All the News That’s Fit to Skewer

January 31, 2004 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Wired reports on bloggers keeping watch on reporters
All the News That’s Fit to Skewer | wired.com
“In recent weeks, half a dozen or more blogs devoted to tracking the work of a single political reporter have emerged from the ether. Writers from the The Washington Post, Reuters and the Associated Press are among those targeted by […]

Blog on: Every laptop is a truth squad

January 29, 2004 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

James Lileks at Nola.com defends the Howard Dean Blog train and has a go at blog critics for fun as well.
Blog on: Every laptop is a truth squad | nola.com
“John Kerry — who quite possibly thinks a weblog is something a spider spins in an rotting tree trunk — beat Dean handily. Lesson: Sometimes a […]

Atom suppport for TypePad

January 28, 2004 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

Bwn Trott today announced the release of beta support for the Atom API in TypePad. Ben stated that the Atom API is “designed for extensibility”, and with that in mind, he has added to supporting standard weblog posts Atom implementation that also allows the ability to post to photo albums and TypeLists, something […]

Tell your wife to cut out the blog right now

January 27, 2004 | Filed Under Snark | 4 Comments

We’ve categorised this humour but it may well be legitimate: from the “Dear Harriette” Column in the Detroit Free Press
Dear Harriette: When my wife gets mad at me, she writes on her Web site what I did wrong that day. We are in counseling, but sometimes my words will be twisted around on the site. […]

Reviewing Australian Blogs on Australia Day

January 26, 2004 | Filed Under Reviews | 4 Comments

I love a sunburnt country, a land of many blogs, of wide brown RSS feeds….. although Dorothy McKellar may turn in her grave, Australians are slowly starting to catch up to the rest of the civilised world in the blogosphere and this Australia Day we take a quick look at some key Australian blogs and […]

Who will join Gates for knighthood

January 26, 2004 | Filed Under Snark | 1 Comment

News that Bill Gates will be bestowed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) raises the questions of other nominees for Royal Honours this year: our suggestions:
Posthumously Adolf Hitler: for services to English architecture
Bill Clinton: for encouraging women in the work place
Osama Bin Laden: services to international friendship
Sadamm Hussein: for […]

Dont blame us for Dean (and other hype matters)

January 26, 2004 | Filed Under General | 1 Comment

There are those in the media who over hype the net and the blogosphere, and there are those who wrongly denounce its influence. Paul Andrews of the Seattle Times falls into the later category. In a piece entitled Internet buzz fizzles out in Iowa test, he alleges that the failure of the Dean and Kucinich […]

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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 | 1 Comment

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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