1.5 million French bloggers on Skyblog

April 30, 2005 | Filed Under News | 6 Comments

Reports today that French blogging service Skyblog now has 1.5 million bloggers blogging in French, an extraordinary figure that has previously been underestimated in English speaking media and elsewhere.
The figure represents one of the largest non-English speaking blog communities outside of Asia.

40% increase in profit for Problogger

April 30, 2005 | Filed Under News | 1 Comment

The rising star of professional blogging, Darren Rowse, perhaps best known for Problogger.net, has reported that his revenue for April has risen an amazing 40%.
Melbourne, Australia based Rowse blogs full time for a living and writes around 19 blogs, including Problogger, Digital Photography blog, and Camera Phone Zone, to name but a few.

Wanted: Gadget/ tech geek blogger

April 29, 2005 | Filed Under General | 5 Comments

Duncan Riley> Wanted, a Gadget/ tech geek blogger for a new gadget oriented blog as part of a new blogging network. At this stage the revenue split will be an initial 60/40 author/ network gross, ie, the 40% for the network will be inclusive of hosting, advertising and other costs, so the blogger chosen gets […]

Roger L. Simon plans new blog advertising network

April 29, 2005 | Filed Under News | 2 Comments

Well known blogger and author Roger L. Simon is joining the blog advertising game according to a post to his blog. Pajamasmedia is looking at using a different model to that currently used by BlogAds, that “will sell ads en masse, not blog-by-blog”. The service is said to be going live in the next […]

Singapore student forced to shut down blog after libel threat

April 29, 2005 | Filed Under News | 1 Comment

A Singapore student has been forced to shut down his blog on April 26 for fear of a libel action by the head of a government body.
The threat of prosecution came from Philip Yeo, chairman of the government’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research, who claimed the agency was libelled in a blog by Jiahao […]

MSNBC jumps on the Blogs are bad for kiddies bandwagon

April 29, 2005 | Filed Under News | 2 Comments

The luddites behind the blogs are bad campaign starting to emerge in middle America have managed to enlist the services of MSNBC with a new article targeting blogs titled “Kids, blogs and too much information“.
The story quotes a number of do-gooders, including a Mary Ellen Handy (you always know people are serious when they insist […]

CNN accused of using blogs for Guerrilla Marketing Campaign

April 29, 2005 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

CNN has been accused of trying to boost its search engine ratings through a guerilla marketing campaign utilising comment spam posts to blogs.
Nick Lewis claims that he has found evidence on 13 blogs of CNN trying to destroy negative publicity through a technique called “keyword stuffing” which is designed to get search engines to rank […]

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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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