Disqus and Seesmic Team Up To Offer Video Comments

May 14, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Comments, Features, General, Social Software | Leave a Comment

The startup Seesmic provides a video comment service to blogs, through installation of a WordPress plugin. Any reader with a microphone enabled webcam can then leave comments in video form.
Seesmic has been working with Disqus, a blog commenting service (previously covered by the Blog Herald here and here) to provide video comments to Disqus-enabled blogs. […]

Are You Educating Your Readers About Blogging?

May 13, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Relationships, Blogging, Comments, Editorial, Featured, Features, Guides and Tutorials | 4 Comments

Part of our task as bloggers is to educate our readers on the subject of blogging. Do you? Many do and aren’t even aware they are. Let’s look at some of the ways you may be teaching your readers about blogging.
You teach readers how to comment on blogs
By opening your blog to comments, you are […]

How is your Comment Quality Quotient?

April 26, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Relationships, Blogging, Comments, Editorial | 1 Comment

At a conference, I heard someone trying to explain the Comment Quality Quotient theory to a small group during a break. It went something like this:
You got your good comments. You got your bad comments. You got your comment spam. Somewhere in the middle, you got your time waster comments. Which do you want more […]

Video Commentary: Why It Just Won’t Work

April 24, 2008 | Filed Under Comments, Features | 2 Comments

I’m intrigued by the inclusion of video commentary functionality on TechCrunch, reported and discussed by Darnell here at The Blog Herald already.
Basically, video commenting is posting a video as a comment. You give your thoughts on the post, your angry opinions, your screaming obnoxiousness, whatever, in video form.
Pretty cool, but it certainly has its kinks.

Are Video Comments The Wave Of The Future?

April 23, 2008 | Filed Under Comments, General, News, Opinion, Technology | 2 Comments

Michael Arrington, owner of TechCrunch has recently allowed readers to post video comments upon all of the blogs apart of the “TechCrunch empire.”
The feature is powered by Seesmic, a service that Michael has invested in previously.
While video comments will probably help enhance the discussion (as you will have the opportunity to see just how ugly […]

Do You Care Where Your Comments Are?

April 14, 2008 | Filed Under Comments, Features, General | 7 Comments

The discussion surrounding the previously addressed Commenting Issues in the Blogosphere heated up again this weekend with Robert Scoble claiming that the Era of blogger’s control is over. When I asked the question: Where Do You Leave Your Comments? I only dealt with commenting on blogs:
When bloggers are quoting other bloggers and you want […]

Blogging is About Writing - and Not

March 25, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Marketing and Monetization, Blog Monetization, Blogging, Comments, Content Scraping, Editorial, Ethics, Featured, Features, Guides and Tutorials, Legal, Marketing, Professional Blogging, Public Relations, SEO, copyright, plagiarism | 7 Comments

Blogging is about writing. That is a fact. You can video blog, podcast, and do all kinds of fun things with your blog, but it is the writing that makes or breaks a blog. What you say in the blog posts, descriptions of visual and audio elements, and what words you offer search engines for […]

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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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