Category: General

Atrios: Look, people sitting in front of computer screens talking about what bloggers are talking about has to be one of the most mind-numbingly boring things possible. If you think a blogger has something worth saying, get them in a studio. If you think bloggers are covering interesting stories, then cover those stories. But “covering […]

Yahoo is getting ready to unveil Yahoo 360 which promises to: Let people know what’s interesting or important to you. Post photos. Start a blog. Share lists and recommendations, anything. Show who you are and what’s in your life — all your delights, dislikes, and playful passions. Yahoo 360 features page. Sign up for the […]

Just installed Spam Karma – a WordPress comment spam protection plugin. Hopefully it works! I just flipped it on over at my personal blog and no weird comments yet.

Big-ass thanks to all the folks that joined Lou and I on the inspiration entrepeneurs call! We ended up talking for 2 hours – I am so hungry now! That special report’s right here, y’all: http://easybakeweblogs.com/what_is_a_blog.php

From SXSW panel: Jeanne Sessum who writes allied.blogspot.com and asked “How white is your blog roll” and bloggers where shocked because they had either not considered it or that the blog roll is all white. Your blog roll is a reflection of what you see day to day in your life. People link to the […]

Jeremy did a post on how many Fortune 500 companies have blogs: My suspicion is that at least 10% and as much as 20% are using blogs in some way.

Rodcorp has a look at how two writers (Cory Doctorow and William Gibson) view blogging: What is it (the author? the subject matter? the writing method?) that makes blogging a writing-inhibitor for one author and a writing-catalyst for another?

From Doc: To those who say (here on page two of that piece) “there’s no economic model” yet for podcasting, what would happen if your iPodder subscriptions routed out through your i-broker , and informed — at your direction — each ‘caster that you are willing to pay $N (a sum you set) per podcast? […]

A lot of us bloggy-types use Microsoft as a posterchild for a monolithic company being made human by its employees blogging. Shel and Scoble have posted a rough draft of the second chapter of their book on corporate blogging – it gives a full overview of the MSFT stuff. Read the draft of their chapter.

Congrats to Flickr for Best Meme (the category I sponsored). Browse the rest of the winners (and nominees).