Biscuits in the Basket: June 2005

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� WSJ selects MSN Spaces over 360 and Blogger The Blog Herald: more blog news more often

Bloggers Fighting Government Regulations - Yahoo! News

BBC NEWS | Technology | Blog tool wins innovation prize

Pearson Educational Measurement Launches Assessment Blog

Enterprise, Awaken To The Trends

From Blog to Book in 90 Days or Less

Russell Beattie Notebook - Blogging Evolved: Application Aggregation

Blo.gs purchased by Yahoo! The Blog Herald: more blog news more often

� Blo.gs purchased by Yahoo! The Blog Herald: more blog news more often

blo.gs lets you keep an eye on your favorite weblogs

welcome to blo.gs
blo.gs lets you keep an eye on your favorite weblogs via the web and email. you can even put the list on your site: a blogroll that knows what is new!
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And why not a wiki?: Blogosphere lights up over 'wikitorials'

Blogspotting - BusinessWeek Online

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP - High-Tech

Blogging becomes a corporate job: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Wired Co-Founder Nears Launch of Blog Ad Network

ENTREPRENEUR AND AUTHOR JOHN BATTELLE plans to launch an advertising network for blogs later this year, he said Tuesday at OMMA West in San Francisco. He said he expects to complete an angel round of financing this week, and hopes to have the network up and running by this fall. The network, dubbed FM Publishing (with FM standing for Federated Media), will launch with between 10 and 20 technology-related blogs, including Boing Boing, as well as Battelle's own SearchBlog. Battelle said he also is considering including blogs that cover culture for the network. Online Media Daily

Citizen journalism takes root online / Just plain folks can create their own news sites

From the Interactive Media Conference: Blogging vs. Journalism

OJR's Staci Kramer should have put the question to rest last year, but E&P and Mediaweek nevertheless dubbed this morning's session at their Interactive Media Conference “Blogging vs. Journalism.” Fortunately, panel members chose not to dwell on that artificial controversy, instead offering practical advice to newspapers which might be considering adding blogs to their websites.
From the Interactive Media Conference: Blogging vs. Journalism

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | The bloggers have all the best news

In America, the first major study of web diaries reveals that they are shaping the political landscape like never before, but what of their British counterparts? Owen Gibson investigates
The bloggers have all the best news

� Technorati set to break 11 million blogs tracked The Blog Herald: more blog news more often

Technology News: Internet: Survey Shows Some Consumers Wary of Bloggers' Rights

Technology News: Internet: Corporations Entering World of Blogs

It's hard to quantify how many companies, executives and employees are blogging but there are probably more than 100 official corporate blogs, with hundreds more in the works, said Pete Blackshaw, chief marketing officer for Intelliseek, a company that analyzes and tracks blogs.Technology News: Internet: Corporations Entering World of Blogs

LivingRoom >> A space for Life: Blog Stats

Have you ever wondered how far this blogging thing has extended? How many bloggers are there? Where are they from?
LivingRoom >> A space for Life: Blog Stats

MarketplaceSnapshotResearch Blog - Click Fraud Research, SPAM, Blogging, eBay, Email Research, Ecommerce Research

Blogcount.com

Blogcount.com: "Blogcount asks: How big is the blogosphere? What is its shape, color, true nature? Blogcount catalogs efforts to answer these questions. We collect and organize the best reports and analyses on this subject. "

The History of Weblogs

Blogumentary: BLOG HISTORY

rebecca blood :: weblogs: a history and perspective

Nielsen//NetRatings Webinar - Blogs and Online Travel

This will be an interesting view on blogging from the leader in online audience measurrement. Should be some great statistics.
Nielsen//NetRatings Webinar - Blogs and Online Travel

Blogebrity

Hilarious list of the A, B and C list bloggers

Experts Urge Caution as Blogging Goes Corporate

4 percent of "major" U.S. companies have publicly available blogs

Rise in blog readership threatens online media stocks

8 million Americans say they have created blogs;
Blog readership rose by 58% in 2004;
27% of internet users say they read blogs;
5% of internet users use RSS readers or aggregators, like My Yahoo!, Bloglines, or Newsfire;
62% of internet users still don't know what a blog is.

Blogging Essay

Great essay on blogging written by http://www.mikel.org/

Sun-Times to kill stock tables

The first big player to cut the stock data tables from the newspaper.

Do Newspapers Have a Future?

Do newspapers have a future? The question has been asked since the advent of the internet -- most recently, by attendees at the World Newspaper Conference in Seoul

Blog Mining Gets Real

"blogs' explosive growth is generating raw data sets that your company really can't afford to ignore"

Blogs build business appeal

Blogs are an effective project management tool for IT managers

Internet the new growth engine for newspapers

"Young readers no longer read print newspapers in the Internet era"

The bloggers have all the best news

Interesting article on politics and blogs focusing on "Rathergate".

•Blog is short for weblog.
•A weblog is usually defined as a personal or noncommercial web site that uses a dated log format (usually with the most recent addition at the top of the page) and contains links to other web sites along with commentary about those sites.
•A Blog is a journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption.
•Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site.

•1993 - “Mosaic’s What’s New Page” launched
–http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/old-whats-new/whats-new-0693.html whats-new/whats-new-0693.html
•1997 - Jorn Barger coins the phrase “weblog” and defines it as a self-published list of links of interest updated frequently with the newest entries at the top
•1998 - 23 official blogs existed
•1999 – Pyra launched Blogger.com allowing an easy to use interface for anyone to start up a blog
•2003 – Google buys Pyra, Blogger.com explodes
•2004 – 2004 US Presidential Campaign creates political “blogmania”

•Blogs do 2 things traditional media can’t
–1, they are personal
–2 they do not need a publisher and an editor
•Blogging is changing the media world and could, I think, foment a revolution in how journalism functions in our culture.
•Blogs get priority ranking on Google as the Google algorithm is based on links from website to website
•“Google Bombing”
•RSS distribution

•Blogs do 2 things traditional media can’t
–1, they are personal
–2 they do not need a publisher and an editor
•Blogging is changing the media world and could, I think, foment a revolution in how journalism functions in our culture.
•Blogs get priority ranking on Google as the Google algorithm is based on links from website to website
•“Google Bombing”
•RSS distribution

•Readership of blogs rose 58% last year
•7% of online users (or about 8 million people) have their own blog
•38% of all Americans online actually know what a blog is.
•4% of major US corporations have blogs available to the public

•Google Directory
–http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/
•Yahoo Directory
–http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Weblogs/
•http://www.weblogs.com/
•http://portal.eatonweb.com/
•http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/
•http://blogdex.net/
•http://www.blogscanada.ca/directory/
•http://www.canada.com/national/features/blogs/index.html

•http://www.popdex.com/
•http://blogs.salon.com/rankings.html
•http://www.technorati.com/live/top100.html
•http://www.blogstreet.com/top100.html

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