Posts Tagged with ‘blogging’

Yesterday the blogosphere was abuzz over yet another acquisition in the blogging world with one-man blog Bankaholic purchased by BankRate financial information website and service provider for reported $15 million (with $2.5 million to be paid over the next 12 months if certain conditions are met).
The irony of the announcement is that the overall financial climate in the country does not seem to be favorable for any acquisitions at all - especially those that don’t seem to be backed by [...]

It looks like AOL is determined to build a very large network of programming websites serving niche content to all types of audiences. Only last week we covered AOL launching two new websites - one of them focused on female interests and the second one about pop culture. At the same time the company reported significant growth of all of its programming websites and even claimed that Asylum, it’s site targeted at male audience, is the top one in its [...]

We have already seen enough competition (I think) between services intended to help blog readers easier authenticate themselves to leave a comment on a blog and have all the comments from blogs supporting this or that service aggregated into one account: Disqus, SezWho, JS-Kit, IntenseDebate all work in the same field with slight variations of approaches. But unfortunately as blog owners choose different services to install on their blogs, readers end up creating accounts with each of the services.
Today we [...]

This morning a new initiative from Salon magazine debuts - it is called Open Salon and is based on a very peculiar idea to reward users that has made some bloggers doubt its future. Mathew Ingram reports today that for some time now the site has been building a hosted blogs network and recruited over 1,300 blogs in the private beta stage.
What Salon is debuting today is basically a hosted blog network that aggregates the best content from participating blogs [...]

Though I'm not a parent, I do feel like a relatively close uncle, being able to watch Twitter grow up and get big.  Twitter experienced quite a significant growth spurt today when it acquired the separate Twitter search platform Summize, a buyout that fellow writer Leslie Poston recently explored.
Now Twitter is starting to look like a much more grown-up platform.  It would be unfair to say that Twitter has been doing it wrong all along by not having [...]

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 [...]

Who owns what?
There's a battle going on right now, and it's spreading to every possible domain: what exactly IS intellectual property, and who owns it? In an era in which copyright protection is seemingly extended indefinitely, a la the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, corporations are seemingly trying to prevent anything from ever entering the public domain, while consumers growing ever more enamored with the idea of free.
In the software industry, you have the opposing sides of over-zealous patents versus Open [...]

And with that title, I may actually end up struck by lightning.
I have a love-hate relationship with the Gawker properties. I find most of the blogs in the network witty and a welcome respite from the constant regurgitation of the same old news items that I end up reading most of the day, but at the same time, as with the CES incident, I do think that they often cross the line.
When it comes down to a slapfest between Nick [...]

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 [...]