Jason Calacanis announced that he was retiring from blogging. There was a very mixed reaction to the news, with most believing it to be a publicity stunt. Jason said in his farewell post that instead of blogging, he would instead be posting to a mailing list made up of his followers, capped at 750 subscribers.
You have to hand it to Chinese bloggers - they are determined to get the truth out, no matter what.
If you go to Japan and tell people you're a blogger, they might assume you're a celebrity. While blogs are making incredible headway as a source of credible information in the United States, in Japan they are mostly thought of as high-profile diaries.
Google announced on Friday the release of a number of updates to its Blogger publishing platform--well, sort of. The updates have gone into Blogger in Draft, the service's beta platform, with the expectation that they'll eventually become full features.
Kevin Barbieux is chronically homeless, having experienced several episodes of homelessness since the age of 21 - spending about half his adult life on the streets. On this blog he write about his experiences, and his opinions and knowledge of homeless life.
The blog host lets you edit and manage your content right on the page. There's still a simple WYSIWYG editor, but all you have to do to edit and change content and the look and feel of the site is to click and drag the bits and pieces around. Users of Ning will feel right at home.
Like other hosted blogging tools there are a tons of customization options. You have your choice of a handful of ready-made templates that come with their own fonts, spacing and backgrounds. You can also drop in your own custom HTML or CSS file that will be hosted on Viviti's servers. Check it out.
I'm Blogging That covers all the topics you want to know about: SEO, Internet Marketing, Social Networking, WordPress News, PageRank, Google, and so much more.
Blogger Ariel Waldman spurred a lively debate when she claimed that Twitter didn't abide by its own terms of service. She said it refused to take down an account that harassed her.
Activeweave's BlogRovr technology will be worked into BuzzLogic's "Conversational Targeting" ad service so that clients can find out where their ads will be most relevant.
There is a misconception that geeks are a marginalized set of people. In reality, everyone is a geek. By definition, a geek is a person who is fascinated, perhaps obsessively, by technology and imagination, or other fields of interest. A geek is someone who is passionate about his interests, whether these be technology, gadgets, cars, literature, or just about anything.
Geeks Blog is all about passionate people and all about these things that one can be passionate about.
Just came across a very interesting tool for visualizing your part of the blogosphere - The TouchGraph Google Browser. (image above).
This Java-based tool, "reveals the network of connectivity between websites, as reported by Google's database of related sites."
Plug in a search term and see where your blog is in relation to it and other blogs and sites. When you plugged in "microISV".
All in all, a very cool tool!
Twingly screensaver visualizes global blog activity in real time. Forget RSS readers where you see only what you're interested in. With Twingly screensaver you get a 24/7 stream of all (viewer discretion advised) blog activity, straight to your screen.
Anyone regularly engaged in "journalism," which would seem to include some bloggers, wouldn't generally be forced to divulge confidential sources in federal cases under a bill approved Thursday by a U.S. Senate committee.
Ko Htike runs his Myanmar blog out of his London apartment and says he's trying to stop the violence.
The self-publishing service Blurb now offers to publish your blog catalog into bound book form. Read the article here.
