Posts Tagged with ‘bloggers’

The social community Gather.com just announced the launch of a political discussion and a national search for a “People's Press Corps”. Election 2008 on Gather will engage voting adults into political discussions on vital issues of the upcoming election. Seven of the presidential candidates have already committed to creating groups within the Gather community and Gather's special demographics may prove interesting for voters and candidates alike. A recent poll of the Gather.com community revealed that 98.8 percent of members plan [...]

The Federal Election Commission, or FEC, of the United States, in decisions concerning campaign finance laws and whether to classify blogs that charge for politically-relative advertisements whilst claiming allegiance to particular candidates for elected office, yesterday found the blogs are in fact publications with media credentials, and as such may exercise rights available within the bounds of US Electoral Law.
While these decisions, in their respective contexts, don’t appear very profound, they undoubtedly couple as a major boon to blogs, particularly [...]

Since the early days of the web, the online subscription model has existed. For many companies it was a primary source of revenue, and as subscribers increased, so did profits.
Now, with so many free services popping up during the web 2.0 phase of the internet, it seems that fewer and fewer people are willing to pay anything for content online. More and more companies are ditching the subscription model in favor of other methods.
Is it just me or are their [...]

VeZoom is an online video search engine that has been putting in some hard work to increase its service's features and its footprint across the web. Two weeks ago, Profy featured a review of MyVeZoom, which provides users with a customizable interface to locate videos from. Now, the service is out recruit from the crowd of bloggers.
Riding on the wave of the popularity of online video, VeZoom has come up with a development that combines video with RSS [...]

As I am sure you already know, viral video is all the rage on the internet. It is all about sharing and embedding your favorite video content into other sources such as your social network profile or a blog. Now, bloggers have an all new place to catch the latest videos… but this time, they are not comedic or user-generated. They are news and current event videos.
Today, the NewsMarket, launched VideoCafé, a new service that will give bloggers the ability [...]

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the possibility of a labor union for bloggers. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal found that there is a "coalition of left-wing bloggers" trying to form a labor union with hopes that such a group will aid them in the process of receiving health benefits and conducting collective bargaining.
The biggest concern and cause for the "union talk" is probably best described by David Krug who writes that "one [...]

Malaysia isn’t the hottest spot on the Web. Naturally, that title is reserved for Silicon Valley. Nonetheless, the government of the Southeast Asian country is raising a fit over what it feels is a dangerous insurgency in the form of a blogger complex that is attacking the nation’s king and the religion of Islam.
And it’s threatening to use “tough anti-terrorism laws” to combat commentators who the governing party believes to be a threat security. Etcetera, etcetera.
Already, the ruling party has [...]

If you have been using MyBlogLog, then chances are that you know about the recent changes that have been implemented on the service, particularly the new community messaging feature. Apparently, users have been demanding the ability to quickly send one message to all members of a community. At least that is what the team at MyBlogLog (MBL) is saying. I have yet to see any positive responses to this new feature, and believe me, I have looked. In fact, several bloggers [...]

The evolution of the blog has been an interesting one to watch. From something that began as an onilne diary; a simple way to not only keep a journal but also communicate en masse to friends and strangers alike, the medium has morphed into its very own media category, with blogs being used for everything from corporate communications and marketing to news to political lobbying. And while blogging is still used for online diaries, its impact is certainly gaining notice.
The [...]