31 days to better blogging starts today

July 31, 2005 | Filed Under General | 2 Comments

If you’re not a reader of Problogger, August 1 is the day to get on board, with Darren Rowse staring a new series: 31 days to building a Better Blog.

IceRocket dumps BlogScour name

July 31, 2005 | Filed Under General | 4 Comments

After rumours that the Mark Cuban funded search engine come blog search engine IceRocket was to change its name to BlogScour, and then denials that this was the case and that IceRocket were going to to launch a seperate blog search facility under the name, the whole concept has been dumped.
A report from Search Engine […]

Singapore blogerati under attack from hackers

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

The blogging elite of Singapore are under attack with a recent surge in hack attacks against a number of leading bloggers.

The Electric New Paper reports that bloggers including Xiaxue (interestingly hosted by Blogger), have been forced to report the attacks to police, or in some circumstances give up blogging altogether.

Problems with TypePad

July 31, 2005 | Filed Under General | 19 Comments

Reports are emerging that there may be some server problems with SixApart’s paid blogging service TypePad.
The well regarded TypePad user Neville Hobson writes that he’s been having serious issues with Ecto and TypePad for the last week, and also points to others with the same problems. Jeff Nolan is also reporting issues, as is Jeff […]

Blogger Hacked!

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

Google’s Blogger network has been hacked and defaced.
Unknown hackers attacked the Blogger Developers Network Blog and left a number of odd messages, as well as changing the site layout and granting administration privileges to the sites users.
Dirson and Google Blogscoped have details and screen shots.
Google are denying that their service was hacked and […]

Comscore ranks Blogger on top for traffic

July 31, 2005 | Filed Under News | 6 Comments

US market research firm Comscore has ranked Google’s Blogger as the leading blog service in the United States in terms of traffic.
The research, presented at a WOMMA event July 13, analysing at the surfing habits of 2 million people found that the Blogspot.com domain, the free hosting domain of Blogger, received approx 19 million unique […]

New Google Adsense webinar

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

Google’s back with a new Adsense webinar scheduled for Tuesday August 2, 2005 at 5pm PST. I was fortunate enough to be on the last hookup and although they don’t always present the most profound and amazing content, they are still worth while for bloggers interested in Adsense, and most importantly its free.
The topic […]

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End of Minnebar coverage for 2008
May 10, 2008 | By Matt Craven | Leave a Comment

That marks the end of the Minnebar coveage for 2008 - I’m off to the Metrodome to watch my beloved Boston Red Sox beat up on the Minnesota Twins.
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3 Reasons to Use Disqus
May 10, 2008 | By Matt Craven | Leave a Comment

The Disqus blog commenting service is catching on - with many popular blogs such as Scripting News signing on to use the service.
VC Fred Wilson talks about three reasons to use Disqus in a recent post:
2a) Email Replies - Disqus emails every comment to the blogger. If the blogger wants to reply to the comment, […]

If You Were in Charge of the Social Networking Industry…
May 10, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | Leave a Comment

If you were in charge of the social networking industry, what social product or service would you offer?
WordPress has always been defined as “social” when it comes to creating an online presence and community, after all, a blog is all about community building, which differentiated it from a static HTML site.
I see many of […]

Statbot takes a look at the all time TechMeme Leaderboard
May 10, 2008 | By Matt Craven | Leave a Comment

Statbot has taken a look at the all-time leaderboard for TechMeme.
Of course, no one should be surprised to find that TechCrunch is at the top of the list…. interesting data, however, nonetheless…
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Google Closes Hello (What’s That Anyway?)
May 9, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 2 Comments

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 […]

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