Blogging News: Page 76

This is page 76 of the blogging news archives.

Cuban Warns Blogspot.com Bloggers About IceRocket.com Exclusion (August 16, 2005): Mark Cuban calls them splogs and others call them clogs but they are the same thing and create the same problems -- they gum up the works of blog search engines with spam.

Feedster Debuts Top 500 Blog List (August 16, 2005): Feedster has debuted its Feedster 500 List.

10% Of Blog Readers Use Feeds (August 16, 2005): Slighty over ten percent of blog readers use RSS feeds according to a new Nielsen//NetRatings survey.

Can Blogs Make a Love Connection? (August 15, 2005): Can blogs help people find a date? Adam Norris thinks they can.

When Will The Next Gadget Blog Launch? (August 14, 2005): Is the Internet saturated with gadget blogs? At least a month or so has gone by since the last major gadget blog launched -- Gadgetizer launched in late July.

Technorati Sale Rumors Include MySpace and News Corp. (August 12, 2005): Bloggers are posting rumors started by BL Ochman that Technorati is about to be sold.

Time Covers Cyberbullying Issue (August 12, 2005): Time has a new article on the rise of cyberbullying, where kids use the anonymity of the Internet to harass and ridicule other kids.

EatonWeb Portal Relaunches as BlogFlux.com (August 12, 2005): The Eatonweb Portal, which at one time was a popular blog directory, has been relaunched as BlogFlux.

Six Apart Co-founder Mena Trott Sees Blogs Going Mainstream (August 11, 2005): CNN has an interview with Six Apart president and co-founder Mena Trott.

How Steve Rubel Blogs (August 11, 2005): Steve Rubel runs a popular blog called Micropersuasion.

Donald Trump Starts Blogging (August 11, 2005): Donald Trump has started a blog, called The Trump Blog, which provides business and marketing advice.

The Dark Side of Blogs (August 10, 2005): David Sifry, the founder and CEO of Technorati, has a post about the dark side of the blogosphere in his series about the State of the Blogosphere.

Naked Conversation: Blogging the Book (August 8, 2005): Shel Israel and Robert Scoble are blogging a book about blogs and corporate communications called the Naked Conversation.

Study: Just 2% Read Blogs Regularly (August 7, 2005): A Forrester Research survey of 68,664 households found that a mere 2% read blogs once a week or more.

California Auto Club Fires 27 Workers Over Blogs (August 6, 2005): The Associated Press reports that the Automobile Club of Southern California has fired 27 workers for blogs they kept on MySpace.

PR Response Time Must Improve to Keep Up With Blogosphere (August 6, 2005): David Berlind has a good article-sized blog entry on his Between the Lines blog on ZDNet where he talks about writers (bloggers and blogging journalists) taking more risks as the frequency of their writing increases.

Blogger and Reporter Steven Vincent Murdered in Iraq (August 5, 2005): The National Review reports that blogger and journalist Steven Vincent was murdered in Iraq when he and his Iraqi translator, Nour Weidi, were kidnapped.

Clogs Will Be Bad for Blogs (August 5, 2005): David D.

Corporate Blog Tracks Company's Demise (August 4, 2005): In May, Paul Purdue, the president of ecommerce shipping company iFulfill.

Blogs We Would Not Want on a Deserted Island (August 4, 2005): Here is a list of blogs we would not want to be stuck with on a deserted island.