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blogging

The DeCentralized Me!

Over the past 4–5 years in writing this blog I have always been concerned about services that cause consumers of this content to get connected through a third party service.

Journalists morphing into bloggers

An interesting post on Wired about the way journalism is changing in the face of new media. Not that unexpected a perspective from a magazine that has morphed into something more like a blog itself. The gist is essentially that news media is becoming more of a service than a product with the major news publications being more of a

Blogenomics

The discussions about PPP over the past weeks have me thinking about how Bloggers can turn their effort into reward.  The difficulty that smaller bloggers have in monetising their blogs is no secret, and while there is no reason that any blogger should be able to make money from their content it would be better if there was some link between quality of content and reward.

TechCrunch RSS Advertising is the Worst

Tonight while getting ready for my Podcast I removed a RSS feed from my regular reading list because of excessive advertising in the feed. I'm serious -- the stupid ad TechCrunch has after every article in the feed measures 612 pixels in height.

My BlogWorld Expo Wrap up Thoughts

It appears there was some serious mis-communications in regards to Michael Arrington’s appearance at Blogworld. One of the reasons I attend some of these events is that I come to hear specific people speak. The mix up in Michael and several others that did not show did not concern me but I was somewhat surprised and others were disappointed.

Blog World Expo Day 2 Live Blogging

Ok folks here we go for day two of the Blog World Expo. Thus far my impressions is that even though the organizers had tracks for podcasting the folks exhibiting and in the sessions appear to be bloggers looking at podcasting. The number of podcasters here are hard to say but with Libsyn, Podango having booths and of course me

Live Blogging the Blog World Expo

Live Blogging Blog World Expo 08:44 -First thing huge number of Bloggers and No Power Strips -Keynote area is going to be standing room only 08:54 -Matt from Wordpress is is rehashing how Wordpress got started I am not sure why a bunch of bloggers need to be told about the wordpress history are we not all bloggers and supposed