Blogging News: Page 57

This is page 57 of the blogging news archives.

Blogger Ben Domenech Resigns From Washington Post in Plagiarism Scandal (March 24, 2006): Blogger Ben Domenech, a co-founder of the RedState blog, has resigned from his new gig as the blogger of The Washington Post's new conservative blog called Red America.

Blog Offers Inside Look at Anthropology and Chimpanzees (March 23, 2006): The Harvard Gazette reports on a blog by anthropologist Ian Gilby that offers readers an inside look at the life of an anthropologist in the field.

Scrapblog Site Combines Blogs and Scrapbooks (March 23, 2006): Designtechnica reports that Scrapblog, LLC has launched Scrapblog, a free service that combines blogging and scrapbooking.

It's Hard Out Here for a Blog Pimp (March 23, 2006): Darla Mack has a post called Pimp My Blog - Do You Have The Right To Republish? where she complains about an aggregator that has republished content from her blog and dozens of other mobile news blogs without asking and without proper linkbacks.

Fat Man Walking and Blogging (March 22, 2006): So far Steve Vaught has traveled 2,300 miles and lost over 110 pounds on his journey to lose weight by walking across the United States from San Diego to Rockefeller Plaza in New York City.

Clooneygate Comes to an End (March 22, 2006): The Associated Press attempts to make sense of the Great Arianna Huffington-George Clooney Blogging Disaster.

Blogs Blamed for Iraq War? (March 21, 2006): Georgie Anne Geyer has an opinion piece on Yahoo News where she appears to blame blogs for the Iraq War.

Those Lazy Snark Blogs (March 21, 2006): Darren Rowse at ProBlogger has posted a response to a recent post by Scobleizer.

Google Finance Includes Blog Posts (March 21, 2006): Google has launched Google Finance, a financial resource with stock quotes, stock charts, news, company facts, and company financials.

The Bloggiest Newspapers (March 21, 2006): Pressthink has a feature on the best blogging newspapers in the U.

Google's Blogger Staff Beats and Humiliates Bad Router (March 20, 2006): Google's Blogger service has beaten a bad router as an example and a warning to other potentially malfunctioning hardware.

Journalists and Blogging Pay (March 20, 2006): Stephen Baker at BlogSpotting has asked whether he should be compensated for writing BlogSpotting for BusinessWeek while on unpaid leave.

The Guardian's Comment is Free Blog Has 200+ Contributors (March 19, 2006): The Guardian's Comment is Free website is off to a quick start.

Arianna Huffington Offers Apology (March 18, 2006): Arianna Huffington has posted an apology for not sourcing the controversial George Clooney blog post (more on that post here and here.

Today's Employers Are Googling Employees (March 18, 2006): Yahoo has an article from Business Week that looks at how employers are Googling employees.

Donald Rumsfeld: History is Not Made Up of Blogs (March 18, 2006): The Washington Post has a quote from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld where he says he prefers history over what blogs, news headlines and websites are saying about the situation in Iraq.

Journalists and Compensation for Blogging (March 17, 2006): MarketWatch.

Gawker's Stalker Maps Provide Celebrity Sightings (March 17, 2006): We've posted before about the blogarazzi and it looks like they are here for real now with Gawker's launch of Gawker Stalker maps.

Kids Blogging Service Raises $6 Million (March 17, 2006): Industrious Kid has raised $6 million in funding to develop and promote its family blogging service which it bills as a safe alternative to MySpace.

K-Fed Has More MySpace Friends Than Chris Pirillo (March 16, 2006): Chris Pirillo, a blogger, technologist and founder and publisher of LockerGnome.