Make a Doritos ad and win 10,000. It's a Yahoo Super Bowl promotion. Details here. AdJab blogs that Frito Lay is not the only company trying to get people to make Super Bowl ads for them.
Factory Joe points out that many alisters and web 2.0 company owners are white boys. Weird Al's White & Nerdy song comes to mind.
Barry Smith: "I've been blogging for exactly six months now, and let me tell you, there is nothing more satisfying than documenting, in words and pictures, the minutiae of your life and having millions and millions of people ignore it on a daily basis."
Mathew Ingram has a post explaining why video blogging isn't for everyone.
Should all blogs have animated mug shots like this one?. Probably. Thx Clicked.
YouTube founders post a video about the Google investment. (thx HuffPo) Valleywag does not think Chad Hurley could be the next Steve Jobs.
Blog networks to become social networks? Does every blog and website really need a "friends" feature?
Are Web 2.0 teams on the loose posting comments after big announcements? Blogging Me Blogging You says they are. "For instance - after the b5media announcement VCs and execs were patrolling the blogosphere in full force, commenting their little hearts out. They thanked the bloggers who were supportive and were pretty defensive with anyone who wasn’t on board. Speaking of blogging networks, if anyone could explain to me the benefit of aformalized blog network when we're all "connected", that'd be great. Cheers. And when Pay Per Post announced they had raised $3m, their team was on the loose, doing pretty much the same thing."
The Dead 2.0 blogger was outed, yet kept private. Now, the Dead 2.0 site has a "We'll be Back" message.
Podmark: Apple pursues its iPodcast trademark by chasing podcast sites.
Screenwerk discovers his mother is blogging but won't give the link because, "who knows, there might be embarrassing information there about me."
How many one in a million bloggers are there? See here. Don Dodge says if you are one of the top fifty bloggers the VCs will probably talk to you. Of course, whether or not you actually want to give up a big equity stake in your blog or company is another question.
Kids can say things in blogs that upset their important parents with big executive jobs or important positions in the government.
Is the blogosphere a feudal system? Nicholas Carr's post called The Great Unread has no October comments after receiving many in August and September. Some posts discussing this post can be found here, here, here, here, here and here. Jack Schofield at The Guardianrecommends reading this Clay Shirky article called "Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality."
Escape from Cubicle Nation asks Who are who writing for? "If you find yourself stat or ranking obsessed, sit down, take a deep breath and focus on your audience. They will tell you what to write about."
Wayne Hurlbert blogs about how long it takes to start getting visitors to your blog.
The original Wonkette, Ana Marie Cox, goes to Time magazine. Stephen Baker has questions.
Blogging makes a Mother Goose & Grim comic. See Charlotte's Blog.
Internet jargon is so hard and Web 2.0 names are so odd.
Edelman CEO spoilsFun With Dick and Jane for Silicon Valley Watcher. There was not even a spoiler warning listed. Fun With Dick and Jane is still worth seeing despite the spoiler.
