Category: General

  • Google Launches News Reader

    The servers are slammed and I can’t access it but Google just launched a news reader today.

  • Create a Podcast with Podomatic

    Podomatic is a service that can help you easily create a podcast.

  • Business Week on Flock Browser

    Business Week profiles the new Flock browser based on Firefox and tweaked for online sharing, collaboration and community. Whatever the hell that is supposed to mean.

  • Weblogs Inc. to Be Bought by AOL

    Confirmed by Calcanis. Paid Content has an exclusive: Weblogs Inc, the blog media company founded by Jason Calacanis and Brian Alvey, is being bought by America Online, paidContent.org has learned from multiple sources. The deal is done and should be announced this week…(Updated: it might be announced tomorrow AM now.) Thanks Darren for Skyping me […]

  • Bill O’Reilly on Blogs: ‘Garbage. Waste of time.’

    Dirty talker and loofah fetishist, Bill O’Reilly discusses blogs. Well, I guess you can call this discussing. AUTHOR BERNARD GOLDBERG: There are some conservatives on the list [â€?100 People Who Are Screwing Up Americaâ€?], but there are mostly liberals. And when they could write unanimously on the Web, you know, a review or post. O’REILLY: […]

  • Blog Ads Garner Audi 29% of Site Traffic

    (from Susie) Brian Clark, the CEO of GMD Studios, recounted a campaign that his agency ran for Audi, titled “The Art of the Heist.” Just one-half of one percent of the media buy budget, Clark said, was spent on BlogAds–a firm run by panel moderator Henry Copeland, which sells ad space on some of the […]

  • Blog-Less IBM Exec Extoll Blogs

    IBM released a presentation on blogs and business. BL notes: The credibility issue with these executives discussing blogging: neither has a public blog. If they believe in the value of blogging, why aren’t they doing it?

  • Travel Blog Launches

    Lee just Skyped me to let me know about the launch of The World is Not Flat – a blog on international travel that chronicles experiences of the bloggers as well as commenters and readers.

  • Convert Blog Post Text to Speech with Talkr

    Talkr can convert your blog into an audio file.

  • Wired on the Podcasting Gold Rush

    On explaining podcasting to advertisers: “I’ve learned not to go in and say, ‘We have a podcast and you should advertise,’ because their eyes will glaze over,” said Bourquin. “Instead, say, ‘We’ve got this online radio program.’ It’s not quite correct, but people understand that a little better. And then you tell them the neat […]