Tools I Like, Tools I Loathe

July 14, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Hosting, Features, How I Blog, Multimedia, Podcasts | 2 Comments

Like most bloggers, I use a variety of tools and applications to get things done.
But while many of the tools that I use have me enthralled and singing their praises, others leave me frustrated and seeking a better solution, only to be dismayed that none seem to be available.
The problem is that, as with [...]

Do You Podcast? Are You Going to Podcast on Your Blog?

June 27, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Editorial, Featured, Features, Guides and Tutorials, Multimedia, Podcasting | 5 Comments

Yesterday, I brought up the issue of podcasts in What Makes Podcasts Fun To Listen To? The post asked what makes your favorite podcasts fun and successful in your eyes in format and structure.
Podcasts on blogs are growing in popularity. With portable media players, especially iPods, more affordable and accessible, people are downloading podcasts [...]

What Makes Podcasts Fun To Listen To?

June 26, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Editorial, Features, Guides and Tutorials, Podcasting, Podcasts | 11 Comments

I’ve been listening to a lot of blogger podcasts lately covering a wide range of subjects. Most have a fairly standard format of introduction, preview of the show to come, then news, interviews, and a summary, but some just jump right in and wander all over the place.
Well-written blog posts tend to have a single [...]

BlogTalkRadio Secures $4.6m in Funding

June 26, 2008 | Filed Under News, Podcasts | Leave a Comment

Podcasting service BlogTalkRadio have secured $4.6 million in Series A funding, which sparked a piece in the Bits blog, and an announcement post in the official blog of course:
We simply couldn’t be more excited about how this company is evolving and now we have the capital in place to accomplish many things. We are planning [...]

Shel Israel, SAP, and the end of Global Neighborhoods TV (For now?)

June 23, 2008 | Filed Under Features, Professional Bloggers, Social Media, Videos | Leave a Comment

Back in April, I wrote about how Shel Israel was being outsmarted by NYC Videographer Loren Feldman:
First, when deciding to embark on something new - like launching a new video show on FastCompany perhaps - it’s critical that you understand the workflow and equipment that you’re going to be using. Watching Shel try to interview [...]

Flickr Founders Jump Ship

June 18, 2008 | Filed Under News, Photoblogging, Photos | Leave a Comment

This has got to hurt. Yahoo have lost Flickr founders Caterina Fake, who left last Friday, and Steward Butterfield, who’ll be leaving on July 12, according to a report on TechCrunch. When reading this, I quickly surfed to Valleywag with hopes of some juicy rumors or just plain fun nastiness, but alas, they make a [...]

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 [...]

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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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