Blogging for Fairfax!!

Posted on 11. May, 2007 by in Australian media

Okay well… let the ribbing begin.

Starting today, a group of Aussie start-up entrepreneurs will be writing a collaborative blog for TheAge.com.au.

The blog is called “Start Up Stories” and it’s the brainchild of James Farmer.

Start Up Stories

Start up stories is contributed to by Marty Wells of Tangler, Nik Cubrilovic of Omnidrive, Peter Styles of RedBubble, Ben Barren of Feedcorp … and Cameron Reilly of The Podcast Network.

It’s a bold idea. Fairfax get free content and we get to expose what we’re doing to Fairfax’s audience. We’ve already been told that we can’t link to our sites from inside the posts which is a strange request. Blogging… without linking.

Anyway, it’s a bold experiment and I tip me hat to James for his vision and to the bigwigs at Fairfax for giving it the nod. Make sure you check it out. My first post will be up next week.

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