Author Archive for Andrew G.R.

Andrew G.R. is the owner of Jobacle, a career advice and employment news blog and podcast designed to make work better.

A BIG Reason to Read a Pet’s Blog

May 16, 2008 | Filed Under Blog News, Blog Relationships, News | Leave a Comment

I’ve often taken a snarky approach when it comes to people who set up blogs for their pets. I barely want to read about humans’ mundane lives, let alone issues with litter and pooper scoopers. However, there might be a new reason to subscribe to Lucky, Fido or Buddy’s blog.
Animals’ ability to prognosticate […]

Partnering With a Larger Publisher - Week 3

May 15, 2008 | Filed Under Blog News, News | Leave a Comment

Knowing that I was robbing Peter to pay Paul, I tentatively entered into an agreement with US News and World Report to provide content for their “Outside Voices” career blog on a gratis basis.
So far, I do not regret this decision. I still think it’s a “resume” booster and increases blogosphere street cred. […]

55 Bloggers Get Political Credentials for DNC

May 14, 2008 | Filed Under Blog News, News | Leave a Comment

As we told you last month, the Democrats are giving select bloggers access to be on the floor of the national convention in Denver this summer. Fifty-five lucky bloggers have been chosen. Here’s the full list of “State Blogger Corps”:
ALASKA: Celtic Diva’s Blue Oasis: divasblueoasis.blogspot.com
ALABAMA: Doc’s Political Parlor: www.politicalparlor.net
ARKANSAS: Under The Dome.com: www.underthedome.com
ARIZONA: […]

Five Sweet New Blogs

May 13, 2008 | Filed Under Blog News, News | 2 Comments

We welcome the following newcomers to the blogosphere:
Candy Snob is like the engadget of confectionery treats. From a change to the Swedish Fish recipe to those new dietetic M&Ms (joke!), you’ll learn about everything that’s happening in the world of sweets.
DailyCents, a daily newsletter/blog designed for multi-tasking women, has added Travel Cents and Beauty […]

11.5 Billion Videos Watched Online in March

May 12, 2008 | Filed Under Blog News, News, Video | Leave a Comment

ComScore data reports that Google sites continue to hold a firm grasp on the online video space, accounting for 38% of all videos viewed (4.3 billion). Of that, 98% is straight from YouTube.
Nearly 139 million U.S. Internet users watched an average of 83 videos per viewer in March.
Since so many of us do […]

Will Dot ME Take Center Stage?

May 6, 2008 | Filed Under Blog News, News | 3 Comments

Kiss.me. Call.me. Love.me.
Starting today, domain names with a dot me extension will be sold for the first time to the general public. Dot me was originally assigned to the small nation of Montenegro in Southeastern Europe. In order to cash in, they’ve decided to remove geographic
restrictions on domain name ownership.
Will […]

Bloggers Filth Extends Past Nasty Thoughts

May 5, 2008 | Filed Under Blog News, News | Leave a Comment

Last year at about this time, my keyboard wrote me a letter.
I listened. And have since changed my desk cleaning habits. Many of you, however, never got the memo.
A small study conducted by a British micorbiologist confirmed something we’ve all known - but likely ignored:
KEYBOARDS ARE FILTHY!
In some cases, really filthy, containing five […]

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A BIG Reason to Read a Pet’s Blog
May 16, 2008 | By Andrew G.R. | Leave a Comment

Yahoo Nabs Safari Plugin Inquisitor
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Inquisitor is a cool plugin for Safari, and now Yahoo owns it. The developer, David Watanabe, won’t be joining Yahoo, but will continue the development.
I look forward to assisting Yahoo! in refining and extending the Inquisitor user experience beyond where it is today. I truly believe that Inquisitor and its users can only benefit, both […]

YouTube Gives You Insight
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Now you can get some more statistics for your YouTube videos, with the recently launched Insight tool, available in your YouTube account (under Manage my Videos, which is probably temporary). The new stats feature is described like this by Tracy Chan, YouTube product manager:
For example, uploaders can see how often their videos are viewed in […]

Google the New Number 1 in the US
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

I thought they were already, but obviously not so. Google has been the leading search engine, but overall Yahoo is the most popular web site according to ComScore’s rankings. No more though, according to an AP report:
According to comScore, Google’s unique U.S. audience in April was 141.1 million, an 18 percent increase from the same […]

Blogging from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Stephanie Stockman is a NASA contractor working at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which is cool by itself. What’s even cooler is that she’s blogging it, talking about rocketships in voice and text, as well as posting photos, something every space nerd should follow for sure. Her blog is Geosteph, which incidentally is her Twitter […]

SocialMediaPop Mashes Social Media Sites
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Ryan Caldwell, of Performancing fame, had an idea:
Why not build a tool that only shows the stories that went popular on at least two social voting sites?
The result, via Suffolk Software, is SocialMediaPop. Cool project, in beta for now. I wonder what the social media sites think of services like this?
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