That's one of the predictions I make in this week's final Blogspotter column. Read on for my full forecast for blogworld's second decade. ( Full post )
[...]The New York Times recently profiled Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's official blog, Personal Memos. ( Full post )
[...]Wired delivers a fascinating story about efforts to find backpacker Nicole Vienneau who disappeared eight months ago while traveling from West Africa to Turkey: ( Full post )
[...]"Philanthropy has been late to the game of blogging, hardly a surprise in a field that has operated on personal relationships and reputations earned over decades," the New York Times reports. "But just as charities have learned in recent years to use e-mail blasts to solicit support, their executives [...]
Environmental Graffiti recently crunched some numbers to come up with the world's top 10 environmental blogs. ( Full post )
[...]Read this week's column to find out. And no, it's not Rosie O'Donnell this year. Fans of bad poetry will just have to suck it up. ( Full post )
[...]From the fine folks at Despair Inc. we have the "More people have read this shirt than your blog" T. It comes complete with a site counter stuck on 0000002... ( Full post )
[...]"We all carry a secret that would break your heart if you just knew what it was. And if we could remember that there might be more understanding and peace in the world."
--PostSecret founder Frank Warren in an interview pegged to the release of his fourth blog book, [...]
The New York Times peeks in on I Saw Your Nanny, "a 15-month-old New Yorkcentric Web log that has recorded hundreds of anonymous posts, or 'sightings.'" ( Full post )
[...]I've long enjoyed Simon Dumenco's tart and savvy media critiques in Advertising Age, so I was delighted to see him expanding on a point I made on Sept. 26 about the shaky business model at the Huffington Post, which recently stated it would never pay bloggers for [...]
A group of bloggers do their part for breast-cancer research by hosting a slightly risque Boobie-Thon fundraiser, this week's column reports. ( Full post )
[...]"After the fake Steve Jobs blog, apparently other bloggers are hoping to get their 15 minutes of fame, or more, with blogs about their favorite or least favorite tech leaders. There are now blogs for a fake Steve Ballmer, a fake Jonathan Schwartz and a fake [...]
So notes the Financial Times: ( Full post )
[...]The siren song of celeblogging proved impossible to resist for the London Telegraph, which rates the online ramblings of Victoria Beckham, Avril Lavigne, Paris Hilton, Barry Gibb, Alec Baldwin, Barbra Streisand, Moby, Britney Spears and many others. ( Full post )
[...]Sen. Hillary Clinton did it when announcing Gen. Wesley Clark was endorsing her for president. Sen. John McCain did it when he wanted to bash Clinton and MoveOn.org. Sen. Barack Obama has done it, too, New York Observer reports. What is "it"? Bypassing the traditional media to make [...]
"I never thought that that loser from that blog would get his own TV show. I never thought that that loser from that blog would get a book deal. I never thought that that loser from that blog would be doing half the things I'm doing."
--Mario Lavanderia, a.k.a. celeb [...]
As the Chicago Cubs cling to first place in their division with two weeks to go in the season, the Chicago Tribune profiles a die-hard Cubbie backer with a popular blog on the team. Highlights: ( Full post )
[...]Wired's Listening Post tunes into a possible trend: MP3 blogs that launch their own indie recording labels. ( Full post )
[...]This week's column takes a look at word-of-mouth marketing company BzzAgent Inc., which sends various products to bloggers and other consumers in exchange for honest, full-disclosure reviews. ( Full post )
[...]I spoke with Mike Rogers of BlogActive.com for this week's column. He made a big media splash last fall with online allegations--repeated on syndicated radio and then picked up in newspapers including the S-R--about Sen. Larry Craig's sex life. Those allegations helped set the stage for the scandal [...]
"Wonkosphere.com saves blog readers time by scanning the postings of nearly 1,200 political blogs," ASU reports. ( Full post )
[...]Guess who comes out ahead in the battle of reporting and analysis between NYU's Jay Rosen and the prof who wrote a lame-brained attack on blogging for the L.A. Times this week that cited blogs he now admits he never even read? ( Full post [...]
That's one back-of-the-envelope calculation of Gawker Media's annual ad revenues, Wired's Epicenter blog reports. And the net take could be in the $48 million range. "Looking at it that way, [Nick] Denton’s decision not to sell this company—despite the annual rumors—makes perfect sense," writes Adario Strange. ( [...]
The crackerjack investigators at the New York Times yesterday revealed the author behind the Fake Steve Jobs blog, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, that has become a favorite among techies (including a certain Apple Inc. honcho) in recent months: ( Full post )
[...]The Yearly Kos convention put on by the progressive Daily Kos blog has drawn seven of the eight Democratic presidential candidates to speak to the assembled activists in Chicago. ( Full post )
[...]Here's the persuasive analysis from bloggers David Eaves and Taylor Owen on TheStar.com: ( Full post )
[...]Kate Coe delivers what might be the definitive profile of Wit of the Staircase blogger Theresa Duncan, who committed suicide last month. ( Full post )
[...]Connecticut's Stamford Advocate explores an issue that crops up from time to time on the S-R's own Huckleberries Online: Should local politicians use their real names when posting? ( Full post )
[...]Popular L.A. blogger Theresa Duncan committed suicide earlier this month, which led to an outpouring of shock and regret from fans who were no less passionate for never having met her in person. This week's column considers why some bloggers tend to generate such intense followings, and what happens [...]
At a recent auction of Internet domain names, blogging.com went for the relatively modest sum of $135,000, the AP reports. ( Full post )
[...]"If learning how to be edited is a form of growing up, much of the blogosphere still seems to be in adolescence, loudly affirming its identity and raging against authority. But teenagers eventually realize that authority is not as tyrannical and unhip as they once thought. It's edited prose, with [...]
The conventional wisdom of the young presidential campaign is that Republican Fred Thompson holds the title of blog champ on his side of the fence. But not everyone agrees, according to this CBS interview with Andrew Rasiej, founder and publisher of TechPresident.com: ( Full post [...]
