The One Question Interview series Darren created recently has introduced a number of interesting issues to me. But the one particular issue I want to talk about now is the one raised by Darren’s interview with Guy Kawasaki: Is it better to start a personal web site, with a blog as one dedicated component of […]
Okay, maybe the title was a bit of an exaggeration, but really, how often is it that you get a shot at writing for one of the biggest gadget blogs in the world?
There are 3 positions open too: Night time editor and weekend editor over at Engadget Classic, and morning editor over at Engadget […]
b5media - a Wordpress-powered consumer blog network - recently announced that it would be using Akismet for its anti-spam efforts through an Akismet Enterprise License.
The news itself is pretty insignificant, relatively that is. But it is interesting to see b5media opt for the pay-for Akismet vs. the absolutely free Spam Karma 2, which […]
It seems that The Personal Finance Weblog, one of Creative Weblogging’s business and finance flagships, is running both Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) adverts on the same page (which is against Google’s TOS given that YPN is a competing contextual ad network BTW). And it doesn’t seem like a mistake in ad rotation […]
There are probably a hundred and one reasons you could think up for not wanting to blog for a blog network. But I’ll talk about just one in this short post: Overdependency.
That’s right. When you’re part of a network, most of the time, you have zero access to the nitty gritty (but critical) parts […]
If you’ve been paying even the slightest bit of attention at the blogosphere and the forever interesting news that pops out of it, you would have noticed the Paul Scrivens-launched “jihad” against 9rules members that don’t meet specific uhh… requirements. Now, to me, it does look like very tasty link-bait just a little like the […]
An example of one of the big boys looking to expand its presence in the blogosphere is probably ZDNet. Their Jan 5 advert for tech bloggers:
Do you have a passion for technology? Want to share your from-the-trenches perspective with ZDNet’s readers? ZDNet is expanding its coverage with a series of new blogs on a variety […]
