Should Bloggers Create Commercial Content?

January 31, 2007 | Filed Under Advertising, Bloggers, Blogging, Ethics, Features | 29 Comments

The traditional “Chinese Wall” in publishing stipulates that ads need to be clearly labeled as ads and that editorial content is completely independent, i.e. not paid for. The classic “advertorial,” with content that appears to be editorial but was actually bought and paid for, always walked a fine line by merely using a small slug […]

Nose trumpeting blogger finds fame on web and TV

January 31, 2007 | Filed Under Bloggers, Multimedia, Videos | Leave a Comment

Mark Goodwin, a British musician and piano salesman, has found fame across the web and on terrestrial TV thanks to his unique brand of music-making.
According to the Oldham Advertiser:
Mark Goodwin recorded a song in his bedroom using his hands, mouth and nose and then posted it online on his own internet blog.
Within a few weeks […]

Reuters Issues Guidelines on Photoshop Use

January 31, 2007 | Filed Under Ethics, Journalism | 2 Comments

A few months ago, top news agency Reuters was severely criticized for publishing digitally altered photos from Lebanon. The unfortunate incident is now better known as the “Adnan Hajj photographs controversy,” leaving a dark blemish in the use of digital photography for news reportage.

Tips for Conference Blogging - Part 3 - Blogging with Video

January 31, 2007 | Filed Under Features, Videos | Leave a Comment

For me, one of the most enjoyable aspects of blogging a conference is the opportunity to capture and post video on the blog. Video can add a dynamic element to your blogging, and it can help make the event come alive for your audience. In this closing post on conference blogging, I’ll share […]

The Blogging Underground: School Teachers

January 31, 2007 | Filed Under Blogging Academics | Leave a Comment

While the activity of blogging remains on the periphery of many school teachers, some use it as a teaching tool to get students to participate in and out of class — and sometimes, directly with primary sources, such as authors of books. A few months ago, in fact, the USA Today featured a history […]

Blogging Making Publications Bans Impossible To Enforce?

January 31, 2007 | Filed Under Blogging, Legal, News | 1 Comment

Up in Canada, a trial is going on in British Columbia that involves a pig farmer named Robert William Pickton. He is currently suspected of killing almost fifty women, many of them prostitutes. Why is this important to blogging? It turns out that there is a publication ban on the trial. And […]

WordPress Wednesday: Happy Birthday and More WordPress 2.1

January 31, 2007 | Filed Under Features, General, WordPress | 8 Comments

Before we get to the WordPress Wednesday news, Happy Birthday, WordPress!
January 25 was the 4th birthday of WordPress. Mike Little remembered the first beginnings that led to the development of WordPress.
Back to more important things, as I reported in the WordPress news last week, the WordPress 2.1 release went fairly well, though two issues frequently […]

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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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