Convention blog watch

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

The Enquirer> As the two dozen-plus independent Web logs (”blogs”) with press credentials settle in to cover the Republican National Convention online this week, Jay Rosen’s Press Think blog sets the stage in a literal sense. Rosen describes how Republicans have designed the space in New York’s Madison Square Garden, and what that says about […]

Friendster not so friendly to blogger

August 31, 2004 | Filed Under News | 1 Comment

Corante is reporting that a Friendster employee, Joyce Park got the boot from Friendster for blogging, all for the crime of reporting that Friendster was changing from JSP to PHP.

Feedster Provides Search for washingtonpost.com’s Best Blogs Awards

August 30, 2004 | Filed Under General | 1 Comment

Press release> Feedster Inc., the first company to utilize RSS and weblog content to enhance traditional news syndication and search, today announced that it will team up with washingtonpost.com to facilitate selection of nominees and encourage voting for The Best Blogs – Politics & Elections 2004 Readers’ Choice Awards.

RNC Bloggers at WSJ

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

With the RNC nearly here the WSJ covers the RNC Bloggers: a great read and you’ve got to say they are a switched on lot that will do us proud.
WSJ> Republican Web loggers are getting ready for their shot at posting convention news and commentary, and they say they’ve learned from their left-leaning counterparts’ experience […]

Hartlepool Lib Dem blogs her way into byelection history

August 26, 2004 | Filed Under News | 1 Comment

Blogging a by-election UK style
The Guardian> The Liberal Democrats today unleash their latest weapon in the Hartlepool byelection when their candidate’s interactive “blog” goes live.
Jody Dunn, a photogenic barrister and mother of four who hopes to wrest Peter Mandelson’s constituency from Labour, will daily detail what she has been doing, and reply to voters who […]

Impact of blogs seen as slight

August 26, 2004 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Blog bashing 101: sure there has been a lot of hype but is this really fair….
JournalNews> Bloggers are the self-assured know-it-alls of the political media. Shrugging off impartiality and other journalistic creeds in favor of partisan swagger, D.C.-centric Web loggers wield their various points of view with a degree of confidence known only to true […]

Feedster Provides Search for washingtonpost.com’s Best Blogs Awards

August 26, 2004 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

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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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