Just clearing out some remaining news and commentary for the week: The Bivings Report surveys the top 100 newspapers’ use of online offerings. “Socialmeter… scans several major link-tracking sites and spits back an analysis of your URL’s popularity” Darren Rowse discusses why bloggers call it quits. A brief but interesting article on 5 Ways to… Continue reading Sunday Wrap Up
Category: blogging
Over Blogulation
As magazine and newspaper publishers rush to convert their journalists to bloggers, we are quickly slipping into a state of blog overpopulation, as the masses gain confidence to speak up on the web. Earlier in the week, I linked to a much talked about blog entry from Nick Carr where he balked at the lack… Continue reading Over Blogulation
Blog Ad Network at Washington Post
Steve Rubel reports that “the WashingtonPost has launched a brand new program that helps marketers find blogs to advertise on. It’s called the Sponsored Blogroll… advertisers can browse the network and find blogs to advertise on within their verticals. The bloggers and the Post split the ad dollars.” Darren Rowse had this to say: “It’s definitely an… Continue reading Blog Ad Network at Washington Post
Pity Party for Lonely Bloggers
Nicholas Carr throws a pity party for himself as he reflects on the hierarchy of A-list bloggers and the many smaller bloggers on the Web. It is interesting that for centuries, people have produced written work and relied on one-to-one feedback or no feedback at all. Now that the Web has made it easy to publish online,… Continue reading Pity Party for Lonely Bloggers
Journalists and Bloggers: Happily Ever After
Doc Searls has some interesting commentary on recent brouhaha between journalists and bloggers at the Santa-Barbara News Press. One great quote from Dr. Laura: “… now it is as though every errant thought should be embraced by the outside world as having greater significance than the burp it really is.” I think bloggers and journalists… Continue reading Journalists and Bloggers: Happily Ever After
Sunday Wrap Up
Just clearing out some remaining news and commentary for the week: Steve Rubel has a piece on Reinventing the Media Interview, where he states, “the media interview as we know it though is going through a radical transformation and it’s starting not with the reporters but with bloggers.” Mark Cuban discusses Responsible Journalism with regards… Continue reading Sunday Wrap Up