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If you want to support Red Nose Day in a way that doesn't involve wearing your pyjamas to work, British blogger Troubled Diva (that's not his real name) may have just the solution.

Last Friday, Mike Atkinson (that's his real name) hit upon the idea of publishing an anthology of funny blog posts, with all profits from the book to go to Comic Relief. British bloggers would be allowed to submit one entry from their archive, Mike would read through them all and select the best ones for publication.

So far, so good, but that only gave Mike and his handful of cohorts a week to produce a book from scratch, if it was to go on sale at midnight last night as planned. Bloggers soon spread the word by linking to Mike's original blog post from their own blogs. An interview on Radio Five Live's Pods and Blogs section helped too, and by the Tuesday evening cut-off, Mike had received more than 300 submissions.

The finished product features 100 of those submissions, and has been published through lulu.com, the online self-publishing outfit we mentioned the other week.

Called Shaggy Blog Stories: A Collection of Amusing Tales from the UK Blogosphere, it is available to buy from shaggyblogstories.co.uk, priced GBP8.96.

As well as being a way to help alleviate world poverty without having to wear a hilarious false nose, we reckon the book will act as a fantastic introduction to some of the funniest writing in the British blogosphere. Well worth a look.

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