest Winning Tactics by Joe
- The Top 5 Fles Ever Created by Brent Reece
- Start your days with 5 new positive habits by Tantowi
- The Five Most Dangerous Women by the Grit
- Top 5 Ways to Earn Cash Fast! by At Home Mom
- The Top 5 things you need in an up-to-date web site by Melissa Fach
- Top 5 Ways to Lose Your Great Search Engine Rankings Fast! by DazzlinDonna
- Five Ways to Get Even with a Bad Boss by Marilyn Haight
- Top 5 Reasons You Should Invest In Commodities by Wolf Stone
- Why Your Mom is the Engine of Growth in the Global Economy by Ben
- The Top 5 Reasons to Get Even Leaner by Alexander Becker
- Top 5 Video Players in Linux by Binny V A
- My Top 5 Reading Ladies by Amy Palko
- Weirdest gadgets I’ve ever seen - Top 5 by j. noronha
- Top 5 Ways to Get F—- Up at Work by Trevor Covert
- My Top 5 Fantasies by Fleiger
- My Top 5 Sources of Inspiration in Photography by Brian Auer
- Top 5 Lasse Gjertsen-videos by Espenhh
- Spanking The Adsense Monkey by Mark "$1001" Wielgus
- Adult Supervision: Top Five Reasons To Get Your Boss Involved by Carl Moeller
- The Top 5 Ways Exercise Will Get You Laid! by Anna Fleet
- Top 5 Ways to Know if You’re a Home Haunter by Sue Clark
- Top 5 Historic Second Homes by Florence Beaton
- Do You Know These 5 Easy Ways of Making Online Friends? by kayliz
- The Top 5 Tips to Becoming a Political Blog Maven by Alec
- Top 5 Chuck Norris Facts by Johnny
- My Postpartum Top Five Top Fives by Kate Baggott
- Top 5 Best and Youngest Bloggers by Roberto Alamos
- Top 5 Reasons Bloggers Make Great Pets by Jason Spence
- Five Keys To Optimal Health by Edward Sanderson
- Top 5 Hottest Blogger Fantasies by Sharon Sarmiento
- The Top 5 Ways To Make Money Online Or Just To Make A Living by James Thoenes
- Top 5 things I would do if I could by Hailsky
- Top 5 Ways to Make Money In Your Underwear by Vince Cordic
- 5 ways to impress a girl using telecommunications by Tim@Todspace
- Top 5 gym free exercises by Steven Aitchison
- Don’t Grow These 5 Plants by Doug Green
- Top 5 Ways to Become a Major Poet or enternetusers (With Apologies to W. H. Auden). by Geoffrey Philp
- Top 5 top5 entries for Darrens Top 5 Group Writing Project by Marc Kantoori
- If you Could Cross-Breed Anything, What Would It Be by Brian Free
- Top 5 U.S. Security Threat by Ryan Driscoll
- The top five ‘Top 5′ lists by David Cassel
- The Top 5 Things To Do With Rhubarb by Montegue Blister
- The best life hacks I’ve found so far by John Stansbury
- Top 5 Reasons Why I’m Entering The Group Writing Project by Genie Strickland
- The Top 5 Reasons that I want a Parrotlet by Crystal Apilado
- Using the Web to Find Writing Jobs (The first five steps) by John Hewitt
- Building A Blog Community by Shelly Kneupper Tucker
- Top 5 Reasons to NOT Get Married by Kerri Aldrich
- Top 5 Ice Cream Flavors by Elizabeth
- Here’s one I wrote now, the top 5 Ingredients of compelling writing by Darren Hill
- Top 5 Diet Food Obsessions by Elizabeth Ramer
- Top five steps to curing your acne problems by Bill Nadraszky
- Google Hell: Top 5 Reasons You Are There … And How to Escape by Christine Parfitt
- Places I want to see when I get to the British Isles by Judy Money
- Top 5 Brain-Numbing Habits by Suzanna Stinnett
- Top Five Reasons to Index Your Portfolio by Canadian Capitalist
- Top 5 videos to take the edge off of a long day by pearl
- My Top 5 Life Traumas and What I Learned From Them by gia combs-ramirez
- How To Start Your Own Business Today! No Excuses by John Anthony
- My Five Most Awestruck Travel Experiences by Steve Madsen
- 5 Steps To Increase Your PPC ROI With My Free PPC ROI Calculator by Dominic
- Top 5 Tips To Win enternetusers’s Top 5 Group Writing Project Contest by Efren A.
- Top 5 Reasons Hawaii is the Best Vacation Spot in the World by Sheila Beal
- ShanKri-la’s Top 5 Firefox Extensions by K-IntheHouse
- Five Keys to Developing the Heart of a Champion by Ian McKenzie
- NBA Funniest Quotes by Easterangel
- Top Five Ways to Write a ‘Top Five’ Just Like Everyone Else by Dustin
- 5 Mistakes Made by Beginning Programmers by Brandon Wood
- Five Best Rides at the Carnival by Jasia
- 5 People Who Inspire Me In Different Fields by Glenn Wolsey
- Top 5 Kinds of Skin Care Products for Any Skin Type by Carleen Pruess
- Top 5 Reasons I Need an Angel Investor or V.C. by Eric D
- Five things to know when buying cigars by Cigar Jack
- Top 5 Financial Tips for Recent Graduates by Elizabeth
- Top Five Reasons To Start a Personal Finance Blog by Plus6
- High Five Baby! by Sue Olson
- Top 5 most entertaining foreign films of the last decade by Jithin Jerald
- Let love in by Cordia Amant
- Top 5 Reasons Why DazzlinDonna Is My Bestest Friend… by Michael VanDeMar
- Top 5 reasons to leave academia–and to stay by Rich Nyfelt
- Five Steps to a Stress-Free Vacation by Laura Moncur
- Top Five Nations in the World by Sinu Kumar
- Well played Britney … Well Played: Top Five Reasons Why Britney Exposing Herself Was A Business Move by Kevin
- Top 5 Reasons To Use a Home Theater PC instead of a Cable DVR by Brent Evans
- Top 5 Youtube Movies that will Change Your Life! by Phil
- Top 5 Tips for a Successful Link Train by Gary Lee
- Top Five Reasons To Freelance by Jacqueline
- Top 5 Reasons Why DazzlinDonna Is My Bestest Friend… by Michael VanDeMar
- Top 5 Resources Domain Owners Shouldn’t Live Without by DotSauce Domain Magazine
- Top 5 Image Hosting Services by Nirmal T V
- Car/Brand Spotting, Burbank to Huntington Beach by Steve
- My Top 5 Web Developing Tools by Jason Bartholme
- Five Must Have Celebrity Haircuts for Spring by Norell Clemons
- My Top 5 Ways To Inadvertently Make Comfy Beds For My Indoor Cats by Carolyn Iott
- Top 5 Hacks for Intelligent Investors by George
- The Top 5 Reasons to succeed and why it sucks to be a Loser by Christoph Puetz
- 5 Steps to Busting Brick Walls with Collateral Lines by Bryan Koen
- Top 5 Ways to Get the Most Out of Any Software by Craig Jones
- Top Five Strategies For Travelling Light by Graham Barker
- Top 5 Reasons for Multiple Blogs Under a Single Domain by TheOzz
- 5 Ways To Make Money On The Internet by Ryan Shamus
- The Top 5 Things That Make Me Run by Tom O’Leary
- Is Your Week-End Over Before It’s Started? Use These Top 5 Ways To Make Your Week-End Last Longer by Shamelle
- Baby Names from Video Games by Nancy R. Callahan
- The 5 Gremlins Of Market Growth GIC by Financial Jungle Guy
- Quantum Computer: Top 5 Urban Legends by nextquant
- 5 things I wish all bloggers did by Zieak
One More Top 5
So today I thought I’d do something a little different and track which five entries from yesterdays list that most people clicked upon. I tracked this using MyBlogLog’s outbound stats checker. Here’s what I found (yep - it’s the ‘top 5′ - I had to didn’t I?).
- Become Blog Worthy
- My Top 5 Favorite WordPress Blogging Tools
- The Top 5 Web Sites for a Deserted Island
- The Top 5 Ways to Become a Millionaire
- Get Fit and Sexy While Blogging - the Top 5 Unusual Things to do at Your Computer
So the lessons from this little experiment:
1. Be First (the most clicked link was the first one on the list - all were in the top half of the list)
2. Write about blogging - I guess it makes sense. Readers of enternetusers are bloggers… it’s a topic that will appeal
3. Be a little Creative with your title (that last one got me to click on it)
4. ‘How to’ posts seem to work (all really promised to teach or provide something useful at some level)
5. Be Quirky or Amusing - many of the next 10 most popular posts had very amusing titles or were quirky (like My 5 Fingers Ranked, 5 Superhuman Powers I would like to have and 5 Cool Things You can do with your DNA).
Written on May 9th, 2007 at 10:05 am by Darren Rowse
Google Analytics Gets an Upgrade
Users of Google Analytics will be happy to hear that it’s about to get an upgrade. The Google Analytics official blog reports the New Version and says that it includes a redesigned reporting interface, new email and export reports, custom dashboard, trend and over-time graph and more contextual help tips.
This upgrade will be rolled out over the coming weeks and users will have access to the old version for a month.
Search Engine Land has some screenshots of the new version.
update: Speaking of Metrics Packages and Upgrades - Sitemeter users will notice some changes to their stats today also. It largely seems to be a cosmetic at this stage with a new logo and color scheme but it’s definitely easier on the eye. They seem to be rolling this out on their different servers right now.
Written on May 9th, 2007 at 09:05 am by Darren Rowse
Blogger Earnings - How Much Money Can Bloggers Earn?
I get the question of ‘How Much Can Bloggers Earn?’ quite a bit.
Paula Neal Mooney has put together an interesting list of Bloggers and the Salaries that they make from their blogging. It’s a list that I suspect has taken her considerable time to put together.
While this type of list is pretty difficult to put together accurately (some bloggers talk about their earnings explicitly while others are a little more general - and I’m sure there are many bloggers not on the list because they don’t disclose earnings at all) it does show the type of money that some bloggers are making.
My own place on the list is one of the more ‘vague’ ones. Paula estimates that I earn between $120,000 and $1,200,000…. she’s right :-)
Written on May 9th, 2007 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse
9 Attitudes of Highly Creative People
Yesterday I looked at 5 methods for being creative. Today I’d like to look at some attitudes to build into your approach if you want to be a more creative person:
1. Curiosity
I’ve written previously on the topic of curiosity because I’m convinced that it is an essential skill to build as a blogger. Learning to ask ‘why’, ‘what if’ and ‘I wonder…’ are great questions t build into your life if you want to be a more creative person.
2. Seeing Problems as Interesting and Acceptable
One of the problems of the Western mindset is that we often see problems or obstacles in life as unacceptable parts of life. We avoid pain or suppress it when it comes and in doing so don’t often see and feel symptoms that are there to tell us something important. Creative people see problems as a natural and normal part of life - in fact they often have a fascination with problems and are drawn to them.
3. Confronting Challenge
Many of the most creative ideas through out history have come from people facing a challenge or crisis and rather than running from it asking ‘how can I overcome this’?
4. Constructive Discontent
Creative people often have an acute awareness of what’s wrong with the world around them - however they are constructive about this awareness and won’t allow themselves to get bogged down in grumbling about it - they take their discontent and let it be a motivation to doing something constructive.
5. Optimism
Creative people generally have a deeply held belief that most (if not all) problems can be solved. No challenge is too big to be overcome and no problem cannot be solved (this doesn’t mean they’re always happy or never depressed - but they don’t generally get stumped by a challenge).
6. Suspending Judgment
The ability to hold off on judging or critiquing an idea is important in the process of creativity. Often great ideas start as crazy ones - if critique is applied too early the idea will be killed and never developed into something useful and useable. (note - this doesn’t mean there is never a time for critique or judgement in the creative process - it’s actually key - but there is a time and place for it).
7. Seeing Hurdles as leading to improvements and solutions
This relates to some of the above - but by ‘hurdles’ I mean problems and mistakes in the creative process itself. Sometimes it’s on the journey of developing an idea that the real magic happens and it’s often out of the little problems or mistakes that the idea is actually improved.
8. Perseverance
Creative people who actually see their ideas come to fruition have the ability to stick with their ideas and see them through - even when the going gets tough. This is what sets apart the great from the good in this whole sphere. Stick-ability is key.
9. Flexible Imagination
I love watching a truly creative person at work when they’re ‘on fire’. They have this amazing ability to see a problem or challenge and it’s many potential solutions simultaneously and they have an intuitive knack at being able to bring previously disconnected ideas together in flashes of brilliance that seem so simple - yet which are so impossible to dream up for the average person.
Is Creativity tied to Personality Type or Can it be Learned?
As I read through this list of traits of creative people - the question that I find myself asking is whether creativity is tied to personality type or whether it can be learned.
My own uneducated answer to this question is - ‘yes’.
Some people are just creative - they don’t train themselves to think like they do and they often don’t even know that they are any different from the rest of us - it’s just who they are.
However I believe that we can all enhance our ability to be creative over time.
Tomorrow I’m going to round off this mini-series of posts on creativity by suggesting a few practical things that those of us wanting to enhance our creativity might build into our lives.
Written on May 8th, 2007 at 03:05 pm by Darren Rowse
Top 5 - Group Writing Project Day 1
Yesterday when I announced this month’s Group Writing Project I had a feeling that it’d be popular - but I didn’t expect the massive list of submissions that I’m about to lay on you. It’s been only 18 hours of the first day and already we have 132 submissions (and a few more have already arrived for tomorrow’s batch). In the midst of those submitted are some great posts (with such variety!). Hours of surfing fun!
Why Chitika Rocks - #5
All of our ‘Top 5′ posts are in the running to take home $1001 which has been generously donated by Chitika.
I said that for each day of the project I’d tell you something that I love about Chitika (and in doing so will come up with my own ‘top 5) so here’s my #5.
The first thing I like about Chitika’s eMiniMall ads is that they’re an interActive little ad unit. Where as most ad networks are developing ad units that are pretty stagnant for readers eMiniMalls offer a more dynamic ad which just beg to be clicked. With the ‘description’, ‘best deals’ and search tabs as well as on multi product units being able to bring up different products without having to refresh the page - the unit actually offers readers a number of different ways to interact with the ad which in my experience is leading to pretty good CTR.
Submit Your Post Today
It’s not to late to participate in this week’s project. In fact you’ve got until Thursday to get you post in (just remember one post per person and to read the full submission process before entering).
Day 1 Submissions
So without further ado let me share the first day’s submissions for this ‘Top 5′ Group Writing Project. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have this afternoon - don’t forget to surf through the list and to link up to, bookmark and comment on those you resonate with most:
- Become Blog Worthy by Sarakastic
- The Top 5 Mind, Body & Spirit Books by Talia Mana
- The Top Fives by Claudia Fletcher
- The Top 5 Web Sites for a Deserted Island by Nick
- Five gems: what makes a good pub? by Michael Scott
- Top 5 healthy relaxation techniques by Jacob
- Top 5 Steps to Securing your Data by Geoff R
- Top 5 Essential Tips To Know Before Hiring A Tax Pro by Investments & Loans
- the top 5 reasons to change your life right now by sven
- Definitive Guide for Geeks to Time Pass at Work by Ashwin
- Top Five ways to spot a bad Contractor by Paul Thurst
- Top 5 Celebrity Heroes by Matt Langdon
- Get Fit & Sexy While Blogging - the Top 5 Unusual Things to do at Your Computer… by RT
- How to make it to top5 in an individual time trial by Jesper Therkildsen
- My top 5 free development tools by Johan Idstam
- 5 Reasons Jason Kreis Is The Man For Real Salt Lake by Justin Durst Jr
- The top 5 music video parodies by Roberta
- Stop Asking! - Top 5 Questions You Should Never Ask Your Colorblind Buddy by Daniel
- My Top 5 Favourite WordPress Blogging Tools by Geoff
- My Top 5 Compression Software by alamster
- 5 Things You Won’t Get from My Blog by Arnold Zafra
- 5 Cool Things You Can Do With Your DNA by Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD
- Why I like enternetusers’s group projects by Wintermute
- The Top 5 Ways to Become a Millionaire by Jeremy
- Five actors who can read me the phone book by Corie
- Top 5 Different Workout Approaches by Men and Women in the Gym by Mun
- My 5 fingers ranked by Simonne
- Top 5 Bad Habits Of College Students by Arjun Muralidharan
- Top Five Ways To Creatively Acheive Your Goal by Lexi Sundell
- Top 5 Money Leaks in April by Lyman Reed
- The Top Five Steps to Grow Your Net Worth by FMF
- The Top 5 Blogs at the End of 2007 will be… by Ali
- Top 5 Ways To Save Money Without Noticing by jim
- Determine if you are a misfit with 5 proven factors by Stephen Miracle
- Top 5 Reasons Why I’m Writing a Blogging Book by Janette Toral
- 5 Superhuman Powers I would like to have by Mjuboy
- Attraction Accelerator by Tiat
- How To Figure Out What To Read Next–Top Five Resources by Superfast Reader
- Top 5 Reasons Why American Idol Lost Sanjaya by James Pegram
- 5 Reasons A Custom Blog Script Is Better by Tyler Ingram
- Top 5 Not-So Boring Hobbies by Nathan Metzger
- Top 5 - Serial Sci-Fi by Steven Currie
- Top 5 Ways For a College Student to Get a Job after Graduation by Justin Driscoll
- Achieve your dreams by Jesse D.
- Hybrid Electric Cars, The Top Five by Mike
- Top 5: Mid-Life Myths by Sherri Caldwell - The Rebel Housewife
- he Top Five Firsts of the First Two Years of the American Civil War by Mike Goad
- Top 5 Techniques for Sermon Idea Generation by Sherman Haywood Cox II
- Top 5 Strangest Facts About Me by Stephen Ward
- Top 5 Bathing Suit Trends for Summer 2007 by Briana
- Top 5 Rockstars I’m jealous of by Tom Barrett
- How to find the person of your dreams by Phil Van Treuren
- Top 5 Money Makers by Leroy Brown
- 5 Lifestyle Practices for Maturity in God by Shawn Blanc
- Screwing Performance Review by Pawel Brodzinski
- 5 Insanely Creative Digi Masters (gonna become a habit!) by Quirky (Kristen)
- Top Five Predictions for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” by Steve
- Stupid Is As Stupid Does by Sean McKee
- Top 5 Reasons Why We Travel by Timen
- Top 5 Spanish Tapas by Matthew Bennett
- Top five cash flow mistakes, bootstrappers beware by Jim Logan
- Father’s Day 2007 - Five Unique Gift Ideas by Justin
- Top 5 Things To Do On A 5 Minute Break by Pat Gundry
- Top 5 freeware PC utilities by Gili
- My Top 5 Required Feeds by Rod Templeton
- Top 5 Reasons to Join a Blog Network by Steve Remington
- The Top 5 Reasons to Start Your Weight Loss Plan Today by JoLynn Braley
- Five Travel Blogs You Gotta Read by Sheila Scarborough
- Top 5 Reasons Freelancing is a Bad Idea by Mike Sieber
- Top 5 Foreign Bank Stocks by Dividend Money
- 5 gadgets for producing radio (or podcasts) on the cheap by Brad Linder
- The Top 5 Ways to Get Your Act Together by Wayne C. Allen
- Top % GTD Computer Tools by Fernando
- Top 5, mojich päť najlepších učiteľov by Peter Druska
- Top 5 part 3 movies of all time by The Reviewer
- Top 5 (+2) Ways to Earn Respect on the Internet by Joe Hauckes
- 5 most important reasons why I want to attend FOOA by Rehuel Lobato de Mesquita
- Top 5 Shows That Won’t Be Around in 2 Years by Paul William Tenny
- Top 5 Sins by Susan
- The Top 5 Reasons To Make Nova Scotia Your Next Vacation Destination by Bryan Henry
- The Top 5 Ways To Appreciate Life More by Jeremy Reeves
- Top 5! The Cars That Defined Corvette by Keith Cornett
- Top 5 WordPress Plugins That Help Increase Comments by JohnTP
- 5 Tips - Writing for Blogs by Richard Pettinger
- Top 5 Tips for Achieving Success by ww-success
- Top 5 highest rated overdrive pedals by Christian Fuentes
- Top 5 Life Dreams and 15 More… by Erica
- Top 5 Unusual Guitars Owned by Popular Musicians by Adam Ferguson
- Top 5 Best Things about Yahoo’s Panama Upgrade by Brad Shorr
- The Top 5 Questions - to spark new marketing ideas by Matt McDonald
- Top 5 Reasons Why Tiger Woods Will Win the 2007 US Open by Keith Thompson
- Paris Hilton Top 5 Reasons for Driving While Disqualified by Miss Prozac
- The Top 5 Free Search Engine Optimization Tools by Wendy Piersall
- Top 5 OS X Dashboard Widgets for Bloggers by Ross
- Top 5 ways to Comfort the Bereaved by Noemi Lardizabal-Dado
- Top Five Series by Valerinho Gomes
- Top 5 Reasons Boys are Better Than Girls by mom
- TOP5 characters of the movies and series by celsojunior
- Top Five Languages I Would Like to Learn by Darrell Pursiful
- Top 5 - Coisas que você aprende com usuários de computador by GraveHeart
- Five Political Issues That Must Be Solved Now by Ronald Huereca
- Five Super-Duper Easy Ways to "Green" Your Life by lornadoone
- Five Tips for Running a Successful Online Giveaway by nickel
- The Top 5 Time Savers in My Kitchen by Maricar
- Five personal revelations from eight weeks of depression treatment by Danielle
- Make Your Children Healthier by Feeding Them More Sugar by Allen Holman
- How to Reclaim Your Couch by Mahala
- Top 5 Chinese Youtube Clones + 1 by PandaPassport
- Top Five Search Engine Optimization Myths by Jeremy Steele
- Top 5 Reasons to have a Horse by Lori Falcon
- Top 5 Things About My Ex by Katie Baird
- The Top 5 Reasons Why Barack Obama Could Be the Next President by Cultureshout
- Top 5 Reasons to have a Horse by Lori Falcon
- Top 5 Blogs That Explain How We Think by Liz Lewis
- Top Five Ways Blog Carnivals Make Blogging Better by Mike Bergin
- 5 Steps To Improve Your Credit Score by derek
- Top 5 Moments in Classic Rock by Adam Ferguson
- Desktop Software’s that keep me productive by Keith Dsouza from Techie Buzz
- Top 5 bizarre drougs by Philipe Kling David
- Top 5 Inspirational Quotes To Get You Believing Again by Ian Eltringham
- Top 5 Surprises from a previous DIY’er by Chris D
- Top 5 Favorite Series by Fabiana Neves
- 5 Mac apps for bloggers by Frank Cantu
- We are not alone…never again will anyone ever be alone by Ilya Lichtenstein
- Top 5 ways to improve your gas mileage Today by Mike
- Top 5 Gardening Tips by Kenny Point
- Top 5 Ways for Learning Bird Songs by John
- Top 5 WordPress Tips by Andrew Boyd
- 5 Gifts for Mom That Won’t Ever Go Out of Fashion by ispf
- Five Blogs to Watch by Michelle Mitchell
- Top 5 Tips to be the next Darren Rowse by Robinson Go
- My Top 5 Future Photowalking Locations by Trevor Carpenter
Written on May 8th, 2007 at 04:05 am by Darren Rowse
How to Be a More Creative Blogger - Methods of Creativity
Last week while cleaning up my hard drive I came across an old presentation that I gave to a group of young leaders on how to develop your creativity.
As I read through it I realized that some of it was quite appropriate for bloggers wanting to be more creative in their blogging and so thought that this week I’d present a short series of posts based upon my presentation. Today I’ll start with a post on ‘methods of creativity‘.
I’m not sure where I got this material from - it’s likely that at least some of it comes from some of Edward DeBono’s material (but it’s been a decade since I researched this).
So where do creative ideas come from?
As I ponder the different types of creative posts that I’ve written or that I’ve seen others write - they generally come in one of the following ways:
1. Evolution
When new ideas come as a result of building upon previous ones. This is very much a step by step process where at each step the progression in ideas very small but where over time it is significant.
A great blog related example of this has been the evolution of most blogging platforms, like WordPress which periodically updates it’s features - building each time on what they previously had.
Most bloggers enter into this evolutionary process every day with their blogging - taking previously expressed ideas (both their own and those of others) and extending them.
A good question to ask yourself when entering into this evolutionary process is - ‘how could I improve (insert thing to evolve here)….?’
Evolution isn’t the ’sexiest’ of the methods that I’ll talk about here - but it’s probably the most common way of creating new ideas.
2. Reapplication
When you look at something old in a new way.
The exercise that I did with participants in my presentation to illustrate this point was to give each person a fork and to tell them to come up with as many new uses for a fork as they could in 2 minutes.
Most people start that type of exercise somewhat paralyzed by their previous boxing of forks - but breaking outside the box can lead to some interesting (and sometimes useful )discoveries.
A question to ask - ‘how could I do XXX differently?’
3. Synthesis
Where two or more existing ideas are combined into a third new idea.
This is one of my favorite ways of being creative. I like the challenge and possibilities that it can bring.
This is what happened that fateful day that someone wondered what would happen if they combined the idea of a theatre and a restaurant together - theatre restaurant.
It’s this Synthesis that I think we’re seeing more and more of in the blogosphere at present as people combine blogs with other types of websites (forums, video, audio, job boards, chat rooms etc).
A question to ask when entering into synthesis - ‘how could I take the benefits of XXX and combine them with the benefits of YYY’?
4. Revolution
Where a completely new idea that is markedly different from a previous one is developed.
An example that comes to mind is of a blogger that I recently met who used to be an email newsletter marketer. He found that his newsletter lists were becoming less and less effective so decided to move from newsletters to blogs - reinventing (and enlivening) his business in the process.
His goals didn’t really change but his methods did considerably.
A question to ask - instead of asking ‘how can I make XXX better’ one might ask - ‘what could I do instead of XXX to achieve the same goals?’
5. Changing Direction
Where there is a complete change of focus.
This is a fairly radical process for a business or individual to take and generally involves wiping a slate clean to rebuild from the ground up.
A question to ask in this case - ‘if we could start over - how would we do things differently?’
I’m sure there are other ways to be creative (and I’d be interested to hear your suggestions below) but the above five might make a good place to start.
Note - each of the above methods can be applied as bloggers on at least a couple of levels including during the writing of posts but also on a broader level as we think about our whole blogs and what we’re developing on a big picture level.
Tomorrow I’ll continue this series of posts on creativity with a post on attitudes of creative people.
Written on May 7th, 2007 at 09:05 pm by Darren Rowse
Top 5 - Group Writing Project
It’s time for another enternetusers Group Writing Project - and this time we’ve got $1001 Cash (USD) up for grabs thanks to our generous sponsors Chitika!
PLEASE READ ALL OF THE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE SUBMITTING - the process has changed. Particularly pay attention to the instruction to submit NEW posts not previously written ones. Old posts (written before today) won’t be accepted and will not be eligible for a gift. Thanks for your understanding. Also please note that there is ONE entry per participant.
update: This project is now finished. See the full list of submissions of top 5 posts submitted here.
The Topic
This project’s topic is:
‘Top 5′
Your task with this project is to take the theme of ‘Top 5′ in any direction that you’d like to. I’ve chosen this theme because it should be adaptable to most types of blogs. For example a personal blogger could write about their top 5 favorite foods, a celebrity blogger could write about the top 5 things Paris will do when she gets to jail, a tech blogger could rate their top five gadgets of the year, a productivity blogger could write their top 5 ways to save 20 minutes a day etc.
Write it in any style you like, a rant, list, poem, essay, video, pictorial, haiku, podcast….. anything.
Be as creative as you can and take this in any direction you like. You’ll have a much better chance of getting your post noticed if it’s useful and/or interesting to readers and write something relevant to the topic of your blog.
Once you’ve written your post simply follow the process for participating that I’ve outlined below (please note - to be eligible for the gifts from our sponsors you need to follow the guidelines below).
The Prize
For this project I decided to experiment with having just the one larger prize instead of lots of smaller ones.
As a result at the end of the week I’ll be randomly choosing one lucky participant to win $1001 USD in Cash which has been kindly donated by Chitika. Over the week in each of the daily summary posts I’ll be sharing a reason that I think Chitika is great (and in doing so will come up with my own ‘Top 5′.
Thanks also to those others who offered to sponsor this week. As I mentioned - there were many offers and I really grappled with which one to choose.
The Other (Real) Reason to Participate
Prizes are great - but the real reason to get involved in this type of project is that it has the potential to find you some new readers, make some new blogging friends and put your blog out there.
Every time I run these projects I get emails from bloggers telling me that they:
- had big traffic days
- found new blogs that they just love
- had their posts get to the top of digg and other bookmarking sites
Of course not every entry goes viral as a result of participating - but it’s been a beneficial experience for many previous participants as hundreds of bloggers take part.
The Key to Participating
One last thing before I tell you HOW to participate.
These projects work best when those participating don’t only submit posts of their own but when they read and interact with others who submit posts. Here’s how you can do this:
- Read the submissions of others
- Make friends with those you like the submissions of (comment, email - get to know them)
- Link up to those who you resonate with (some bloggers write a top 5 or 10 list each day of the submissions that they like the best)
- Bookmark, Stumble and Vote for those you resonate with
The people who get the most out of these projects are those who throw themselves deeply into them.
How To Participate
Here’s how to participate and put yourself in the running for the prize (and to get a little exposure for your blog along the way). Please read this as it has changed slightly since last time (this time submissions are not to be sent via my contact form but via another form - please read on):
Please note - one entry per person - and not per blog. Please only submit NEW posts.
1. Write a ‘top 5′ post
- Be as creative as you’d like - take it in any direction you want as long as it relates to the topic.
- Give your post a good title. Once all the posts are listed it’ll only be your title that sets it apart from others. It doesn’t have to have the words ‘review’ and or ‘preview’ in the title.
- Feel free to write your post in your own first language.
- Please consider putting a link back to this post on your post so that your readers know you’re participating. You don’t have to do this - but it’d be appreaciated to help grow the project.
2. Let us Know about your post
- Once you’ve posted your post let me know about it by filling in ‘this form’ (now removed as the project is closed).
- Please fill the form in accurately as the way you enter it is the way it’ll appear and due to the numbers participating I can’t edit it for everyone! The detail that you add will appear in the post (although I’ll be moderating out spam/offensive stuff).
- Include your post title as you wish it to appear, the post’s URL (not your blog’s front page) and your name (or alias). All of this will be published.
- To be eligable for the prize I need a valid email address - this will be kept secure and private ad will not be published.
- Submissions must be received by me the the end of Thursday 10 May (as long as it’s still Thursday where you send it from I’ll accept it). If they come in after Thursday they won’t be included in the list and will not be in the running for the prize.
3. I will post 2 links to your post
- In the day or two after you let me know about your post I’ll post a link to it in two places. Firstly there will be a daily list of the submissions from the last 24 hours. Secondly there will be a central list of all submissions for the project so we can see everything on one page.
- I’ll post my final list of submissions on Friday and will announce those who receive the prize.
4. Surf Surf Surf
- This is where you take over. Surf the submissions received. Leave comments, make connections with other enternetusers readers, bookmark them and enjoy reading what others have to say.
5. Link Link Link
- There is no formal ‘judging’ as this is not a competition. Instead - I encourage you to surf through the submissions at the end of the week and announce your own winners on your own blog. Name a top 5 or so and share the link love.
- Probably the best part of the last group project was the amount of inter-linking I see happening between participating bloggers as a result of their posts. It’s obvious that people found new blogs through it and that the benefits of participating was way beyond getting a link from me but flowed on to a lot of new connections and links between other bloggers.
6. Prize
- On Friday I’ll randomly select the participant to win the $1001 from Chitika and will post the winner at this point. The rest of us can muse over what could have been and then we’ll get ourselves ready for next months project.
I can’t wait to read everyone’s top 5 list - don’t forget to submit it here.
Written on May 7th, 2007 at 07:05 pm by Darren Rowse
WordPress Releases Stats Plugin
Yesterday WordPress released a plugin to allow hosted WordPress.org bloggers to use their WordPress.com Stats system on their blogs.
I’ve not tested it but Muhammad Saleem’s reviewed it for you here.
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