Category: General

The bombings in London can give you a front-row seat at seeing how blogs can capture and communicate world events as they happen. Combining these ‘citizen journalism’ channels with the traditional global media can help you get a comprehensive view of history as it happens: Discussions and updates on Slashdot, Metafilter. Picture pool at Flickr. […]

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The Web-log phenomenon is helping to drive near-record growth in Internet Web domains. Netcraft, a United Kingdom-based Internet research and analytics company, said its latest tally of Web site host names showed a gain of 2.76 million addresses in July from last month. The total number of Web sites identified by the company was 67.5 […]

WNYC’s On the Media talks to Iranian bloggers about how blogging was used in the past elections. Segment in RealAudio. Focuses on bloggers helping to craft the reformist movement and how internet participation changes the face of the news. Interviewed is Nema Milaninia from Iranian Truth.

I was absolutely delighted to bring Michael Port on a call to talk about his Book Yourself Solid marketing strategies. Listen in on our call: Click here to play the audio inside the browser. Or you can download it directly (also on podcast).

Blinkx listens to podcasts: Blinkx.tv launched a service last week allowing Web users to search thousands of podcasts, MarketWatch reported. The company uses speech recognition and a “contextual engine” to listen to audio files on the Web, said Suranga Chandratillake, the company’s founder. “It’s a combination of physics to break things down and also some […]

Criminy. Now I gotta upgrade all umpteen of my WordPress installations to WP 1.5.1.3. Or I can just delete the xml-rpc.php file.

Many TypePad blogs had erratic behavior this weekend as TypePad rolled out comment moderation, more design options and other goodies.

(via Micropersuasion) In three easy steps with a couple of free Web services, you can easily set up an automated monitoring tool that continuously scours the blogosphere for discussions about your company – or any topic of your choosing – with the bloggers’ musings delivered right to your desktop. Here’s how: