Yes, happy news stories still occur on blogs!

March 31, 2005 | Filed Under News | 3 Comments

After a day of negative blogging stories its always nice to run something happy. Blogger Jim Davis recently went searching for a missing person, an old family friend, and what better way then to post on his blog. The result, well… it wouldn’t be a happy story without a happy ending, the women was found. […]

Shiny Media launches green consumer blog

March 31, 2005 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

UK blog network Shiny Media has launched HippyShopper, the UK’s first Green Consumer blog
The blog is being written by Stuff magazine’s Managing Editor, Adam Vaughan and aims to enlighten and amuse its readers with green news stories from the UK and links to environmentally friendly sites around the world.
Its daily updates will:
[…]

Vale Matt Mullweg

March 31, 2005 | Filed Under General | 9 Comments

Duncan Riley> yes, I’ve pulled the post about the crucification of Matt Mullenweg over at Waxy.org, life is to short to get into a fight with people over he said/ she said. What is clear though that today on the blogosphere we have experienced the crucification of the reputation of a formerly well respected blogger, […]

10 DIY Blog platforms you may not have visited

March 31, 2005 | Filed Under Reviews | 22 Comments

As the race between MovableType and WordPress for leadership of the DIY blogware market continues, there is any number other alternatives in the marketplace that offer similar services in a range of programming languages. Looking for something different, or always wanted to know what else was available, well heres a list of ten DIY Blog […]

Blog Herald reader survey: what is more dangerous to American school kiddies

March 31, 2005 | Filed Under Snark | 2 Comments

After a recent rise in blog bashing, today we launch the first Blog Herald reader survey for 2005. Because I’m too lazy to install the WP Poll Plugin today its going to be a manual process. The question: what is more dangerous to American school kiddies?
1. Drugs
2. Guns
3. Teenage Pregnancy
4. Prostitution and/ or child abuse
5. […]

Ethics and Blogging: Inspiration not copying

March 31, 2005 | Filed Under General | 2 Comments

Duncan Riley> In my first ethics post, I talked about the ethical use of text, but didn’t consider the use of the design in the equation, hence today’s post: Inspiration not copying, which covers both the ethical side of design, as well as being a handy guide on blog design itself.
Tip 2: Inspiration not […]

Calacanis, Denton Loathsome New Yorkers: media

March 31, 2005 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Blog tycoons Jason Calacanis and Nick Denton have been included on a list of 50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers, as published by the “New York Press”.
Denton cops the biggest serve with a description that starts with “Franken-headed Gawker Media emperor Nick Denton takes partial blame for the dubious distinction of introducing the word “blog” to […]

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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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