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It’s been exactly two years to the day since I started this blog, so it’s time for the annual review of my blogging achievements and time to reflect on what to do with it next.

When I launched my blog, I planned on posting  once a week. At the time this didn’t seem to be too onerous a schedule, and one which I managed  to adhere to for a few months. However, after the first year my posting frequency slipped to about 3 posts a month and has since slipped to a little less than 2 posts a month. So I guess at this rate my blog has another 2 years to go before I’m not posting anything at all!

Towards the end of my first year blogging, I started posting a monthly podcast about general internet related topics, which I imaginatively titled The Internet Monthly (wonder how I thought that one up?). While I record this podcast myself every month (with my friend Winnie Clarke providing her professional vocal talents for the recording), I’m afraid I can’t take the credit for the content as I record this podcast for Zen Internet’s monthly customer newsletter.

Zen Internet have kindly allowed me to syndicate this podcast on my blog, which essentially means that I have the intrinsic content for one blog post sorted every month. This then leaves me one proper post to try and squeeze out every month to maintain my two posts a month.

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The Internet Monthly is a monthly podcast featuring 20 or so short Internet related articles, tips and tricks and a regular search engine of the month feature.

In this month’s issue you can find out about the simple answer to guessing the Web’s most used passwords, free analytics and tracking for your Web site and how sharing documents online can boost search engine results and win business.

You can also learn about the easiest way to follow your company on Twitter, the tiny swing to Bing and the big Buzz from Google, the only worldwide search engine based in Egypt and how Obama rallied opposition to fight the enemies of Net neutrality.

This podcast is derived from a monthly newsletter published by Zen Internet and recorded and produced by Silicon Bay. The podcast is reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet.

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