February 02, 2005
Yahoo! Blogs
It looks like Yahoo! have been getting into the blogging thing with the launch of Yahoo! Japan's Blogs beta. I wonder if we'll see this rolled out world wide at some point from Yahoo!? The features of what they...
Posted by Darren at 05:20 PM
January 27, 2005
Visualization of Blogs
Anjo is doing some very interesting work on Visually representing blogs. The picture to the left (click to enlarge) is a partial visualization of Scobleizer over a year. Anjo describes what you're looking at by writing: • Size of...
Posted by Darren at 03:27 PM
January 26, 2005
NYT Online Advertisign is up 32% Online Ad Revenues Up 32 Percent at New York Times Co.
ClickZ reports that Online Ad Revenues Up 32 Percent at New York Times Co. its not a blog - but I figure its representative of what is happening in the wider online community. 'Advertising revenue for The New York...
Posted by Darren at 09:31 AM
January 25, 2005
Searches on "Blogs" and "Blogging" up by 10% on Yahoo
Yahoo Buzz Reports that blogging has continued to climb the most search for words rankings: Blogging continues its march on the mainstream. It's considered essential to consume a steady diet of weblogs to keep up with what's hot on...
Posted by Darren at 01:57 PM
January 23, 2005
PicturePhone.com For Sale - $1 Million Start Bid
Do you want to buy a domain name? Got a spare $1million dollars? Then PicturePhone.com might interest you! It isn't a blog and therefore isn't quite relevant here but I couldn't resist linking up. You see PicturePhone.com will be...
Posted by Darren at 03:54 AM
January 21, 2005
Returning to Blog Ethics
Jeff Jarvis is taking another stab at the blogging and ethics question and this time tries to take a different approach -'Some of us have been looking at this ethics question the wrong way: The starting point is not...
Posted by Darren at 10:50 PM
January 14, 2005
I'm taking Questions....
Just a reminder that on Thursday (20th) I'm blogging for 24 hours straight in my annual blogathon to raise money for victims of the Tsunami. I'll be asking for donations on the site during that day and hope to beat...
Posted by Darren at 10:43 PM
January 11, 2005
Blogger traffic soars due to tsunami
'Traffic to Blogger.com leaped 73 percent (to 1.3 million unique visitors) in the week after the tsunami hit Asia, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. ' Read more at CyberJournalist.net: Blogger traffic soars due to tsunami...
Posted by Darren at 05:03 PM
January 10, 2005
Blogathon 2005: Blogging for Victims of the Tsunami
I believe that Blogging can make a difference not only to the hip pockets of those doing the blogging but the wider community. This is your chance to join me in such a project. On Thursday 20 January I...
Posted by Darren at 04:10 PM
January 08, 2005
Bill Gates on Blogging
Gizmodo got a bit of a scoop with a face to face interview with Bill Gates. They've posted the first part of the interview which largely focuses upon blogging. Here's a snippet: 'I think blogging is super-important and we've...
Posted by Darren at 12:38 PM
January 07, 2005
Six Apart to go Public?
Dave Winer believes that Six Apart's motivation for buying is LiveJournal is about Six Apart wanting to go public: 'In all the speculation about the deal betw Six Apart and LiveJournal I haven't seen what surely is the motivator....
Posted by Darren at 03:20 PM
January 06, 2005
Six Apart buy LiveJournal - Its Official
Live Journal have just made the news that Six Apart are buying them out official at Big news... Six Apart and LiveJournal! They attempt to answer the 'why' question with the following reasons: 'Our companies are more alike than...
Posted by Darren at 05:36 PM
January 03, 2005
Another Look Ahead at 2005
Some of the predictions for 2005 in John Battelle's Searchblog are worth a read for pro blogging types looking into the crystal ball. Here is a taste of the first three: '1....We'll all work on figuring out ways to...
Posted by Darren at 04:36 PM
The State of Blogging in America - Stats Released
The Pew Internet and American Life Project have announced study results into the state of American Blogging. Get the full PDF study here. Some of their results include: - 8 million American adults say they have created blogs (around...
Posted by Darren at 01:47 PM
Blogs go Mainstream.... Again
The BBC announces that Blogs are taking on the mainstream - 'Web logs or blogs are everywhere, with at least an estimated five million on the web and that number is set to grow.... But this year the focus...
Posted by Darren at 01:46 PM
December 20, 2004
On Comment Spammers
Jeremy at WebproNews has an interesting article written after meeting some comment spammers. 'One of the comment spammers asked me: “You know why we spam blogs, don't you?” And I knew the answer. They do it because blogs are...
Posted by Darren at 09:04 AM
December 17, 2004
The Twelve Days of New Media Christmas
Jordon Cooper has a good post titled The Twelve Days of a New Media Christmas which is choc a bloc full of new media goodies to make any new media junkie's mouth water - 'The Twelve Days of Christmas...
Posted by Darren at 08:52 AM
December 07, 2004
Blogger Idol
Earlier in the year I ran a blogging experiment by the name of Blogger Idol on one of my other blogs. It was a fun way of connect bloggers together to all write on a common theme each week....
Posted by Darren at 02:16 PM
December 01, 2004
Online Retail Traffic Surges on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday
Clickz reports that 'Online Retail Traffic was up on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday - 'The market share of U.S. visits to the online shopping category was up 27 percent this Thanksgiving Day over Thanksgiving Day last year. Shopping...
Posted by Darren at 07:37 AM
Blogs - Diamonds in the Rough
Richard Zwicky writes that 'Blogs are Diamonds in the Rough Blogs are a potential diamond in the rough for your businesses marketing effots. The material posted on an ongoing basis to blogs are a veritable gold mine of insights...
Posted by Darren at 07:30 AM
October 25, 2004
The Impact of Blogs on PR
Steve from Micro Persuasion has kindly posted a presentation he did on the Impact of Blogs on PR. It is a well thought out presentation that covers the basics through to some good conclusions on the topic - complete...
Posted by Darren at 06:47 AM
October 19, 2004
Blogs and Newspapers - Command Post
The Command Post did a talk to editors of Associate Press newspapers recently and put the content of what he said up online - its well worth the read. 'Here’s the lesson from Command Post: information in general, and...
Posted by Darren at 04:05 PM
October 05, 2004
Gawker Targets Males with New Blogs
ProBlogger Nick Denton from Gawker has just announced three new blogs: - Jalopnik a blog about Cars - Kotaku a blog about Video Games - Screehead a blog about "funny shit." The blogs unashamedly are targeting a young male...
Posted by Darren at 05:08 PM
September 28, 2004
Blogging Sells, and Sells Out
"By most accounts, blogs — web logs to the uninitiated — scored a major coup last week when CBS News admitted that it couldn't vouch for the authenticity of memos supposedly written by George W. Bush's commander in the...
Posted by Darren at 09:22 AM
September 24, 2004
Advertisers Beware: Blog-Fortified "Copy Cops" at Your Doorstep
Media Daily News has a fascinating article on the rise of blogging and the implications for Advertisers. They give some interesting tips to marketers and brand managers on how to stay three steps ahead of us blogging types. 'Blog...
Posted by Darren at 02:15 PM
