Category: General

From the put up or shut up department: I got tired of Pingomatic.com being down – not the pinging part of the site but the part that I can query to grab ‘last updated’ info for my blogrolls. I knew that Blogrolling.com did this and wondered if there was a way to get the two […]

In the continuing effort to have the absolute stupidest names for new technology (I don’t you blame Steve – the author – at all), Wired has a piece on podfading aka people getting bored talking to themselves in their living rooms. This is something I’ve emphasized in my Podcasting Bootcamp course, that podcasting can take […]

Qumana 3.0 (beta), a desktop-based blog editor, is available for download. I’ve been toying with the verison earlier and I love being able to drag content right into a post.

With all the business about Yahoo! outing journalists that are critical of China to the Chinese authorities, can we extend this farther back in history? Capitalist democracies have always enjoyed totalitarian regimes for their control and access to cheap materials, markets and labor – morality and profit-motives aren’t alwasy complimentary. If Anne Frank had kept […]

Dave Davies on Evolt has a rundown comparing the search engine optimization strategies of Google vs Yahoo! vs MSN. Snippets: MSN doesn’t do a ‘aging effect’ on links – Yahoo! places greater weight so links wont’ ‘hold their full value for a number of months’. It might take up to 8 months for the full […]

I always like these lists that different WordPress users put out about what they’re must have plugins are. Here’s one on NewsForge.

Dave (head guy at Technorati) is back with his State of the Sphere entries. Snippets: Blogosphere has grown in size 60 times compared to 3 years ago. Half of new bloggers are posting 3 months later. 10% of blogs update weekly 9% of new blogs are spam – 60% of pings are spammy (and blocked […]

A big question newbies have about blogs is how do you know that what you’re reading is true? If anyone can write a blog – how can they be trusted? The usual spiel is that blogs are a self-correcting ecosystem and the good stuff floats to the top. Usually the well-linked stuff floats to the […]

Wall Street Journal Reports that Amazon.com is planning their own music download subscription service. (via Read/Write)

Business Logs also has a snarktastic little list of how you too can appear to be big and famous in the blogospere: Already have worked in the media in your industry Blog all the time with passion Break some cool news and the get A-list blogs to link it Network network network Have a gala […]