UK companies aren’t clear on new “fake blogging” laws

July 4, 2008 | Filed Under Corporate Blogging, Ethics, Legal, PR | Leave a Comment

British companies which pretend to blog as ordinary members of the public, or post multiple positive reviews as if from consumers, are now breaking UK law, yet many don’t know anything about the new legislation, according to Brands2Life.
Its director, Gareth Thomas, said that, “Most people don’t know about this law,” adding, “there is a misconception [...]

Legal Issues with Choosing a Host

June 30, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Hosting, Blog Software, Features, Legal | Leave a Comment

Finding a new host is never easy.
First, one has to choose the kind of hosting and the plan that they need, something that is almost impossible with a new site. Second, they have to find a quality host at a reasonable price, which is also difficult because nearly all hosts have at least some negative [...]

Seven Great Sites for Legal, Free Content

June 9, 2008 | Filed Under Digital Images, Features, Legal, Multimedia, Photos, Videos, copyright | 3 Comments

If you’re looking for content for your site but don’t want to create it yourself or pay money for it, there are a lot of options available to you. Whether you are looking for images, articles or multimedia, there are many sites on the Web that make available a library of work available for you [...]

Has Your Blog Been Banned or Blocked?

June 7, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, China, Editorial, Featured, Features, General, Legal, SEO, Stress, World Blogging | 2 Comments

I recently published How to Access Banned WordPress.com Blogs, and a friend asked me how would she know if her blog is banned by a country, government, Internet Provider, company, school, or otherwise. Good question.
On Monday, I’ll be publishing a feature article on how to find out if your blog is banned and offer some [...]

Assembling the Spam Puzzle

June 2, 2008 | Filed Under Ethics, Features, Legal, Spam, Splogs, Technology, copyright, plagiarism | 3 Comments

Fighting spam has proved to be a nearly impossible task.
The best and brightest minds of the legal and technical worlds have failed to come up with solutions to stem the flow of junk email, splogs or spam comments.
Every new law or technological advancement has just been an escalation in a never-ending arms race [...]

Adsense for Feeds Rolling Out for Select Few

June 2, 2008 | Filed Under Blog News, Features, Feedburner, Feeds, Google | 2 Comments

As in Adsense for feeds via Feedburner. From the blog post:
We’ve been hinting at this for awhile, but it’s finally time to spill the beans: Starting next week, we’ll be rolling out AdSense for feeds to a small group of publishers, in anticipation of a full launch to all FeedBurner and AdSense publishers “coming soon”. [...]

Creative Commons and Privacy

May 19, 2008 | Filed Under Features, Legal, Multimedia, Photos, Videos | Leave a Comment

Last year, Virgin Mobile Australia decided to use Creative Commons-licensed images in an advertising campaign. The campaign, dubbed “Are You With Us Or What”, featured photographs taken from Flickr, which were overlayed with taglines and a plug for Virgin’s cell phone service.
While most of the photos were of car accidents, graveyards, Christmas decorations or other [...]

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Ghost Bloggers Growing in Popularity?
July 18, 2008 | By Andrew G.R. | 2 Comments

Toronto’s Globe and Mail is asking the question that’s on everybody’s mind (sarcasm): Does rapper Kanye West have a “ghost blogger?”
While the concept of ghost writing is hardly new (celebs have been relying on professional writers to create content that is officially credited to them forever), it looks like ghost blogging is blipping onto [...]

PodPress Update in 10 Days
July 18, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

PodPress is probably the most used podcasting plugin for WordPress, and the one we’ve been using here at The Blog Herald. However, there have been issues with it since WordPress 2.5, and it doesn’t work with recently released 2.6. Among others that are frustrated are David Peralty, who’s written about the issue.
Luckily, the PodPress developer [...]

Twitter Outage Used to do Upgrades, New Design Being Tested
July 18, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Twitter experienced an unplanned outage, and is down and out for maintenance. They are using this outage to upgrade the affected database, according to a blog post. The service is still down, but hopefully we’ll be getting our microblogging cravings satisfied soon.
Speaking of Twitter, they have apparently tested a new design on select users. SheGeeks [...]

Unannounced Blogging Hiatus
July 17, 2008 | By Andrew G.R. | Leave a Comment

I’m back after a three-week bout of NoBloggingitis (be careful, it might be contagious). I never intended not to blog. Simply put, life just got in the way. The big event in my life was selling my place and moving into a new one. While I expected it to be stressful, [...]

Female Bloggers Want Out of Playboy Poll
July 17, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 3 Comments

Veronica Belmont and Sarah Austin wants out of the sexiest female bloggers poll on Playboy, according to a story on TechCrunch, but Playboy says no. It would, of course disrupt the poll. While I have no love for these kind of polls, and the Playboy one is no exception, I do think that if you’ve [...]

Pownce App Updates
July 17, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

Microblogging service Pownce have updated their Pownce Desktop app to 2.0, which means you’ll get embedded media, notification alerts, friend management, and more. Pownce Desktop 2.0 is in alpha, and free to download.
The Pownce developers have also made an iPhone and iPod touch version available from the iTunes App store. Free, of course.

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