Twitter is infrastructure it’s not the village

January 14, 2008 | Filed Under A-list, Bloggers, Editorial, Features | 1 Comment

I was on twitter this evening and I overheard something interesting.

To quote the to be unnamed Twitterite:
Shel Israel wants to elect officials in twitterland.
In my opinion microblogging services like Twitter can be used for many things. It’s a tool, its an infrastructure where we can create mini communities, or private messaging systems. Twitter is versatile […]

Mark Cuban’s Blog Powering “Dancing With Stars” Success?

October 5, 2007 | Filed Under A-list, Facebook, MySpace, News | 4 Comments

Fans of the American version of Dancing With The Stars, might be puzzled as to why one of the contestants, Mark Cuban, continually avoids the jaws of defeat week after week. Well, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks also happens to be a prolific blogger, staying true to his geeky roots (he sold broadcast.com […]

Darren Rowse, ProBlogger, offers $54,000 prizes in Birthday Bash competitions

October 1, 2007 | Filed Under A-list, Bloggers, News | 7 Comments

Though we don’t report on every giveaway or competition run by bloggers, this has to be one of the biggest I’ve heard about for quite some time. For those of you who don’t read ProBlogger Darren Rowse, he’s celebrating his blog’s third birthday with a huge $54k prize giveaway.
Only those with Darren’s kind of influence […]

NxE Lists 50 Top Bloggers

September 15, 2007 | Filed Under A-list, Bloggers | 1 Comment

North x East has recently published its list of 50 most influential bloggers, which includes a variety of blogging personalities ranging from corporate bloggers, independent probloggers, blog network founders, and bloggers who have risen to the blogging A-list by virtue of their being influential in their respective fields.
These are the movers and shakers. When they […]

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 […]

The Perils of Doing Interviews With A-Bloggers

April 24, 2007 | Filed Under A-list, Blogging, General, Journalism | 6 Comments

There’s a dustup going on on the technosphere side of things; Jason Calacanis, previously of Weblogs and Netscape, was recently asked by a journalist at Wired to do an interview. Like Dave Winer, one of the pioneers of RSS technology, and one of the earliest evangelists for blogging, Jason Calacanis refused to do the […]

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Do You Tag Yourself?
May 16, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | 2 Comments

Do you tag yourself? Honestly? No, this is not a game.
With everyone back on the tag versus categories versus tags bandwagon, have you checked to make sure you are tagging yourself?
Inside of Lorelle on WordPress is the tag attribute that turns “Lorelle on WordPress” into a tag.
<a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle on WordPress" rel="tag">Lorelle on WordPress</a>
When […]

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

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 | 1 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 […]

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