Finding Passion in Your Blog

May 30, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Relationships, Blogging, Editorial, Features, Guides and Tutorials, Passion | 2 Comments

I had that sense of recognition…here was something which I had known all my life, only I didn’t know it…
Ralph Vaughan Williams
A blogger recently contacted me with the announcement, “I finally found my passion on my blog! Thank you!”
I wasn’t sure why I was specifically being thanked, but I love it when people finally find [...]

Can You Run an Online Publication?

May 30, 2008 | Filed Under Bloggers, Blogging, Features, Marketing | 1 Comment

Answer honestly. Do you have what it takes to run background research, fact check, spell check, grammar check, objectivity check. Wait a moment, wasn’t blogging supposed to be about opinion and voice? Yes it was, and so was journalism. You are allowed to feel, witness (experience), and document what you see through your human filter. [...]

Great New Consulting Opportunity? Conference Sponsor Wranglers

May 30, 2008 | Filed Under Features, Guides and Tutorials | 1 Comment

Reading my email this morning I had an idea that could be very lucrative for someone with the experience and skills. It seems there is a hole in the market for someone to clean up, and for anyone who has been there and done it, I am not sure it would be too difficult either.
First [...]

Six Apart launches TypePad AntiSpam open source comment spam solution

May 30, 2008 | Filed Under News, Spam | Leave a Comment

Six Apart has announced that it’s making the technology behind TypePad’s blog comment spam system freely available to bloggers using Movable Type 3/4, WordPress 2.5, or “any other platform which supports spam plugins”. The system is already built in to TypePad.
The beta version of TypePad AntiSpam is now available to both personal and commercial users, [...]

British newspaper’s hosting of anti-immigrant blog raises questions over censorship

May 30, 2008 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” — Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Most people value everyone’s right to free speech, and the Internet is arguably a medium where it’s much easier to exercise that right, but every so often questions are raised over how much should [...]

People.com Buys Celeb Blog on Babies

May 30, 2008 | Filed Under Blog News | 1 Comment

MediaWeek is reporting that People.com is buying Celebrity Baby Blog from founder Danielle Friedland. The blog is 4 years old and focuses on celebrity baby news. No price was disclosed as far as I can tell, but I’m digging into it. There’s a short post up on Celebrity Baby Blog as well, although it doesn’t [...]

MyBlogLog Adds FriedFeed, Magnolia and ThisNext

May 30, 2008 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

MyBlogLog continues to add services displayed on your MyBlogLog profile page. The latest addition is the popular FriendFeed service, bookmarks from Magnolia, and shopping recommendations from ThisNext. Good call.

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What Are Your Favorite Quotes?
July 19, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | 1 Comment

The writer is… an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
— Irving Stone
Replace writer with blogger and you have a good description of what the job of blogging is.
I’ve been collecting quotes since I was very young. One of my favorite books is the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, which just celebrated it’s [...]

Ghost Bloggers Growing in Popularity?
July 18, 2008 | By Andrew G.R. | 3 Comments

Toronto’s Globe and Mail is asking the question that’s on everybody’s mind (sarcasm): Does rapper Kanye West have a “ghost blogger?”
While the concept of ghost writing is hardly new (celebs have been relying on professional writers to create content that is officially credited to them forever), it looks like ghost blogging is blipping onto [...]

PodPress Update in 10 Days
July 18, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

PodPress is probably the most used podcasting plugin for WordPress, and the one we’ve been using here at The Blog Herald. However, there have been issues with it since WordPress 2.5, and it doesn’t work with recently released 2.6. Among others that are frustrated are David Peralty, who’s written about the issue.
Luckily, the PodPress developer [...]

Twitter Outage Used to do Upgrades, New Design Being Tested
July 18, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Twitter experienced an unplanned outage, and is down and out for maintenance. They are using this outage to upgrade the affected database, according to a blog post. The service is still down, but hopefully we’ll be getting our microblogging cravings satisfied soon.
Speaking of Twitter, they have apparently tested a new design on select users. SheGeeks [...]

Unannounced Blogging Hiatus
July 17, 2008 | By Andrew G.R. | Leave a Comment

I’m back after a three-week bout of NoBloggingitis (be careful, it might be contagious). I never intended not to blog. Simply put, life just got in the way. The big event in my life was selling my place and moving into a new one. While I expected it to be stressful, [...]

Female Bloggers Want Out of Playboy Poll
July 17, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 3 Comments

Veronica Belmont and Sarah Austin wants out of the sexiest female bloggers poll on Playboy, according to a story on TechCrunch, but Playboy says no. It would, of course disrupt the poll. While I have no love for these kind of polls, and the Playboy one is no exception, I do think that if you’ve [...]

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