Blog writing jobs averaging between $40-$70k

May 31, 2005 | Filed Under News | 4 Comments

Jobs where you get paid to blog get a running in the Wall Street Journal, with an article that discusses the rise of the professional blogger going off to work in corporate America.
Notably though, the jobs mentioned average between $40,000 to $70,000 USD per year.
I’m definitely under paid :-)

Book hits bestseller lists due to blogs

May 31, 2005 | Filed Under News | 2 Comments

A new book has made the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Amazon.com bestseller lists without advertising, national bookstore distribution, a major publishing house, radio interviews, television interviews, or print interviews but through the power of blogs.
â€œCall To Action: Secret Formulas to Improve Online Resultsâ€?, released May 9, 2005 by […]

Has Daypop died?

May 31, 2005 | Filed Under News | 4 Comments

Old time blog news search engine and blog tracker Daypop is off line, and has been for serveral days, possibly indicating retirement, death or similar.
The service, which started in 2001, was one of first blog tracking services of its type, but has been overshowed in more recent times by big corporate sites such as […]

Arieanna turns ProBlogger

May 31, 2005 | Filed Under News | 1 Comment

Canadian blogger Arieanna Foley of blog Blogaholics is turning pro.
In a bold move Foley has quit her day job to pursue the role of “professional blogger and consultant”
She will officially be trading under the banner of Blogaholics Consulting with the main site for the company being Blogging Help. Services to be offered include blog writing […]

WeblogsInc’s TV Squad lands interview with Apprentice winner

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

Jason Calacanis’ WeblogsInc has kept coming out with the big scoops this year, this time with TV blog TV Squad landing an interview with winner of television show “The Apprentice” Kendra Todd.
Calacanis makes reference to the interview on his blog, pointing out ” of course if you believe the MSM blogs are just riffing off […]

French media companies launch RSS reader

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

15 leading French media companies have united to launch a co-branded RSS reader.
The reader has been named the rather Anglo-sounding AlertInfo, and is being promoted under the umbrella organisation of GESTE, the Online Publishers Organisation in France.
Not a lot of new code though, with the reader being based on the Open source Feedreeder.
(via […]

Skinny blogs attract fat AP wire story

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

Anorexia blogs and websites are the subject of a long AP wire story here which looks at this serious health issue inflincting some 8-11 million Americans.
Apparently “Ana” blogs are being used by anorexia sufferers as a means to share stories and encourage each other in their quest to become more skinny.

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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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