The News Review:
- ‘Blogging is dead’, claims influential tech magazine
- Live-Blogging Wachovia’s Third-Quarter ‘Recorded Message’
- AOL Celebrates Third Anniversary With Weblogs
- Voces Bolivianas: Blogging social unrest
- Why would anybody want to blog under a pseudonym?
- Linkbaiting is dead: Why social media needs to kill the FUD
- : Blogging for Green Business Now
‘Blogging is dead’, claims influential tech magazine
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
“The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge,” writes Paul Boutin. “Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths. It’s almost impossible to get noticed, except by hecklers. “The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook or Twitter.
Live-Blogging Wachovia’s Third-Quarter ‘Recorded Message’
Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
Considering that the bank is being sued by Citigroup for accepting a $15 billion takeover offer from Wells Fargo, we could see why Wachovia would want to avoid too many questions that would influence the litigation. So we’re live-blogging the pre-recorded “call” below. If you want to listen in, dial 800-642-1687 and use conference ID number 69710892. : The call is running late. Oh, wait, that’s us.
AOL Celebrates Third Anniversary With Weblogs
MarketWatch
AOL is now the largest global publisher of owned-and-operated blogs. “The acquisition of Weblogs was game-changing for AOL and the entire
blogging community,” said Marty Moe, Senior Vice President, AOL Money &
Finance, News, Sports, Weblogs and KOL. “Weblogs pioneered the
development of professional blogging, and AOL accelerated its growth and
leadership inbranded contentpublishing by deeply integrating Weblogs
throughout AOL’s substantial network of programming channels. In doing
so, AOL transformed its publishing model andincreasedits relevancy and
reach for advertisers, while advancing best-of-breed sites in key
consumer interest areas. ”
Today, Weblogs, Inc. has a worldwide audience of more than 19 million
unique visitors, according toAugust 2008 comScore Media Metrix, and
continues to expand internationally.
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Voces Bolivianas: Blogging social unrest
Global Voices Online, MA
globalvoicesonline. On Saturday, October 11 a workshop was held in an internet cafe where they were taught some extra tricks, some html, how to use pictures and videos to enrich a blog. Voces Bolivianas also.
Why would anybody want to blog under a pseudonym?
ScienceBlogs
Some good reasons (from the top of my head) to blog under a pseudonym: Your workplace frowns on blogging (even if you are not blogging about work at all) and you want to stay employed. You are a student whose advisor will equate your blogging with time not spent doing research (even though you only sacrifice the time you would otherwise have spent sleeping, eating, exercising, or otherwise attending to your physical or mental well-being to write the blog). You’re about to go on the job market and you have no idea whether prospective employers will view blogging favorably or unfavorably. The subject matter about which you blog is something utterly distinct from your professional identity — and you’d like to keep it that way.
Linkbaiting is dead: Why social media needs to kill the FUD
ZDNet
OK, perhaps communicating via stone tablets is dead…Linkbaiting, however, is getting a bad reputation and its because it’s being abused. Sure, anyone who writes a blog or runs a Web site wants to improve his or her SEO. However is it worth the few extra links into your site to operate with FUD-based headlines and conversation starters — thereby potentially jeopardizing your credibility?The idea for this rant started this morning when.
: Blogging for Green Business Now
NewsReleaseWire.com (press release)
Blogging for Green Business Now. You can blog for business now as you leave a sustainable footprint on the Web that continues to grow. That footprint is a business message that becomes clearer over time as it reaches a larger audience. This is what makes blogging green; the required resources are limited only by the time, creativity and discipline of the marketer.