As I announced earlier this week, if you follow me on Twitter you are in with a chance of winning this premium news theme. Three different premium news themes will be awarded over the next Fridays.You got to be in it to win it! The winner will be announced on Twitter after 6pm GMT so you had better follow me now :) … [Read more...]

How would you like to win a WordPress Premium News Theme, either to use yourself or give away to your readers? Sound good? All you have to do is follow me on Twitter and be the lucky person to be randomly selected. I will perform a different draw each Friday for the next few weeks! Adii (the designer of this blogs theme) has provided me with the following four beautiful premium news … [Read more...]

What happens when an author goes on national television and criticizes a computer game she has never seen let alone played? In the past what would have happened is, well, very little. Today of course is the age of the internet mob. Rather than chants, torches and pitch forks, the modern mob member uses Digg as the tool of choice. In this case the target was the hapless authors Amazon reviews. As you can imagine, she soon retracted her statements. Can you blame her? I read over at … [Read more...]

You can now get chrisg.com emails weekly as well as daily and via RSS. For a while I have been emailing people who unsubscribe from the daily emails asking them for feedback. Other than "I just wanted your free ebook" or the standard "you suck", most people were telling me they liked the articles but every day was too much. Hopefully this weekly digest should help with that.While I do have an AWeber account, and FeedBurner is great, I decided to go with FeedBlitz to allow this additional weekly … [Read more...]

Over and over we have heard that digital technology allows the little guy to compete on an equal footing with the Goliaths of this world. It hardly ever seems to work out that way, and on the rare occasions it does ... well, the little guy tends to turn into everything people hated about the big guy pretty quickly. After watching this YouTube video though I wonder if we are starting to see how digital technology plus internet distribution could allow small determined groups to at the very least … [Read more...]

Michael at Remarkablogger has just announced he is offering a free ebook to subscribers (wonder where he got that idea from, heh). You can get it just by signing up via email or RSS.The ebook covers ...A 12-step process for starting a business blog packed with vital and actionable informationIn all there are 82 pages of information to help a business consider or start a new blog, from understanding what blogging is to drafting a comment policy.Well worth checking out, nice work Michael! … [Read more...]

Before I took my blog-break there was a little prize draw here to win a copy of the fantastic freelancing ebook How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer. Of course now I need to announce a winner! As Collis allowed me to give away more than one copy and seeing as there were 49 entrants I have decided to award three lucky chrisg.com readers. I always feel guilty that there can be so few winners. Hopefully I can find a way to offer more prizes in future. If you are a freelancer and you missed out … [Read more...]

You are likely to hear this from other blogs you read but I think it does serve as a wakeup for the rest of us. Popular web designer David Airey has had his domain stolen As many of you know, I left for vacation last month. In hindsight, I should've kept this information private. On the day I left, a hacker logged into my webhost support site and asked for the details to transfer the www.davidairey.com domain. Ordinarily, this wouldn't have allowed them to steal my domain, but they must also … [Read more...]

Nominate your favorite blogs for the Performancing Blog Awards 2007.  If you do not want the same old blogs to get nominated then it is up to you to nominate :) Official Categories For The 2007 Performancing Blog Awards: The Best Overall BlogThe Most Influential BloggerThe Best Blog DesignThe Best Blog TypographyThe Best Blog NameThe Best New BlogThe Best Blog CommunityThe Most Improved Blog of 2007The Best Blogs You've Never Heard OfThe Best Blog PodcastThe Best Use of a Corporate BlogThe … [Read more...]

Collis from FreelanceSwitch has offered a lucky chrisg.com reader a free copy of their fantastic freelancing ebook How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer Covering everything from getting started to expanding your business, How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer is the official FreelanceSwitch book. Written by Collis & Cyan Ta'eed - the founders of the site - it's packed with new information, advice and insights not covered on the blog. The book is available now as an eBook for $29 and will shortly be on … [Read more...]