Here is a public service pamphlet from the Nonist about blog depression. Blog depression can affect anyone at any time.
Understanding inbound links: The Blog Herald provides a 2,461 word article that basically explains why getting a link from a blog with high traffic will bring more traffic to your blog than one with little or no traffic. One criticism of the article is that it downplays traffic from the mainstream media, search engines and traditional websites. For example, if you write a trade industry blog
you could obtain considerable traffic if a trade print magazine mentions your blog. But it may not be easy to measure print traffic since there is no referring link (unless, of course, the article is reprinted online with a hyperlink). In a good 240+ word summary, Blogebrity added that you also need to write good content because no one will link to fluff -- except Blogebrity. The long article must have exhausted the Blog Herald because today they tried some pretty donklephunny blog fiction involving Satan, Microsoft and Robert Scoble.
Below the Fold is tired of the debate about press releases. It is unlikely any arguments against press releases are going to stop them from being released anyway.
Because of Bloglines Zoli reads the A-listers similar posts about the same topic over and over:
But thanks to Bloglines, I get to read the same article 3-4 times in the course of a day or so, as our A-listers quote each other often adding little extra value.
Several romance authors calling themselves the Whine Sisters are celebrating "Real Men Don't" Week in their blogs.
Ugliest Dog test: Doc Searls is testing the blog search engines using a post about the world's ugliest dog.
Fox has acquired the the popular social networking and blogging service MySpace.com, which is used primarily by teens and 20-somethings. Corante has articles on this acquisition here and here.
The Getting Things Done book has turned into the GTD productivity craze with blogs and GTD tags being launched by productive bloggers.
Ken Leebow affectionately calls his blog Babs (Blogging about Blogs). He has set up a delicious site at del.icio.us/babs
Shai Coggins now has eight bloggers listed on her Blog1000 list of bloggers with 1,000 or more posts on their blogs.
Stephanie Klein, the author of the Greek Tragedy blog, gets a New York Timeswrite-up which says she has a book called Straight Up and Dirty coming out in April, 2006. If that isn't enough NBC is developing the book into a half-hour comedy series.
Ms. Klein's blog is a voyeur's playground, with many photos of Ms. Klein, her friends and the swanky places they go. But the allure is muted by accounts of Ms. Klein's childhood summers at fat camp, the husband she says cheated on her when she was pregnant, her subsequent abortion and her ongoing quest for love. Nothing, it seems, is too private not to share with readers.
Merge, filter, sort and shake feeds with FeedShake.
Susan Mernit reports on a new blog/site covering citizen journalism
called Media Giraffe.
Eater is a new restaurant blog from Lockhart Steele, the editor at Gawker. Steele also has a popular real estate blog called Curbed. (Via Blogspotting)
