Posts Tagged with ‘blogger’

With the explosion of user-generated content ranging from blog posts to product reviews to complaints registered via Twitter, companies are growing more and more concerned about their reputations being sullied. An entire industry has sprung up to help corporations (as well as individuals) track their image online, as well as try to improve the image. Companies like Techrigy, Radian6, and filtrbox will help you track references online, while others like Reputation Defender propose to help you fix things you might [...]

Right before I thought I'd turn in for the night, a little blip came across my reader that included "last post at TechCrunch" that made me sit up and take notice. The stable of writers at TechCrunch has been fairly consistent lately, and Duncan started there about the same time I started here at Profy. I headed right over to the podcast with Duncan at The Blog Herald (which he owned once upon a time) to get the story on [...]

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 [...]

SXSW begins this coming Friday, 7 March, and it will mark the first anniversary of Twitter's explosion on the scene. This past weekend, Twitter was down again, but this time, it was a planned outage to prep the servers for the predicted hammering of their system when SXSW convenes. Of course, you can always continue on Tweeting from the web or your IM client, but an entire cottage industry has sprung up around Twitter since SXSW '07, giving you tons [...]

There was a little-noticed bit of news out of Myanmar this week; a blogger, Nay Myo Latt, was arrested after writing about what is happening within the country, including increased loss of freedom following last fall's protests and subsequent government crackdown
As a blogger, I see stories like this fairly regularly coming out of countries with much more oppressive government controls of what people can do and say online. In Myanmar, this arrest is symptomatic of a much larger issue. I [...]

Profy has finally launched our very own blogging platform in alpha. We have been developing it here in Russia for more than a year now and the alpha release is a very important step. We were sitting and waiting nervously for the first reviews after the embargo was lifted and I think I will post links to some of the first reviews here to cordially thank all the bloggers.
Crenk was the first to break the story though I was a [...]

It’s hard out there for…a Saudi Arabian blogger.
The headlines on Technorati are many today. It’s now been made officially clear by the Saudi Interior Ministry that a widely-regarded Arabian noisemaker, Fouah al-Farhan, was recently “taken in” for questioning “about specific violations of non-security laws.”
Mr al-Farhan covers, among other items, the subject of social issues in his blog. Yes, quite a basic and broad template upon which to write one’s thoughts. Plenty of fine lines to walk in that area [...]

The evolutionary gem known as the blog has come a long way since its official origin back in the mid ‘90s. Jorn Barger, dubbed the designer of the term “weblog” (and it’s definition), claims to have started the trend – now a phenomenon of global proportions – by assembling a daily catalogue of links amassed from “travels across the Web.” How interesting, then, it is to find that, some 10 years since its basic introduction, the core of the concept [...]