Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Takahashi: Popular blogger's soiree feels like the glory years

The Prince song "1999" kept playing in my head the whole time I was at the TechCrunch MeetUp party at August Capital in Menlo Park.

Monday, July 30, 2007

PlayStation

For those who can't live without their PlayStation, check out their blog site.

Saturday, July 28, 2007

BlogWorld & New Media Expo

The first and only industry-wide tradeshow, conference, and media event dedicated to promoting the dynamic industry of blogging and new media. In addition to the only industry-wide exhibition, BlogWorld will feature the largest blogging conference in the world including more than 50 seminars, panel discussions and keynotes from iconic personalities on the leading-edge of online technology and internet-savvy business. If you are currently blogging, vlogging, podcasting, producing other forms of new media content, entering the new media industry, or just want to know what the blogosphere is all about, then you need to be at the most comprehensive blogging convention--BlogWorld & New Media Expo. The inaugural event will take place November 8th and 9th at the Las Vegas Convention Center, with an exclusive "Executive & Entrepreneur" conference beginning November 7th.

Friday, July 27, 2007

Top 10 Most Beautiful Blog Designs: Take Two

Design matters - as much as people argue against the face, it does. Blog design is no different. A poorly designed blog with amazing content will not receive as many readers as a beautifully designed blog with equal content.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Second Life on the Sundance Channel



Sundance Channel Island in Second Life was featured in the New York Times Arts & Leisure section in June of 2007. Sundance Channel has branched out to explore the screening possibilities in virtual worlds and its efforts have been noticed by Second Life's virtual citizens and established periodicals like The New York Times. The screening of FOUR EYED MONSTERS in Sundance Channel Island was the first big event of its kind in Second Life and you can expect to see similar events in the future.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Blogging Your Way To The Unemployment Line

John Mackey, CEO of grocer Whole Foods, has found out the hard way that it's easy to get into trouble over online postings.

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Add Poll to Blogspot blog

Poll is the newest page element in blogspot. It's very useful to do a survey about the blog from the visitors.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Sony GC1 (Net-Sharing CAM: A ocket camcorder

Sony has decided to release a compact camcorder “Net-Sharing CAM” specially designed and optimized to download video material on web pages.

This feature will be extremely useful for video bloggers, and for the category of people who are reluctant to share their videos with friends via the Internet using the service YouTube.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

How Top Bloggers Earn Money

Cat pictures, gossip, tech talk, politics —there's lots of ways to rake in the dough online.

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Who knew: 10 years of blogs

It's been 10 years since the blog was born. Love them or hate them, they've roiled presidential campaigns and given everyman a global soapbox. Twelve commentators -- including Tom Wolfe, Newt Gingrich, the SEC's Christopher Cox and actress-turned-blogger Mia Farrow -- on what blogs mean to them.

Building a Successful Blog

There are tons of posts on other blogs that describe how to create a "successful" blog. However, her are few more things do know.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

8 Ways Of Creating Compelling Blog Post Titles

Post Titles

Why do you need compelling blog post titles? Because the blog post title is the first thing you see when you arrive at a blog post. Your visitors first read your title, and if the title catches their fancy, they go ahead and read the post. It prompts your readers to read further and it prompts people to click your link (provided the anchor text consists of your title) wherever it appears.

Saturday, July 07, 2007

Sundance

The Green Blog The Green Blog
Sundance Channel presents this up to date source of news and views about THE GREEN programming block and environmental topics.

Blogniscient



Everyone has heard the buzz about blogs, but finding the best information is a real challenge without the right tools.

That's where Blogniscient comes in. They categorize and rank blog articles and blogs in real time, providing up-to-date information on the hottest blog entries.

Live Earth



Stay in touch with all of the concerts taking place around the world via th official blog for Live Earth. Thank you Al Gore!

Thursday, July 05, 2007

Enter the micro-bloggers

First came e-mail. Then text messaging and instant messaging. Blogging followed.

Now there's micro-blogging — sharing life's big and small moments with the world, or just a handful of friends, through frequent, short messages.

Where To Find Fresh Blogs and How To Get Your Blog Discovered



Here are some tips from Chris Garrett, on how to find new blogs to subscribe to.

Content is Key

The makers of Technorati said that every 5 seconds a new blog is created! Yes, 5 seconds! Can you believe that? As hard as it is to believe, the fact is many Internet users are creating one or more blogs and making competition within the web a little bit harder for everyone else. Yet many of those blogs that are started at the spur of the moment.

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Using Blog TalkRadio To Make Audio Twittergrams from you mobile phone

Twittergrams is Dave Winer's new plaything - 180k audio files sent through Twitter. Here, he informs us on how to do it from a mobile phone.

Free Pictures For Your Blog

Pictures are necessary because text-only articles become boring eventually, especially if you like to write long posts.

Monday, July 02, 2007

Four Reasons To Be Wary of Free Blog Services

There are several free blogging services available that make the idea of starting one's own blog very easy and attractive. Indeed, many bloggers fall into the trap of using a free blogging service as their first entry into the filed of blogging.