Realtors flock to blogs

February 28, 2005 | Filed Under News | 7 Comments

Not content to leave John Mudd alone to represent the real estate industry in the Blogosphere, real estate agents are flocking to blogging according to a list provided at The Realty Gram blog, a new blog recently launched by Frances Flynn Thorsen of Realty World Benchmark Realty Bethlehem, P.A.

Technorati gets an A+ for service again

February 28, 2005 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Robert Lindsay reports that after placing a call to Technorati with his technical problems, he has his call returned the same day from the head of Business Development. Interesting commentary for those not familiar with Technorati’s revenue model, and a great example of why, despite obvious technical difficulties and outages from time to time, the […]

Observer launches its first blog

February 28, 2005 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

The Observer, UK Newspaper The Guardian’s Sunday stablemate and the world’s oldest
Sunday newspaper, has launched its first weblog.
Edited by leader writer and Observer.co.uk editor Rafael Behr, the team behind the blog is hoping the site will shed new light on the workings of the paper and provide a new way for readers to engage with […]

Burke give Blogs a blast of Wikinews

February 28, 2005 | Filed Under News | 3 Comments

The World Editors Forum, the organisation for editors within the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), is still campaigning for the leadership of the Old Media Army with a new post this week from a new combatant in the war on blogging, John Burke, who comes to the defence of Wikinews following a few negative comments […]

Memo to Jon Friedman: we don’t trust you either

February 28, 2005 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

Duncan Riley> Jon Friedman, Media Editor with CBS Marketwatch, has fired another salvo in the war on blogging with an article stating that bloggers frighten him and that “I haven’t reached the point where I can completely trust them to be accurate or comprehensive or analytical or, especially, fair. Sometimes, I’m not even sure if […]

One to read: Interview with Darren Rowse

February 28, 2005 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Buzz Marketing with Blogs has a great interview with Darren Rowse, a blogger and all round good bloke making big bucks through a series of blogs (17 to be precise: crikey! Its hard enough to maintain 1!).
Lots of good tidbits and advice for those seeking to make money from blogs. Notably it never […]

MSN Search uses fake blogs in bizarre viral marketing campaign

February 28, 2005 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

In a sign that many advertising and PR firms still don’t get viral marketing, MSN Search has launched what it claims to be a “viral marketing” campaign that features 6 fake blogs that apparently interact with each other, according to a report in Online Media Daily.
The campaign has been widely condemned by bloggers and […]

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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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