Forbes critiques Sports Blogs

September 30, 2003 | Filed Under News | 3 Comments

In what is becoming a more regular, and welcomed feature at Forbes.com Davide Dukcevich has critiqued a number of sports blogs, an often over looked sector of the blogosphere, and an interesting diversion from a regular dose of business, politics and current affairs.
Best Sports Blogs | Forbes.com
“The best sports blogs are those that traffic in […]

Why blogs could be bad for business

September 30, 2003 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Why blogs could be bad for business | Guardian Unlimited
“Being able to publish words, pictures and - ultimately - multimedia to the web without specialised geek skills will remain a important advance, and have a broad impact on the nature of online media.
But the nature of how a business communicates - both internally and to […]

Technorati cracks the 1 million

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

David Sifry, creator of Technorati reports at Sifry’s alerts that Technorati has just clicked over 1 million blogs tracked, and that new blogs are being added at the rate of 1 per 12 seconds. An amazing statistic. Congratulations David and Technorati!

Google back flips on Adsense

September 29, 2003 | Filed Under General | 1 Comment

The Blog Herald has received an email from Google Adsense today advising that they have revisited our application to join and we are now accepted, in an apparent back flip from our earlier rejection. Whether this is a one-off, or other blogs will now be included by Google is yet to be seen, however their […]

Microsoft to get into Blogging?

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

Scott Watermasysk On .NET reports that Microsoft may be considering going into blogging through either MSN or Sharepoint, with this quote for the forthcoming Microsoft PDC conference from Robert McLaws
“By now, you’re probably familiar with weblogging to some extent. What you may not have known is the extent that blogging is used inside Microsoft. In […]

Defending Always On and Corporate blogging

September 26, 2003 | Filed Under General | 1 Comment

An interesting article appeared on the Always On Network (AO) today from site founder Tony Perkins on his first 8 months of running the Always On blog and some of the criticism he has received along the way.
There are a number of issues raised in the article which a worthy of mention:
1. When is a […]

Toward a Weblogging Empire

September 25, 2003 | Filed Under News | 2 Comments

An interesting concept in the future development of blogging:
Toward a Weblogging Empire | Wired.comJason Calacanis is back.
The former editor of the Silicon Alley Reporter, the once high-flying chronicle of Manhattan’s high-tech mania, plans this week to launch a new venture, Weblogsinc, that intends to make a go of publishing business-to-business blogs.
Essentially, Calacanis’ goal is […]

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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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