Grogblogs emerging from France

September 30, 2005 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

A number of France’s leading wine producers have started blogging about this years harvest.
According to Wine International, ChÃ¢teau Palmer in Bordeaux, and ChÃ¢teau de Beaucastel in the RhÃ´ne are both now using blogs, with posts including how all the Grenache grapes in Beaucastel were harvested earlier this week, and the end of the Merlot harvest.

Why are Some Blog Networks So Successful?

September 30, 2005 | Filed Under General | 3 Comments

Darren asks a decent question over a Problogger given how many blog networks are launching lately. Whats the saying: dime a dozen?! :-)

2 new blogs networks launch promising 100% revenue

September 30, 2005 | Filed Under General | 11 Comments

Another week, another blog network or 2 :-)
This week takes us to two new blog networks with a twist, both offering variations on a 100% of Adsense/ YPN revenue model: finefools from Paul Scrivens (better known for his role as CEO of 9rules), with a name that shows unlike some of his underlings he actually […]

Yahoo! and OMD Global Study Finds Youth Love Personalized Media

September 30, 2005 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

According to an in-depth study of 13-24 year olds in 11 countries titled, “Truly, Madly, Deeply Engaged: Global Youth, Media and Technology,” released by Yahoo! and OMD Worldwide, youth’s use of interactive and wireless technologies has created a global generation highly accustomed to personalizing their experiences with interactive media. This so-called “My Media Generation,” driven […]

Good Charlotte disses Kelly Clarkson on blog

September 30, 2005 | Filed Under News | 55 Comments

Firstly, apparently the band Good Charlotte has a blog, indeed 4 blogs, one for each member and secondly, people are reading them, because apparently one of the members of the band, Benji Madden, has been using his blog to take pot shots at American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson, including implying that she’s fat as well!
According […]

Image hosting websites up due to growing popularity of blogs: report

September 30, 2005 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Nielsen//NetRatings today reported that traffic to image hosting Web sites has skyrocketed due to the “massive rise in blogging activity” seen since the beginning of this year. As a category, image hosting sites have grown 406 percent to more than 14.7 million unique users since January 2005, accounting for nearly 10 percent of active U.S. […]

Singapore Journalist: blogs are worse than porn

September 30, 2005 | Filed Under News | 2 Comments

Attention all bloggers, if you thought porn was immoral and wrong think again, because according to a member of the Singapore press, blogs are worse.
Carl Skadian writes for the Straits Times that:
“As far as I’m concerned, blogs are possibly the worst things about the Internet. Sure, pornography and other stuff rightly furrow the brows of […]

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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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