Blogging: When It Pays To Have Friends

April 30, 2007 | Filed Under A-list, Blogging, Blogging Academics, copyright | 5 Comments

You may have heard a little science blurb over the past weekend — something about fruits improving the antioxidant qualities of alcohol, or some such. What you didn’t know is that there was a blogging related to-do that came out of the whole thing, and it raised an interesting issue:
When does it pay to […]

Reporting Blog Content Thieves

April 30, 2007 | Filed Under Blogging, Features, Legal | 23 Comments

Want to know what I did over the weekend? Sure you do! It was fun. It was full of laughs. It was a thrill a moment. It was a weekend that I will remember a life time.
I spent the weekend hunting down, commenting, emailing, and reporting content thieves.
No, it was not fun. Nobody laughed. The […]

Feedburner statistics control panel showing zero subscribers

April 30, 2007 | Filed Under Feeds | 7 Comments

Feedburner appears to be experiencing some problems this morning.
When I logged in to look at my subscriber counts this morning, the control panel showed them all at zero. So did the graphs.
However, the ‘chicklet’ still displayed yesterday’s subscriber levels (I don’t have it on every blog), but that’s not too surprising as it’s not updated […]

Performancing Relaunches pMetrics and Offers Freebies for Reviewers

April 28, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Software | 7 Comments

The Performancing team has announced that the pMetrics Blog Analytics service is back online after a short hiatus due to a server move.
pMetrics is a touted as a simple and clean, yet feature-rich, stats package specially targeted at bloggers. Ryan Caldwell highlighted the ability to see details at-a-glance (no digging down 4 to 5 pages […]

Blue chip advertisers on board with Joost launch

April 28, 2007 | Filed Under Videos | 3 Comments

Joost, the world’s first broadcast-quality Internet television service, announced that it has signed 32 leading companies from around the world as advertising launch partners. Talk about The Coca Cola Company, HP, Intel, Nike, Microsoft, Warner Bros, among others. The launch is expected this Spring.
“The industry response to Joost has been overwhelming, as is evidenced by […]

Who will be the next Internet millionaire?

April 27, 2007 | Filed Under Videos | 3 Comments

Internet veteran and New York Times best-selling author, Joel Comm, announced auditions for his new web reality show, “The Next Internet Millionaire.”
Filming in July and August of this year and set to air worldwide for thirteen weeks in the fall, The Next Internet Millionaire will seek to find the best new entrepreneurial talent who […]

Chief Chick launches Chickonomics Chat podcast for women

April 27, 2007 | Filed Under Bloggers, Blogging, Podcasts | Leave a Comment

Chief Chick of Chickonomics, Lisa Orrell, this week launched her new podcast, Chickonomics Chat, the podcast designed for women. Every episode will include interviews with people on topics that impact women. Orrell’s guest line-up includes authors, women business leaders, women making an impact on society, women in politics, women in sports, women in entertainment and […]

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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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