Fantasy Sharemarket/ Blogging game Blogshares has just appointed its first BlogShares Securities and Exchange Committee (BSEC) in a moved welcomed strongly by the Blog Herald.
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Blogs vs the NY Times: 1-0
Almost everybody on the planet would be aware as this article is written that the NY Times has lost its editor following the Jayson Blair PC gone mad issue. However not everyone would be aware that Blogs played a vital role in the downfall.
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AOL Time Warner to buy Blog Herald
Well maybe one day, or so says Steve Outing of the Poynter Institute in an article publsihed at www.journalism.co.uk.
“This could be the year that mainstream media companies acquire the best blogs, underwrite them, and turn them into viable businesses,” he said. “This is not only a great business opportunity, but a way to get innovative, non-mainstream content on to the traditional media sites… to make your site more appealing to younger consumers.”
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Aimee Deep: blogamatrix
Slashdot via Greplaw reports on the interviewing of the 18 year old daughter of the founder of Madster, Johnny Deep, now Blog Pin up girl Aimee Deep. One word strikes the Blog Herald on her blog: FLESH.
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Europe goes to the Blogs
The Blog Herald has noted some interesting stories this week from the continent that bought the world WW1, WW2 and other French defeats. The Register has reported that some hard statistics in the former Eastern Bloc (see: Russian) country of Poland that have emerged to help answer the question “are most bloggers teenage girls, or simply middle-aged men who write like teenage girls?”
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Blog Ethics and the Star Wars Kid
On May 20, the Blog Herald commented on the Star Wars Kid Video Blog charity and issues in relation to exploitation, ethics, transparency, irony and morals. In the week since we have received numerous emails, had a number of public comments on this site, have had debates with others on other blogs and, to use the old phrase, opened a can of worms.
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The intimate world of the photo blogger
International Herald Tribune> Imagine Walker Evans and Nan Goldin rolled together on your computer screen. In the 1930s and ’40s Evans secretly photographed people on New York City subways. The result was a book titled “Many Are Called.”
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Mena Trott speaks on Type Pad and Movable Type
Mena Trott, co-founder and owner of Six Apart, authors of the Blog Heralds favourite blogging utility, Movable Type, today emailed subscribers with what Six Apart has planned for the future. Highlights included a commitment to continue development of MT and MT Pro, and a better explanation of the target market for Type Pad. For those in the blogging community not on the subscriber list, the text of the statement follows.
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Forget al-Qaeda, it’s robots that will get us, says judge
The Blog Heralds least favourite Australian High Court Jugde and noted political activist, Justice Michael Kirby, is reported in this mornings Sydney Morning Herald as warning against the threat of hositle robots and “quark atoms”, and that they dwarf al-Qaeda as the biggest threat of the 21st Century.
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Google says no Bloggle, excludes Blogs from News service
Dan Gilmours EJournal reports that Google’s Evan Williams has denied internet reports that Google plans to split Blogs into a seperate search facility.
The report goes on to say that Google does intend to exclude most blogs from the Google New search facility.
