The Windy City and its Bloggers

Directory of area weblog sites, listed on a route map of el, subway, and rail stations.

Bloggers: A portrait of the internet's new storytellers

The ease and appeal of blogging is inspiring a new group of writers and creators to share their voices with the world.

A national phone survey of bloggers finds that most are focused on describing their personal experiences to a relatively small audience of readers and that only a small proportion focus their coverage on politics, media, government, or technology. Blogs, the survey finds, are as individual as the people who keep them. However, most bloggers are primarily interested in creative, personal expression – documenting individual experiences, sharing practical knowledge, or just keeping in touch with friends and family.

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Web 2.0...Blogging in Peru

The global nature of the blogosphere and its rapid global penetration is misunderstood and poorly represented in the US centric view of blogging.

Blogging from the Belly of Beirut

As the Israeli-Lebanese conflict boils over, moderates on both sides seek understanding and reconciliation -- and they're finding each other online.

How To Write A Better Blog?

Guy Kawasaki, former Apple guru and Forbes.com columnist, interviews David Sifry, the founder and CEO of Technorati, on writing better blogs, manual pinging, tagging, etc. Worth a read.

Report: Spammers Shift to Blogs and IM

The increased effectiveness of spam filters for e-mail and the lack of any such filters for newer communication technologies, such as blogs and instant messaging, are part of the reason spammers have turned to new channels to distribute their messages, explained Paul Stamp, an analyst at Forrester.

V7N Technology Blog site

The V7N Technology Blog is more than just geek news about gadgets. It’s a blog about the very Internet. Laws that affect you as an Internet user; technology that affects you as an Internet user

Bluepulse Blogger widget

Developers at bluepulse have whipped up a Blogger widget for their mobile phone platform; here are a few details from their post about it:

• Supports HTML, so you can link to a site, another post, or another blog from your post
• Supports multiple Blogger blogs.
  
• Create a new post, or edit an existing post from the widget and republish it
• Save a post as a draft and then edit and publish it from the widget or your desktop later

Check it out!

Polluting The Blogosphere

Bloggers are getting paid to push products. Disclosure is optional.

OurStory

Go beyond blogging. Tell the your story and share in the journey and keep it forever.

Blogs, wikis, and Web 2.0 as the next application platform

IBM is planning to use Web 2.0 software like wikis as a foundation upon which to build so-called situational software.

Famed Microsoft blogger Scoble leaves for start-up

The world's most famous corporate blogger, Robert Scoble, credited with helping to break down a siege mentality at his employer, Microsoft Corp., confirmed on Sunday that he is leaving to join a recently formed Silicon Valley Internet media start-up.

Oh yes, about that media start-up...Pod Tech

Forbe video interview with Robert Scoble discussing value of business blogs.

Video bloggers ready to incite 'media revolution'

As Jordan Nealy blows out four candles on her birthday cake in South Carolina, Irina Slutsky interviews a technology executive in Texas, and Helene Cardona recites a poem from a train platform in Los Angeles. Read on here.

Can You Digg it?

Have you noticed while your are reading online you see a prompt to "digg" this story?

We have one on the bottom of each of our full page posts that looks like this: Digg

What is Digg?
It's is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control. Read more.

Web 2.0 and Blogging

One of the most highly touted features of the Web 2.0 era is the rise of blogging. Personal home pages, personal diaries, and personal opinion, have been around since the early days of the web, so what is the fuss all about?

FeedBurner

Do you know where your feeds are? Do you know who is reading them?

Feedburner gives bloggers a simple way of finding out exactly how many people were reading your feed, how many of those people were clicking on items and which items they were following up on.

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BlogPulse

BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs. Blogs, a term that is short for weblogs, represent the fastest-growing medium of personal publishing and the newest method of individual expression and opinion on the Internet. BlogPulse applies machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs. BlogPulse is brought to you by Nielsen BuzzMetrics.

Liberals, courting bloggers, bow to Net's growing power

A new political movement is taking root this week at the first Yearly-Kos convention, a gathering of liberal bloggers bent on revolutionizing American politics through the power of the Internet.

Newspapers woo bloggers with mixed results

Plenty of papers are blogging. But mixing old-time news gathering with new "citizen journalism" isn't always easy.

Yahoo! Video Team Blog

As you may have read on today’s SearchBlog, Yahoo re-launched Video Search with a whole new look and a number of features, including improved comprehensiveness and search, uploading, and tagging and sharing of videos from across the Web. Check out the complete post to read more about what’s new.