http://www.blogospherenews.com Blogosphere News votes Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:54:06 PDT en http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Pingdom_adds_FREE_website_monitoring http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Pingdom_adds_FREE_website_monitoring Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:54:06 PDT Web Services http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Pingdom_adds_FREE_website_monitoring We have exciting news to share. As you may have noticed, we made some changes to the Pingdom website yesterday, and the main thing we added was a new account type that many of you are going to love: Pingdom Free.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Twitter_Blog_May_The_Tweets_Be_With_You http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Twitter_Blog_May_The_Tweets_Be_With_You Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:53:32 PDT Web Services http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Twitter_Blog_May_The_Tweets_Be_With_You The ecosystem growing around Twitter is something we very much believe in nourishing and supporting. There are lots of really awesome services and applications out there like TweetDeck, TweetMeme, Tweetie, BackTweets, Tweetboard, and others that we absolutely love as do many users. However, as the

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Day_one_-_gdgt http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Day_one_-_gdgt Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:52:53 PDT Blogging News http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Day_one_-_gdgt Wow. We hoped people would stop by and check out the site, but we really had no idea the sheer force the internet would bring to gdgt. Of course, we were up and down during the first few hours after we went live yesterday (hey, it wouldn't be a proper launch without a little downtime, right?), but

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Themes_are_GPL_too http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Themes_are_GPL_too Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:52:16 PDT Themes and Templates http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Themes_are_GPL_too If WordPress were a country, our Bill of Rights would be the GPL because it protects our core freedoms. We've always done our best to keep WordPress.org clean and only promote things that are completely compatible and legal with WordPress's license. There have been some questions in the community a

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=CBS_Poaches_Top_Gawker_Writer http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=CBS_Poaches_Top_Gawker_Writer Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:51:36 PDT Blogging News http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=CBS_Poaches_Top_Gawker_Writer Gawker's most popular writer Richard Lawson is going to CBS Interactive to write for TV.com, we've heard from a couple sources (including Richard).

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Three_Wordpress_alternatives_for_your_blog http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Three_Wordpress_alternatives_for_your_blog Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:42:23 PDT Blog Software http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Three_Wordpress_alternatives_for_your_blog I wasn't what you would call an "early adopter" of Wordpress. In fact, I sometimes feel like I was one of the last to make the switch from Movable Type, which I loved and recommended to anyone who asked me what a blog was (yes, those were the days). Today, of course, over 90% of the work I do is on

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Twitter_Following_Interface_Changes http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Twitter_Following_Interface_Changes Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:52:23 PDT Web Services http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Twitter_Following_Interface_Changes Twitter has added a couple of neat features to your Following List interface. Now you can see the most recent tweets, a straight list as before, and more with a contextual menu to the side.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Twitter_your_Flickr http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Twitter_your_Flickr Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:52:23 PDT Web Services http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Twitter_your_Flickr Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! We've launched our Flickr2Twitter integration. Share your Flickr content either via "upload by email" or feature existing Flickr content in your Twitter stream.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Sam_Sethi_The_Lawsuit http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Sam_Sethi_The_Lawsuit Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:52:23 PDT Blogging News http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Sam_Sethi_The_Lawsuit Many of you know all about Sam Sethi, the former TechCrunch writer who left after a disagreement and then went on to create BlogNation. Two days ago Sethi filed a lawsuit against us for libel and other issues. As we always do, we're posting the litigation threats and will continue to fight the liti

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=One_lucky_blogger_will_get_to_write_from_Antarctica http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=One_lucky_blogger_will_get_to_write_from_Antarctica Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:52:23 PDT Blogging News http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=One_lucky_blogger_will_get_to_write_from_Antarctica Antarctica: Another natural wonder is about to be blogged. Following on from the lucky Brit who gets to blog about the Great Barrier Reef comes a new dream blogging job.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=6_Things_I_Learned_from_WordCamp_Dallas http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=6_Things_I_Learned_from_WordCamp_Dallas Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:52:23 PDT Contests, Events, Conferences http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=6_Things_I_Learned_from_WordCamp_Dallas WordCamp 2009 is officially in the books. With two and a half days of some of the best community, speakers and information, it was an incredible event. Over the course of the weekend, I saw some of the best blogging-related presentations, met many of the most wonderful people in the blogging world

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=TPB_might_change_owner http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=TPB_might_change_owner Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:52:23 PDT Blogging News http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=TPB_might_change_owner Yes, it's true. News reached the press today in Sweden - The Pirate Bay might get aquired by Global Gaming Factory X AB. A lot of people are worried. We're not and you shouldn't be either!

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Review_Winners_Circle_Membership_Program http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Review_Winners_Circle_Membership_Program Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:52:23 PDT Web Services http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Review_Winners_Circle_Membership_Program With numerous educational websites offering mentoring programs and promising to help business oriented people make money on the internet today, it can be quite a challenge choosing which one is right for your needs. First time entrepreneurs in the internet business can be overwhelmed with the wealt

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=A_call_for_ldquopassionaterdquo_bloggers http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=A_call_for_ldquopassionaterdquo_bloggers Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:18:50 PDT Blogging News http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=A_call_for_ldquopassionaterdquo_bloggers Care2, Inc. recently put out a very, shall we say, peculiar ad. The company is looking for what it calls "passionate" bloggers to write for millions of "passionate" readers with their blogs. With such a frequent use of the word "passionate" I was beginning to think it may be included in the blog or

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Would_You_Withhold_Information_If_It_Meant_Saving_a_Life http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Would_You_Withhold_Information_If_It_Meant_Saving_a_Life Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:07:04 PDT Blogging News http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Would_You_Withhold_Information_If_It_Meant_Saving_a_Life A lot of bloggers tend to be trigger happy with publishing information. There's always the desire to be the first to post about breaking news, especially if it's fresh and yet unpublished by the more mainstream news sources. Bloggers and editors of new media publications take pride in this. But h

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Making_money_with_Amazon_even_if_you_miss_the_direct_sale http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Making_money_with_Amazon_even_if_you_miss_the_direct_sale Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:44:13 PDT Promotion, Marketing, SEO, Advertising, Monetization http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Making_money_with_Amazon_even_if_you_miss_the_direct_sale Until recently, I'd almost given up on being an Amazon affiliate. It wasn't necessarily hard to get people to click on links but they rarely seemed to buy what I was offering them.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Its_Official_I_am_Moving_from_Blogging_to_Lifestreaming http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Its_Official_I_am_Moving_from_Blogging_to_Lifestreaming Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:44:13 PDT Blogging News http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Its_Official_I_am_Moving_from_Blogging_to_Lifestreaming Posterous continuous to get insanely useful. They just added auto-posting today to YouTube and Friendfeed. This continuous pipeline of innovation, plus some great advice I got from my friends Stowe Boyd (we talked about Flow when I was in Germany), Jeremiah Owyang (we discussed daily publishing in

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Movable_Type_Monday_Melody_Installation_and_Edit_Links http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Movable_Type_Monday_Melody_Installation_and_Edit_Links Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:44:13 PDT Blog Software http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Movable_Type_Monday_Melody_Installation_and_Edit_Links Happy Monday, folks! The big news this week is the launch of Melody, an open source fork of Movable Type. Several long-time MT developers are contributing to the project, and a 1.0 release is expected this year.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Michael_Jackson__Share_Your_Memories__Michael_Jackson_Video_and_Michael_Jackson_Music http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Michael_Jackson__Share_Your_Memories__Michael_Jackson_Video_and_Michael_Jackson_Music Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:44:13 PDT Blogging News http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Michael_Jackson__Share_Your_Memories__Michael_Jackson_Video_and_Michael_Jackson_Music Remembering Michael Jackson. Share your memory.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Become_a_Blogger_course_reopens_for_five_days_only http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Become_a_Blogger_course_reopens_for_five_days_only Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:44:13 PDT Blogging News http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Become_a_Blogger_course_reopens_for_five_days_only Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick's premium "Become a Blogger" course has reopened to new signups for five days only (less at time of writing).

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Reviewing_the_Reviewers_The_Blog_is_Alive_and_Kicking http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Reviewing_the_Reviewers_The_Blog_is_Alive_and_Kicking Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:44:13 PDT Blogging News http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Reviewing_the_Reviewers_The_Blog_is_Alive_and_Kicking The blog is alive and kicking, if nothing else but because it is hard to pick critics and arguments to pieces in 140 characters or less.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Social_Media_Tip_in_Photos_Placement_People http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Social_Media_Tip_in_Photos_Placement_People Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:01:20 PDT Blog Design http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Social_Media_Tip_in_Photos_Placement_People Dear friends, next time you involve your brand in a social media campaign, you can do well by heeding a simple guideline - make your social media easily apparent on your site.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Back_to_Basics_4_Forehead-Slapping_Blog_Promotion_Methods http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Back_to_Basics_4_Forehead-Slapping_Blog_Promotion_Methods Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:59:26 PDT Promotion, Marketing, SEO, Advertising, Monetization http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Back_to_Basics_4_Forehead-Slapping_Blog_Promotion_Methods Ever feel frustrated by the difficulty of promoting your blog and getting more people to discover and enjoy it? Well, here are four of the simplest - but, wouldn't you know it, also hardest - ways to promote your blog. See if one or more of these makes you slap your forehead and say, "Snap! I to

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=6_Important_Considerations_in_Choosing_a_Good_Domain_Name http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=6_Important_Considerations_in_Choosing_a_Good_Domain_Name Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:59:26 PDT Tutorials and Tips http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=6_Important_Considerations_in_Choosing_a_Good_Domain_Name When setting up your website one of the most important aspects will be to choose a domain name. It's that domain name that will stick with you for the lifetime of your site. You can change the template, change the purpose of the site, fire a designer, hire a designer, but you just cannot change

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=What_the_Michael_Jackson__TMZ_news_timing_teaches_us_about_credibility http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=What_the_Michael_Jackson__TMZ_news_timing_teaches_us_about_credibility Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:44:49 PDT Blogging News http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=What_the_Michael_Jackson__TMZ_news_timing_teaches_us_about_credibility Over the next few days, I think we'll see a lot of people claiming that "old media" is irrelevant because it took over half an hour for them to confirm Michael Jackson's death after it was posted on TMZ. These people are wrong.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Beautiful_Examples_of_Interactive_Backgrounds http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Beautiful_Examples_of_Interactive_Backgrounds Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:44:49 PDT Blog Design http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Beautiful_Examples_of_Interactive_Backgrounds Backgrounds are so called for a reason. They're meant to support and complement instead of attract and distract. This week's featured sites, however, provide a whole other level of interactivity and usefulness to backgrounds. You decide if they're a good idea or not. Either way, they're interesting

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Has_TweetDeck_Found_a_Business_Model_Launches_Blink-182_Themed_Version http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Has_TweetDeck_Found_a_Business_Model_Launches_Blink-182_Themed_Version Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:44:49 PDT Web Services http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Has_TweetDeck_Found_a_Business_Model_Launches_Blink-182_Themed_Version We have often wondered how an application like TweetDeck or Seesmic could make money from their efforts. Tweetdeck, after all, is the most popular desktop Twitter client, yet it doesn't feature any advertising or pro versions, so providing customized versions of the app to bands and brands seems l

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=MashDeck_Launches_The_Mashable_Twitter_Desktop_App http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=MashDeck_Launches_The_Mashable_Twitter_Desktop_App Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:44:49 PDT Web Services http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=MashDeck_Launches_The_Mashable_Twitter_Desktop_App To help you out, we've teamed up with TweetDeck, the makers of the most popular Twitter desktop client, to create a custom version of their excellent software. MashDeck was created with two groups in mind:

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Fixing_the_Twitter_Reply_Black_Hole http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Fixing_the_Twitter_Reply_Black_Hole Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:44:49 PDT Web Services http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Fixing_the_Twitter_Reply_Black_Hole Do you agree that Twitter made a mistake with this change or do you prefer to only see replies to people you are already following? Please share your thoughts in the comments.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Blogging_in_the_Classroom-1 http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Blogging_in_the_Classroom-1 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:44:49 PDT Blog Software http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Blogging_in_the_Classroom-1 As you would image, computers - and blogs - have crept their way into the classroom. One of the cooler sites is 21Classes. Designed to get your "classroom" blogging, the publishing platform enables teachers, with any level of technology know-how, to set up a portal for their classes.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Welcome_to_a_More_Personal_Home_for_Darren_Rowse http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Welcome_to_a_More_Personal_Home_for_Darren_Rowse Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:15:28 PDT Blogging News http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Welcome_to_a_More_Personal_Home_for_Darren_Rowse Welcome to DarrenRowse.com I've had this domain for quite a few years now but have never done much more than forward it to one of my other blogs.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Reuters_editor_calls_for_reform_of_Olympics_accreditation http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Reuters_editor_calls_for_reform_of_Olympics_accreditation Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:13:32 PDT Blogging News http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Reuters_editor_calls_for_reform_of_Olympics_accreditation The rules governing who can report from the Olympic Games are outdated in the age of Twitter, Reuters editor-in-chief David Schlesinger has told the event's organisers.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Habitat_blasted_by_Twitter_users_for_using_Iran_election_tag http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Habitat_blasted_by_Twitter_users_for_using_Iran_election_tag Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:13:32 PDT Blogging News http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Habitat_blasted_by_Twitter_users_for_using_Iran_election_tag Furniture chain Habitat has been accused of taking advantage of the protests in Iran to market its spring collection on Twitter.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Corrections_in_the_digital_editions_of_Free http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Corrections_in_the_digital_editions_of_Free Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:13:32 PDT Blogging News http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Corrections_in_the_digital_editions_of_Free As some of you may have seen, VQR rightly spotted that I failed to cite Wikipedia in some passages in Free. This is entirely my own screwup, and will be corrected in the ebook and digital forms before publication (and in the notes, which will be posted online at the same time the hardcover is relea

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Is_WordPress-com_Bad_for_WordPress http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Is_WordPress-com_Bad_for_WordPress Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:13:32 PDT Blog Software http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Is_WordPress-com_Bad_for_WordPress I see this confusion occasionally too in my forum and in conversations. Not a lot but enough that I know it is a problem, and I also know that the "WordPress is for non-commercial" meme has spread far and wide …

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=-Me_The_New_Domain_on_the_Block http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=-Me_The_New_Domain_on_the_Block Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:13:32 PDT Web Services http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=-Me_The_New_Domain_on_the_Block Shortly after Montenegro gained independence in June of 2006, the ISO 3165 Maintenance Agency assigned the emerging nation the country code "ME." By submitting an application to the IANA to have .Me designated as the country's top-level domain (TLD), the Government of Montenegro took its most im

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Return_of_Fake_Steve_Is_a_Vote_of_Confidence_in_Real_Steve http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Return_of_Fake_Steve_Is_a_Vote_of_Confidence_in_Real_Steve Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:13:32 PDT Blogging News http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Return_of_Fake_Steve_Is_a_Vote_of_Confidence_in_Real_Steve Fake Steve Jobs is back. Dan Lyons, author of the piercingly funny satire blog, insists his return may be temporary. But he wouldn't be having this much fun with Jobs' illness if he still worried about the Apple CEO's death.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=iPhone_Twittelator_Pro_Makes_Tweet_Casting_Possible_Audio_And_Video_Now_Included http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=iPhone_Twittelator_Pro_Makes_Tweet_Casting_Possible_Audio_And_Video_Now_Included Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:01:14 PDT Web Services http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=iPhone_Twittelator_Pro_Makes_Tweet_Casting_Possible_Audio_And_Video_Now_Included While most Tweet apps like Tweetie, Twitterfon, etc. support image uploading (via services like Twitpic and TweetPhoto.com), Twittelator goes one step further by allowing users to attach an audio message or even video to their tweet, a feature that may not make the mullahs in Iran very happy.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=People_donrsquot_know_what_a_web_browser_is_but_first_IE_Firefox__Opera_updates http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=People_donrsquot_know_what_a_web_browser_is_but_first_IE_Firefox__Opera_updates Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:59:16 PDT Blogging News http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=People_donrsquot_know_what_a_web_browser_is_but_first_IE_Firefox__Opera_updates All the new browser updates seem to be coming out at the same time, which definitely keeps the competition interesting. But while you continue to scoff at IE, gush over Firefox, and smile nervously at Opera, Chrome, and Safari, have you heard that ordinary computer users don't actually know what a

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Twitter_Comes_of_Age_With_Iranian_Election http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Twitter_Comes_of_Age_With_Iranian_Election Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:59:16 PDT Blogging News http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Twitter_Comes_of_Age_With_Iranian_Election Having watched the unfolding of news and events following the election in Iran, Twitter has won my renewed respect. Simply put, it helped bring truth to power.

1 Vote(s)