Posts Tagged with ‘blogging’

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 [...]

If you follow Profy with any attention, you may have noticed that nice banner in the sidebar announcing Profy participation in the Web 2.0 Expo that will take place in San Francisco on April 22-25. For us this is not some ordinary event - this is the first time the Profy blogging platform will be publicly announced at a major industry event.
This means that we are also going to make a big announcement at the conference - Profy beta will [...]

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 [...]

As a newly launched directory of blogs, Blogged.com is aiming to not only provide visitors with links to thousands of interesting blogs, but to be a “blog discovery and exploration tool supported by a network that connects bloggers with readers.” Having just publicly launched two days ago (February 25, 2008) the database of more than 200,000 blogs of various categories is already impressive in size.
Where most blog search tools use tags and keywords to find individual posts within blogs, Blogged [...]

Once just a listing of blogs, BlogCatalog has slowly grown over the past year into more of a social network for bloggers with more than 100,000 members. Today, users of the BlogCatalog service will find the ability to easily download a customized version of the SezWho comment tracking plug-in for their blogs.
After signing up for SezWho, BlogCatalog members are provided a link via email where they can download and install the special plugin. Through the collaboration of the two [...]

Users of the Movable Type 4.1 blogging platform from Six Apart can now enjoy the added benefits of microblogging with a new plugin known as Action Streams, which is part of the company's strategy towards more social openness.
With Action Streams, which works similarly to Facebook's news feed and FriendFeed (previously covered here), bloggers can “aggregate, control, and share” actions around the web, while avoiding some of the problems that have plagued current offerings. For example, Six Apart mentions that users [...]

By now, I'm sure everyone has heard of Gizmodo's prank at CES, using a TV-B-Gone device to turn off displays at booths and during presentations. The actual offender has been banned from future CES attendance, with other ramifications possible.
The story has gotten considerable coverage, including the mainstream press, including the New York Times. Virtually every forum that the story has appeared in has seen people coming down on one side or the other, some thinking the prank was funny, while [...]

Back in May of last year, I was concerned that the military's newest policy was going to restrict the ability of U.S. military personnel stationed in war zones to be able to use blogs to express their thoughts and feelings. As someone so entrenched in the blog medium, I couldn't imagine being part of the conflict in the Middle East and not having an outlet I could use to not only vent my emotions in a blog, but also have [...]