Housekeeping at Valleywag. The site's new logo looks it belongs on a medical disease thriller film or novel. Nick Douglas, who has been the editor since Gawker launched Valleywag is out. Gawker CEO Nick Denton is now currently writing the Valleywag blog himself. Silicon Valley Watcher has more on the sudden departure of NIck Douglas. So does Thomas Hawk.
Web 2.0 CEO Fashions: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears flip-flops at the FourSquare conference. Were his feet properly pedicured?
Should Scoble put ads on his blog? He should. However, there won't be any Zune ads on the Scoble Show.
John Battelle's ad network Federated Media (FM) has lost the very popular Fark account to Maxim magazine. By the way Maxim is also launching a steakhouse chain. That has nothing to do with blogging or web advertising but it is worth mentioning because it is weird.
Bill Gates sort of confirms the bubble Web 2.0 talk: "We're back kind of in Internet-bubble era in terms of people thinking: 'O.K., traffic. We want traffic. We want traffic,'" Gates said. "There are still some areas where it is unclear what's going to come out of that."
If you are up for clicking Blogchalktalk has posted 50 random excellent posts about blogging.
Google Blogoscoped has an interesting post with comments from several bloggers about their top post -- the post that resulted in the most buzz or traffic to their blog. For Tony Ruscoe is was his What's in Google's Sandbox post. For David Shea it was Google Maps and Accountability. Thomas Hawk says his top post was a post about a bait and switch at PriceRitePhoto. All of these top posts are still interesting reading today.
DayPop, which used to list popular blog posts and offer blog search, is down. Daypop won't be back up until a "new search/analysis engine is in place."
Kotaku was threatened by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) for discussing a message t-shirt that reads, "Your Mom's Rated E for Everyone." The shirt also uses the ESA logo which is probably why the lawyers are angry.
The Intuitive Life Business Blog calls Wordpress.com the blog police for threatening to ban blogs that have sponsored or paid blog entries. Simple Kind of Life and Robert Scoble are also discussing Wordpress.com's advertising policies.
You only have 4 seconds to load content or people will leave. Jack Schofield at the Guardian's technology blog writes, "Most of the sites I use seem to come up in four seconds or less nowadays, with high-speed broadband, but I reckon I allow at least 10 seconds. How about you?"
Nicholaus Carr blogs that bloggers are B listers compared to the MSM.
Wikicopyia: Daniel Brandt finds plagiarised content on Wikipedia.
Netscape is too focused on politics and technology. Jason Calacanis wants that
to change.
Boing Boing blogs about a geeky Pac-man pie chart joke.
What's a blog carnival? Five Cent Nickel explains.
Fast Company explains how to launch a career with your blog. "Blogging can be transformative –- placing you on a new career path, earning you a book deal, or catapulting you into the field of your dreams."
How many social bookmarking icons does your site need? If you don't think you have enough you can find 100 social bookmarking icons here.
The Top Ten Lies of Web 2.0. Watch out for this one Web 2.0 companies -> "4. Online advertising will pay for everything."
John Chow compiles a list of advertising networks besides Google AdSense.
Mark Cuban explains Blog Pimpin. "Has anyone noticed lately that more blogs posts are about other blogs, which are writing about whats being reported in other blogs than about something original from the author? Far be it for me to be a cynic, but it sure seems like more blogs are being written with the goal of getting traffic than with the goal of saying something original. Its almost as if bloggers are the new rappers with Blog Pimpin and Blogwars becoming analogous to Rap Wars."
