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Listed below are comments made by KatherineHannaford between Thursday, 21st August 2008 and Monday, 1st September 2008.

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A question of Netiquette... 7:28pm on 01 Sep 2008 Oh no, don't protect your updates, Rory!

Whilst I've considered it myself after encountering some less-than-complimentary people on Twitter, I think it's against the ethos of the site itself. And anyone who takes someone's hastily-written word on Twitter as law obviously doesn't know how to use the service properly.

As rosscbrown mentions, perhaps you need to add a little disclaimer in your Twitter description?
Can Brits make bucks from blogging? 4:07pm on 21 Aug 2008 To be fair, Patrick Altoft doesn't really hit the spot when he says "If you're on the front page of Digg, that guarantees 50,000 hits. The likes of TechCrunch and Gizmodo are there every day - you'll never see Shiny there."

When I worked at Shiny Media (for three years), each and every writer was abusing not only Digg, but also StumbleUpon and every other social tool we could lay our hands on. Bearing in mind we quite often wrote about new social tools on Tech Digest, where I was editor, we certainly knew which tool to use, and when.

Yet, Digg never sent traffic our way, I remember doing a top ten on a subject, digging it, and getting maybe 17 diggs in total. Gizmodo did a top five a week later, and got hundreds of diggs - even though all their five points were listed in my top ten, they were propelled to the front of Digg.

I've pretty much given up using Digg as a means of generating traffic, as unless your blog is based in the US, you won't be seeing much traffic at all.

As for the issue regarding bloggers' pay, well, I think the fact that I left full-time blogging to go work at a publishing house on their flagship web title says it all really.

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