Category: General

From Taegan: The office of straight-laced Ohio Sen. Mike DeWine (R) became the epicenter of salacious Capitol Hill gossip Wednesday, when it surfaced that an entry-level DeWine staffer apparently had been chronicling her steamy sex life on an Internet weblog. The blog has, of course, been taken down since.

Technorati is a website that keeps tabs on over 1.8 million weblogs and websites all over the world and creates a ‘cosmos’ so you can see what’s being linked to as well as what’s linking to you. If you are have a blog you can add it to Technorati easily: Claiming a Blog Go to […]

Bloggers are all bent out of shape with the new pricing and licensing structure of SixApart’s MovableType. The options for the tool have been reduced from unlimited weblogs to various amounts at different pricing points. But the big stink is that they will be charging those that use the tool for strictly personal use – […]

Everything old is new again. The grand-daddy of blogging tools is back with a vengeance. After being acquired by Google they have just launched their new look and feel – a great interface that is super-friendly and will only mean more people writing more blogs. And that’s a good thing! The Great Blogger Relaunch

You have probably seens a website floating around on the blogs lately called Subservient Chicken featuring an apparently live webcam of a guy in a chicken suit.

Jay Rosen’s prep reading for his presentation at BloggerCon II:

Jeff created a wiki to support his presentation at BloggerCon II on business blogging.

Nick at Marketing Profs has guidelines for enterprise blogging: 2. Be an unmatched resource.Politicians have perfected the art of the “trial balloon.” An idea is leaked, and the resultant reaction signals whether it’s politically safe to proceed. Use your blog to provide heads-up information unavailable elsewhere, like a forthcoming product or marketing blitz. Any feedback […]

Blog or weblog? Eszter breaks it down into a graph. Blog wins.

Well-read political blogger Markos made a rather callous comment about the violence in Fallujah in Iraq. The comment was immediately picked up, ripped up, sliced, diced and before it was all over, opposing webloggers had ganged up on him and his advertisers had dumped him and the policial blogging scene was in a tight little […]