Bloggy Stuff

I
managed to go the last two days without blogging about blogging. However, I’ve
accrued a few blog-related points that require posting:

• On Monday, my
  auction for blogging services finished. The price sat at US $685 for a
  few days, but there was a flurry of bidding in the final hours to bring the
  total up to US $2,025.00. Not quite Jeremy’s
  US $3,350, but he came up with the idea, so he deserves more. I’ll be
  announcing the winner and related stuff soon. Interestingly, eBay put the
  kibosh on future blogging auctions. Their rules apparently state that eBay
  is strictly for physical objects–you’re not allowed to flog services.
• Thanks to the excellent services of DesignOutpost,
  a kind of auction for design services, we’ve got a logo for Jeremy and I’s
  new blog consultancy (we should have a proper site next week).
  You can actually see the evolution of the logo and other options here
  and see a larger version after the jump. We’re also pleased
  to announce our first staff blogger–Tris
  Hussey.
• I continue to sit in 6th place for the
  2004 Weblog Awards, with a staggering 4.6% of the popular vote. I’m sure
  the folks at Eclectic
  Blogs are nice people, but I want to boot them out of the 5th spot. I
  figure that’ll only take about 60 votes. So, you know, go
  vote, please.
• On a related note, I was browsing around some of the other
  Weblog Awards categories, and was struck by how many of the leading blogs
  were political in nature (Canada being an exception). Maybe that’s just a
  symptom of the recent American election. Alternately, the lesson may be that
  the way to build traffic is to pick a side and get political.