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Blogosphere Highlights 10-18-05

David Sifry blogs the State of the Blogosphere address and reports that the Blogosphere is strong but spammy. 5.8% of all posts are spam. Speaking of spam watch out for those blogspot.com splog-bombs. (Via Freshblog)

Martin at Blog Network Watch breaks the 1st Rule of Blog Networks and starts blogging about blog networks again. Still more discussion of blog networks can be found here, here and here. A list ranking blog networks can be found here.

Tip: How to pick a good blog topic.

Make You Go Hmm dislikes the best-of posts made by AOL's Weblogs, Inc.

Blogebrity gets a cool new makeover which includes some new bloggers and some new tagebrities for A-list bloggers like Jessica Coen, Jeff Jarvis and Jason Kottke. They also give a review of the 1938 Media Blog Network and write a Gawker Sonnet.

More Blog Networks: News.com reports the launch of Pajamas Media (hat tip: The Moderate Voice). The Daily Fisk is not impressed with Pajamas Media. Glam.com is another new network. This blog network focuses on beauty and fashion. Clickz has more on Glam. Glam's first blog partners include BagCrazy, Coquette, She Finds, Popgadget, In My Bag, FashionTribes.com and Shake Your Beauty. We have added these new networks to our blog network list which is growing too quickly.

The Blog On conference gives that often ridiculed Juicy Fruit blog another drubbing.

Podcasting: The Philadelphia Daily News has launched the Philly Feed, one of the first newspaper podcasts in the country. Yahoo has an exciting new Podcast Directory.

Corporate Blogging: Corporate blogging takes off according to this InternetNews.com article. Debbie Weil blogs that McDonald's is into corporate blogging -- including live blogging. Even non-profits should be blogging according to this post. (Via MyCapitalWeb.com

Steve Rubel wouldn't really snag the #1 slot for knitting from blogs like English Cut, JenLa and Hello Yarn? Would he?

ChickyBabe explains how to crush your blog crush.

Corante lists the best NYC blogs found in a Village Voice best of feature.

Some Flickr members are still protesting Yahoo's plans to tie Flickr accounts with Yahoo member profiles. Flick Off was created in protest of Yahoo's plan.

Blog Fog: "A state of mind you attain when you've read too many blogs and your brain has turned into a mush of unconfirmed information."

Posted on October 18, 2005

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