Shel Holz On Why Podcasting Is “Worth Every Minute” It Takes
Corporate communications guru Shel Holz has posted a lookback at his five years of podcasting – and why he thinks that the 14 hours a week that he spends working on his podcast is worth it: When it...
View ArticleSix Apart Releases Movable Type 5
Six Apart today announced the release of Movable Type 5. Movable Type 5 is puts more emphasis on whole-site publishing, starting with publishing a website and then adding blogs. New and improved...
View ArticleWordPress.com Outage Takes Out 9.2 Million Blogs
WordPress.com – the popular free blog hosting service – went offline today, taking with it popular sites like TechCrunch, GigaOm and 9.2 million other blogs. The site was down close to two hours. No...
View ArticleGoogle CEO Trashes Bloggers
Google CEO Eric Schmidt trashed bloggers in a speech at the American Society of News Editors conference in Washington, DC today, saying: We’re not in the news business, and I’m not here to tell you...
View ArticleApple VS Bloggers As Journalists
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know about Gizmodo‘s stolen-phone scoop on the 4th generation Apple iPhone. Gizmodo paid an unnamed source $5,000 for the stolen phone, and, in...
View ArticleWordPress Debuts WordPress 3.0, ‘Thelonious’
Matt Mullenweg today announced the release of WordPress 3.0, the latest version of the popular blogging application, dubbed Thelonious: Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release...
View ArticleSocial Media & Blogs Now The #1 Online Activity
Research firm Nielsen reports that social media & blogs are now the top online activities: Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs, up from 15.8...
View ArticleLatest New Media Stats May Surprise You
Pew Internet has a new report out today, Generations 2010, that looks at Americans’ daily use of the Internet. While some of the findings are just what you’d expect [more young people are accessing...
View ArticleNew WordPress Plugin, Voice Press, Lets You Blog With Your Voice
Developer Kyle Graham has released a new plugin for WordPress, called VoicePress. The plugin adds a microphone button to the WordPress editor, letting you dictate your blog posts. You can see a demo...
View ArticleBlogging Actually Not Quite Dead Yet!
Every couple of years, Wired, the New York Times or some random tech pundit declares that blogging is dead. Most recently, the NYT said that blogging was dead because the young are switching to...
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