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 »

Conversations with Experts: How to Build Your Business On and Off-line
Conversations with Experts is hosted by Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff of the newly released Build A Better Blog System manual that teaches professionals and businesses about how to create blog success by integrating blogging technology in their marketing strategy.

TONIGHT! Tuesday, May 24, 2005 8:30 p.m. EDT - FREE
Guest Expert: BL Ochman of What's Next Online, featured in the Build A Better Blog System

Is blogging a fad that will pass or a sea change in corporate communications? The conversation with BL Ochman will cover a range of topics from what your company could do with a blog, why blogging is not for everyone, how to write for your blog, to building an audience and why blogs are good buys for advertisers. BL will also reveal ...   more »

Seems that George Simpson at MediaPost heard a cosmic crash last week. Hmmmm...I didn't hear anything. Obviously we can expect more anti-blog rhetoric to emerge and rightfully so. With all of the media attention and claims to the effectiveness of blog publishing there needs to an examination of those claims. There needs to be a continued discussion of what works and what doesn't work with blogs. That is to be expected. (similarly discussed here at Desconstructing the Blog). As with everything else, critics and cynics will spin the facts, test cases and whatever else they have at their disposal to make their arguments. I'm okay with that.

Ah...nothing like lively debate. At any rate...

I can't help but sense that George hasn't fully explored the many ways that blogs are proving to be effective publishing and communications tools for ...   more »

Last Friday I briefly announced NameThisCompany.com as a partnership between Michael Pollock and myself. We asked you to help us name this new company and qualify for $300 in gifts from Amazon.com.

I wanted to says to all have responded and submitted entries. Here's the deal however. We want you to submit more entries more often. You see, want crazy and out of the box names. We want names that don't makes sense yet do make sense. We want imaginative names. We want a wide range of names. We want names that will capture the essence and spirit of the tech savvy solopreneur community.

Here's a brief summary of our story and published on our site at NameThisCompany.com:

There's a new breed of solopreneur today. One who's street smart and lives from the heart. She's nimble and techno-savvy. ...   more »

NameThisCompany.Com: Help my friend Michael and I name our new company and win cool stuff from Amazon.com...or a rubber nose. :-)   more »

Conversations with Experts: How to Build Your Business On and Off-line
Conversations with Experts is hosted by Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff of the newly released Build A Better Blog System manual that teaches professionals and businesses about how to create blog success by integrating blogging technology in their marketing strategy.

Wednesday, May 11, 2005, 8:30 p.m. ET - FREE
Guest Expert: Michael Pollock of Small Business Branding, featured in the Build a Better Blog System

There's a new breed of solopreneur today. (S)he's street smart and lives from the heart; nimble and technically savvy. (S)he weaves an intricate web of like-minded souls who feast upon the products of his/her energy and spirit. Like some of the world's biggest companies, (s)he's well-known, respected and sought after for the value (s)he consistently delivers to her network. During this conversation, we'll ...   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 »

Conversations with Experts: How to Build Your Business On and Off-line
Conversations with Experts is hosted by Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff of the newly released Build A Better Blog System manual that teaches professionals and businesses about how to create blog success by integrating blogging technology in their marketing strategy.

Wednesday, May 4, 2005, 8:30 p.m. ET - FREE
Guest Expert: Priya Shah of eBrand360, featured in the Build a Better Blog System


Conversations with Experts will feature Priya Shah who will discuss 'Using Blogs to Market Your Products and Services.' If you haven't registered yet, there's still time. Your certainly don't miss this free Conversation with Priya who has about 10 blogs! I highly respect Priya who has become a awesome colleague and friend of mine behind the blogging scenes. Her newsletter is one of the few ...   more »