Posted in Blogs on Aug 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Blogs are not a threat to journalism but an opportunity, according to Kevin Anderson, head of blogging at Guardian Unlimited, the award-winning website of London’s Guardian newspaper.
For almost a year Mr Anderson has been responsible for leading The Guardian’s blogging network and is helping journalists there realise the opportunities he says the social media makes [...]
Posted in Blogs on Aug 14th, 2007 No Comments »
The 30 Most Popular Blogs according to eBizMBA.
Their website explains in detail how they came up with the blogs rankings and from where the data was gathered. Here’s the list at a glance for those who are interested.
1. Gizmodo.com
2. TMZ.com
3. engadget.com
4. LifeHacker.com
5. HuffingtonPost.com
6. PerezHilton.com
7. Gawker.com
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Posted in Blogs, The Net on Aug 7th, 2007 No Comments »
The magazine editor who parodied Apple chief Steve Jobs in a blog says he started the site on a whim only to see the viral nature of the blogosphere turn it into an internet sensation.
Daniel Lyons, a senior editor from Forbes, was unmasked as the true identity of “Fake Steve Jobs” on Sunday after more [...]
Posted in Blogs on Aug 6th, 2007 No Comments »
by Tim Dowling
The man dubbed “the antichrist of Silicon Valley” claims amateurs are damaging the internet’s integrity.
If your experience confined you to the virtual plains of the blogosphere, you could be forgiven for thinking that Andrew Keen was one of the most unpopular people on the planet. One blogger - on Keen’s own website - [...]
Posted in Blogs on Jul 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Meet Casey Serin, an American blogger who’s managed to turn notoriety into a good little earner. His predicament is but a blip on the radar of reckless behaviour that would have gone unnoticed but for the fact he began blogging about it.
In one year, the 24-year-old website designer turned real estate flipper [...]
Posted in Blogs on Jul 25th, 2007 No Comments »
What if I told you that you could win a free iPhone just by writing a blurb about it on your blog.
And, that’s exactly what Mr Garry Lee is offering the readers on his website. Garry is giving away a brand new 8GB Apple iPhone by using internet marketing, (marketing that uses the Internet) as [...]
Posted in Blogs on Jul 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook - Is he Greedy?
Well he didn’t steal my idea, but Facebook’s meteoric rise is being threatened by a lawsuit that could shut the entire social networking site down according to an article posted online today.
The founders of a rival site, ConnectU, have filed a federal lawsuit against Facebook, [...]
Posted in Blogs on Jul 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Last week I spoke about the How 13 Top Bloggers Make Money Online article that was recently shown in the BusinessWeek magazine. It goes to show you that you can infact make money from your blog, but it also highlighted exactly how hard it can be. Let’s face it, most of us wont ever fit into this category, but for [...]
Posted in Blogs, Site Promotion on Jul 19th, 2007 No Comments »
There are many factors that make blogs much better than normal WebPages including the speed at which blogs are indexed, ability to submit to blog directories & normal directories, pings and track backs. All these little things can help drive more traffic to blogs. Here are 15 popular techniques you can use:
1.) Create at least [...]
Posted in Blogs, Money on Jul 18th, 2007 No Comments »
I came across this story on BusinessWeek and thought I’d share it with you guys as it makes for very interesting reading.
How Top Bloggers Earn Money
Cat pictures, gossip, tech talk, politics—there’s lots of ways to rake in the dough online
By John Tozzi
From cat pictures and celebrity gossip to tech news and politics, the stars [...]