Europe goes to the Blogs

May 31, 2003 | Filed Under General | 4 Comments

The new service will also offer users the option of blogging via their mobile phone, ideal for usage from tanks crossing into France. Users can post picture or text messages directly reporting on the surrendering French to their blog from their phone, which the company claims is a unique feature.

Blog Ethics and the Star Wars Kid

May 28, 2003 | Filed Under General | 1 Comment

On May 20, the Blog Herald commented on the Star Wars Kid Video Blog charity and issues in relation to exploitation, ethics, transparency, irony and morals. In the week since we have received numerous emails, had a number of public comments on this site, have had debates with others on other blogs and, to use […]

The intimate world of the photo blogger

May 27, 2003 | Filed Under News | 1 Comment

International Herald Tribune> Imagine Walker Evans and Nan Goldin rolled together on your computer screen. In the 1930s and ’40s Evans secretly photographed people on New York City subways. The result was a book titled “Many Are Called.”

Mena Trott speaks on Type Pad and Movable Type

May 25, 2003 | Filed Under News | 2 Comments

Mena Trott, co-founder and owner of Six Apart, authors of the Blog Heralds favourite blogging utility, Movable Type, today emailed subscribers with what Six Apart has planned for the future. Highlights included a commitment to continue development of MT and MT Pro, and a better explanation of the target market for Type Pad. For those […]

Forget al-Qaeda, it’s robots that will get us, says judge

May 24, 2003 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

The Blog Heralds least favourite Australian High Court Jugde and noted political activist, Justice Michael Kirby, is reported in this mornings Sydney Morning Herald as warning against the threat of hositle robots and “quark atoms”, and that they dwarf al-Qaeda as the biggest threat of the 21st Century.

Google says no Bloggle, excludes Blogs from News service

May 23, 2003 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Dan Gilmours EJournal reports that Google’s Evan Williams has denied internet reports that Google plans to split Blogs into a seperate search facility.
The report goes on to say that Google does intend to exclude most blogs from the Google New search facility.

Blog Herald responds to Andy Baio

May 22, 2003 | Filed Under General | 1 Comment

As the publicity machine of the Star Wars Kid blog charity blasts its ways across worldwide media, a number of comments have been made at The Blog Herald, and emailed directly to the Blog Herald about our questioning of the possible exploitation of Ghyslain. Today we respond to Andy Baio.

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End of Minnebar coverage for 2008
May 10, 2008 | By Matt Craven | Leave a Comment

That marks the end of the Minnebar coveage for 2008 - I’m off to the Metrodome to watch my beloved Boston Red Sox beat up on the Minnesota Twins.
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3 Reasons to Use Disqus
May 10, 2008 | By Matt Craven | Leave a Comment

The Disqus blog commenting service is catching on - with many popular blogs such as Scripting News signing on to use the service.
VC Fred Wilson talks about three reasons to use Disqus in a recent post:
2a) Email Replies - Disqus emails every comment to the blogger. If the blogger wants to reply to the comment, […]

If You Were in Charge of the Social Networking Industry…
May 10, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | Leave a Comment

If you were in charge of the social networking industry, what social product or service would you offer?
WordPress has always been defined as “social” when it comes to creating an online presence and community, after all, a blog is all about community building, which differentiated it from a static HTML site.
I see many of […]

Statbot takes a look at the all time TechMeme Leaderboard
May 10, 2008 | By Matt Craven | Leave a Comment

Statbot has taken a look at the all-time leaderboard for TechMeme.
Of course, no one should be surprised to find that TechCrunch is at the top of the list…. interesting data, however, nonetheless…
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Google Closes Hello (What’s That Anyway?)
May 9, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 2 Comments

I’m reading that Google is closing Hello, which apparently was (and is, as I’m writing this), a photo sharing service that came with Picasa. I guess they feel it doesn’t fill a purpose anymore.
This from Hello.com:
We originally embarked on a mission to make photo sharing easier and more fun with Hello. We plan to keep […]

Colleen Coplick Talks PR over at BloggerTalks
May 9, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

I recently interviewed Colleen Coplick about taking over Buzz Networker, and there I said that an interview with her focusing on PR was due on BloggerTalks. Well, it is up now, and Colleen shares her views on paid reviews, PR agencies sending out samples, getting famous in the social sphere, how to write a great […]

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