Great to see 22 comments for yesterdays Comment Friday. I’ve finished visiting everyones blog that commented, it’s tough to pick the ‘winner’.

I followed up on Ryan’s comment and we even decided to exchange feeds, so now he is a subscriber to Blog about your Blog. I hope he can successfully implement a few BAYB ideas onto his own blog. His comment made me visit his blog first, I guess it intrigued me most to find out what type of blog he has.

Thanks for commenting Ryan. Don’t forget to drop by Ryan’s Blog and leave him a comment too.

Hope to see more comments next week, thanks everyone for coming by yesterday and leaving us one. Maybe you will be featured next week.

Friday seems to come so fast, seems like yesterday I was writing last week’s Comment Friday topic!

If you are new around here, comment friday is a fun and simple idea. Leave us a comment about anything you want to. By leaving a comment, first you will have your blog visited by me, and you may even get a link out of it. I will select a blog from the comment list to be linked to and have their link on our blogroll, until next friday. Our Friday’s have been catching on, don’t miss out.

Aside from our comments, we have a great MyBlogLog Community that has reached 244 members! Amazing!

Our first Blog Carnival is also coming up, and we already have 15 entries!

But our best feature right now has to be the blog competition, where you can earn money just by reviewing our blog! Feel like 10 dollars in your paypal? Blog about us!

We’ve got a lot of things going on, with plenty more on the way.

Don’t forget to leave us a comment. Your blog could get linked right here.

I had a few links saved of posts I read that I liked over the past week or so. Here they are with a small description, expect more next week!

Interesting And Useful Blog Posts by Mike

Article on basically what I am doing right now, and thats linking to other links with linking! Hah! Mike shares a few articles about money making and blog help, from other bloggers.

I talked too much by People in the Sun

Referring to a site where you can get your blog reviewed, I talk 2 much, its tough to get a good review out of those girls.

Blog-Off For Breast Cancer by Carly

Basically what the title states. Great cause, go check out the program.

A Q&A With Myself by Matt

Pretty fun post, he intereviewed himself. Got a few laughs out of it.

How To Write An Awesome “About” Page by Philip

Inspired me to tackle our own About page. It’s on my to do list, after this post.

Ann Coulter Calls John Edwards The F-Word by Scott

I hadn’t heard about this until I read it here. Now it’s been all over the news.

Review My Blog Link Back by Jason

Great way to build links. I hope to implement this idea on our blog, which I am trying to do with the blog competition. Basically trading links, writing a small review about the site. I’ve noticed their feed count has already increased after having a few successful reviews.

Ed from The Pisstakers has been chosen for a Blog about your Blog author interview. I have asked Ed’s Wife Ed a series of questions about some personal things, blogging and blog about your blog. I hope you enjoy the interview.

Are you married? Girlfriend? Boyfriend?

Last year a very brave woman agreed to accept me with all my faults and she married me with all her faults. It’s amazing being in a team where faults complement each other, and I highly recommend holding out for that perfect partner.

She must of been over your shoulder while we did this interview! lol

What do you do when you are not blogging?

I like to eat my wife’s cooking, but I am not allowed to say that the food tastes good. Apparently it irritates her because I would eat an old sock if she served it up, and still say it was nice. I also spend a few hours a week assisting her in a long term project to tame a stallion. Patience will prevail and I am resigned to being the smarter of the two studs in the family.

What is your favorite blog to read besides your own?

That’s a tricky one. There are more blogs than people, aren’t there? After great deliberation, Ask Pud. He doesn’t post too regularly, but he always seems to have something funny or outrageous to say.

Alright enough about your wife, let’s talk about your blog.

When was your blog created?

I can’t remember, but according to Awstats, end of August 2006.

Why did you choose your blog topic?

There are actually 3 blogs within The Pisstakers. Tech, news and quirky. I am a closet wannabe geek but I only know enough about tech and web stuff to be dangerous. I also wanted to broaden the scope of the blog (and my own mind) with topical current affairs, and quirky weird stories. To mask my worrying lack of in-depth knowledge and scanty research, I thought it best to write it all up with a twist of humor. Voilá!

Did you think you were going to be instantly successful?

Absolutely not. And I made doubly sure that instant success would not be mine, by putting together a 2 year plan to get the blog fully set up!

What do you enjoy most about blogging?

It may sound stupid, but I like lunch time! That means all the articles have been done, and it’s time to do something else until the evening run round my online buddies’ blogs.

Do you have any new upcoming projects or ideas you want to announce?

I am thinking about how to implement some sort of “you submit my best posts, I’ll submit yours” scheme – to get the maximum benefit from social bookmark sites.
I have also been writing material for Nick Pruett’s new baby, Top Funnies, which is building up into a good blog, if you are into stand-up comedy from around the world.

What is the best feature on your blog?

Ironically the page that takes the least work has the highest PR – Funny Quote of the Day. On the technical side, the archiving is very clever. Too boring to go into, but it’s a very neat solution.

You have an interesting blog design, how did you come up with it?

I didn’t want any old rectilinear cookie cutter theme, and it had to be colorful and fun. Having said that, the star attraction, the written content, still had to be legible, and findable. (Still trying to perfect the search capabilities, but overall, I’m happy with the rest.)

Are you the designer as well as author?

I guess I proposed the concept, but Oscar Furgoni came up with the layout and Giuseppe Caruso from Bonsai Studio coded it and polished it all up. All very international and good fun. My artistic contribution is to add the banner images for each post.

What do you rely most on to get traffic to your blog or website?

Luck most of the time. Reviewing other blogs is quite productive, so that is an avenue worth pursuing. Google traffic is building too. Keep on putting decent posts out there, and saying hi to other bloggers. I am slow about networking, a hangover from college where you spend the first 2 minutes making friends, and the following 2 semesters trying to lose most of them!

And the final series of questions, a little bit about Blog About Your Blog

How did you find us?

On MyBlogLog. Pre BAYB, I noticed you, or rather, you and Mike on other forums!

What do you like most about BAYB?

You and Lee are good leaders, and good writers are following your lead. It is cool, and I am sure this is one blog that won’t atrophy.

We are just getting started.

What new feature would you like to see?

An on-page option to change text size. Thus spake the blind man.

What do you like the least?

Very long interviews? Don’t beat me for this criticism, but the color of the text beneath the post title seems a little too light for instant reading. And related to that, I just tried to check for past author interviews and it took me a while to work out how you access posts by category.

Maybe we need the categories on the sidebar. Your interview is probably longest of all! hah!

Who have you chosen to be the next one interviewed?

First off, I would like to thank Stefanie for putting me forward. I hope I haven’t made her regret her decision. And passing on the baton, I would like to nominate Rhys. I believe it was St David’s Day earlier in the week, so he is sure to be on form.

Thank you for the interview, I think we know more about your wife than we do you though!(kidding) Remember if there was a question I missed that you want asked in the next interview please submit it by commenting on this post or emailing me at ff_n_stuff@yahoo.com

Do someone a favour!

I like to read about succes stories of all kinds, whether about blogging or business in general. One I looked at again this week was the Marks & Spencer story. M&S run large, very successful stores in the UK and other countries. They have been around for years and years.

The thing that interested me was how they actually started.

First there was Michael Marks. His mother died of childbirth and he suffered because he was a Jew in his native, what was then, Russian Poland. To escape he came to England to settle in Leeds where there was a large Jewish community.

He was without money and had no trade. He heard, however, that there was a business in Leeds that might be able to help him. He set off to find this ‘golden’ opportunity.

A warehouse owner called Isaac Dewhirst found Michael standing outside his establishment. He couldn’t understand the young man, asÂMichael only spoke Yiddish, but somehow, with the help of an interpreter, he got to hear his story.

Isaac Dewhirst offered to lend Michael £5. From this the beginnings of the Marks & Spencer empire was created.

The year was 1884 and with the money goods were bought from Mr.Dewhirst’s warehouse. These he started to peddle around local villages. It is interesting that 100+ years later Dewhirsts still supply Marks and Spencer.

It’s a long story but briefly: after selling door to door, a market stall was started out of the profits and later he met Tom Spencer – and the rest is history.

I suppose what I’m saying is: I wonder how many of us would have bothered to help a penniless person as did Isaac Dewhirst?

Sometimes a small favour or kindness can change lives.

Good blogging,
Mike
Mike’s Money Making Mission

Over at Quit Your Day Job and No Smoking In The Skull Cave we are currently holding what we’ve declared the Blog Crossover Event of the Year!

The way it works is Becca and I went away separately with the task to come up with the most groan worthy movie titles possible – titles like Aliens Vs Predator (mmmmm) or Jason Vs Freddy (hang on). We then swapped the list and for the next five days we will celebrate the awful ideas for film that we’ve come up with.

To get an idea the very first movie that Becca came up for me to write about is:

You can check out the interview with the director of The Texas Ewok Massacre at Quit Your Day Job and keep visiting both QYDJ and No Smoking in the Skull Cave for the next five days and enjoy the campy pop culture fun!

I woke up this morning, pleased to find we received our first review in the blog competition from Esplanade. The review is nice, and sets a good tone for the competition.

After about 10 or so reviews, the competition will be closed and the voting will begin. The winners will receive 10$ for first and 5$ each for 2nd and 3rd. For more information you can check out the original post about the competition.

Our judges are Ed, Stefanie, Mike, Chris, Lee, and myself. So spread the competition about our little contest, I’ll link to you if you do! Thanks