BusinessWeek: Don’t Link to Us!

May 9, 2008 | Filed Under Features | 4 Comments

Oh my.
Oh my oh my oh my. I don’t even know where to begin, so I’ll just say it outloud.
BusinessWeek are stupid!
Not the journalists or editors working there though, but the knucklehead that thought it was a good idea to tell users not to link to pages on the site, and put it in a […]

Wake up kids. We’ve got the dreamers disease

May 9, 2008 | Filed Under Features, Guides and Tutorials | Leave a Comment

Sometimes our thoughts crystallize not through direct learning but through looking, comparing and contrasting. Such a moment happened for me after returning from Chicago and checking through Twitter and my emails. I saw a division between the openness, positivity, helpfulness, encouragement, passion of social media, with one or two individuals who, frankly, don’t want to […]

WordPress Wednesday News: Which Bookmarklet, WordPress 2.5.1 Mandatory Upgrade, WordPress Plugin Contest, WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco, and WordPress Mugs

May 7, 2008 | Filed Under Featured, Features, News, WordPress | 2 Comments

Which bookmarklet do you use to post to your WordPress blog? WordPress 2.5.1 is a mandatory upgrade with security patches. Are you ready for WordPress 2008 in San Francisco in August? Weblog Tools Collection hosts a WordPress Plugins contest this month. Get your WordPress Secret Key to secure your WordPress blog. Greasemonkey doesn’t automatically upgrade, […]

Blogging in an Ideas Economy

May 7, 2008 | Filed Under Features, Guides and Tutorials | 2 Comments

“How do you make any money when you are giving your advice away?”
“I really wish you wouldn’t have said that, people pay a lot for that kind of tip”
These are things people have said to me recently that have made me think about what we do. There is a spectrum of attitudes towards information. People […]

Webby Winners Announced

May 7, 2008 | Filed Under Features | Leave a Comment

The Webby Awards have been announced (I thought that already happened?), and the winners are presented both in a nice flashy gallery, and on the static full page. There are several companies and services that either won or got the People’s Voice award in their category that should be relevant or known to bloggers, such […]

The Perfect Blogging Computer: First Draft

May 6, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Features | 9 Comments

In response to my news post on Dell turning 24, Dell employee and Direct2Dell blogger Richard asked me what I thought was the perfect blogging computer. Naturally, when I posed the question to Dell in the first place, it was rhetorical, since I anticipated someone would ask what I thought the perfect setup would be.
So […]

Interview: Colleen Coplick on Taking Over Buzz Networker

May 6, 2008 | Filed Under Features, Interviews | 7 Comments

On April 22, Colleen Coplick took the helm at b5media blog Buzz Networker, replacing former blogger Kevin Palmer. Taking charge of an established blog is always a hard thing, I know that for a fact (actually, it goes for most things), but it is something that happens all the time, with people buying and selling […]

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Google Closes Hello (What’s That Anyway?)
May 9, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

I’m reading that Google is closing Hello, which apparently was (and is, as I’m writing this), a photo sharing service that came with Picasa. I guess they feel it doesn’t fill a purpose anymore.
This from Hello.com:
We originally embarked on a mission to make photo sharing easier and more fun with Hello. We plan to keep […]

Colleen Coplick Talks PR over at BloggerTalks
May 9, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

I recently interviewed Colleen Coplick about taking over Buzz Networker, and there I said that an interview with her focusing on PR was due on BloggerTalks. Well, it is up now, and Colleen shares her views on paid reviews, PR agencies sending out samples, getting famous in the social sphere, how to write a great […]

MyBlogLog Adds More Stuff
May 9, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

MyBlogLog have added some new stuff, since the obviously get that we’re not monogamous when it comes to online apps and social networks.
Specifically, whenever you:

post a question to Yahoo Answers
share an item on Google Reader
post a video on Seesmic

MyBlogLog will post those events and make them part of your New with Me page.
All you […]

SOBCon08: A Conference Experienced in the Moments
May 8, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | 1 Comment

We do not remember days; we remember moments.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCon) in Chicago last weekend was a collection of moments I will remember for a long time.
Throughout the weekend, people kept asking what was different about this conference from all the other conferences they go to. It was clear […]

Blogger To Add Star Rating System To BlogSpot?
May 8, 2008 | By Darnell Clayton | Leave a Comment

It looks as Blog*spot users will soon be able to insert a ratings system in their Blogger blogs which will allow readers to rate an individual post from one star to five.
Unfortunately it seems as if they launched the feature prematurely, and the Google team has currently disabled the feature–at least for now.
(Blogger Status) Some […]

Perez Hilton to Release Clothing Line
May 8, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

Celeb gossip blogger Perez Hilton, aka Mario Lavendeira, is set to launch his own line of clothing, to be sold exclusively in the Hot Topic chain of stores, as well as online.
“2008 is all about expanding the Perez Brand,” the blogger explained. “I talk about clothes all the time on my website. I have a […]

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