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.

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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 »