Blogging Headlines - Something Fresh or Something Interesting

My selection of headlines from around the Blogosphere:

• 4 million blogs in China: report


• Autoblogger: Get Started Not Blogging


• Blogdigger Local: New Twist on Local Search


• Blogging about Products


• BlogPulse Intros Clickable Trend Charts


• Bursting the Blog Bubble? I think Not


• Google AdSense Blog?


• Google Paying Bloggers $50 to Blog for an Hour


• Media will change more in the next five years than it has in the past 50 years


• MSN Unveils Social Media Tools at Day 2 Keynote


• Politicial Blogs Cause Bias in Google News Coverage


• Ripping on the Blog Coaches


• the Long Tail is indeed full of crap


• The Six Figure Challenge


• Wall St Journal Tech Report on Mainstream Media's Future Ignores Impact of Blogs


• White paper -- The corporate blogosphere


• WordPress Blogs excluded from Adsense in RSS Feed ...   more »

In a very interesting post today by The Blog Herald they posit the case for another reason why Yahoo!, Microsoft and others will come to dominate the blogosphere. The snapshot to your right (from The Blog Herald via The Software Journal) is of the new Yahoo! Messenger 7 Beta tool which integrates into Yahoo services including Yahoo's new blogging service Yahoo! 360.

It stands to reason, according to the Blog Herald, that given the millions of users of Instant Messaging (IM) tools like MSN Messenger, AOL Messenger and of course Yahoo! Messenger that these services have a tremendous opportunity to gain significant traction in the blogosphere. How so? By allowing these already free messenging tools to hook into free blogging tools they are seamlessly tapping into a huge installed user base literally on the fly. This represents a significant ...   more »

Via TMCNet,

" Microsoft Geek Blogger, Robert Scoble, discusses business benefits of RSS and Blogs at May 17-18 event

IDG World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows, conferences and events for technology markets, and FuelDog Events, a developer of tradeshow concepts and technology, today announced the Lunchtime Presentation schedule for Syndicate(TM), a new B2B conference focused on emerging trends and technologies in content syndication, scheduled to take place May 17-18, 2005 at New York City's Marriott Marquis. Executives from Yahoo!, Microsoft, Edelman, Nooked, Forrester and Moreover Technologies will participate in presentations focused on RSS (Really Simple Syndication)."

"Syndicate is the premier venue to learn about the new tools of syndication-- RSS, Atom, OPML, Media RSS, blogs and other emerging technologies that are changing a marketplace with billions of advertising dollars at stake. Real-world ideas and solutions will be ...   more »