Connect With Readers Over the Phone

February 29, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging Demographics, Podcasting, Recommended | 3 Comments

While certainly not the first free Web-based conference call system, Rondee might be an ideal tool for bloggers and podcasters.
The site takes the expense and equipment out of conference calling, making it available to the everyday, financially challenged blogger. Your only expense is a long distance call (though, that could be quite high for […]

The Pressure to Perform

February 29, 2008 | Filed Under Features | 3 Comments

Pretty much everyone I talk to thinks my job is pretty easy. I sit around and write about all my favourite things all day. There is so much they don’t realize about my job. There is a high amount of stress related to performance, and high expectations when it comes to my job.
The blogging world […]

What Are Your Blog Resources?

February 29, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Editorial, Features, research | 7 Comments

Starting next week on Lorelle on WordPress, I will be sharing my blog resources with my readers. Your blog resources are the sites you visit frequently that help you blog. They are the bookmarks in your browser. The feeds in your feed reader.
While preparing my huge list of blog resources, I made some interesting […]

Lies, Damn Lies, SEO and PR

February 29, 2008 | Filed Under Features, Guides and Tutorials | 1 Comment

Steve Rubel would like to think that it is SEO practitioners who are the dirty social media manipulators and “most in the PR business take a clean approach to social media”.
Unfortunately Steve, nobody believes you, not even journalists, despite your assertion on your blog that “every journalist would take issue with that statement”.

TV Show About Blogger Tanks

February 28, 2008 | Filed Under Blog News | 2 Comments

There’s a very good chance that you did not watch the premier of quarterlife on NBC last night. The show, which centers around a young female blogger, drew in a measly 3.86 million viewers. That’s less than enough to qualify the show as an official out-of-the-gate bomb.
Originally debuted on MySpace last year, NBC […]

FireFox Bravely Battles On in the Browser Wars

February 28, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Software, Editorial, Features, News | 3 Comments

According to W3 Schools Statistics, FireFox is gaining rapidly over Internet Explorer.
For the first time, FireFox has surpassed Internet Explorer on their visitor stats. W3Schools admits in their statistics notes that they get an eclectic group of visitors to their site, especially those eager to learn CSS and HTML to design their web pages and […]

Instant Messaging Makes Move On Commenting

February 28, 2008 | Filed Under Comments, Features | 7 Comments

Is the Google Talk chatback widget/badge/gizmo a taste of things to come? Commenting is something that lots of people think is necessary on a blog, for it to be a blog. However, IM is something everybody understands, and isn’t that a preferred way to communicate with the blogger who’s post you just read and find […]

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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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