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Thursday, July 14, 2005



You Know You've Made It as a Blogger When... Blog Relations... are made to grow up..
Bloggers this month will be introduced to the "King of Content" and the "King of Ping" as a new multi-tasking web software breathes fire into that internet jungle we call the blogosphere 100 Blogs in 100 Minutes: Are You Multi-blogging?

The Blog, The Press, The Media: mX: A new flower in Rupert's patch
This News Limited freebie already publishes a Melbourne edition, and will soon be seen in Brisbane.

But the Sydney launch last week was deemed worthy of a front-page plug in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph the following day. It’s young, free and taking Sydney by storm The Tele is also a News Limited publication, and their page 3 news story was brazen cross promotion. Launch of first new newspaper in 30 years Young, free and bursting with fun. It’s young and sexy, with a no nonsense ‘pick me up’ approach, but unlike the trains this Sydneysider promises to make your ride home enjoyable


• Foreign Investment Policy eXile Young and sexy [Eyewitness accounts and reactions to the four bomb attacks that rocked the English capital London blogging ; I was heartened the other day to note that the BBC, in the wake of the terrorist bombings in London, was actually using the terms "terrorism" and "terrorist" to describe the bombings and their perpetrators - The never-ending Blogs vs MSM battle comes to a weekly head after the Sunday talk shows, with a bevy of bloggers expressing shock and awe at the sorry state of the Fourth Estate Blogs vs MSM ]
• · A study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project finds US online users are getting more savvy about online security Online users becoming more Web savvy ; Cooper Email Identifies Rove As a Source ; Rove, Prame, Cooper, Time...The Contentious Investigation Continues
• · · The Intuitive Life Business Blog ; It's one thing to fall in love with your iPod, but would you consider sleeping with it? iPod promiscuity?
• · · · In the days before Google, search engines like Excite, Hotbot, and Altavista larded themselves up with content in a desperate effort to delay users beyond the two pages of a search activity — search box and results. The goal was stickiness How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Relinquish Control ; Whining tends to be the by-product, at least in my experience, of powerlessness ... Gertrude Stein wrote something about how we all just need someone to say "yes," some affirmation of our art. So maybe we're all just craving that? Was thinking last night about how hard it is to stay the course -- keep on working, keep on pushing the work so it has a chance of survival, keep on stoking faith in one's self and one's work. I can't see any option and am not going to quit Rare Art of Saying Yes ; Should Newspapers Sponsor Blogs Written by Reporters?
• · · · · A new edition to Blogovia, the liberal hemisphere of the blogospher : Liberal or radical economists with actual credentials in the field who blog I Feel A Change In The Force ; One of the best kept secrets (or maybe not so well-kept via fullcontext : I don't know his hit count) of the blogosphere is Jonathan Edelstein's. It's an indispensable resource for those interested in contemporary events in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and the Pacific. Jonathan's analysis is refreshingly free from ideology or ax-grinding; I don't know how he manages to keep track of all this stuff, but I'm glad he's there Head Heeb
• · · · · · Blogging up the Ladder Better jobs to people with clever blogs? : I object to the author's using Amazon to spam me about his book. If I was ever inclined to read it, I certainly won't do so now Learn why COLD CALLING DOESN'T WORK ; Calling William Frucht Learn how COLD RIVER is swimming spam