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Blogosphere Highlights 2-14-07
Thanks to Michael A. Prospero at Fast Company for mentioning BloggersBlog.com in the February issue of the magazine. Blogebrity and Blog Business Summit were also featured in the "Blogging the Bloggers" segment so we were in with good company.
MyBlogLog on the meaning of life: "What we've come up with can be reduced to two fundamental concepts. One, people are not wearing enough hats. Two, Matter is energy. In the universe, there are many energy fields, which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source, which act upon a person's soul. However, this soul does not exist automatically, as orthodox Christianity teaches, but has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved due to mankind's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia."
Robert Scoble pisses off the blogosphere with this post. Scoble's perturbed that some bloggers are not linking out to other blogs from their blogs. The blogosphere is a really
big place now and it is becoming more difficult to get attention. Munir Umraini at The Blogging Journalist says he tries to "make it a point to try to link to every blog I use for reference." Duncan Riley suggests that some blogs are not linking out as much as they did in the good old days of the blogosphere. The response from Valleywag's Paul Boutin includes five lessons learned from the Scobleizer linking issue.
Google Blog Search passes Technorati in search traffic according to a Hitwise report. Google's Blog Search got a boost when Google "added a link to its new blog search function in October on the Google News front page."
A hot video on Web 2.0 with over 1 million views: Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us. (via The Next Net).
Stephen Baker at Blogspotting explains why blogs are great for school closings:
Bambi Francisco blogs that Friendster is partnering with Google for contextual ads.
GigaOM reports that video sharing website Metacafe is getting a new CEO.
Jason Calacanis finds a monkey in the place of George W. Bush's photograph on the Wikipedia listing for the U.S. President. He also explains why AOL Weblogs Inc.'s retiring of small blogs is not that big of a deal.
BusinessWeek calls podcasts the next big ad medium with advertisers spending over $400 million on them by 2011. Mark Evans questions the excitement over podvertising: "I know lots of people who read blogs but very few people who listen to podcasts so it strikes me that blog-vertising has much greater growth potential." Some niche podcasts with lots of listeners, like the Harry Potter podcasts, have made money but there is also a lot of podfading -- podcaster burnout.
Digital Inspiration has a post about reducing RSS stress. Tips include creating a folder for your favorite blogs and using search keywords on your unread items.
Darren Rowse at Problogger has a post about the importance of sourcing. Providing a link to the source within the post or by using a via or thx is important. It's part of what blogging is all about.
The Yahoo Publisher Network blog has a detailed post about how to leverage linkbait.
All 41 of Gaping Void's random notes on blogging are worth reading. Gaping Void's First Rule of Blogging is the most crucial: "Blogs don't write themselves."
There are 80 million bloggers worldwide now according to a Universal McCann study.
The Blog Herald discusses yet another one of those pay bloggers for reviews websites -- this one is called Sponsored Reviews.
Spookbook: Wired says the CIA is using Facebook to find recruits for its National Clandestine Service.
Search Engine Watch knows where the influencers roam.
Forbes' Web Celeb 25 was mostly about celeb men. Cre8pc writes, "The majority of the names of the list are men. I counted three women out of twenty-five men."
Read/Write Web explains how to trend watch using Technorati or BlogPulse.
Search Engine Land has an interesting interview with Techmeme creator Gabe Rivera. Rivera told SEL how many sources Techmeme monitors: "It's in the low thousands. But on any given day, new sources are added and dropped so the total monitored over time is much larger."
901am knows what a blog is really for. It's for explaining how to build cool super villain hideouts of course.
John Chow lists ten blogging mistakes to avoid.
Tagworld and Piczo raise money.
Pope Writes Blogger: Beppe Grillo gets a letter from the vatican.
News.com has a story (thx TechSpot) about "mystery clips" from Gawker media that were pulled off YouTube. Gawker's Nick Denton says the "mystery" clips were "embedded on Gawker sites, with Gawker news items." Rader Online also has an article about the "mystery" videos.
Technorati has gone live
with WTF and they have used the name WTF which
means Where's the Fire and not this.
Originally, there was some confusion about what Technorati was launching.
Technorati CEO David Sifry enjoys
watching the WTFs roll in.
Flickr's made some changes that upset the old school Flickr users. The changes include
requiring a Yahoo id and placing limits on contacts. Mathew Ingram has some
fun with fs in the title of his post.
Forrester has an article that helps marketers attempt to calculate the ROI on corporate blogging. Some question whether calculating the ROI of blogging is actually possible.
The diagnosticians at the Clare-Panton Family blog have listed the symptoms of blog disease. (thx Blog Herald)
Webomatic provides a blog is like a dog analogy.
Potomac Video store clerk and blogger Charles Williamson blogged about MSNBC host Tucker Carlson's video rental on his blog.
Media Shift analyzes the Saddam cell phone video. Steve Martin may have blogged the funniest Sadam tribute.
Media Shift is also writing about the implications a google porn search snafu could have on niche publishers.
The ShoeMoney blogger has been subpoenaed over blog comments. (via Search Engine Journal)
Duncan Riley takes apart an MSM story about a fraudulent MySpace page.
Take That Mean Blogs. Steve Rubel unsubscribes from mean blogs: "That's why for 2007 I have unsubscribed from dozens of mean-spirited blogs this year. I wish I could name them, but, um that would be mean!" He says Lifehacker is one of the good blogs. The WSJ thinks so too.
Get Blogger on your own domain. Details here, here and here.
Blocked from Wikipedia: Qatar was blocked from accessing the UCG reference tool. Apparently, it was an accident.
Wired says these were the best blog fights of 2006.
Blogging Times reports that the Baghdad Blogger at Riverbend has returned.
The Performancing Firefox plugin has changed its name to ScribeFire. Cool name.
Your company could be YouTubed against your will.
Is the New York Times preparing to backtrack on that print edition may go away in less than five years statement from Arthur Sulzberger?
More video finding tools: NewTeeVee reports on new video sections from Megite and Tailrank.
The Gifter wishing well is collecting 1,000,000 wishes from the Internet in exchange for $1,000,000 in charitable donations. The wishes can be read on the Million Dollar Blog Post.
Senator's Top MySpace Spots. Here is some comic relief from The Onion. A Senator's top MySpace slots are all giant corporations.
Prince prooves that individual creativity is still powerful enough to sneak one past the censors.
Innovation Creators says his blog got him a new job.
Of on a Tangent made a new header
for Scobleizer.
Ze Frank is headed to Hollywood. According to The Transom Frank says DreamWorks is "laden with waterfalls and free ice cream."
Mash Amazon and YouTube together and you get ZonTube.
You could be a fad.
Anita Campbell describes the five types of blog network bloggers in this Blogging Times article.
Spam can take a psychological toll on its victims.
Stingy Zune: Cliczune reports that many songs can not be shared on the Zune. "There is a lot of testing going on at Zunerama and ZuneThoughts about songs that can or cannot be shared when purchased or acquired through the ZunePass. Both sites are coming with numbers of around 40% of songs that "can't" be shared from Zune to Zune."
Want to check anyone's 2007 predictions to see how they are holding up? Here is a short list of a few predictions posts: Mashable, ShoeMoney,
Second Tense, John Battelle, Second Thoughts, Read/Write Web, Wired, Ben Barren, Duncan Riley, Rough Type, Ajaxian, Jeff Pulver, Online Spin, Don Dodge, Evolution Shift, B.L. Ochman, Robin Good, Ross Mayfield, Rich Karlgaard (Forbes), The RSS Blog, Mark Kingdon at ClickZ, WebMetricsGuru, ALex Barnett, Ted Neward, Paul Colligan, Radiolicious, Cre8pc, Ari Paparo, Andy Beal, Tim Converse, Avinash Kaushik, Blogging Stocks, Stuntdubl, MobHappy, Cameron Olthuis, Mark Blevis, TNL.net, Techie Diva, Scott Karp, Fast Forward, Typical Mac User, EirePreneur, David Card at Jupiterresearch, PopSci, Robert Cringley, Technology Evangelist, Pat Robertson, BBC and Yahoo Buzz.
Posted on February 14, 2007
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Blogosphere Highlights 12-16-06
Search Engine Land debuts. Rebecca Lieb takes over at Search Engine Watch
Steve Rubel is sporting a new look.
Blogger pays Apple $1 for use of the term "podcast." Apple returns check.
Kat Herding, who has a blog that appears to be very over-the-top and blatantly self-promotional, wants to know what a Scobleizer is: "What the hell is a Scobelizer? It sounds like one of those things they turn on at night when you're a kid and you have a bad cold." The Kat Herding blog was built by these bloggers.
YouTube.com helps generate buzz and sales for tiny helicopters.
Compete.com is another tool for checking traffic.
Crave overload: So many Craves to crave. Which Crave do you crave the most? This one, this one, this one, this one or this one?
Gizmodo claims the iPhone is coming.
Kottke gets deep and discusses the psycopathy of blog commentors.
Tony Pierce's blogger page was deleted from Wikipedia despite efforts to save it. He has a post that includes an email from a Wikipedia Editor who argued in favor of deletion. More on the Wikipedia War on Bloggers story here.
This post explains how lifelogging is like cave paintings.
Sarcasm does not belong on YouTube.
The internet is still the best invention ever.
Just how personal should a blog be? The Blogging Journalists says, "I try not to get too personal in my posts although it's done at the risk of being boring. I also try to keep my posts focused on a specific subject."
Jeff Jarvis blogs about a moment of "nano-micro-mini-celebrity."
Blogger Wedding: Photos from the Chris Pirillo and Latthana "Ponzi" Indharasophang blogger wedding here and here.
Marshall Kirkpatrick leaves TechCrunch. Marshall Kirkpatrick joins a pre-launch Portland startup called Splashcast.
A post in favor of full feeds.
Spam and social media - together forever
Stephen Baker blogs about MyYahoo troubles.
Paul Boutin, who has written for Slate and Wired, joins Valleywag. Melissa Lafsky and Nick Douglas (who used to blog at Valleywag) join HuffPo's Eat the Press blog.
Bloxpert has an interview with David Sifry.
Publishing2.com says content business don't scale anymore. It could also be that very successful media companies just take a very, very long time to build. Some of the best known content providers have been around for several decades.
ZDNet gets a new look.
Fimocolus builds a list of the best blogs you aren't reading.
Cyber Monday sets a web sales record.
Mark Suster at the Koral Blog finally posts after a month long absence.
Heroes is the most-discussed tv show by far.
Pearson plans to publish a Wikibook. Could a wikinovel be next.
Forrest Gump as a business blogger. (via Blog Business Summit)
National Blog Posting Month or NaBlogPoMo was last month. It is the blogging alternative to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).
Amanda Congdon is video blogging for ABC News -- see here. Jeff Jarvis likes it.
Recovering Journalist thinks more newspapers should expirement with social networks. A couple attempts are mentioned in the post like Bakotopia and vita.mn.
Reuters reports that Break.com hiked pay for video directors.
Marketwatch says bloggers were right about Google's stock price climb.
Eric Case provides details about Blogger Beta.
SFGate.com calls
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch a Web 2.0 feather ruffler.
Nick Denton says Netscape was losing traffic when Calacanis left. Jason Calacanis made a post called the "Death of Gawker" after reading this Gawker deathwatch post. Calacanis also made a post about his favorite blogger of the moment, who is Gina Trapani from Lifehacker -- TechCrunch says could end up costing Denton: "This post should cost Denton - Gina is clearly going to be getting a flurry of attention and competing offers."
Crave reports on the top ten girl geeks. What's party girl Paris Hilton doing on the list?
The Next Net talks with Dabble's Mary Hodder.
Posts and photos about the TechCrunch party at Bed NY in New York City from November can be found here, here, here and here.
Bill Gates for president? (via Hardware 2.0)
Weatherman fired
over MySpace photo.
Learn how to show up on
Memeorandum's memetrackers.
Shai Coggings leaves
About.com's Guide to Web Logs.
Makeyougohmm.com discusses Ted Leonsis' Google vanity and rank quest. The story is also this Washington Post article.
The Economost has an article about bloggers going pro.
B5media news: Duncan Riley leaves b5media. Stays quiet about it for legal reasons.
Discussion of Riley's departure from the company he helped create can be found
here, here, here, here, here and here -- but
not here.
Other recent b5media news includes superhero coverage,
a new staff channel and internal design theft.
Eleven ways bogging is like sex.
A VC discusses the Business 2.0 Blog your way to fame and fortune article.
BusinessWeek has an article about PayPerPost.com
Just because you can blog in one click doesn't always mean you should. A good post about
blogging and thinking before you blog here from Edu.blogs.com.
Steve Ruble blogs
that Weblogs, Inc. will lose its edge without Jason Calacanis. A post that disagrees with this idea can be found here.
A Red Hat blog aggregator.
A NASCAR model of blog sponsorships. (via Adrants).
Blogebrity thinks that Cory Kennedy is the star of the Internet.
Posted on December 16, 2006
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Blogosphere Highlights 11-13-06
 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?
jkOntheRun reports that Jason Dunn, the author of Pocket PC Thoughts and Zune Thoughts has launched a personal blog.
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.
Michael Arrington and the Pitch from Hell. Scoble also gets a ton of pitches.
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."
Strange Attractor likes the Flock browser.
Kevin Burton blogs about the launch of Tailrank 2.0, the second version of the memetracker. (via Blog Herald)
Flog-Mart: You knew about Wal-Mart's travel flog. Read about two others here and here.
Mashable blogsthat you can game the view counts on YouTube videos.
Are your demons dictating your blogging?
YouTube helps nab a glasses thief.
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."
Posted on November 13, 2006
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Blogosphere Highlights 10-13-06
Make a Doritos ad and win 10,000. It's a Yahoo Super Bowl promotion. Details here. AdJab blogs that Frito Lay is not the only company trying to get people to make Super Bowl ads for them.
Greg Hughes lauds Techmeme.
Factory Joe points out that many alisters and web 2.0 company owners are white boys. Weird Al's White & Nerdy song comes to mind.
Barry Smith: "I've been blogging for exactly six months now, and let me tell you, there is nothing more satisfying than documenting, in words and pictures, the minutiae of your life and having millions and millions of people ignore it on a daily basis."
Mathew Ingram has a post explaining why video blogging isn't for everyone.
Should all blogs have animated mug shots like this one?. Probably. Thx Clicked.
Dana Loesch is bringing feedback and clever titles.
Sarah Blow, founder of London Girl Geek Dinners, has launched the
Girly Geekdom Blog.
Amanda Congdon is also back. She's vlogging at AmandaAcrossAmerica.
Business 2.0 plans many more blogs.
Ice Rocket adds a blog tracking service (via Steve Rubel).
Blog Network Watch has returned after an eight or nine month vacation.
YouTube founders post a video about the Google investment. (thx HuffPo) Valleywag does not think Chad Hurley could be the next Steve Jobs.
Blog networks to become social networks? Does every blog and website really need a "friends" feature?
Are Web 2.0 teams on the loose posting comments after big announcements? Blogging Me Blogging You says they are. "For instance - after the b5media announcement VCs and execs were patrolling the blogosphere in full force, commenting their little hearts out. They thanked the bloggers who were supportive and were pretty defensive with anyone who wasn’t on board. Speaking of blogging networks, if anyone could explain to me the benefit of aformalized blog network when we're all "connected", that'd be great. Cheers. And when Pay Per Post announced they had raised $3m, their team was on the loose, doing pretty much the same thing."
The Dead 2.0 blogger was outed, yet kept private. Now, the Dead 2.0 site has a "We'll be Back" message.
ClickZ says blog ad networks are expanding.
Gawker has a list of bloggers with book deals. The Boston Herald says most of the books written by bloggers aren't selling well.
The Free Hugs video has a buzz going.
Podmark: Apple pursues its iPodcast trademark by chasing podcast sites.
Screenwerk discovers his mother is blogging but won't give the link because, "who knows, there might be embarrassing information there about me."
How many one in a million bloggers are there? See here. Don Dodge says if you are one of the top fifty bloggers the VCs will probably talk to you. Of course, whether or not you actually want to give up a big equity stake in your blog or company is another question.
Kids can say things in blogs that upset their important parents with big executive jobs or important positions in the government.
A social network that's not about you but about the stuff you own.
Ross Mayfield wants a MeMeme.
Is the blogosphere a feudal system? Nicholas Carr's post called The Great Unread has no October comments after receiving many in August and September. Some posts discussing this post can be found here, here, here, here, here and here. Jack Schofield at The Guardian recommends reading this Clay Shirky article called "Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality."
Del.icio.us breaks the one million user mark.
The Paperclip Blogger finally traded for a house.
Why do slashdotters Slashdot? Why do diggers Digg? Here's why and who. (via Boing Boing)
Escape from Cubicle Nation asks Who are who writing for? "If you find yourself stat or ranking obsessed, sit down, take a deep breath and focus on your audience. They will tell you what to write about."
Wayne Hurlbert blogs about how long it takes to start getting visitors to your blog.
The original Wonkette, Ana Marie Cox, goes to Time magazine. Stephen Baker has questions.
Blogging makes a Mother Goose & Grim comic. See Charlotte's Blog.
Allied is a woman blogger.
Internet jargon is so hard and Web 2.0 names are so odd.
Edelman CEO spoils Fun With Dick and Jane for Silicon Valley Watcher. There was not even a spoiler warning listed. Fun With Dick and Jane is still worth seeing despite the spoiler.
Will 2007 be the year of
the corporate blog? Have the 2007 predictions started already?
ShopFloor.org reports that there is still no blogging Pulitzer.
Steve Rubel used the term "gee willikers" in a recent post. Surprisingly, there are over 750 posts that have also used the expression.
Which is cooler: blogging or firetrucks?
Posted on October 13, 2006
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Blogosphere Highlights 4-23-06
Things Digital Digressions would have liked to have known
before blogging. "This extended exposure to blog software has got
me thinking though about all the things I wish I knew when I started
this venture, almost a year ago now."
A nice list for beginners to look at before they actually start blogging.
Idea Orchard tells
you how a photograph of actor Joaquin Phoenix looking constipated can
help you tell bloggers when their snarky post is actually not very funny.
We have seen Friday
cat blogging, Friday dog blogging and even Tuesday
bird blogging but this is the first Friday squid blogging we have seen.
Is Search Engine Watch biased against non-S last names?
Mike Davidson makes MySpace look more tasteful.
Sarah Hepola explains in a Slate article
why she shut down her blog. In the
article she says she "I suspect I'll come back to blogging eventually. It will
be something I quit on occasion, like whiskey and melted cheese, when the
negative effects outweigh the benefits. Practically every blogger I know has
taken their site down at some point—for personal reasons, for business reasons,
for boredom reasons." So she really isn't permanently shutting her blog after all.
However, Russell Beattie really has written his last page. Or, has he?
Beattie also writes, "But then I just decided that I really needed a break, and
that I'd really much rather start from scratch at another URL some other time
when I'm ready to write again."
Stowe Boyd falls
for Wurk.net's blogfinder.net trick.
Bayosphere founder Dan Gillmor is writing columns for the BBC
like this one.
And Bayosphere was acquired by Backfence.com
Daring Fireball dares
to blog full-time.
A bunch of nobodies are gathering on this blog.
Scoble starts moderating comments: "This is a huge change for me. I wanted a free
speech area, but after having a week off I realize that I need to make a change.
That, I'm sure, will lead to attacks of 'censorship' and all that hooey. Too bad.
I'm instituting a 'family room' rule here." More at Valleywag.
The Unexcellence in Blogging Report
It is time for your blog's spring cleaning.
Iraqi Blogger Zeyad (Healing Iraq)
headed
to the u.s.?
It might be worthwhile
to watch employee blogs for job openings at a company. Then again it could be a complete
waste of time. It really depends on the blogs you watch.
Magic Smoke blasts the Bloggies.
Theory.isthereason explains how to use NetNewsWire's RSS dinosaurs features to
remove feeds that haven't updated in a while.
DCist reports
on the return of Kelly Ann Collins.
The paperclip trading blogger has now traded
up to one year's free rent at a house.
Even car enthusiasts have their own social networks
these days.
Tasty blog snacks: 100 Bloggers says
blogs are like Krispy Kreme Donuts.
Blogging is usually not difficult for Blog at Blogography: "Blogging is an
effortless endeavor for me. I've read about bloggers who struggle with every new
entry, bloggers who get burned out, bloggers who can't think of things to write,
bloggers who ramble on because they don't have anything to say... but it's never
that way for me. I just sit down to write and, 10-20 minutes later, it's over.
Results may vary, but that's all there ever is to it."
Acephalous examines
the first post by new blogs on the day they are born.
A superbloger is a blogger like Novelist in Training who
is able to go to the library to blog when the power is out at home.
Posted on April 23, 2006
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Blogosphere Highlights 3-12-06
Maybe blogs are actually bad for conversations: "Blogging is ruining
all my conversations, because I start to tell people stories, and they often say, 'I already read it on your blog,' so then we just stare at
each other awkwardly."
Angela Gunn at Tech Space has found this song
dedicated to library-themed blogs. Gunn says, "Be sure to share with the
entire office by turning those speakers up."
Brendan McPhillips started a Thank You
Fellow Bloggers meme.
Congratulations to Stephen Baker at Blogspotting for his recent book
deal. Here's the blurb from Publishers Weekly: "Elsewhere at Houghton, Amanda
Cook preempted Business Week senior writer Stephen Baker's The Age of Numbers: In Which
They'll Get My Number and Yours from agent James Levine. Baker's book charts mathematicians'
increasing use of online data to map individual human behavior, and explains how the
mining of this data will change every aspect of our lives. Cook acquired North American
rights and will publish in spring 2008."
A feature on
Kotaku looks at the relationship between games and the game press and the growing role bloggers can play in supporting quality games.
A Whole Lotta Nothing says MySpace = Myutterconfusionspace: "I know there are millions of young people using it, but I can barely figure out what people use their profile pages for. Sometimes there is a blog, most often it's blank. Most all of them look like 1997 guestbooks filled with pointless me too testimonials from people with equally baffling profiles. When you click from one to another to another, you are transported back to Geocities back before Yahoo bought it, flaming animated gifs and all."
Last month bloggers imagined life without blackberries. Now bloggers can be thankful they won't have to live without them.
Grandinite on the economics of blogging: "Bloggers are 'sellers' of information, and their readers are 'buyers'. The currency they are trading in is 'attention', measured in comments,
trackbacks, links and hits to their site. Bloggers get a kick out of getting attention, and I know of many bloggers (myself included) who check their visitor logs every day
in order to gauge their impact on the marketplace of attention."
Benjablog
Franklin
Lots of Web 2.0
logos. (Via Boing
Boing).
Blogue, a song by Owen Thomas about blogging based on Madonna's pop hit, "Vogue"
Elvira Black at Blogcritics.org explains her Blogger
Burnout: "After nine months of blogging, I've finally given birth to a whopping case of blogger burnout. Although I still love blogging, there are aspects that I used to enjoy that have become an effort, if not a downright chore, and my 'real life' has suffered gravely in the process."
Blogebrity has the scoop on the new dudes
at Wonkette.
Tips for linkbaiting. The dark
side of linkbaiting. And the cute pandog hook.
(Via Blogger Buzz)
Are we all gatekeepers or do some blogs have much, much more influence than others? The Gaping Void explains why some blogs don't get any traffic.
Newsome.org explains why it is "virtually impossible" to start a
new blog in 2006. Subnixus says you have a better chance of getting hit by lightning than becoming a professional blogger.
Plus, there is Technorati's authority slider which eliminates more and more blogs from the search results as web surfer's slide it forward.
The Village Voice discusses
some celeb-bashing blogs including: Pink is the
New Blog, The Superficial,
A Socialite's Life, Celebrity Smack,
Junk Feud, The People We
Love to Hate, The Celeb Life, Oh No
They Didn't, Sparkle Like the Stars, Perez Hilton,
Manolo the Shoeblogger and Go Fug Yourself
The Washington Post discusses
design blogs and mentions Apartment Therapy,
MoCo Loco, Design*Sponge and FunFurde.
Jeff Jarvis explains how Reuters gets the blogosphere: "He says that Reuters puts its RSS feeds out in the hope that bloggers will use them and include them in the conversation and if we quote a story they’re happy."
Techno-crack-i: Mark Glaser at MediaShift offers tips
for curing that Technorati addiction. He also lists dangerous ways Technorati could
be made even more addictive.
The Anoniblogging Wiki offers anonymous blogging tips. But keep in mind no blog can
say anonymous forever: "With enough time, resources and political will, a group or government can discover who you are."
Micropersuasion says pinging someone else's blog is unethical.
Blogs here and
here disagree. Why not just email the blogger
that you want to ping and ask them first -- instead of forcing a ping on their behalf?
Bayosphere doesn't go as planned.
Cory Doctorow quits his day job.
The L.A. Times reviews at some specialized food
blogs including: Bacontarian, Deep End Dining,
Burrito Eater, Pho-king,
I Love Sandwiches, Garlicster,
and Candy Blog.
The Washington Post discusses
the Bloggies
Steven Silvers at Scatterbox is tired
of blogs about blogging. Munir Umrani at The Blogging Journalist
writes, "Steven
sounds as if someone is forcing him to read blogs about blogging. I hope that's not the
case. If it's not, my advice is just don't read them. I know I wouldn't be upset if he
doesn't read TBJ. The folks at Bloggers Blog probably wouldn't be upset either."
We would also not be upset. Silvers also said in his post
that he dislikes blogs about root canals. We looked but we did not find a blog all about root canals. However, there are
many posts about
root canals. There is even a post here
about a man who performed more than 10,000 root canals.This might be the worst post Steven Silvers has ever read.
A blog about blogging that is blogging about blogs that are blogging about root canals.
Posted on March 12, 2006
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Blogosphere Highlights 12-19-05
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.
Podcast is the word of the year.
Epaper could put blogs on cheerios. More about epaper and flexible displays here and here.
Yahoo to become a reseller of Movable Type
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.
World of Warcraft blogs are very popular.
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.
Blogging is hard, hard work.
AOL won't remove ads from AOL Journals blogs despite outrage. More on this issue here and here.
Wil Wheaton explains that photograph of him in the ugly clown sweater. (via Blogebrity)
Ipodwise joins the growing number of apple blogs.
Anil Dash blogs about the growing tag craze.
Clogger is a new blog about corporate blogs.
Lots of heat in the blogosphere earlier this month (see here and here) surrounding Performancing's unfair criticism of a post on Successful Blog.
MSNBC buys ads on 800 blogs.
tnl.net see some bubble signs.
Juice News Daily tells the history of blogging.
Philipp Lenssen blogs his launch of Choice Blogger, a blog that polls readers about what Philipp will blog next.
Mr. Snitch describes seven types of bloggers and gives examples of blogs that follow each type.
Posted on December 19, 2005
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Blogosphere Highlights 11-29-05
The following networks were added to our list of Blog Network Links.
USA Today -- more on USA Today's blogs here.
Progressive Christian Blogger Network -- has 107 blogs in the network
NBA Blog Squad
Spoke Media -- girlspoke, boyspoke and decentcontent
Solostream Global Media -- more on this network here
Targana
O'Reilly Developer Blogs
Fired Up America -- currently has blogs for Missouri, Maryland and Washington.
There are now over 160 blog networks on the list.
Have you started your own blog network yet? Webby Media explains how to start your own in this post.
Drafting Posts: Just blog away and submit? Or draft and edit the blog several times before posting. Blogspotting finds a blogger who uses multiple drafts.
One Red Paperclip. A blogger is using his blog to trade a paperclip for bigger and better things -- eventually the blogger hopes to trade for a house.
Technorati gets a Mini.
Two-time Hugo winning author James Patrick Kelly tries podcasting.
The Wall Street Journal discusses blogs that the in-crowd reads.
Blogging IKEA: Buzz Machine discusses an IKEA fan blog.
Jeremy Pepper does not like moderated blogs. People can get pretty upset about moderated comments.
Tim Yang explains how to build a Problogger Clean Theme for Wordpress.
Lots of video blogging tools.
An ex-Google peep has launched a blog called Xooglers. (Via Google Blogoscoped)
AdRants puts on a dunce cap on and sits in the corner.
Hackmaster Steve Rubel offers Ten Bloglines hacks. Rubel also iconized himself.
Blogging Friends: Josh Hallett explains his friends folder in NetNewsWire
Good writing becomes a corporate blog most. Good writing is important says Corante's Dana Blankenhorn. "This is part of what's wrong with corporate blogging. Whether it's an executive blog, a publisher blog, or a product blog, it's just too predictable. The writing is often so strait-jacketed (in order to make it replicable and corporate-approved) that the life is knocked out of it."
Chitikasphere: Many bloggers are now bummed at Chitika. You can probably remember which bloggers were the ones encouraging everyone to use it the first place -- most of them were also affiliates of Chitika. For example, one blogger claims to have hit the Chitika referall jackpot -- this blogger has made more in referral commissions than from the main Chitika program. Some bloggers are now talking about
removing Chitika according to Jensense after Chitika removed "curiosity clicks." However, there are still many users and there are even blogs and websites dedicated to Chitika like Chitika
News and Chitika tips. Want more Chitika info? Read an interview with the CEO.
Micropersuasion.com asks
do blog readers ignore delicious roundups? If they have some
original text with them they are probably at least skimmed especially
if it is on a blog that has other good content like Micropersuasion.com does. But they are not likely to be read nearly as much as a blog's regular posts.
I Like to Vent vents about plagiarism in the blogosphere and
the theft of TipMonkeys content:
"This company has been reposting articles from TipMonkies for the
past several days...since Friday in fact. Now I don't care if someone
paraphrases an article, or quote it, or use it as a source for their
own article, but when you repost and entire article without (A) using
the name of the original author in the post, (B) not linking to the
original source, and (C) not abiding by the license used to publish
the information, THAT is not only wrong, it is stealing"
Bloggers are getting fed up with the scraper stealers out there.
I Like to Vent also an interesting encryption idea for feeds in the
same post.
The Feedster 500 updates after a long delay.
Chris Anderson, at The Long Tail, blogs about the 150 RSS feeds he subscribes to. Shouldn't the author of the Long Tail website subscribe to all the feeds? 150 is a pretty short tail.
Do emails need blogable notices?
The MediaPost says Typepad has quieted the recent blogger revolt.
The Bloglogic network has had a very bad crash. This is a rememinder to all bloggers to backup your content.
Seen on Flickr: Now That's What I Call Blogging
The teen blogger and pocaster at Emo Girl Talk got a sponsorship from Nature's Cure, an acne medicine.
Great Nexus lists the seven deadly sins of blogging. The sixth sin of spamming and stealing is by far the worst sin.
Corante has some HuffPo party photos.
Posted on November 29, 2005
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Blogosphere Highlights 11-17-05
BlogPulse.com
speeds up.
Peter Strand offers tips for how to avoid being tracked by the new Google Analytics that so many webmasters are putting up.
Syntagma says "It's hard to see where blogging can fail in this Web 2.0 climate, unless there's a world depression of major proportions. The immense potential of blogging will continue to grow business for quite some time to come." That's great but there could very well be a recession coming after the housing bubble bursts.
Syntagma is apparently unaware of the coming blogospheric collapse: "The point is that if anything gets TOO popular it's own popularity eventually either crushes it out of existance (ala the pet rock) or there is a massive explosion that leave behind a tiny core of the original to putter along alone in the dark. Either way, I think blogs are going to blow up soon, and I don't mean that and the hip, cool way."
Blogiators!: Jim Kukral, the publisher of Revenews, says the Revenews bloggers are gladiators: "That's right. Our bloggers are warriors who have their swords and spears stuck in the thick of the battle all day long. They get up in the morning and trudge through the lowest valleys and highest mountains of our industry, gathering the experiences they need to actually know what they’re talking about."
Boasts on Blogs: Ads on Blogs says it will take over the world.
Om Milik has joined the 9rules blog network and lots of other blogs want to.
BBC's Weblog Watch reviews
music blogs: "Music blogs might be breaking new bands, but they have been
accused of writing in a new language - Bloglish - that no-one can understand."
Steve Rubel has provided a
useful list of ten blogging hacks. The Qwertyrash
liked tip #2. Meanwhile, Jack of All Blogs provides some immoral blogging hacks.
Citizen of the Month is no longer a blog. It is now a
Shpritz.
Jeremy Wright blogs about a bathroom stall book promotion that never happened.
Jason Calacanis gets back to the business wits a post that includes some impressive graphs that show a rising blog post volume. Another graph shows that Weblogs, Inc. over-estimated the number of posts bloggers could make.
eBay adds RSS feeds.
This list on Jack of All Blogs picked the top 10 women bloggers. Unfortunately, the list included blogger Joi Ito who is a man. It's pretty bad for bloghers when men even sneak onto the top women blogger lists. There are a few more women blogger faces on the Forty Faces website than when it launched but its still about 75% man faces.
Blogger in Chief: What if President Bush blogged
asks Debbie Weil? She's kidding of course. The president
doesn't even use email or watch television. But if he did blog
everyone would read it.
Google Blogoscoped has an
interview with Wendy Chang
who is now blogging full-time thanks to sponsors. She is also a small
celebrity in Singapore now. She also loves Blogger! "I love Blogger! The
reason why I've never changed is because Blogger is so easy to use,
and though it may not be the best, it is constantly trying to improve,
and customers can see that."
Frapper Talk: Zen and the Art of Digression points librarian bloggers to the Blogging Librarian Map at Frappr.com. Meanwhile, Cyber Chocolate
is driving herself nuts with Frappr: "Except now, here I am driving myself nuts with this silly Frappr map thingie. And yes, I'll take
some cheese with my whine, to use a joke already old enough to
be a cliche."
The Bruni Digest blog
mocks New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni.
Blogebrity starts an Underrated Blogger feature. The first pick goes to
Hot Johnny and All of His Pants.
Posted on November 17, 2005
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Blogosphere Highlights
Google launches a referral program for AdSense and Firefox. Lots of bloggers are
covering this news here, here, here, here, here and here.
MySpace and Facebook appear to have spread to blogspot.com with sites like
Bloggin Hotties.
Hottie winner acknowledgments and woots can be found here,
here, here and
here.
Yes. Of course Jack from Jack in the Box should blog.
But a Wal-mart blog?
Dooce redesigns for ads and receives some criticism for it.
Dave Taylor teaches bloggers how to host images from Flickr.
The Blog Herald and
Ensight.org officially join
B5Media but ProBlogger does not -- at least not yet. Also, B5 Media's "super secret" news has been
postponed until Monday. Meanwhile, the Blue Fish Network promises not string you along with pre-announcement hype.
Media Ethics points out that "relevance" and "credibility" are not the same thing.
The Gothamist is doing those
network round-up things that AOL's WIN started.
Ross Mayfield has been blogging for three years.
John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods, is blogging. (Via Micropersuasion.com)
Hello Jennifer Creer. Jennifer announces that she has started blogging on WIN's Life Science blogs, like the Cancer Blog,
which is why the posting frequency has increased on the life science blogs.
Scribbling Woman wrote an article about blogging for her university's online newsletter. Here is why she blogs: "So in a nutshell: I blog because it is a valuable teaching tool. I blog because I enjoy it, and find it a useful way to organize a little corner against the deluge of information online. I blog to stay in touch, professionally. I blog to be part of a large, global community of endlessly fascinating voices."
The Marketing Maven blogs about Frank Warrens' clever Post Secret idea.
Brad Hill at the Unofficial Yahoo Weblog makes his 3,000th post.
Paul Stamatiou has a good article about building blog traffic. (Via LifeHacker) Paul also just received some Flickr prints in the mail.
Fee-based blog directory: Jason Calacanis blogs that he wants to charge publishers money to list their blogs in a new directory for advertisers.
Jason Calacanis, CEO of Weblogs, Inc., accuses Creative Weblogging of copying the look of Weblogs, Inc's homepage. He calls them "a bunch of thieves." Creative Weblogging just completed a first round of financing from angel investors.
Creative Weblogging CEO Torsten Jacobi
disagrees with the accusations from Jason Calacanis. (Via Blogebrity).
Posted on November 5, 2005
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Blogosphere Highlights 11-1-05
The following blog networks were added to the Blog Network List bringing the total to 140: Dumb Network, Macworld.com blogs, TechWeb Pipeline Blogs, GrepBlogs.com, Papermag Blogs and Law.com's blogs.
Web 2.0 or Bubble 2.0?
Blogging tip from Neil Kramer: blog about Stephanie Klein and other New York buzz words.
The Man Meme: Burning Bird complains about tech.memeorandum.com, which she refers to as the "Testosterone Meme."
Media Culpa reports new inbound links yet the number of inbound links on Technorati does not seem to be going up.
In a post about blogging ethics PrawfsBlawg aks: "Is there some ethical barrier that should prevent me from editing my posts or taking them down at my pleasure?" (Via Eric's Grumbles Before the Grave)
Musings and Patterns: The Knitting Friend blogs about
what brings people to her knitting blog. "Scanning down the list, I find people do read my individual musings; any blogger who posts musings enjoys that. Still, visitors return for tips, stitch patterns, odd knitting patterns and calculators. I do think I'll keep publishing those."
The Good, the Bad, the Blog discusses
a few blog exchange services.
Piaras Kelly PR has some advice -- think before you comment. Good advice. And you may also want to think before you link although thinking before you comment is probably the more important of the two.
Miss Zoot is a very dedicated blogger -- she blogged her labor.
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