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Kansas City newspaper on bloggers – includes quick stats: Who actually blogs?

On Collaborative Weblogs takes a look at Metafilter, Kuro5hin, Plastic, Slashdot.

Slashdot has a discussion on comparing blogging tools.

Dave Winer – one of the pioneers of blogging and RSS – shut off free hosting to over 3,000 webloggers over on Weblogs.com. He complained that the hosting of the site was just too expense to continue (Though provided an explanation in a ten minute audio file (transcript)? This was also brought on by recent […]

MarketingSherpa cranks out 6 ways to promote your blogging.: Tie a PR stunt to your blog — then write about it Step one is to create something people will be interested in. Step two is to promote it. Other blogs Find a few top blogs that cover your area of interest, and search their archives. […]

Steve over at Micropersuasion interviews Buzz Bruggeman about how to harness blogging buzz to bring your online business a wider audience: The Master of Blog Buzz (via Scobleizer)

Bloggers in Iraq keep the broadcast going: BBC covers Iraqi bloggers

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 – […]