Sun’s Schwartz Ponders Blogging

June 30, 2004 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

eWeek> The president of Sun Microsystems Inc. is looking at ways to express his views and thoughts on certain things to the public, quite possibly in a Weblog, he said Monday. Jonathan Schwartz, president and chief operating officer of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun, said he is seriously considering maintaining his own blog to communicate with […]

Forced Registration: Isn’t There a Better Way?

June 29, 2004 | Filed Under News | 1 Comment

Interesting post a Poynter.com about the growing trend of forced registration to read articles on media sites.
Had the shock of my life when I discovered to my horror that my old home town rag, the Sydney Morning Herald, was about to introduce registration. Whilst I’ll probably register here, there are plenty of sites that I […]

Net fans jolted by man’s blog hoax

June 29, 2004 | Filed Under News | 5 Comments

Sicko or new age cyber author? you be the judge……
Twincities.com> “For more than three years, a twenty-something Minnesota woman named Layne Johnson lured thousands of people to her Web site every day with a poignant and brutally honest diary of her life….Then, three weeks ago, the “Plain Layne” Web log mysteriously disappeared from the Internet, […]

AP to Launch Its First Blogs at Pol Conventions

June 29, 2004 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

Editor & Publisher> The Associated Press will launch its first Web log at the political conventions in Boston and New York, utilizing Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Walter R. Mears, AP officials announced Monday. “We like to try new things at the conventions because we have such a large staff in one place,” AP’s Washington bureau chief, […]

OSX Server to include Blog server

June 29, 2004 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

News from Apple that they are serious about serving the blog hosting community with a preview of the OSX Server v10.4 (Tiger) at the Apple site listing the following:
“A new Weblog server in Tiger Server makes it easy to publish, distribute and syndicate web-based content. The Weblog server provides users with calendar-based navigation and customizable […]

Lycos Launches free Tripod Moblogging: may start price war

June 29, 2004 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

Terra Lycos today launched new enhanced free features to its Blog Builder™ tool taking the Lycos Blog Builder to the next level and potentially making it a threat to some of the more established blog providers.
The new enhancements include free moblogging, new digital media uploading tools to allow the easy addition of photos, video and […]

Wonkette.com author Ana Marie Cox is fearless driver of Beltway buzz

June 27, 2004 | Filed Under News | 2 Comments

Some more good coverage for the leading Gawker Media blog
Seattle Times> Welcome to the white-hot center of Washington’s most salacious gossip. Never mind that it’s a blue-trimmed house with a shaggy lawn plopped squarely in suburbia — Wonkette lives here, armed with a PowerBook and a wicked tongue. For the uninitiated, Wonkette.com is the fearless […]

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End of Minnebar coverage for 2008
May 10, 2008 | By Matt Craven | Leave a Comment

That marks the end of the Minnebar coveage for 2008 - I’m off to the Metrodome to watch my beloved Boston Red Sox beat up on the Minnesota Twins.
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3 Reasons to Use Disqus
May 10, 2008 | By Matt Craven | Leave a Comment

The Disqus blog commenting service is catching on - with many popular blogs such as Scripting News signing on to use the service.
VC Fred Wilson talks about three reasons to use Disqus in a recent post:
2a) Email Replies - Disqus emails every comment to the blogger. If the blogger wants to reply to the comment, […]

If You Were in Charge of the Social Networking Industry…
May 10, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | Leave a Comment

If you were in charge of the social networking industry, what social product or service would you offer?
WordPress has always been defined as “social” when it comes to creating an online presence and community, after all, a blog is all about community building, which differentiated it from a static HTML site.
I see many of […]

Statbot takes a look at the all time TechMeme Leaderboard
May 10, 2008 | By Matt Craven | Leave a Comment

Statbot has taken a look at the all-time leaderboard for TechMeme.
Of course, no one should be surprised to find that TechCrunch is at the top of the list…. interesting data, however, nonetheless…
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Google Closes Hello (What’s That Anyway?)
May 9, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 2 Comments

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 […]

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