Highly paid ‘trapped’ lawyers gravitate to blog

December 29, 2004 | Filed Under News | 8 Comments

The Houston Chronicle looks at a fictional Lawyer Blog and its ability to attract lawyers like, well like lawyers to a motor vehicle crash.

RSS Abuse and the slime at Skweezer

December 29, 2004 | Filed Under News | 6 Comments

Jason McCabe Calacanis has outed a site by the name of Skweezer that takes RSS feeds under the pretence of optimising site viewing for mobiles and PDA’s, then adds its own advertising to feed, basically stealing your advertising revenue whilst denying you the ability to track visitors and the like. Be sure to check Jason’s […]

Business Week predicts Video Blogs are the next big thing

December 29, 2004 | Filed Under News | 4 Comments

Business Week is covering video blogs, or vlogs, in a piece predicting that they might be the next big thing….but what happened to Podcasting?

Blogging the Asian Tsunami Disaster

December 28, 2004 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Bloggers are rallying for support and providing coverage of the devestation across Asia and the Sub-continent
The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog is providing news and coverage from the Region
The Command Post is providing coverage on how to donate to those in need in the Region
Brand New Malaysian is co-ordinating donations for Malaysian victims
Blogs providing […]

The Year Of Blogging Dangerously

December 28, 2004 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Edward B. Driscoll, Jr. at Tech Central Station critiques the “the top ten events that ricocheted through the Blogosphere in 2004″

Fortune names Blogging No 1 trend in the top 10 tech trends for 2005

December 28, 2004 | Filed Under News | 1 Comment

Fortune Magazine has named blogging as the No. 1 trend in its top ten tech trends for 2005, including an extensive article on the subject, and a picture of Jason McCabe Calacanis on the cover.

Should bloggers post a blog disclosure statement?

December 27, 2004 | Filed Under News | 4 Comments

Jason Calacanis is running an interesting survey that we would enourage those interested in the topic to participate in
Should bloggers post a blog disclosure statement?

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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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