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Blogosphere Highlights 7-4-05

Live8 Insider is a blog covering the Live8 concert. Some news articles are saying that web coverage of Live8 has been far better than the televised coverage of the event. No surprise there.

Science Fiction author Douglas Adams foresaw the role of citizen journalism in 1999 and launched a community updated encyclopedia before Wikipedia existed.

Blottered is a new group blog covering crime.

Blogpulse.com has a new blog covering entertainment.

The Washingtonian offers a look at some of the top political blogs and says the Blogometer is the best stop for political blog coverage.

CorporateBloggingInfo asks will multilingual blogging be difficult to translate due to the conversational nature of blogs.

AdRants reports on some blog content theft of Gawker and Page Six material. Shouldn't Google shut these blogs down?

Ypulse's Anastasia is looking for teen bloghers.

Elisabeth Freeman at O'Reilly explains how to add a blogmap to your blog.

Korean netizens give a girl a very hard time for not picking up her dog's poop on the train. Will a future role of citizen journalism be to spotlight and ridicule individual citizens that don't follow accepted cultural norms?

Slashdot has an interview with Wil Wheaton.

Blinkx has added podcast and blog search capability

The A VC Blog compares Gawker to some its mainstream competitors.

Blogspotting reports that the first Vespa blog, called Vespaway, has debuted. More about the origins of Vespa blogs here.

Busy Debbie Weil has a blog for her new book and another blog called BlogWriteforCEOs.

Steve Outing at Poynter Online says the time is now to podcast after Apple adds Podcasts to iTunes. Danny Ayers blogs about bandwidth issues from increased podcast downloads.

The HuffingtonPost gets a dedicated spot on Yahoo News -- the first blog to get such a spot.

Micropersuasion.com points out two more new aggregators: NextBlast and Journster.

A ProBlogger post asks where do you get your blog traffic? The post received lots of comments from bloggers explaining their promotional efforts.

Eamonn Sullivan has a blog entry called Flickring Families in his series about how families can use the Internet and blogging tools:

TechCrunch has a profile of Boing Boing.

American School Board Journal has an article called What's in a Blog?

Posted on July 4, 2005

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