Friends Don't Let Friends Blog Drunk. SFist explains what can happen if you blog under the influence (BUI). Be careful what you post over the holidays if you have consumed too much holiday cheer.
bloat.memeorandum: Ken Leebow has
news for tech.memeorandum: "I just logged on to my RSS feed. Over the
past 24-hours, this site tech.memeorandum.com had over 80 new thingies to tell me. I've got news for tech.meme: There ain't no way you could possibly have 80 high-value new thingies to tell me over the weekend."
Buzz Marketing With Blogs blogs about Blogs n Dogs, an event that combines blogging and dog sledding.
Rainjs.net isn't impressed: "I don't like
this "blogosphere" thing. It reeks of self-congratulatory
wankery. Sort of like the internet bubble, but not as interesting. It's a
closed community, and therefore no one outside of the blogosphere (or the
blogger's circle of friends) reads whatever is written. If a blogger is
lucky, they get a decent PageRank going, and they might start to get
search traffic, but unless a blog is highly focused or part of blog
network, or has been around for ages, they aren't going to get much
traffic outside their little circle."
Theft: Blog content theft is starting to irritate more and more bloggers
including Steve Rubel and Mark Cuban. What blogger isn't irritated by it? (via BlogLounge)
Blogebrity rounds up the TypePad outrage here, here and here. But Steve Rubel says TypePad will not be called GripePad much longer.
Badchristian blog explains the trouble with blogging.
ClickZ tries to round up the year in blogging in this article
Blog Business Wire discusses improvements in Technorati's
ping service.
Roger Strukhoff blogs about the five dimensions of weblogs: "To me, there are four essential dimensions to a blog. The first is the intent. Is the blog that of a reporter or an opinion-maker? The second is form. Should it be a collection of hyperlinks punctuated by minimal commentary (a view held fiercely by many who think this is the essence of a blog.) Third, should feedback be enabled? (Is this is one-way march or a two-way street?) Fourth is frequency. Is your blog updated frequently every day, daily, weekly, or whenever the heck you feel like it? And fifth, and far most important to my mind, is RSS."
Gawker tries to put the fear in hearts of retailers this holiday season
with a new blog called Consumerist.
Work Boxers discovers irritating popunders on Weblogs, Inc. blogs.
Burpee, a retailer of gardening products, finds success with RSS.
