Bloggers Gain Libel Protection in US

June 30, 2003 | Filed Under News | 3 Comments

Wired reports that the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that bloggers, website operators and e-mail list editors can’t be held responsible for libel for information they republish, extending crucial US Free speech protections to do-it-yourself online publishers.

Google discriminates against blogs

June 30, 2003 | Filed Under General | 1 Comment

There is much ado with the news of Google toolbar v2 with support for blogger posts, however little has been said over the snub to exclude most blogs from the Google adsense program. Despite Googles recent purchase of PyraLabs and the popular Blogger, Google only demonstrates here either a total ignorance of the reach blogs […]

PMachine: alternative to Movable Type not quite MT

June 29, 2003 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

Being a MovableType fan, straying from the norm is always a big change. A recent post on another blog stated that the Blog Herald was a good site, but lacked in not covering Grey Matter. I can’t find that post today: if the poster reads this, please trackback, however there is a reason I don’t […]

Collectrix LLC sues Userland, Google, WordPress and Six Apart

June 28, 2003 | Filed Under News | 2 Comments

Following the announcement that Collectrix LLC holds a patent on One-Click BlogginG, lawyers from the dotcom issued cease and desist letters to four companies all accused of infringing on the intellectual property of the Dallas-based start-up.

MSNBot boycotters can’t participate

June 28, 2003 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Q Daily News reports that a number of blogs participating in the MSNBot boycott can’t participate as their blogs live in subdirectories, and that the robot.txt file they are utilising must be in the root directory. We learn more about robots every day!

Blog standards

June 27, 2003 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

There’s been plenty of talk lately on a new syndication format and API for blogging named Echo being run by Sam Ruby. Whilst sharing the same name as my car minus a Toyota logo the Blog Herald support the push that will see vendor neutral blogging in the near future. The project is being supported […]

New Google Toolbar to include Blogging support

June 27, 2003 | Filed Under News | 3 Comments

C|Net news.com reports that the new Google toolbar will support blog posting through blogger blogs and block pop ups on websites.

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Google Closes Hello (What’s That Anyway?)
May 9, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

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 […]

MyBlogLog Adds More Stuff
May 9, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

MyBlogLog have added some new stuff, since the obviously get that we’re not monogamous when it comes to online apps and social networks.
Specifically, whenever you:

post a question to Yahoo Answers
share an item on Google Reader
post a video on Seesmic

MyBlogLog will post those events and make them part of your New with Me page.
All you […]

SOBCon08: A Conference Experienced in the Moments
May 8, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | 2 Comments

We do not remember days; we remember moments.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCon) in Chicago last weekend was a collection of moments I will remember for a long time.
Throughout the weekend, people kept asking what was different about this conference from all the other conferences they go to. It was clear […]

Blogger To Add Star Rating System To BlogSpot?
May 8, 2008 | By Darnell Clayton | Leave a Comment

It looks as Blog*spot users will soon be able to insert a ratings system in their Blogger blogs which will allow readers to rate an individual post from one star to five.
Unfortunately it seems as if they launched the feature prematurely, and the Google team has currently disabled the feature–at least for now.
(Blogger Status) Some […]

Perez Hilton to Release Clothing Line
May 8, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

Celeb gossip blogger Perez Hilton, aka Mario Lavendeira, is set to launch his own line of clothing, to be sold exclusively in the Hot Topic chain of stores, as well as online.
“2008 is all about expanding the Perez Brand,” the blogger explained. “I talk about clothes all the time on my website. I have a […]

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