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 »

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 »

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 »

Amy Gahran publishes a very good article on blogging stereotypes designed to help you initiate intelligent and informative discussions about blogging while avoiding the spread of misinformation. In other words, she presents a discussion on how not to discuss "blogging".

Amy starts out with a definition of what a blog is and follows her definition with a list unique characteristics and features that are common among blogs and serve to differentiate blogs from other online publishing tools. There is some overlap and blurring of capabilities or uses between blog publishing and other means of online publishing so Amy defines other types of online publishing that aren't considered to be weblog publishing. This is a great post that closes with blog myths and stereotypes to avoid when discussing blogs.

Again, great post. Read more...   more »

Mike Collins from Cork University Press blog provides a link to BBC coverage on Podcasting. Check out Mike's post here: Cork University Press: Will podcasting change radio for ever?

If you have trouble finding the BBC post he is referencing you can go directly to this link. Also, check out the BBC Radio Podcast Guide

I love blogging. I really do. Because I continue to meet so many fantastic people. I certainly do appreciate all of the emails and Skype calls I continue to get. I'm now have to rethink my contact management or at least upgrade my contact management skills to successfully grow the many great contacts I've made which result in some pretty valuable associations. This brings me to Rich Brooks of Flyte New Media blog. Beside a blog on web design and marketing that I've come to enjoy reading Rich has also published a PowerPoint presentation on blog planning, blog building and blog promotion.

I met Rich in the blogosphere (no surprise there!) as I was checking inbound links and noticed that he was kind enough to link to me. I replied to his blog with a thanks and email conversations ...   more »

Yahoo.com has publishers guide for using RSS with Yahoo for RSS Success. There isn't anything really ground breaking here yet it is still a useful stop on the web. The site appears to me to be a work in progress and Yahoo's place for additional RSS education.

Given Yahoo's RSS directory (My Yahoo) and it's importance in getting you additional Blog and RSS subscribers as well as getting you into Yahoo's organic search results at no cost, it is a worthy resource deserving your attention.

The information is rather brief with short entries on RSS basics, RSS submission, RSS promotion, RSS metrics (tracking) and RSS revenue generation. The information presented is designed to help you understand RSS and how to leverage the New My Yahoo RSS directory in your content publishing activities.

Again, there isn't anything really new here but ...   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 »

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 18, 2005, 8:30 p.m. ET - FREE
Guest Expert: Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends, featured in the Build a Better Blog System.

Anita will be discussing "The On Again, Off Again Entrepreneur." Anita is considered an influential "A-List Blogger" and is widely respected for her coverage and commentary on challenges and issues facing small businesses today.

In today’s world each of us is likely to go through periods of being self-employed, and being employed by someone else. No longer is it a question of either/ ...   more »

My friend and colleague Priya Shah has published a 4 part series on blog marketing based on her call.

You can read her series here starting with Part One: Blog Maniac | Marketing With Blogs - Part 1

RSS Advertising

• Google AdSense Ads in RSS Feeds


• Google Testing Ads In RSS Feeds


• More Clear on RSS Advertising from Feedster


• RSS ads arms war begins, it goes like this...


• RSS Ads: Should We Push Unrequested Advertisements Into RSS Pull?


• RSS Advertising and FeedDemon


• RSS advertising arms race not worth the hassle


• RSS Advertising Growing Strong: RocketNews Joins the Pack


• RSS Advertising is Here, Whether You Like it Or Not


• RSS Advertising Podcast with MarketingStudies


• RSS Advertising, RSS Metrics and RSS Consumption: Interview With Scott Rafer of Feedster


• RSS Advertising: How Can I Pull If You Keep Pushing?


• Weblogs Inc Debuts Google RSS Services

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