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 […]

From eMoms to Sparkplugging - an interview with Wendy Piersall

April 28, 2008 | Filed Under Bloggers, Features, Interviews, Professional Blogging | 2 Comments

Today’s interview is with Wendy Piersall, a blogger & CEO based near Chicago, Illinois. Wendy is the founder & CEO of Sparkplugging, formerly known as eMoms at Home.
In this interview, Wendy shares her experiences building a business from a spare room in her home, some tips on building a strong online community, and the […]

Followup to PR Agencies pitching Bloggers - an Interview with Justin Kistner of Voce Communications

April 27, 2008 | Filed Under Features, Interviews, PR, Social Media | 2 Comments

Last week, I blogged a story about how to pitch bloggers in response to a post by Marshall Kirkpatrick over at Read Write Web about the best way for PR firms to pitch that website and its bloggers.
I was able to spend some time last week interviewing Justin Kistner of Voce Communications via email about […]

New York Times - Q&A with Design Director Khoi Vinh

April 26, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Design, Interviews, News | Leave a Comment

Blogger Khoi Vinh, who blogs at Subtraction, is also the design director of the New York Times - where he leads a team of 11 visual designers, information architects, and design technologists that work on the user experience of nytimes.com.
He was interviewed this week in the New York Times as a part of their Ask […]

CenterNetworks interviews up and coming blogger Corvida of Shegeeks

April 26, 2008 | Filed Under Interviews, News | Leave a Comment

CenterNetworks has an interview up with up and coming blogger Corvida, better known as the blogger behind SheGeeks:

Allen: Toluu, FriendFeed, ReadBurner, RSSMeme, AlertThingy, etc. - what’s the deal? Which one(s) will make it and why?
Corvida: They’ll all make it. They all bring something to the table that everyone can benefit from. The big deal for […]

An Interview with Myself

April 21, 2008 | Filed Under Bloggers, Features, Interviews, Professional Blogging | 8 Comments

Today’s interview is with myself - Matt Craven. Matt is a blogger here at The Blog Herald, the producer and host of The Blog Herald Podcast, a principal in Bryghtpath LLC, and a rabid Twitter user.
From February 2006 to November 2006, Matt was the publisher & editor of The Blog Herald. He was […]

Movable Type Monday Exclusive: Interview with Anil Dash on Six Apart Services and Media divisions

April 21, 2008 | Filed Under Features, Interviews, Movable Type | 4 Comments

This weekend saw a tremendous amount of activity from the Movable Type Open Source (MTOS) community with a new beta release, new plugins and community updates to the documentation. The biggest news of all, however, was the rumours that Six Apart had made a “game-changing” acquisition. Shortly after TechCrunch posted this rumour, I got in […]

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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 | 2 Comments

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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