Japanese Web star spreads blogging gospel

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

Seattlepi>Snapshots of his pet dog, thoughts on democracy and a recipe for bamboo shoots clutter Joichi Ito’s Web journal, a lively peek into the tireless mind of one of Japan’s biggest Internet stars. After developing some of the country’s hottest Net ventures, the 37-year-old entrepreneur has a new mission: Making the journals known as weblogs, […]

The Expanding Blogosphere

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

AJR> When political bloggers bay in the blogosphere, do political reporters hear them? The answer, I quickly learned, depends on four factors: how you define “political blog”; which political bloggers you mean; which political reporters you mean; and–not to go all Bill Clinton on you–what the meaning of “hear” is. read more>

Bloggers find ways to profit

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

Another blogging for profit yarn:
SFGate> Web logs, or blogs, which started out as a labor of love, are becoming a moneymaker for writers who are selling advertising on their sites.
Some top bloggers who carry advertising say they make hundreds or, in a few cases, thousands of dollars a month. The typical take is more like […]

Hollywood Mystery Man ‘Rance’ Has Internet Abuzz

May 28, 2004 | Filed Under News | 5 Comments

Is it Afleck or Cooney, or just a kook? who knows?
Reuters>He skewers Hollywood and the cult of celebrity on an anonymous Web log that has spawned a cult following. He claims to be an A-list actor, writing under a pseudonym, but admits he may not be believed.
Who, exactly, is “Rance?”
Could he really be, as some […]

Stewart Kirkpatrick v Bloggers

May 27, 2004 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Stewart Kirkpatrick at the Scotsman continues to write off blogs in his latest effort to out do Andrew Orlowski from The Register, what do you think? are blogs dead?
The Scotsman> Here is the news: blogs are dead. For a while the e-chattering classes couldn’t get enough of these online journals. But now they’ve jumped the […]

For Some, the Blogging Never Stops

May 27, 2004 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

NY Times> O celebrate four years of marriage, Richard Wiggins and his wife, Judy Matthews, recently spent a week in Key West, Fla. Early on the morning of their anniversary, Ms. Matthews heard her husband get up and go into the bathroom. He stayed there for a long time. “I didn’t hear any water running, […]

Steve Rubel to become Blog guinea pig

May 27, 2004 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion is continuing to impress this week with original thought and content, this time with a “news diet” consisting of no external input on the world around him other than from blogs. Will be interesting to see how it goes.

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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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