Posts Tagged with ‘blogosphere’

Today NewsCred opens to the public another news aggregation service that is based on the idea of credibility of sources that you receive the news from. NewsCred positions itself as a digital newspaper collecting content from various mainstream and new media outlets.
Any visitor can consume news here even without registration but if you want to add some credibility to your favorite news sources you will have to create an account here. And this credibility that is based on votes from [...]

Every year Blog Action Day unites bloggers around one topic to bring public attention and raise awareness of some of the most acute problems. Last year the problem discussed was environment and this year the topic chosen is poverty. All the bloggers are invited to participate on October 15th.
There are several ways to participate. The first and the most obvious one is to publish a post about poverty to discuss it from your point of view since the main idea [...]

Last weekend I published a post about the mistakes that startups make when pitching bloggers. That post attracted quite a number of comments from startups and PR professionals and one topic some of them seemed to be very interested in was the difference between pitching by startups in a do-it-yourself manner as opposed to pitching by PR firms. Even though this issue has already been discussed a lot, it still seems to be quite an acute problem (it is visible [...]

Blogs can be wonderful things. They can be informative, and can perhaps be taken as trustworthy authorities on various subjects. They can be irreverently grim and/or humorous to levels mostly avoided by the industry of old media, a freedom which can be exploited to their great advantage. They can be quite inclusive as far as communication is concerned between writer, editor, and reader, enabling them to appear more “down to Earth” than their antecedents.
On the whole, they comprise an [...]

Do you recall the blogosphere, circa 2000-2006?
It was something of an experimental landscape, was it not? Millions of personal blogs were created within that time frame. Thousands of “professional” ones, too. All of them unique to some degree, though some of course have been undeniable copycats of the successful, financially-lucrative few.
Okay, a lot of blogs are copycats of the popular bunch. And now what do we see? We see a great many amateur items remaining active, for sure. We’re [...]

I am totally sure that you know Sphere is an excellent blog search and discovery engine: it only provides relevant results that can be further sorted by date and by relevance. Their featured blogs tool enables you to discover new good blogs easily.
But the reason for me writing this post is that we are happy to finally have the Spere It contextual widget for Profy - you can start using it right away to engage in a larger blogosphere [...]