Student’s Blog includes death threats

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

NorthWest Herald> ALGONQUIN – Some parents kept their children home Tuesday from Jacobs High School after learning that the students’ names appeared on a 16-year-old student’s Web site that included death threats. A parent found the junior’s Web log Sunday and contacted Algonquin police. An officer questioned the boy Monday morning……”If you look at the […]

Portland e-citizen doggedly chronicles local government

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

The Oregonian> The man in the floppy gray fishing hat took one last drag on his American Spirit cigarette, then ground it out on the sidewalk and pocketed the butt (still some left, and money’s tight these days). Then he adjusted the press pass hanging around his neck and slipped quietly through the doors of […]

Future search efforts will make Google look like 8-tracks

March 31, 2004 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

Interesting story for its Google analysis and for the statement “But Technorati doesn’t search the rest of the Web, just as Google doesn’t search blogs.”
Yahoo/ USA Today>There is no hotter topic in technology than Google. Cover of Newsweek. Cover of Wired. IPO fever. What’s next? The Google Diet? The Five Googles You Meet in Heaven? […]

Weblogs and customer service

March 31, 2004 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

An interesting post from Chad Dickerson at Infoworld on how DreamHost is watching and responding to bloggers on its hosting service. A great corporate lesson.

This Googlebomb cost $44.75 (or three weblogs)

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

The Register> Businesses spending thousands of dollars to get their websites prominently displayed by Google should look at a much cheaper option that archivist Daniel Brandt demonstrated last week. read more>

Spammer’s Porsche up for grabs

March 31, 2004 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

There is some justice in the world! BBC> Internet giant AOL has ratcheted up the war against unsolicited e-mail with a publicity-grabbing coup - an online raffle of a spammer’s seized Porsche. AOL won the car - a $47,000 Boxster S - as part of a court settlement against an unnamed e-mailer last year. read […]

Recyclying Weblogs Into Print

March 30, 2004 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Poynteronline> The normal newspaper industry flow is “print to Web,” but the new wave is “web to print,” and a new book with the provocative title “Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers” does just that. The book, which is expected to be published in the next couple of weeks, is a compendium of “the best” […]

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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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