Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

  • Typepad’s Annual Fee/Gift

    If you pay for Typepad for a year up front, you get a good deal (pay for 10 months, get 2 free). Plus, you get a whole other year-long, fully paid subscription to give as a gift. Promo ends 1/16/05.

  • Bloglet is Unmanaged?

    I wrote two emails using the Contact Us page on Bloglet yesterday and they both came to me as Undeliverable. great service, sending me an email everyday with my posts from the day before, nice and clean (rather than having to cut and paste). I then forward these to subscribers (unless someone knows of a […]

  • Six Apart Buys LiveJournal

    This bubbled up yesterday and I waited until confirmation. I had joked that it would be even more awesome if A9 buys 6A and then they got bought by 3M. Six Apart, creators of Movable Type and TypePad bought Danga, the company that manages LiveJournal and the associated blogging software. Note the 1000+ comments! (Technorati […]

  • Easy Bake Weblogs Sponsors 2005 Bloggies

    Alright! Welcome everyone coming from the site for the 2005 Bloggie awards. I’m sponsoring the award for Best Meme with a brand new shiny $50 Amazon.com Gift Certificate!

  • Blogging Platform Junkie Settles Down

    In a previous post I recounted some of my journey in search of the blogging platform that would work for me. I’m happy to say the journey is now essentially complete and the platform chosen is Blogware via BlogHarbor. One of the many good things about Blogware is that you get a free 30 day […]

  • Long Tail, The

    I’ve had this gathering dust in my attic for a while and wanted to be sure and blog it. [A]n example of an entirely new economic model for the media and entertainment industries, one that is just beginning to show its power…. Unlimited selection is revealing truths about what consumers want and how they want […]

  • Video Postcard: Happy New Year!

  • Exclusive Call-in: Toby Bloomberg from Diva Marketing

    Booyeah! We got another exclusive call-in coming up in a couple weeks. This time we’re hanging out with Toby Bloomberg from Diva Marketing Blog. Toby hails from Altanta and is president of Bloomberg Marketing. Our chat is going to be titled: Biz Blogs – Enter At Your Own Risk! Wednesday January 12 @ 8pm EST […]

  • Fortune Magazine on Business Blogs and Customer Relationships

    Quick snip from Fortune‘s article ‘Why There’s No Escaping the Blog‘: It all used to be so easy; the adage went “never pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel.” But now everyone can get ink for free, launch a diatribe, and—if what they have to say is interesting to enough people—expect […]

  • Track Your Blog with PubSub

    PubSub is out with LinkRanks: (via Steve and Dane) LinkRanks are our way of measuring the strength, persistence, and vitality of links appearing in weblogs. When PubSub reads a new weblog entry, we pull out any URIs we find and attach them to the entry in a separate field. To track your blog’s LinkRank – […]