Blogosphere Highlights 10-26-08
Martha Stewart did a show
all about blogging.
A blog that hearts stairs: stairporn.org .
A designer named Richard Haines draws the stylish looking men he sees in a blog called
What I Saw Today . (via Style.com via The Pipeline )
Wired's Storyboard is an almost-real-time, behind-the-scenes look at the assigning, writing, editing, and designing of a Wired feature.
Nerdy Lil Wayne - the rapper now has a blog on ESPN. (via The Cornell Daily Sun )
Why 23,201 people care that Justine Ezarik just ate a cookie. She has tweeted before about eating a cookie - see here .
Giga Omni Media raised $4.5 million in new funding.
The New York Times expanded its business coverage and launched a new blog called Economix .
Yes We Can Hold Babies is one of many niche Barack Obama blogs. (via Babyosphere )
Gospelr is billed as a Twitter for Christians. (via TechCrunch )
Oh noes! Terrorists could use Twitter .
Internet Retailer has a article about how Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Dragon notebook computer boosted sales with a contest on influential blogs.
Bloglovin calls itself a blog reading tool Muffin - it lets you know when blogs you are tracking have updated.
There's a social network for Disney fans called Disfriends .
10,000Words.net has a list of 30 amazing photoblogs and some tips for creating one.
Your coworkers' email may be full of lies .
This site says our tweets are worth over $400 a month but in reality our tweets are worth nothing .
Three years from now Facebook will have a buiness plan. Better late than never?
The Huffington Post takes the lead on the Technorati 100 . It's a pretty commanding lead right now too.
The UK Secret Service is recruiting on Facebook.
A blog search engine called Iterend is in private beta - via ReadWriteWeb .
Tina Brown launched a bloggish website called The Daily Beast . The logo of The Beast resembles the logo from The Philadelphia Daily News .
Drummer Travis Barker blogs (video report) after his plane crash.
Twitter fights spam with the @Spam Twitter - send spammy twitter accounts to them with a reply or a direct message.
Bloomba is a Twitter clone that is about things people have done. For example, 13 people have climbed over a wall . (via Inquisitr )
LOLCats now out in book form .
Twitter is growing faster than the other social networks.
What if Wikipedia was a college professor? - funny video from College Humor.
How to skip the introduction of a YouTube video. More on this here .
The blogger blamed for leaking nine new Guns N' Roses songs pleads not guilty .
Is Mahalo an enormous blog? The Inquisitr says that Mahalo is now a "gigantic blog targeting news that drives traffic in any vertical."
LAist reports that the L.A. Times' new blog called Culture Monster is eerily similar to the name of an indepent blog called C-Monster . See also the "Dear L.A. Times" post here .
A blog called ChinaSmack translates compelling China blog posts and articles into English. (via The Raw Feed )
BlogCatalog has a new search feature - via 901am .
The New York Magazine's Vulture blog says Kanye West plagiarized their website. Kanye can't blame it on a ghost blogger .
Steve Rubel says the newsfeed is the future of news.
A top digger has helped launch a new Digg-like site for financial news called Tip'd .
Andrew Sullivan blogs about why he blogs.
Oprah is in love with the Kindle. Sadly, Kindle 2.0 has been delayed .
Nielsen Wire has some stats about "power moms" and social networking.
ReadWriteWeb reports that the Guardian is now putting the full content of articles in its feeds .
Bonnie Fuller - the former American Media editorial director - is on Twitter here (via Eat the Press )
Google Blogsearch recently relaunched with some memetracker features on its homepage but it is already getting spammed . Matt Cutts compares the Googe Blogsearch redesign with Techmeme .
Technorati's latest State of the Blogosphere said that blogs with 100,000 or more unique visitors per month make $75K+ (mean annual revenue). A lot of bloggers think that sounds too high - see here ,
here and here . (On an unrelated note this fish is also worth $75,000.) Ars Technica also has a write-up on the State of the Blogosphere. ReadWriteWeb offers a look at how much top-tier bloggers get paid here .
Layoffs and cuts: Gawker job cuts , B5media pay cuts , AOL Blog Cuts , Heavy.com cuts , Mahalo layoffs . Know More Media closed shop in late July. There are also many layoffs going on in the tech and media industries.
The Independent has an article titled Will the Internet Survive the Economic Meltdown ? The answer to that question has to be yes but not without casualties.
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