Business blogging continues to grow up and evolve. Like some kind of Borg-like unkillable alien species with an insatiable appetite for absorption and assimilation, business blogging thunders on through the blogosphere, the socialsphere and beyond. What originally started off as simple blogging in the late 90s has now become the content management cornerstone of many…
Category Archives: Blogging News
Personal Branding vs. Company Branding – Which One is the Winner?
The big news story driving this post is the possibility of Michael Arrington leaving TechCrunch. Arrington began TechCrunch as “just a blog” and grew it into the tech juggernaut it is today. The TechCrunch story is a powerful demonstration of what happens when you exercise complete editorial freedom and have great writers. There are now…
Infographic: The Future of Blogging & Social Media Marketing
When I opened my virtual doors to blog consulting in 2007, only 16% of businesses were blogging. In 2009, when I quit my job to be a blog consultant full time, that number jumped to 29%. Jump to 2011 and we have 39% of businesses now using blogs for marketing. For the full story and…
Attention Video Bloggers: YouTube to Offer Live Video Streaming
Pop17‘s Sarah Meyers got the scoop by asking Steve Chen (founder of YouTube) when they were gonna do live video. The answer is: 2008, this year. Check it out below: The question and answer is shortly after the 3:00 mark. What do you think? Any takers? Will YOU ever do live video? I definitely will…
Attention Video Bloggers: CuePrompter is Your Online Teleprompter
Mashable reports there is a new “teleprompter” application online, called CuePrompter. And just in case you didn’t know, a teleprompter is a machine (computers, nowadays) that scrolls the text a person reads when giving a speech. They’re used by everyone from politicians to talk show hosts to news anchor people. I’m big on video, and…
John Battelle’s Blogging Predictions for 2008
Two well-known people discussing the future of media, publishing, advertising, and blogging. One is former Microsoftie and corporate blog advocate Robert Scoble. The other is former editor of Wired Magagzine, The Industry Standard (trying for a comeback), and author of best-selling The Search John Battelle. Battelle now heads up the rising Federated Media. Battelle has…
WordPress the Next Social Network? Say Hello to DiSo
The social network burnout backlash continues: Noted by Mark Ghosh of Weblog Tools Collection (and others, but that’s how I found it), the GigaOm blog has a very interesting post today about a project which will allow social network style functionality in WordPress and other blogging systems, called DiSo (also here). There has been some…
September 2007:
New Friends, Great Posts, and Cranking up My Blogging Bigtime
The best of what my blogging friends did during the month of September, 2007, and some of what I did during September, too.
The BlogRush is Over
If BlogRush did what it said on the box, it would be wonderful, but it simply fails to live up to its promise. It doesn’t deliver traffic. It doesn’t benefit your blog’s readers. I’m not hating on it and I have nothing but respect for John Reese, but I’m sorry — there’s just no reason good enough for me to keep the BlogRush widget on here.
Blogging News: ClickTale Lets You Watch Movies of Visitor Activity, Heat Maps for Free
I just found out via TechCrunch that a new free visitor tracking service called ClickTale is available. ClickTale lets you see heat map movies that show the hot spots on your blog where people click. But it does more than that. According to TechCrunch, other metrics include: Hovers over Links – counts users hovering over a…
LaunchTags… Launches! (in beta)
A new publishing and ad revenue sharing service called LaunchTags has launched!
Stumbleupon Gamed by Paid-to-Stumble Service
A shady service is about to launch that pays people to game the StumbleUpon social bookmarking service.
Blog Catalog Redesigns but Loses Data
Blog news about Blog Catalog, a blogger community site, has redesigned but also suffered some data loss that might have caused recent accounts to be lost.
Glogger = Cyborg + Blogger
Continuous Capture from Wearable Camera Phones. Sort of like taking your regularly updating webcam with you when you hit the street. Or, like Twitter for pics. People dreaming of doing this directly from the optic nerve. Trendwatching calls this life caching.read more | digg story Technorati Tags: glog, glogging, twitter, cameraphone, life caching, cyborg
POTY = YOU
Well. In a round about way, Time Magazine acknowledges that the web, has, indeed, changed everything. Technorati Tags: poty, time, change everything, internet, web, tech
