When Fans and Artists Collide

May 12, 2008 | Filed Under Ethics, Features, Legal, copyright | Leave a Comment

Earlier this week, a fan of the British TV series Dr. Who was forced to take a portion of his site offline after receiving a cease and desist letter from the BBC. However, Mazzmatazz, the fan is question, was not posting clips onto YouTube or making pirated copies of DVDs, but rather, posting knitting patters […]

Blogging Lessons For and From Journalism

April 21, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Ethics, Features, Journalism, New Media, News | 6 Comments

As the proud holder of a journalism degree, I am always looking for ways to connect what I’ve learned both in school and in previous jobs to my blogging.
The fact is that blogging and traditional news reporting are actually closer to one another than many would like to admit. They both involve many of the […]

What Gives You The Right To Tell Me?

March 31, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Relationships, Blogging, Editorial, Ethics, Featured, Features, Marketing | 14 Comments

What gives you the right to tell me how to do something? Why should I trust what you have to say about blogging? About politics? About money? About making money with my blog? About fixing cars? About anything? What gives you the right?
As I prepare for the “Biz School of Blogging” program in May at […]

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 […]

Breaking Trust: How Not To Link to a Plagiarist

March 4, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Editorial, Ethics, Features, Guides and Tutorials, Legal, copyright, plagiarism | 13 Comments

I haven’t been through my incoming link statistics in a while, so I was delighted to find an article highlighting “15 Amazing Women in Blogging.”
I learned a big lesson with that one incoming link. One you need to learn, too.
It was posted on a blog subtitled An Iranian Woman Bloggerm which added a thrill when […]

Thou Shall Not Blog

February 26, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Relationships, Bloggers, Blogging, Conviction, Editorial, Ethics, Featured, Features, Legal, Politics, Professional Blogging | 5 Comments

Over the years, as blogging has grown from fad to trend, I’ve traveled the world talking to other bloggers, many sharing stories of how they were confronted with new job contracts, agreements, and policies that state: Thou shall not blog.
My first response is always, “Why not?” Oh, I get an earful. It ranges from […]

Don’t Sign Away Your Rights

February 25, 2008 | Filed Under Ethics, Features, Guides and Tutorials, Legal, Professional Blogging, Publishing, copyright | 4 Comments

Many bloggers dream about getting a recurring guest blogging position. Whether paid or unpaid, many bloggers toil in relative obscurity for years before being offered a chance to write for a large site.
However, the excitement of being offered a new writing position often causes bloggers, as well as other writers, to make serious mistakes. When […]

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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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