Posts Tagged with ‘blog’

Though it's been some time coming, Twitter has finally revealed its private funding sources. With the latest boost in funding, the Twitter team should be able to deliver on its promise to the community to boost support for the platform across the board.
Twitter revealed, at long last, its sources of private funding, which are Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos of his very own Bezos Expeditions. Neither investors are what you'd call small-time, as Sabet [...]

Though integrating social aspects to websites seems more and more to be a necessary factor in keeping up with the Joneses, there is such a thing as going social for the wrong reasons.  At the heart of the web 2.0 and social push is to deliver a better online experience for users.  If companies try to integrate social functionality without keeping the interests of users in focus, those companies won't come off as much more than wolves in a cheap [...]

Blogging is at a turning point. There seem to be three different types of bloggers: those who use it as an online diary, those who view themselves as journalists, and those who view themselves as journalists without all the trappings that traditional media types are bound by.
My personal blog is firmly in the first segment, but I'd probably put myself in the last category to an extent in my "work" writing. I started out as a journalism major, but couldn't [...]

I was determined to remain out of this weekend's bitchmeme. I'm an old-fashioned kind of girl who comments on the blog where the author knows I said something, reads my feeds offline half the time, and doesn't jump on the latest bandwagon when it comes to "conversation."
However, when the headline crossed my radar saying "Era of blogger’s control is over" I realized that for all this caterwauling, people are missing the point. Robert Scoble is missing the point, but then [...]

I knew the second that the New York Times article from Matt Richtel went across my feeds it was going to be the water cooler discussion du jour over the weekend. I'm sure it will have the entire blogosphere lit up like a Christmas tree by the time I log in tomorrow and check my feeds again. And I'm sure some of the article has merit.
Under the headline In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop, Richtel [...]

Odds are that any additional articles I write today will be site reviews, because today is my least favorite day of the year as a tech blogger. Beyond my usual schedule of getting Rick rolled at least once a day by someone, I am now stuck with sifting through my feeds trying to determine what's actual news and what's an April Fool's Day prank.
Of course, since this has become a tech blogosophere tradition, many blogs are determined to get out [...]

On the off chance you haven't already been inundated with women's sites, Yahoo has launched their new site geared toward women today. Sticking with the name Shine that was originally rumored, the site follows the same mold as previous entries into this space.
Right from the first article you see, you know that Yahoo has gone as far as women's magazines in researching what women want. The headline article? A treatise on “The 100 Unsexiest Men 2008″ originated by the [...]

On 3 March, the Armenian government declared a 20-day state of emergency after confrontations between the former president and security due to tensions after the contested elections that took place on 19 February. As part of the state of emergency, the government declared that the only news that can be published by the media outlets is news that comes directly from the government.
As Global Voices notes, all television stations in Armenia are either state-owned or owned by businesses with close [...]

Barack Obama and Ron Paul aren't the only two politicians who've made the most out of Web 2.0 tools in running their campaigns. Just like her Western counterparts, 89-year-old grandmother and Malaysian parliament candidate Maimun Yusuf has turned to the Internet for her campaign, fighting for a parliament seat controlled by Malaysian's current ruling coalition.
Maimun has 7 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren, and is registered as an independent candidate. With very little money, she has turned to supporters (24 volunteers) to [...]