Blogging News: Page 35
This is page 35 of the blogging news archives.
Wikipedia Blogger Pages Being Targeted for Deletion (December 7, 2006): A war against blogs is being waged at Wikipedia.
Microsoft's RSS Blog Pranked For Hotlinking Flickr Photo Without Proper Attribution (December 6, 2006): Tom Bishop, who blogs for the Seattle-PI, blogs that a post on Microsoft's RSS Blog temporarily contained a modified Goatse image before it was removed.
Japanese Group Wants YouTube to Take Preemptive Action To Stop Copyright Violations (December 6, 2006): The International Herald Tribune (IHT) is reporting that a Japanese entertainment group wants YouTube to develop a system to stop users from uploading copyright infringing videos.
GigaOm Network Launches NewTeeVee (December 5, 2006): GigaOM has launched a new blog covering online video called NewTeeVee.
Yahoo and Reuters Seek Photobloggers (December 4, 2006): The New York Times is reporting that Yahoo and Reuters are launching a service centered around photographs and videos submitted by the general public.
Sploggers and Marketers Targeting Digg (December 4, 2006): The bigger the social media websites or memediggers like Digg and Reddit get the more spam and cheat tools they attract.
How To Buy Fake MySpace Friends and Influence People (December 3, 2006): Wired's Monkey Bites blog explains how you can buy "hottie" MySpace friends for $.
Big Brother UK Moves Auditions Online (December 3, 2006): The UK's Channel 4 is moving the auditions for Big Brother UK online to its e4.
Blogging is a Social Activity in Asia (December 2, 2006): Digital Media Asia reports on a new study that finds blogging is a social phenomenon in Asia.
Current TV Possibly Exiting Yahoo (December 2, 2006): Current TV, a cable channel founded by Al Gore, appears to be ending its content distribution deal with Yahoo Video.
Will Social Media Destroy Western Civilization? (December 1, 2006): The title of this post sounds like a strange question to ask but Andy Rutledge has a post about how social media can be boring, mediocre and possibly even civilization ending.
Paparazzi Agencies Team Up to Sue Perez Hilton (November 30, 2006): TMZ.
Huffington Post Hiring Reporters (November 30, 2006): The Huffington Post has hired Melinda Henneberger, a former Newsweek reporter, and plans to hire additional journalists according to a New York Times article.
CNET and TechCrunch in Cross-Snipe (November 29, 2006): A snarky post on CNET by CNET's Caroline McCarthy said that TechCrunch needs a copy editor because a Crunchnotes post misspelled BitTorrent in the headline.
Pulitzer Now Allows Blog Submissions (November 28, 2006): New guidelines for the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes allow the submission of a blogs.
Monitoring High Priority Feeds for Breaking News (November 28, 2006): Marshall Kirkpatrick, who is leaving TechCrunch on good terms, is blogging about ZapTxt, a tool that makes it easier to monitor feeds using specific keywords.
LiveJournal Blogging Group Despises Rachael Ray (November 27, 2006): Rachael Ray gets frequent mentions in the blogosphere -- she receives about 50 too 100 mentions a day according to a Technorati chart.
BlogMedia Now ProBlogging, Inc. (November 26, 2006): BlogMedia, the publisher of the The Blog Herald, has announced that they are changing the company's name from BlogMedia, Inc.
Using Graphics in Blog Posts (November 25, 2006): Creating Passionate Users has a great post about how to incorporate graphics into your blog posts to make them more interesting and more informative.
Third World Job: Human Captcha Filler (November 25, 2006): If you think captchas are going to save blogs from comment spam you might be wrong.