There’s an interesting post at Read Write Web with a rather ‘misleading” title. It goes like – How Blogging Has Changed Over the Last 3 Years. The article was referencing a study made by PostRank about off-site engagement on blogs and other content publishing media.
Actually, what the article was saying is that reader engagement on blog has drastically changed, not so much blogging per se. [Read more…]
The LA Times is currently running a good and timely story that deals on one sensitive issue related to blogging and bloggers. Mommy bloggers getting woed by food firms with schwags and other freebies in exchange for some write-up and publicity buzz for their products.
It’s a pretty interesting read especially since blogging in exchange for a “taste of company products” and other freebies that come with it is no different from tech bloggers receiving demo units of new gadgets for review. Tech bloggers would die to get those sample demo units and review them on their blogs ahead of rival bloggers.
So what are we now bloggers? Purveyor of truth or corporate pimps? [Read more…]
For Fox News, its was time to take down News1News, a YouTube channel syndicating clips from Fox News – specifically segments that attact the Liberal Party. Although not all YouTube Channels who are leaning to the left were closed down, shutting down News1News was enough to earn the ire of the left-leaning political bloggers. [Read more…]
WordPress.com’s free blog hosting site has just rolled out geotagging of posts. This opt-in feature allows you to identify your location whenever you write a post.
Enabling this feature your blogs can be done either automatically by WordPress.com or you can set it manually yourself. [Read more…]
Microsoft has sealed new partnerships with 19 web properties which has been integrated to Windows Live. This is an opt-in feature, so you can just select which web activity partners you would like to add on your Windows Live profile.
Interestingly, one of these parters happens to be – YouTube. What gives? [Read more…]
