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Reviews and Predictions Project - Final Reader Submissions

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The final day of the Reviews and Predictions Group Writing Project has arrived and as with each of the previous times we’ve done it I find myself with a mixture of feelings including being over stimulated (when you read 292 blog posts on such a wide array of topics it tends to leave you slightly numb), excited (I’ve discovered some great new bloggers) and slightly exhausted (I really need to find a way to automate the process of uploading all the submissions).

Once again - a big thank you to our sponsors - Thrive Web Marketing, Information for Her Australia for Australian Women, The Blogging Times, eMoms at Home, Dave Taylor, Poker on a Mac, bloglinkr, 451 Press and Rob Schaumer, DeveloperCube.

Now that all the submissions are in (it’s no longer Thursday anywhere) I won’t be accepting any more and I’ll now begin the task of randomly selecting this round’s winners of the 10 great prizes (see below for details of what they are). I’ll post the results of this soon.

In the mean time - here are the last submissions of the project for you to surf through. Please surf and link up to those you enjoy the most. As there is no real ‘judging process’ for this project the real judging happens as you link up to your favorites. The full list of submissions from all days is here. Here are todays:

• You Can Live the lIfe of Your Dreams but You Must First Learn to Crawl by Tabs
• Vivid Imagination Or…? by Jeremy
• Interior Design Trends for 2007 by Wendy
• Natação by pjdc
• Early Notice Of What He May Be Getting Under The Tree by Justin
• The Reviewer’s Best and Worst of 2006 by The Reviewer
• My year in retrospect by Rakshith
• Година на изолираност: 2006 by Atanas
• Top 8 YouTube Videos of 2006 by Todd
• Beware - Are you the Weakest Link in Your Team? by Robert
• Five blogging tools that every blogger will use in 2007 by Yoav
• China 2007: Thoughts and Predictions by fiLi
• No doubt: Christmas has come to Japan by Kris
• Online travel in 2006 by Kevin
• Souvenirs From My Trip Around the Sun by Tillerman
• A Blogosfera Brasileeira de 2006 by Tiago
• “2007 Will Be Heaven” or “Why The New Year Holds Such Promise” by Thom
• Os Últimos Resultados de Buscas! by Bruno
• What’s in store for ‘07? by Andy
• One year of computer knowledge wrapped up in one blog post by Michael
• Online Stock Trading 2006 by mrmike
• Web 2.0 in 2007 by Justin
• Blogging Lessons Learned in 2006 by Chris
• WTF: the Donald, the burger and the other white meat in 2007 by Jenny
• eBay - Looking Ahead To 2007 by Gary
• Top 5 Revolutionaries of 2006 by Brandon
• Companies Are Actually Engaging in Conversations With Customers by Christopher
• Thirteen Lucky Predictions for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by Michelle
• Reminiscences from Innocence in Retrospective - 1 by Fouad
• Top 10 Ugliest Sneakers of 2006 by Terry
• Who Will jump on the blog bandwagon in 2007? by Vincent
• Using Ubuntu and Showing off on the Internet by Julien
• My year of words, design and creativity by SunnySnowy
• From Schinveld and Kikase-cho to Dime Box: travel blogging now and next year by Sheila
• Looking Ahead - Tech Predictions for 2007 by James
• Top 5 Food Business Trends for 2007: These Will Set Your Mind Buzzing and Your Mouth Watering by Barbra
• Two Years of Homeland Stupidity by Michael
• Reviews and Predictions: The year gone by and what’s to come in
• health and fitness by Fitness Mantra
• 12 Ways The Internet Has Helped Me In 2006 by Ellen
• Top 6 Top Sixes for a Top ‘06 by Geoff
• Ooh, baby, baby it’s a wired world — but what is going to change in residential real estate in the next 12 months? Almost nothing... by Greg
• Merry Christmas/Season’s Greetings - in 38+ dialects/languages by James
• 28 things I did to improved traffic to my website in 2006 by Lyndon
• End of Year SGEP Review– The Best Posts of 2006, as voted by YOU!!! by D.T Kelly
• No Hesitation: Why I’m matriculating into Yale 2011 by Sam
• My AdSense Millions by Nico
• A Response to the President’s Order For Us to “Go Shopping” by Randy
• Unintentionally Blank Predictions ‘07 by Phil
• 10 Hot Technologies coming to Mobile Phones in 2007 by Mike
• Run to Win in 2006 by Blaine
• Microsoft’s Year by Pedro
• 12 Pictures and Reflections from Paddling with a Camera in 2006 by Marek
• This Year; Next Year by sbpoet
• 2006 Was a Very Good Year to be a Willie Nelson Fan by Linda
• Adolescent RSS: Getting her boobs in 2007, thanks to Windows Vista by Ricky-bob
• A Year in the Life of ‘Medium’: surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.by GetSheila
• I Don’t Know Jack by Ian
• 2007: The Financially Savvy Stay at Home Mom by Dana
• “Second-Order Distractions” Pursued by Conservatives in Late 2006 by Rob
• $12,000 Down…$25,000 Yet to Go by Tricia
• More Holistic Than You Could Possibly Expect by Renée
• Personalities of the Year surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.at Filipina Soul by Maricar
• Search Engine Reputation Management on the Rise in 2007 by Richard
• Six Moments That Changed My Foodie Life in 2006 by Sarina Nicole
• What’s Decomposing - 2006 by Anthony
• What will you choose to believe in 2007? by Patricia
• Top 5 productivity tips of 2006 by Jim
• Designs for the Future by James
• My predictions for 2007 by Somu
• The Award Design Awards by Hurty
• Top Peak Performance Articles for 2006 by Graham
• Things I Should Have Blogged in 2006 by Billy
• Finding my Way: Lessons I’ve Learned in Crafting this Year by Angela
• 2006 Search Wrap-Up by Kevin
• Saving the Planet One Lunch Break at a Time by Lorna
• 2006 in Review: A Year of My Money Blog by Jonathan
• Internet Headlines of 2007 by Chris
• …2007 is hard to predict by Cory
• Five freeware faves from 2006 by Mark
• 10 Things That Will Happen to Videoblogging in 2007 by Stephanie
• Disruptive technologies for 2007 by NitnK
• 10 Mistakes I’ve made in 2006 by Randy
• The Year of the Baby by Lisa

The Prizes

• Information for Her Australia for Australian Women is offering $100 cash (via PayPal). This is a site for Australian women giving information on health issues, rural women, indigenous women and more.
• The Blogging Times has offered $100 cash to their winner. Thanks to Minic for this prize.
• Rob Schaumer is offering a $100 gift card (of the winners choice) at GiftCertificates.com.
• Poker on a Mac (a poker site for Mac users) is offering a 30gb video ipod to their winner.
• eMoms at Home is offering two free passes (worth $349 each) to a 12 week group coaching program that she’s running in January. The course (via phone) is about how to be more productive and build a business. Read more on it here.
• bloglinkr is offering $100 cash or $500 in advertising credit on their service when they launch in the first quarter of 2007. bloglinkr is a new ad network exclusively for blogs and sounds like an interesting project to watch in the next few months.
• DeveloperCube - a forum for web developers - is offering a $100 Amazon gift voucher.
• 451 Press is offering one lucky winner a Nintendo Wii (worth $250). 451 Press is a blog network.
• Thrive Web Marketing are offering a medium level webhosting package for a year that includes 100MB of webspace, 4000MB data transfer a month and more (worth $240).
• Dave Taylor from Ask Dave Taylor Tech Support and The Intuitive Life Business Blog is offering a copy of his book ‘Growing Your Business with Google‘ and $100 cash as his prize.

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Written on December 22nd, surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.at 12:12 pm by Darren Rowse

Printbaiting - How to Get Your Blog Mentioned in the Papers

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Penelope Trunk has a helpful post on how to get your blog mentioned in Print.

She writes some good tips in each of the following areas:

1. Don’t pitch yourself, pitch an idea.
2. Pitch an idea with the print audience in mind.
3. Tailor the idea to the journalist.
4. Sign up for Profnet.
5. Answer questions strategically.
6. Be available.

It’s a useful list and a lot of it could be applied to getting mentioned on other blogs also.

I’ve had moderate success in getting into mainsteam media articles over the last few years - however I find a lot of it either comes out of the blue (through journalists approaching me after finding me in Google for a term they are writing about) or through relationships that I’ve already established with journalists.

Once you do get an approach from a journalist it’s worth giving some careful consideration to what you want to get out of the interaction. You’ll find that journalists will have their own agendas and ideas on where they want their article to head but it’s worth giving some careful thought to what sort of message you want to convey. Pick one particular message that you want to get across and keep saying it throughout the interview.

Also ask (politely) if they could please give a URL for the article. For example I generally respond to them by calling my blog here ‘enternetusers.net’ instead of just ‘enternetusers’.

Lastly - getting mentioned in the press is not everything. In fact the times I’ve been written about in major papers I’ve had very little noticeable increase in traffic and limited opportunities have arisen from it. In many cases it would be more beneficial for a large blog or website to link up than a paper to do it - still, it’s fun to see your name in print and it can legitimize what you do in the eyes of some (ie - parents love seeing their kids in the papers!).

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Written on December 22nd, surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.at 02:12 am by Darren Rowse

Amazon Associates Move to Monthly Payments for 2007!

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The Amazon associates program is changing it’s payment system to be every month instead of once a quarter. So instead of getting 4 cheques (or gift certificates) per year you’ll get 12.

The payment terms will be 60 days (ie you get your cheque or certificate 60 days after the month ends) but this aspect of things isn’t really that much different to present as the quarterly payments are over 30 days (usually around 45 days from memory) after the end of the quarter anyway.

There will be new tiers to reflect this change as follows:

I’m yet to analyze these tiers and see how they compare to the current ones.

Full details at The Official Amazon Associates Blog.

via 901am

PS: In other Amazon Associate news not posted on their blog but at the bottom of an email sent to publishers was this:

“Lastly, effective January 1, 2007, we are increasing the Check Processing Fee for US-based Associates from $8 to $15. The minimum check amount is still $100. We encourage all US-based Associates to choose direct deposit (EFT) or Amazon.com Gift Certificates as their payment method to avoid this fee. The minimum amount for these payment types is $10. Visit Associates Central to change your payment method.”

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Written on December 21st, surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.at 10:12 pm by Darren Rowse

Reviews and Predictions Project - Day 3

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Day 3 of the Reviews and Predictions Group Writing Project has seen yet another solid round of submissions - 74 in all today (which brings the total so far to 208 - see them all here). While numbers are slightly down on last time I’m excited by the quality of many of the submissions and that many are from first time participants (welcome all).

Please visit our sponsors of this project who have donated a total of $2500 USD in prizes. They are Thrive Web Marketing, Information for Her Australia for Australian Women, The Blogging Times, eMoms at Home, Dave Taylor, Poker on a Mac, bloglinkr, 451 Press and Rob Schaumer, DeveloperCube (see below for the full list of prizes).

There’s now under 24 hours left to get your submission in to be in the running for a prize. Simply follow the procedure in this post to be involved.

Here are today’s submissions. Please surf the list and link up to any that resonate with you.

• Seven Sustainability Predictions for 2007 by Mike
• Fart Queen and Other Princess Stories - Year End Review by E.B
• Looking back at Me in 2006 by Ray
• Hello 2008! A look back at 2007 by Phil
• Raspberry Season by John
• 2006: Dead frogs, cows on parade, a kidnapped snowman, and Japan by Jul
• Yoiks and Away - Reflections and Directions by Stropp
• Baring All by Jennie
• Nothing Ventured: a review of 2006, and plans for 2007 by Tom
• Meus projetos, em 2006 by Rodrigo
• Top 10 “Crzy” Tech Gifts by Nic
• A Look Back at 2006: Celeb Fashion, Beauty, and Etiquette by Meg
• Sharepoint Predictions for 2007 by Kanwal
• Corvette: The surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.Year in Review by Keith
• Blogging in the Rear View by Amanda
• The three biggest U.S. soccer stories of 2006 by Josh
• My Year In Books by Dave
• A Look at surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.Alzheimer’s Advances by Katelyn
• Looking Forward to 2007… A Successful Year by cjcm
• Don’t Hold Your Breath in 2007 by Dan
• The Future of Lucid Dreaming by Bill
• A Writer’s Reflections by Karen
• Looking Back and Renewing Priorities by Rob
• Top 5 Gospel Gossips of ‘06 by Dee
• 101 Blog Tips I learned in 2006 by Daniel
• Five “gadgets” that made my life easier in 2006 by Shawn
• Why did i choose to blog in English? by Aditya
• How Christmas Letters Can Make You a Happy Millionaire! by Ben
• Reflecting, Refocusing at Working at Home on the Internet by Joe
• Blogs are dead - thanks, Digg by John
• Evolving Times: The Year In Review by Edward
• 2007 - The Photography Peak by Mike
• Blogging and Money: Six Trends For 2007 by Trent
• Warmer but not Comfy: The Year Ahead in Global Warming and Energy Dependence, a Prognostication by Martin
• Habe ich meinen Deutschlehrer in den Selbstmord getrieben? by Jörg
• The Year of the Ebay Hustler - Go Nuts! by Mike
• Me in 2006 by Gary
• 3 for this Year, 3 for Next by Greg
• Are you planning on falling in love everyday, just like me? by Thaleia
• You don’t have to be a writer to be a Blogger! by Tim
• Yoyos and Peanuts by Sophie
• The Next Big Thing: Will it Be You? by John
• Arrie-gato by Meredyth
• 13 Events That You WILL Blog About in 2007 by Easton
• 2007 Not Everyone’s Year of the Dolphin by Heather
• When GPS goes bad!! by Coopz
• Top 10 list of “Don’ts” when parenting a Teen-Age Girl: Lessons from 2006 by northern girl
• 2006 - A Year Of Weight Loss by Darren
• Will 2007 Mark the End of Digg? by Kris
• 2006: My year in anime/manga goods by Danielle
• Top 10 Unexpected News Stories on the WWW in 2006 by Tom
• Maybe it’s too early in the game by NTE
• O Sapo em Revista by Sérgio
• Work Less, Live More by Katie
• Looking back, reikiblogger’s top 7 posts by TC
• You are Enough by Beth
• My Top 5s for ‘05 (aka 55405) by Geoff
• Wait… Never! by Rob
• 2006 through the eyes of a Travel Blogger by Darren
• The strangeness of food history - a few foul anecdotes by Gillian
• Reflections and Forecasts of a Brand New Blog Network by Jon
• Be-attitudes For PR Students in 2007 by Kelli
• New Year Resolutions for 2007 by Yellow Pages
• I predict….. by Joh
• Prometo que 2007 será melhor (ou “estrogonoficamente cabriocário”…) by Maikel
• 2007 Already Happened by Expert Idiot
• 2006 School Review - Mixed ‘06 by Russ
• Public Speaking Disasters of 2006 by Charlie
• Prediction: 2007 will find us getting more frustrated as tech support continues to disappoint by Mary
• Der Crossgolf Jahresrückblick by enq1981
• Anime writers will rule Hollywood - My 2007 prediction by Icaterus
• Why Cameras Cell Phones Will Not Replace Digital Cameras In 2007 by Dominic
• Kickstart Your Blogging Business and Make Big Money: 7 Reality Checks by Andrew
• 10 Great Leadership Blunders of 2006 by George
• Why Cartoonists Will Rule the World in 2007 by Matt

The Prizes

• Dave Taylor from Ask Dave Taylor Tech Support and The Intuitive Life Business Blog is offering a copy of his book ‘Growing Your Business with Google‘ and $100 cash as his prize.
• Thrive Web Marketing are offering a medium level webhosting package for a year that includes 100MB of webspace, 4000MB data transfer a month and more (worth $240).
• DeveloperCube - a forum for web developers - is offering a $100 Amazon gift voucher.
• eMoms at Home is offering two free passes (worth $349 each) to a 12 week group coaching program that she’s running in January. The course (via phone) is about how to be more productive and build a business. Read more on it here.
• Poker on a Mac (a poker site for Mac users) is offering a 30gb video ipod to their winner.
• • 451 Press is offering one lucky winner a Nintendo Wii (worth $250). 451 Press is a blog network.
• bloglinkr is offering $100 cash or $500 in advertising credit on their service when they launch in the first quarter of 2007. bloglinkr is a new ad network exclusively for blogs and sounds like an interesting project to watch in the next few months.
• Rob Schaumer is offering a $100 gift card (of the winners choice) at GiftCertificates.com.
• The Blogging Times has offered $100 cash to their winner. Thanks to Minic for this prize.
• Information for Her Australia for Australian Women is offering $100 cash (via PayPal). This is a site for Australian women giving information on health issues, rural women, indigenous women and more.

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Written on December 21st, surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.at 07:12 pm by Darren Rowse

Speedlinking - 21 December 2006

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• Blogger Beta came out of beta a couple of days back. So I’d be interested in hearing Blogger user’s reviews. Do tell!
• WSJ has published an opinion piece on bloggers and how we’re a mob. The irony is that bloggers everywhere are joining together to storm the paper’s website like an angry…. mob.
• Eric has released a WP plugin to help bloggers to automatically link up to their Chitika Shoplincs.

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ecto for Windows 2.2 released

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Blog desktop editor ecto for Windows 2.2 has been released. New features include:

• Added Flickr Search support for image upload.
• Added more robust data saving to guard against OS crashing.
• Added support for CSS style/class for image upload.
• Added support for generic tag format (e.g. Ultimate Tag Warrior)
• Added GoDaddy.com’s Quick Blog to the preset list of blog type in Profile Creation Wizard.
• Added check for default RSD location before checking blog index page HTML header.
• Added initial support for the new Google’s Blogger beta using the GData library.
• Added Image option to Create Link window.
• Added extra options for different type of posting entry data time.
• Added profile backup and restore to file capability.
• Added Paste Special option to Post window with capability to paste text as unformatted text or strip out MS Word formatting tags.
• Updated Amazon Search to include new product types.

There’s also a lot of bug fixes.

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Written on December 21st, surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.at 06:12 am by Darren Rowse

Google Gives Clarification on Duplicate Content

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If you’ve ever wondered what Google does and doesn’t clasify as ‘duplicate content’ then you might find this explanation of it on their official Webmaster blog.

A few snippets:

“What is duplicate content?
Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar. Most of the time when we see this, it’s unintentional or at least not malicious in origin: forums that generate both regular and stripped-down mobile-targeted pages, store items shown (and — worse yet — linked) via multiple distinct URLs, and so on. In some cases, content is duplicated across domains in an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or garner more traffic via popular or long-tail queries….

What does Google do about it?
During our crawling and when serving search results, we try hard to index and show pages with distinct information. This filtering means, for instance, that if your site has articles in “regular” and “printer” versions and neither set is blocked in robots.txt or via a noindex meta tag, we’ll choose one version to list. In the rare cases in which we perceive that duplicate content may be shown with intent to manipulate our rankings and deceive our users, we’ll also make appropriate adjustments in the indexing and ranking of the sites involved. However, we prefer to focus on filtering rather than ranking adjustments … so in the vast majority of cases, the worst thing that’ll befall webmasters is to see the “less desired” version of a page shown in our index….

Don’t fret too much about sites that scrape (misappropriate and republish) your content. Though annoying, it’s highly unlikely that such sites can negatively impact your site’s presence in Google. If you do spot a case that’s particularly frustrating, you are welcome to file a DMCA request to claim ownership of the content and have us deal with the rogue site.”

This last part will undoubtedly calm a few nervous bloggers that I know who worry about their content being scraped and republished on other people’s blogs and being penalized for it.

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Written on December 21st, surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.at 02:12 am by Darren Rowse

Blogging Wills - What happens to your Blogs When You Die?

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Eric Giguere asks an interesting question over at his blog - Do you have an “AdSense Will”?

It is actually a question V (my wife) and I have talked about and made plans for over the past year or so.

It became more serious for us to talk about when we realized that our family’s main income source was blogging and when we started planning a family (funny how things get more serious when you realize you’re responsibly for a little one).

Phase one of getting things in order was getting our wills together and setting up our business in a smart way.

With that out of the way we had one level of the problem solved - but another question arose.

V came to me one day and said ‘if you died, how would I know what to do with your blogs?’ and ‘Would they keep earning money without you?’

The second question first - yes they would continue to earn money, but on a decreasing scale over time. It would be important for her to either manage the blogs and find a way for them to continue to operate with soeone e

Now V’s a pretty smart person, but she’s not a blogger and while I’m not a techie, she makes me look like a hardcore coder. Like Eric writes in his post, she wouldn’t have the faintest on where to start in a lot of the logistics of what I do.

As a someone who works largely alone I realized that I needed to put together some sort of dossier to help her out in case anything untoward were to happen to me.

Here’s what it includes (so far - it is a work in progress):

• Contact details for partners - I have a number of blog partners that would be able to help her navigate some of the logistics of managing my blogs
• Contact details for trusted other bloggers - a few others who know enough to be useful
• Passwords and Contact details for Advertising Programs and Affiliate Programs - to be able to access and manage income
• Contact details of bloggers who work for me - a number of my blogs are written these days by others.
• Contact details for web hosts - without these the blogs fall over and income disappears
• Passwords for Paypal accounts
• Backup details - for blogs and computers
• Blog and hosting passwords - to give her (or those who help her) access
• Instructions on what to do - a few notes on what I’d suggest she does. Which blogs she could sell (and who could help her sell them), which to allow to run (and who to write on them), what my agreements are with different people etc

I’m also going to give V some blog lessons in the coming months and be more intentional in talking to her about the day to day running of my work so that it isn’t a completely foreign thing to her. She’s also going to meet some of my blogging partners next year when we head to North America which I’m sure will help also.

Eric calls this his ‘AdSense Will’ or ‘Disaster Recovery plan for your online business’ - I just call it thinking ahead and being smart for the sake of those you love.

PS: Interweb also has a piece picking up on Eric’s post titled AdSense in the Afterlife? as did Blogging Pro.

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Written on December 20th, surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.at 09:12 pm by Darren Rowse

More Reviews and Predictions - Group Writing Project Day 2

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It’s day 2 of the ‘Reviews and Predictions‘ group writing project and I really enjoyed reading this next batch of entries. In fact I spent way to much time reading blogs today and not enough time posting! It just amazes me every day what a massive variety of blog topics are out there.

My pick of the day (and this is the first time I’ve singled anyone out is engtech’s You Can Be a Good Example or a Horrible Warning - How NOT to be a Successful Blogger which I would have linked to in a speedlinking or a post of it’s own because it’s a great post which I’m sure many enternetusers readers will enjoy.

In total today there have been over 79 submissions from all over the globe (3 in languages other than English - a new record for a single day, lets beat it tomorrow!).

A quick reminder that there are still two days to go to be involved in this project. To be included in tomorrow’s list and go in the running for one of our 10 prizes (see them below) simply follow the procedure in this post.

Speaking of the prizes - which one are you gunning for most? the Nintendo Wii? The iPod Video? The Cash? The hosting package? One of the vouchers? The coaching course? Tell us in comments below.

Here are the latest batch of submissions. Make sure you surf as many as possible and spread the link love on your own blogs. The full list (today’s and yesterday’s links is here).

• Self-defeating self-improvement shortcuts of the future by Julie
• Top Ten Board Game News surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.by Yehuda
• The 2007 Economic Outlook by Jeremy
• Tiny Dancer: A Year in Pictures by Erica
• Buy and Sell Essay Writing in 2007 by Angel
• ¿Qué depara el 2007 en la blogosfera española profesional? by Sacha
• Tagged with “5 Things” Meme aka Mirror Mirror by Elana
• Reflection over my net travels by Luke
• Business Blogs Break Loose in 2007 by Brad
• Spam killer plugins I used this 2006 by Jhay
• Ten Teens and Pretees: Ten Predictions by Claudia
• Eliza’s Blog Predictions for 2007 by Eliza
• For better or Worse? by Rebecca
• Prediction 2007 - blogging community helps cut the crap by CabSav
• One Hundred Footsteps by Beth
• Finding Opportunities for Big Success is Easy by Benjamin
• Stupid Ways to Lose Money by TJP
• Thinking of 2007 by Thejesh
• Predicting the evolution of Techspot insideout by Ashish
• What does 2007 hold for Apple? by fcodc
• How old is web 2.0? Look back in Time by Sante
• Previsões Para 2007 by Ibrahim
• Starting a Hero’s Journey by Matt
• Free Sofware in 2007. Or maybe not (portuguese version) by Fernando
• Why did I join blogosphere? by Maggie & Will
• Looking forward to 2007 by Leroy
• Hybrid Cars in 2007 by Mike
• A Writer’s First by Leo
• Lessons from the Most Talked about Topics of 2006 by nickel
• In the Garden of Resolve by Kathy
• As I see surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.in my rear-view mirror… by monchster
• Statement for year ended… by Bianca
• Top 5 Lessons for Small Business in 2006 by Natalie
• ‘06: What I’ve learned in under 150 words by Peter
• Preaching, Unicycle, Broken Ankle, and Swearing by Scot
• Charting the Unknown - 2006 by Shadows
• The Year in Review: The Best Websites You’ve Never Visited (and some you have) by Erin
• Only You Can Write Your Life’s Coming Attractions by Tony
• Oh, the weather outside is frightful by Ian
• What blogging has taught me by Madhur
• The Year in Television Review for 2006 by Steve
• Reflections of the HART-Empire Network for surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.and 2007 by HART
• The Hamster is Back by FosterAbba
• The Top 7 Writing Contests to Enter in 2007 by LearningNerd
• Teachings I was given in 2006 by Msterlinn
• Choose My Haircut 2 by Jeremy
• “Set It & Forget it” For the Future? by TMT
• You Can Be a Good Example or a Horrible Warning - How NOT to be a Successful Blogger by engtech
• 2006 Reflection and a Look Ahead for 2007 by Pink Eyed
• 5 Reasons Why Filipino Bloggers Will Make it Bigger in 2007 by aczafra
• The Withdrawing of Forces and Other Predictions for ‘07 by Ronald
• Finding the Courage to Fail - Even as a Broke-Ass Student by Jennifer Lynn
• Where Was Your Blog This Time Last Year? by Sarah Lewis
• *Star Wars* VS The Stark Wok - *Star Wars* VS Stark Wok - Jedi to
• make way for Blo-gedi ! by tigerfish
• Cooking Korean Food Anywhere: How I’m going to help you in 2007 by Sue
• 2007: From Productivity to Possibilities by Nneka
• How I made $4000 in surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.with Hypertext by Mark
• How I Made It Through surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.As A Newbie Blogger Without Losing The Rest of My Hair by Robert
• Top 10 Lightweight Rowing Stories of 2006 by JW Burk
• The State of Gaming, 2007 by Chris
• Look Back in Anguish: My Switch to a True Blogging Platform by Mike
• The Future of Blogging by Steve
• Top surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.website news terms and buzzword anagrams by Bryant
• My Blogging Journey through surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.and My blog resolutions for 2007! by Anthony
• My ball wonders… how bout yours? by Rashenbo
• 2007 Travel Predictions and Trends by Nick
• Nine Baseball Predictions for 2007 by Geoff
• Rubbing the Crystal Ball: 5 Technology Predictions for 2007 by Jonathan
• The Mac Came Back by Curt
• I’ll blog naked throughout 2007 by Andréa
• Baby Name Stock Market: My Picks for 2006 by Nancy
• Now and Future by WishBoNe
• Tiger Woods surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.Review and Early 2007 Predictions by TP Golf Online
• What Google, Yahoo and Microsoft will buy in 2007 by TIm
• Review of affiliate Marketing in India by Ashok
• May you live gluten free in interesting times… by Lucy
• Best Japanese Commercials of 2006 by James
• My 7 Blogging Predictions for 2007 by Martin

The Prizes

• DeveloperCube - a forum for web developers - is offering a $100 Amazon gift voucher.
• eMoms at Home is offering two free passes (worth $349 each) to a 12 week group coaching program that she’s running in January. The course (via phone) is about how to be more productive and build a business. Read more on it here.
• Thrive Web Marketing are offering a medium level webhosting package for a year that includes 100MB of webspace, 4000MB data transfer a month and more (worth $240).
• Rob Schaumer is offering a $100 gift card (of the winners choice) at GiftCertificates.com.
• The Blogging Times has offered $100 cash to their winner. Thanks to Minic for this prize.
• Information for Her Australia for Australian Women is offering $100 cash (via PayPal). This is a site for Australian women giving information on health issues, rural women, indigenous women and more.
• Poker on a Mac (a poker site for Mac users) is offering a 30gb video ipod to their winner.
• Dave Taylor from Ask Dave Taylor Tech Support and The Intuitive Life Business Blog is offering a copy of his book ‘Growing Your Business with Google‘ and $100 cash as his prize.
• 451 Press is offering one lucky winner a Nintendo Wii (worth $250). 451 Press is a blog network.
• bloglinkr is offering $100 cash or $500 in advertising credit on their service when they launch in the first quarter of 2007. bloglinkr is a new ad network exclusively for blogs and sounds like an interesting project to watch in the next few months.

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Speedlinking - 20 December 2006

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• Lifehacker: the book has now started shipping through Amazon. I’ve ordered mine. Another example of leveraging a blog to make money.
• Aviva Directory has a list of 99 tips to do branding on the cheap. It’s written for Web Startups but a lot of it could apply to bloggers.
• Are any enternetusers readers coming to the Underground Seminar (aff) that I’m speaking at in Washington DC in March?
• Loren writes 9 ways to get banned by search engines.
• Chris Gilmer asks ‘what motivates web workers?‘. Go have your say. For me it’s a combination of enjoyment of what I do, helping others, setting myself goals, being rewarded well and meeting some great people.
• Don’t forget that every genuine comment that you leave on enternetusers (on any post) between now and 25 December gives you another chance to win my 10 top books for 2006.

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