Feedburner may not be hearing your pings

Blogging is a fast medium, that's one of its advantages over traditional media. There are bloggers who specialize in reporting fast about breaking news on a wide variety of topics. Most of those bloggers use Google's RSS publishing technology FeedBurner as a middleman to deliver their posts to subscribers and capture analytics.

Habari the new WordPress?

WordPress may be one of the best blogging platforms around today, but that hasn't stopped a worldwide community of developers from thinking they can do better. There's a new game in town and they're called Habari.

State of the Blogosphere

Review Technorati's latest report on the state of the Blogosphere 2008 report.

Next Post Previous Post Big Blogger Pay Cuts At b5Media

Toronto based b5Media is changing the way it pays bloggers in its hundreds-strong blog network, according to an email memo sent out to partners by CEO Jeremy Wright.

Seven blog news trackers compared

Sites like Techmeme, Blogrunner, and Technorati have been tracking the hottest blog posts for quite some time. Now's a good point to take a look at what makes these sites (and others) individual and different from Google's blog search.

Teachers Turn to Blogging

The blogs give readers a perspective that standardized test scores can't offer.

Bloggie Award Winners of 2008

Take a look at the winners of the recent Bloggie Awards from around the world. There are a lot of categories stemming from best in country to best food.

Global Voices

Global Voices is a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society.

Global Voices connects with amazing people who are bloggers living in various countries around the world. They've invited these individuals as contributors or hired them as editors because they understand the context and relevance of information, views, and analysis being posted every day from their countries and regions on blogs, podcasts, photo sharing sites, videoblogs - and other kinds of online citizen media. They are helping to make sense of it all, and to highlight things that bloggers are saying which mainstream media may not be reporting.

The 'dangers' of blogging

Google Blogoscoped

Google Blogoscoped covers Google and the tech world, more or less daily since 2003.
This blog is featured in the Technorati 100 and the current Techmeme all time top 100, and is a Google News source.

OJB

The Online Journalism Blog publishes comment and analysis on developments in online journalism and online news, citizen journalism, blogging, vlogging, photoblogging, podcasts, interactive storytelling, publishing, Computer Assisted Reporting, User Generated Content, searching, online communities, mobile phone journalism, social media and all things internet.

Blogging habits

For Brits, technology and web companies top the list of brands most blogged, according to a recent “Blogs and Brands: A Study of the British Blogosphere” by Prompt Communications Ltd.

Supplementing Your Freelance Career With Blogging and Expert Content

Raj Dash shares his thoughts how to use the blog for enhancing your freelance career.

Using AideRSS to Help Identify Hot Topics to Cover On Your Blog

There are over 86 million blogs, and each one has an RSS feed. All it takes is a few subscriptions to the sites that interest you, and your feed reader is overwhelmed with a never-ending stream of hundreds of headlines. Like an aide or a personal assistant, AideRSS helps to filter and rank these feeds based on a number of criteria to help you read what matters, ensure that you find the good stuff, and to help keep things organized and manageable.

See the YouTube demo below.

10 techniques to get more comments on your blog

Still looking for ways to increase comments on your blog? Here are some fundamental tips that may help.

Marketing moves to the Blogosphere

Jason Calacanis, who got into blogging early and big, has quit.

He co-founded a network of blogs called Weblogs in 2003, before the medium cracked the mainstream, and then sold it to AOL in 2005, working there until 2007.

TF2

Welcome to the TF2 community blog  about the state of the game and some of the reasoning behind the choices they're making.

With 'followers,' Blogger gets--surprise!--more social

Blogger adds social-networking features to their software.

Roz's quest

Roz Savage is rowing across the Pacific ocean for herself, but more importantly, to call attention to the problem of plastics polluting the oceans. Check her blog for daily entries has she continues her journey.

Movie clip of her first attempt, plus check out her website.

Democratic bloggers shun official digs for 'Big Tent'

Why brave the painfully slow security lines and TSA-like hassles at the official Democratic convention center? For many lefty bloggers, it's a lot more fun to hang out at the Big Tent a few blocks away.

Looking for blogs on Apple news?

I came across three great blogs devoted to Apple news:

 Cult of mac

Appletell

 tuaw.com

Slugger Awards: political blogger of the year

Slugger Awards: political blogger of the year ... in spreading the word about the 'political blogger' category in the new Slugger Awards.

Blog about Blogs

Six Apart, which makes the Movable Type blogging platform and hosts blog services TypePad and Vox, on Monday is launching Blogs.com, a new site designed to help readers find the best blogs on the Web.

Read the article here.

Blogging is not a crime

This chart plots the number of bloggers who have been arrested over the past few years, based on data collected by the World Information Access project.

Blog it, mail it

MailChimp's RSS-to-Email tool will automatically send your subscribers a newsletter whenever your blog (or any RSS feed) gets updated.

List for local business blogging success

If you're looking for methods by which to get closer to your community via a blog, check out this list.

Blogging for teachers and students, made easy

Edublogs hosts hundreds of thousands of blogs for teachers, students, researchers, professors, librarians, administrators and anyone and everyone else involved in education.

Edublogs are completely free, without any advertising, and come with 100MB of free upload space (easily extended to 3 Gig) and a heap of great features.

They cater to schools and universities looking to create, manage and control blogs at their own domain, with all the features of Edublogs.

Publish your blog in foreign languages

ICanLocalize is a new kind of website translation service, created to help both webmasters and translators.
Because of the way websites and blogs are constructed, translating them involves a lot of technical work. Instead of letting a person do all this work, and then charging money for it - this better be done by a computer.

Network blogging thoughts

Blog networks need to bring in a lot of money to keep afloat. This is because, while individual blogs have low overheads, blog networks do not.

Build a better photoblog

There are plenty of free ways to build an average photoblog, but if you have dreams of creating one that meets your needs and not just the masses, check out Pixelpost 1.7.1. Updated earlier this year with a bunch of new features including an Install Assistant, this MySQL/PHP-based application is a free download and needs only a modicum of technical knowledge and some server space to use.

New look & feel

Bloglines has launched first steps in designing a new look to its site.

40+ topics for corporate bloggers

Here' a good list of ideas for corporate bloggers who need inspiration to start a conversation.

Blog Catalog

BlogCatalog is more than just a social community for bloggers; we are one of the largest blog directories on the internet. Whether you are looking to search blogs, connect with bloggers, learn more about blogging, or promote your own blog, BlogCatalog is for you.

BlogWorld & New Media Expo

The 2008 BlogWorld & New Media Expo will take place September 20-21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, with the exclusive "Executive & Entrepreneur" conference beginning September 19th.

Everyone has a viewpoint

Instablogs is a news ecosystem bringing bloggers, citizen journalists and traditional media together. It’s a place to discover, share, contribute and connect with the world and the people who are changing it.

Like the blog? Leave a tip

The future of professional blogging may lie in the age-old model of tipping — at least, that’s what Salon.com appears to be hoping.

Google maps you would've never thought of

This blog is dedicated to interesting and cool google maps/mashups!

I may copy it, right?

With blogging comes great responsibilty. You define the content of your weblog and you carry the full responsibility for every word you’ve published online. More than that, you are responsible for comments in your posts.

Inside Intel's blog

Welcome to the IT@Intel blog. This site features several of Intel’s top IT leaders, who share their perspectives and invite discussion on the issues they and other IT managers are facing today. The blog offers an “inside look” at Intel’s IT operations and provides opportunities for you to exchange ideas directly with the IT experts who keep Intel’s business running and growing.

Blogola Scheme

John McCain's campaign is bribing people to copy and paste his talking points in blog comments.

Dipping into the blogpond

Take a look down under to see Australia's top 100 blogs.

Blog Marketing: Optimize Your Blog Posts for SEO

Some other helpful SEO information on YouTube:

1-Google allinanchor
2-What is Search Engine Marketing?

36 Tips

What good is your blog if no one wants to read it? To help attract more readers to your blog, take a look at this list of 36 tips and resources for you to implement in order to ensure maximum usability. If your blog is easy and fun to visit, you’ll notice more readers flocking to your site.

UsabilityBlog

UsabilityBlog is where Paul Sherman writes about usability, user-centered design, and the user experience.

As a consultant his projects have included usability testing and interface design for IT applications, e-commerce Web sites, financial planning and portfolio management software applications, and telecommunications hardware and software applications.

How you measuring you blog?

If you've not tried Measure Maps, you might want to take a look.

Caution

Looking for some warning labels for blogs?

Mind gone blank for ideas

After a while we all run against a brick wall for blogging ideas. Perhaps this article will help shed some light.

Vlog Blog

Here's a great blog site regarding communicating through video on your blog.

Canada's Top 25 Political Blogs

Here are the July rankings for Canada’s Top 25 Political Blogs.

Blogs Canada

To my friends in the great white north, thought it was time to point people to your country so people can see and hear about people blogging up there.

A Blogger’s Guide to Branding with Social Media

Branding allows you to stand out from others in your niche and show your readers what you’re all about and why they should pay attention to you. There are any number of different methods that you can take for branding yourself and your blog, and social media is one of them.

Blogger of the week - Susan Scrupski

Susan Scrupski, is a people person. It was that passion for relationships that led her to create her indispensable blog, ITInsider, and it was her blog that propelled her into her current role as Web 2.0 Evangelist at nGenera.

Web Design Blogs

If you're looking for good 'web design blogs', check out these 14 blogs.

Want to get your blog up front on Digg?

The wow factor is what gets you DIGG and the first thing that people see is your title. The title gets you in the door and the content keeps you there.

Is a Magazine Theme Right for You?

When compared to standard blog themes, magazine-style themes are much more effective for traditional websites because of the presentation of content.

7 elements to make your blog look great

What makes one blog visually attractive, but makes another one ugly?

Blogger Help Group

If you are one of many using Blogger to stage your content, here's a great resources to help you address questions regarding how to's, layouts, templates, login issues, and more.

From Russia, with love

Blogger Gorshkov Will Dish Dirt on Russian Politicians — for a Price.

Doogie Blogger, M.D.

The founder of MacRumors quit his dayjob (as an MD) to take up blogging full time.

What;s in a design blog logo?

Everything. Says this blogger who surveys the scene.

The power of female blogging

Gina Garrubbo, executive vice president of BlogHer, claims to be the biggest online community for women who blog.

How to make money with blogs

b5 Media

b5media is a global new media network featuring more than 350 blogs on a wide variety of subjects ranging from entertainment and news to technology and sports. With content written by passionate people and dedicated Channel Editors from all over the world, the Toronto-based company’s blogs attract more than seventeen million unique visitors a month!

15 Desktop Blogging Tools Reviewed

Here's a list of 15 desktop blogging editors which can speed up the blogging process. Some are free and some cost a few dollars, but in the end any of these editors can greatly help a blogger, regardless of skill level.

SEC does YouTube? Ruling says blogs are OK for public disclosures

Securities and Exchange Commission catches on to the Web's existence, updating 8-year-old rules to allow publicly traded companies to publish info to the Web instead of in press releases. Video may be acceptable, too.

Blogger - Google Privacy Tips

A Small Design Study Of Big Blogs

Smashing magazine conducted a survey to take a closer look at blog designs, analyze them and find out which design solutions are common and which solutions are not used at all.

See the survey here
See the results here

Blogger showdown at Brainstorm Tech

Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference kicked off Monday night with sharp-tongued bloggers ripping into each other and the companies they cover.

Smarter Than Your Average Blog

Voxant, the New Media Network, offers free, licensed news content from a variety of top-notch sources - AP, Reuters, CBS, MTV, NHL, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times… and tons more.

With the aim of helping bloggers increase their blog’s quality and traffic, Smarter Than Your Average Blog is a Voxant-sponsored blog that offers blogging tips, tricks, and tools - join in the conversation.

538 Twitter Users that Blog

If you’re looking to connect with other bloggers on Twitter then this is the place to be because...

Bad blogging

There are countless articles floating around about becoming a better blogger, so here are 21 tips in sarcastic form to put kind of a fresh spin on these recycled blog teachings.

Blogspot.com cited as the No. 1 host for malware

According to a report out Wednesday, antivirus vendor Sophos says it detects one Web page with malicious content every 5 seconds--a trend that is up 300 percent from 2007.

Allfacebook - the unofficial Facebook blog

This is a blog that covers all news related to Facebook. It is not in any way affiliated with the actual Facebook site. Read More

Blog Business Summit

The Blog Business Summit is a conference and seminar series on business blogging that has been touring the country since 2004.

80 Graphic Design Links You Can’t Live Without

A nice collection of graphic design links and web design links. A list every designer should check out.

Do you comment on blogs?

30 Boxes is a great way to keep track of your web stuff and it allows you to easily maintain and share your identity (who you are and stuff you have on the web). When you comment on blogs that have Buddy Cards enabled 30 Boxes displays a nice pop up with information about you.

My Son, the Blogger: An M.D. Trades Medicine for Apple Rumors

For eight years, Arnold Kim has been trading gossip, rumor and facts about Apple, the notoriously secretive computer company, on his Web site, MacRumors.com.

Al Gore Cheers Bloggers At Netroots Nation Conference

It produced the first electric moment at the conference, the Netroots Nation, an ever-widening group of progressive bloggers whose major interests — the war in Iraq, the environment and technology — mesh well with Mr. Gore’s current pursuits. Indeed, many in the crowd — who are supporting Senator Barack Obama, the likely Democratic presidential nominee — were overheard saying they wished he were running for president.

BlogHer confab draws Macy's, not Google

At the women bloggers conference, attendees are surrounded by the mainstream-brand advertisers that the Internet media industry has clamored to attract for the last 10 years.

For she-bloggers, does it take a village to profit?

Just three years ago, Lisa Stone was one of "three chicks with credit cards" trying to form a consortium of female bloggers.

Blog site of the week

Vicki talks on her blog about how all moms have one thing in common, BUSY lives...and looking for ways to SIMPLIFY them.

Blogging and bringing home the bacon

As many as 3,000 women are at this year's BlogHer Conference to talk about their lives, businesses, and blogs; and in some cases, they're all one and the same.

Are You Overwhelming Your Readers With A Cluttered Blog?

Wordpress has become one of the most popular blogging platforms and a large part of that reason is the sheer number of plugins available to add to blogs. But many of these plugins, especially when combined with an obsessive amount of advertisements, tend to overwhelm readers with an abundance of clutter in both the sidebar and at the end of the posts themselves.

ScribeFire

ScribeFire was originally founded to be the top blog editor for FireFox which it has done with over 1.5 million downloads to date. To take the tool to the next level ScribeFire added a talented team of Internet marketers and technologists to build a next generation tool that makes monetizing websites simple. They've built a simple way for bloggers and website owners to add optimized ads to their sites.

Jason Calacanis’ First New Email Post

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.

Most Corporate Blogs Are Unimaginative Failures

Many businesses have launched corporate blogs in an effort to better communicate with customers and capture a little Web-2.0 mojo. But Huffington Post they ain’t: Not only are these corporate blogs boring as paint, but the businesses behind admit they don’t have much value.

Architecture blogs in Romania, Spain and England

Most blogs devoted to architecture cover the whole of Europe through their importance, often even the whole world, by not limiting themselves to the presentation of this set of themes exclusively within the author’s country of origin.

Wine Brands

A journey through wine brands.

107 year oldwoman starts a blog

You're never too old to start a blog.

10 Articles All Bloggers Should Read (at least once)

Many new bloggers are often not familiar with the details of blogging software (e.g. the screwy video embed issue with WP) or they don't know much about the art of blogging (other than writing about the blog's topic).

Unobtrusive Sidenotes

Unobtrusive Sidenotes is a simple mix of Javascript and CSS that makes it ridiculously easy to incorporate sidenotes into your web pages or blogs. It even includes a handy set of colors (all set in CSS and tweak-able) to create that oh-so-subtle correlation between the sidenote and the relevant text.

McCain hares bloggers

In a December 2007 town hall meeting John McCain discussed his views on various media. During this discussion, he expressed a disdain for 'the bloggers.' It is uncertain who McCain is targeting with this statement, as there are nearly three million blogs on the internet.

30 Most Popular Blogs | June 2008

There are many blog popularity-ranking services on the web, but unfortunately, they all rely on only one piece of data for their rankings. Either link popularity, RSS feeds or some sort of traffic-ranking service.

Metabloggers

The time has come for blogging to become just a regular job. The only irregular thing about it are rare big paychecks.

How to Write Good Blogs That are Not Boring

What makes the difference between a good blog bland a bad blog on the Internet? What makes someone keep going back to a blog or never go back again?

How to Use Blogging as a Terrific Source for Online Income

Do you want a good online hobby, as well as an extra source of income?

Rick Steves: Blog Gone Europe

Hitch an online ride with Rick this spring as he researches guidebooks, films new TV shows — and shares what’s on his mind!

Chinese bloggers evade censors by writing backwards

You have to hand it to Chinese bloggers - they are determined to get the truth out, no matter what.

Gallery: Japan's Leading Celebrity Bloggers

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.

Golden rules for corporate blogging: introduction (1/3)

Once your Corporate stakeholders have understood why Web 2.0 is more than a fad and why its marketing could benefit from it (read our 12 golden rules for Web 2.0) and once they have established how their 2.0 strategy should be articulated (refer to our interactivity matrix), quite a few questions remain: how to create a professional looking blog and how to make it known?

Read Part 1: Golden rules for corporate blogging: introduction
Read Part 2: Preliminary questions
Read Part 3: Do's and Dont's