Pestiside
Alright, this isn’t strictly a business blog, though I suppose it probablay has commercial advertising ambitions, but having lived in Budapest Hungary myself for five years in the early 1990s as part...
View ArticleSearch Engine Watch Blog
Search Engine Watch, the definitive site on all things search engine, now has a blog authored by Search Engine Watch’s found Danny Sullivan and Gary Price.Link
View ArticleNickDenton.org: Gawker’s testosterone trio
Three new blogs from Gawker Media: Jalopnik, about cars, Kataku, about computer games, and Screenhead, about “funny shit” (think Fark or Everlasting Blort). More details on Denton’s site, per the link...
View ArticleNY Newsday: Bloggers Adopt a Revenue Stream More Lucrative Than Panhandling
When it comes to making money off a blog, Columnist Lou Dolinar says it perfectly: The odds of making a living by writing a blog are a lot like the odds of a garage band turning out a hit album: It can...
View ArticleAdrants: Adrants Named Number-One Site to Bookmark
Big congrats to my buddy Steve Hall for his Adrants blog being named the #1 "Websites You Should Bookmark" in Ad Age’s (print-only) 2004 Book of Tens issue. (Just in case you thought sex had stopped...
View ArticleFT: Niche Appeal of the Blogging Business
Yet another story about whether blogs are going to turn media and advertising on its head. I have to say, I am disappointed by this piece. The writer was trying to interview me, but we never connected....
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Gizmodo: Bill Gates Interview
Big geek, little geek: Gizmodo editor Joel Johnson withBill ‘G-money’ Gates Another sign of the times and validation for how seriously some businesses take blogs. Major score for Gawker Media’s...
View ArticlePenn Media Converts 50 Email Newsletters to Blogs
According to the press release: Mokena, IL Penn Media announced today that it will publish fifty of its flagship owned and operated e-zines as Blogs, positioning them as one of the largest publishers...
View ArticleGawker Media Launches Two New Single-Sponsor Blogs
You’ve probably already read this by new (I’m several days late in getting around to this post; I’ve been insanely busy at work of late), but Gawker Media just launched two new blogs: Lifehacker, a...
View ArticleJason Calacanis: Why Bloglines sold: It’s not a business
For once I agree with Jason Calacanis. Jason Calacanis: Why Bloglines sold: It’s not a business
View ArticleBlogAds Blog Reader Survey
BlogAds, a leading ad network for blogs, released its second annual survey of blog readers. Some 30,000 blog readers filled out the survey. I’m too busy to summarize, but suffice it to say blog readers...
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Blogspot, Xanga Blogs Outrank NYTimes.com in Traffic
3/22/05 UPDATE: The numbers discussed in the original post below are based on Alexa data, which are notoriously questionable (Alexa’s numbers come from users of its browser toolbar, so by definition...
View ArticleWSJ: Many Advertisers Find Blogging Frontier Is Still Too Wild
Decent article about blogvertising. I was interviewed at length but didn’t get quoted. Oh well. Features the usual cast of characters: Denton, Calacanis, Copeland. Just had a call with Todd S. (are...
View ArticleWeblogs Inc. on Million-Dollar Run Rate
We’re playing catch-up here in the next few days with some stories that broke a few weeks ago of interest to our readers, but since we were on hiatus for a few months, I figure some back-filling is...
View ArticleCBC Bloggers to challenge the CBC itself
Caught this yesterday on Tod’s blog—BREAKING- Locked-out CBC Workers to Launch Competitive service—since I’ve been at Blog Business Summit all week, yesterday was the first chance I had to catch up...
View ArticleFaux Blogs from Hollywood
When is a blog not a blog? When it’s a faux blog. Recently, two (or more) marketing hacks from Hollywood decided to cash in on the buzz on blogs to manufacture blogs around new releases. Perhaps they...
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Blogging – Dilbert Style
It appears that the world was just waiting for Scott Adams to start a dilbert-esque blog. Well, in fact, he did just that with the Dilbert Blog. The number of comments that he’s attracted for each...
View ArticleBattle of the AdBlogs
AdLand (or is it Ad-rag? I never know) is having a little Battle of the Ad Blogs voting contest going on, in case you case. Since we’re not technically an ad blog, I guess we shouldn’t have our...
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Is BlogBurst a solution for new journalists?
The question this weekend wasn’t if the Americans would win in hockey (the women just earned the bronze), but how BlogBurst (just in beta from Pluck) would compensate bloggers who sign up for their...
View ArticleWill the Edelman — Wal-Mart saga ever end? Two more flogs outed
This is not a good couple weeks to be working at Edelman. Okay, first we have the whole Walmarting across America thing and subsequent apology now, Edelman is coming clean that two more of the...
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