Blogger Wedding

March 29, 2006 | Filed Under General | 1 Comment

Meg Hourihan and Jason Kottke tied the knot this week in New York City. Check the pics for some images of Six Apart’s Anil Dash and Gawker Media’s Nick Denton, among others…

USA Today profiles Postsecret Blogger

March 29, 2006 | Filed Under News | 3 Comments

USA Today has profiled Postsecret founded (and blogger) Frank Warren:
Frank Warren is knee-deep in secrets: They’re overflowing boxes, piled on tables, leaning against walls - closing in on 30,000 at last estimate, and hundreds of new ones are arriving every week.
Warren is unperturbed; secrets have become his life. Not his secrets, mind you - America’s […]

Is my blog HOT or NOT?

March 28, 2006 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

The boys over at Hot or Not? have come up with a new one: Blog Hot or Not?.
The idea of this site is twofold. One reason is to get some sort of ranking system on weblogs just like we have for people’s pictures. The other reason is to create a system that helps weblog writers […]

Blog Business 101: Why you need Corporate Counsel

March 28, 2006 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

Over at Blog Network Watch, I’ve penned a piece entitled Blog Business 101: Why you need Corporate Counsel. It contains some good lessons for newcomers to the Blog Network business who want to be taken seriously as a business.
In the last four months, we’ve relied on counsel’s advice a number of times to […]

How to win friends and influence bloggers

March 28, 2006 | Filed Under General | 1 Comment

Steve Rubel writes of being criticized:
Over the weekend someone took a cheap shot at me, scored a lot of links and generated a lot of traffic to her blog on her very first post. Robert French summarizes the whole event here. The blog, which rhymes with Smurfette, is clearly going to dish out salty gossip […]

Elections & Political Free Speech Safe in 2006

March 28, 2006 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

Last week, I had reported that the US Federal Election Commission was about to issue new regulations for political speech during an election. This regulation could have wide-sweeping impact on bloggers and blogging around political topics this fall.
Wired Magazine covers the 6-0 vote, which comes down resoundingly on the side of free speech:
The Federal […]

Jimmy Wales launches Wikia

March 27, 2006 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Jimmy Wales, of Wikipedia fame, has launched Wikia, a new startup focused on community-based wikis. They’ve apparantly secured funding already from Bessemer.
Update: An official release is now up on the Wikia site.

Keep Looking →

News

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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