Blogs

Jakarta Post - As of November 2006, blog search engine Technorati was tracking nearly 60 million blogs around the globe. There are over 175,000 new blogs (only blogs) every day. Bloggers update their blogs regularly to the tune of over 1.6 million postings per day

Confessions of a Dissident
Wired - Bloggers with spare server capacity tag an entry “adoptablog” or “adoptachineseblog” so Chinese people looking for a foreign host can find one through Technorati or del.icio.us . My own cat-and-mouse game with the government is never-ending. Soon after

PayPerPost Unveils Gaggle of New Blog Ad Offerings
MarketingVOX - The firm is hoping to woo high-profile networks by automating a system that ranks - and ultimately rewards - bloggers per measurements determined by Google, Technorati and Alexa. The more traffic a blog garners, the higher-priced the ad placement

How To: Optimize Your Web Site
Wired - David L. Sifry , founder and CEO of Technorati, keeps tabs on more than 45 million weblogs. Here’s his advice for cracking his site’s Top 100 list. 1) React quickly. Commentators like Andrew Sullivan and Michelle Malkin draw megatraffic with

Practically Paradise
School Library Journal - I explored several sources on patriotism including wikipedia, the fantastic website by Annette Lamb and Jerry Johson , sites like USA Patriotism with tons of listings of songs, speeches, poems, essays and shops, and technorati’s version of everything in

Search Engine News
Search Engine Watch - Another place you might find useful is technorati.com. This search engine is highly focused on things such as links pointing to your Web site. Technorati refers to this as “reactions.” Try typing your domain directly into the Technorati search box

A) Do you love polls, or b) are you weird?
Los Angeles Times - Whether we’re tracking trends on Technorati.com or answering the question “Are farts funny?” (70% of respondents on a sports fan website say yes), polls let us see that, no matter what our opinions, there are always a few other folks sharing our tiny

Hide and Speak: WordPress for Content Management
Search Engine Guide - One of my favorite “bonus” options of WordPress is the fact that it logs incoming links from Technorati on the home page of the admin panel. That meant that each time Abigail or I logged in, we could spot the latest incoming links from other bloggers

slate fare
Slate - And the “most-blogged” ranking tells you not only which Slate articles have the most buzz in the blogosphere, but also lets you tap in, via Technorati , to the conversation about them elsewhere on the Web (we’ll soon be adding Technorati links to our

International Herald Tribune - Technorati, which was started to monitor the blogosphere, says that 37 percent of all blog postings globally in the fourth quarter of 2006 were in Japanese, compared with 36 percent for English. Other languages, like Chinese, Spanish and Italian, have

Mitt Romney s Osama Obama Political Stumble
The Moderate Voice - Just read memorandum or this link to Technorati and you ll see how this has become a big issue. And, of course, Romney s campaign has had to put a band aid on this quickly. TPM Cafe: This obviously invited the question: Was it appropriate for Mitt

PayPerPost Unveils Gaggle of New Blog Ad Offerings
MarketingVOX - The firm is hoping to woo high-profile networks by automating a system that ranks - and ultimately rewards - bloggers per measurements determined by Google, Technorati and Alexa. The more traffic a blog garners, the higher-priced the ad placement

Search Engine News
Search Engine Watch - Permalink Surf With Technorati Unlike the RSS search engines above, you can’t keyword search at Technorati . Nevertheless, there’s a lot to like from this wonderful site that launched earlier this year as a blog discovery and analysis tool. Enter

Awareness, Inc., Formerly iUpload, Strengthens Position as Leader in
Forbes - The new community participation features in Awareness Summer 2007 bring many of the consumer social media services popularized by companies such as Facebook, Flickr, Del.icio.us, Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, Technorati and LinkedIn to the enterprise

Frank Talk on Finances
US News and World Report - Only about 55 percent of all blogs have been updated even once in the past three months, according to Technorati, a company that tracks 63 million blogs. The rest are either neglected or abandoned. Many people write enthusiastically for the first

Niche search engines emerge in the shadow of Google
International Herald Tribune - Technorati, which was started to monitor the blogosphere, in May introduced an “integrated search” that includes Flickr photos, YouTube videos, music, podcasts, events and blog posts all on one page. Technorati maintains that even though Google’s new

Confessions of a Dissident
Wired - Bloggers with spare server capacity tag an entry “adoptablog” or “adoptachineseblog” so Chinese people looking for a foreign host can find one through Technorati or del.icio.us . My own cat-and-mouse game with the government is never-ending. Soon after

WaPo Blog Network Gets First Category Sponsor: Lufthansa
MarketingVOX - The ads are standard display units, not rich media. WaPo has added several Web 2.0 features in the last several months, including displaying Technorati links to its stories and signing on bloggers to provide commentary or feeds that display on the

Corporate Liberalism
News Busters - Over 15,000 hits came up for my “loose change” search on Technorati , while over 600 hits came up when I looked for “Virgin Airlines” on the blog search site. Hundreds of thousands of potential airline passengers are not worth messing with, after all.

Guardian Unlimited - plenty more that are not so hot, lucky to get 10 page views a week. Then there is Xu Jinglei’s blog, which can pull in visitors at a rate of more than 100 every second. The Chinese actor-director has been declared the world’s most widely read blogger

Latest from the
Stateline - For Michael Brodkorb, a Republican activist and blogger, the GOP needs to think about the post-Bush era and should put its sights on Pawlenty. I think he s a rock star.

CoolCop Beats the Heat
ABC News - Despite the drone of skepticism among some military experts, a contributing editor to Wired magazine and Danger Room blogger, Noah Shackman, became a believer after testing out the device at Stanford. “They put me in hot room, where I ran uphill on a

It s a party and everyone s invited
Times Online - But even the keenest Prommer struggles to articulate exactly what it is that draws them to this great summer tradition. The Proms drag me in, says one man, while Jon Jacob, a Facebook Proms blogger no less, explains: I feel as though the

Groups continue to put heat on BET
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - The NAACP, the National Organization for Women, the African American Episcopal Church, the National Coalition for Black Civic Participation, Rainbow PUSH and the National Congress of Black Women have joined Austin, Texas, attorney and blogger Gina

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Move Over MySpace, Sites Mean Business
Newsday - The same technology that lets members of social networking Web sites share blogs, photos, music and video has gained popularity among businesses. Not only have big technology companies such as Cisco Systems Inc. bought firms that design social

Strawberry query stirs mystery
Rocky Mountain News - I’ve seen gooseberries only in pictures, and although I know them as ingredients, I’ve never seen fresh boysenberries, loganberries or currants for sale. How come? - Janet Have an answer? Post it on the Ask! blog, blogs.RockyMountain News.com/denver

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Rockford Register-Star - LOVES PARK Dan Forsman thought he was going to tie the course record and finish second. Instead, he set the record and tied for first. Forsman and Ken Duke each shot 9-under-par 63 Monday at Forest Hills Country Club to be co-champs of the 31st

CNET News - Perez Hilton caught canoodling with TV exec at trendy Vegas nightclub? Not exactly. But the sharp-tongued celebrity gossip blogger has apparently been meeting with someone over at VH1. Sporting bright orange hair, Hilton (real name: Mario Lavandeira

News Blog: Posts tagged nonprofits
CNET News - Today, Google is opening up its educational tier of Google Apps to nonprofit organizations within the United States. Registered 501c3 nonprofits will be able to use and deploy the educational version of Google Apps, which gives organizations

News Blog: Posts tagged piracy
CNET News - So here’s a few tidbits from my notebooks at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference that didn’t make it into our stories from Denver . In addition to talking about some potential new business models for Office, corporate VP Chris Capossela also

News Blog: Posts by Jennifer Guevin
CNET News - Perez Hilton caught canoodling with TV exec at trendy Vegas nightclub? Not exactly. But the sharp-tongued celebrity gossip blogger has apparently been meeting with someone over at VH1. Sporting bright orange hair, Hilton (real name: Mario Lavandeira

News Blog: Posts tagged NTEN
CNET News - Today, Google is opening up its educational tier of Google Apps to nonprofit organizations within the United States. Registered 501c3 nonprofits will be able to use and deploy the educational version of Google Apps, which gives organizations

News Blog: Posts by Josh Wolf
CNET News - Josh Wolf is a journalist, an activist, and a life-long troublemaker. Having spent 226 days in jail to protect his work product, he knows first hand that a free press doesn’t come cheap. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network . Love the new iPhone

July 14 Rocky Barker’s blog: Media gets more access this year at Allen
Idaho Statesman - If you are watching the Allen and Co. shindig in Sun Valley from afar here are a few reports from within. The 200 power players at Herbert Allen s retreat are getting in the news more than usual this year. The press apparently is mingling with the

Maryland Daily Record - Have you ever had one of those Kafkaesque nightmares, or seen a movie where someone is convicted of a crime and sent to prison even though he didn t commit the crime? Well, some people, no doubt, have suffered that fate. Others, no doubt, think

Los Angeles Daily News - SANTA CLARITA - Even in this community, featured repeatedly in films and television shows for its quaint suburban attributes, the days of chatting over neighbors’ white picket fences are nearly extinct. But several residents have decided to bring

cnet is supposed to be news, not a blog
CNET News - Blogs are for opinions and information that for one reason or another doesn’t get provided by the mainstream. News sources are supposed to be for high quality, rigorously written and checked information. Why is a blog like this being presented on

PC World - How big is the blogosphere? In April the blog search engine Technorati reported that it was tracking 70 million blogs, with 120,000 new ones arriving every day. In such a huge universe, the signal-to-noise ratio is bound to be daunting, but we’ll

Corporate Liberalism
News Busters - Over 15,000 hits came up for my “loose change” search on Technorati , while over 600 hits came up when I looked for “Virgin Airlines” on the blog search site. Hundreds of thousands of potential airline passengers are not worth messing with, after all.

Slimebuckets, pollution and web conservation Calacanis-style
The Inquirer - That’s what Technorati is doing now - because they index everything and anything, they promote garbage, so there’s an incentive for people to keep creating it.” Which isn’t to say that search is totally broken. “Search advertising,” he enthuses

Perk for U.S. Apple workers: free iPhone
Silicon Valley - prepare strategies to compete with AT&T Getting the iPhone Accessorizers join iPhone rush; domain copycats pop up The technorati on Apple employees will be a getting a nice perk next month: a free iPhone. At the end of July, the company will be handing

Who matters now?
CNN Money - That all-business approach comes straight from the hyperlinked Hoffman’s sideline as an angel investor backing today’s hottest startups, including Facebook, Flickr, Digg, and Technorati. View all candidates Tell us who you think matters now — and why

Your local news source ::
Chicago Sun-Times - http://technorati.com/tag/iPhone For the latest word on what people are blogging about the iPhone, visit this site. Links are provided to rated blogs

Five ways to defeat blog trolls and cyberstalkers
Computerworld - The difference is, with 70 million blogs in existence today and 1.4 new blogs created every second, according to blog search engine Technorati Inc. , there are just more people participating in online discussions, and “the more crazy people you’ve got

Sign up for the Gamasutra Daily Newsletter!
Gamasutra - There Is No Going Back Now [06.25.07] Following two earlier columns on the subject, video game PR professional Duane Brown takes a final look at public relations for games, discussing the use of Technorati, trends tools, and more to ‘monitor, analyze

Ron Paul: How a Fringe Politician Took Over the Web
Wired News - According to Technorati , ” Ron Paul ” is one of the web’s most searched-for terms. News about Paul has an outsize presence on Digg and reddit , two sites that allow users to highlight their preferred content. Paul’s YouTube channel has been viewed over

Buffalo News - Buffalo News readers are passionate about the Sabres. The Sabres Edge blog had more than 36,000 visitors on Monday. Here is a cross-section of reader comments left on the blog. A few were edited to remove responses to postings that are not included

Maddon won’t let losing get him down
St. Petersburg Times - this young man to be a member of a championship starting rotation. I’d just never seen that before.” Apparently, he’s seeing a lot of things differently. Marc Topkin can be reached at topkin@sptimes.com or (727) 893- 8801. View his blog at blogs

Is there a right age for children to travel?
MSNBC - It was expensive, they were cranky and we said next time we’d go without them,” said Hohlbaum, who lives in Germany and blogs about life as an American stay-at-home mom abroad at http://diaryofamother.blogs.com. Despite - or maybe because of - the

The rush to review - Blogs changing way newspapers handle movie
Johnson City Press - LOS ANGELES Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix does not open in theaters in the United States and Europe until Wednesday, but the reviews are already rolling in. The Times of London posted a not-quite-rave on its Web site hours after

Blogosphere Rumbles with Libby Aftershocks
NPR News - Although the responses from conservative sites like National Review Online or liberal blogs like Daily Kos could probably have been written in advance, there are also a few more thoughtful opinions out there. Orin Kerr at The Volokh Conspiracy wonders

Free For All
Egypt Today - Others, though, just hopped online to see the whole thing. Mere hours after Hussein dropped through the trapdoor of his gallows, mobile-phone footage of the execution made its rounds on Egyptian and Arab weblogs, or blogs, as they re better known.

I’ve got lots of questions, all I need now are answers
St. Petersburg Times - Tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth so help you God. I read the newspaper, I watch television, I read the blogs and I get more e-mail than I can scrutinize. I know to take all the e-mail warnings and urban legends to the fact

Scientific American Launches Innovative New Version of Magazine
Forbes - Scientific American’s website already offers podcasts, video and blogs, as well as stand-alone articles and news, and the reengineered print version will help drive more traffic to those online features. The July issue includes new advertisers, and

How Conservatives Enhanced Online Voice
Wall Street Journal - Meanwhile, many of the most popular talk-radio hosts are now posting on blogs, and the frequent collaboration of the two media is creating a unified conservative voice that is likely to be an important factor in the 2008 elections. One example: Fred

Ananova - Greg Packer, who has set up a website at firstinline.wordpress.com, said: “I’m an Apple fan but I don’t have an iPod and I don’t have a Mac. “I want to see how it works. It’s supposed to be everything in one.” The iPhone will enable up to eight hours

News Blog: Posts tagged blog
CNET News - It’s a very successful product as well, and has as its customers several large blogs and many corporations that use it for both internal blogs and external sites. Six Apart’s hosted blogging service (its counterpart to WordPress.com) is TypePad .

Read up on blogs, then start your own
Los Angeles Times - There are free services, such as WordPress (wordpress.com) where you can create a simple test blog. “We tell clients who are completely new to blogging that an hour spent creating a blog from scratch, and writing a few simple posts, will very quickly

Category: Google
ZDNet.be Blogs - So after doing some Photoshop/Illustrator work to make a new “theme” for the blog, I went into WordPress to do just a few tiny changes. Now I’m relatively new to WordPress. I use it on ZDNet to write each day, but I don’t have to manage it or handle

Ad software maker girds to take on Google
ZDNet - It is popular with users of other open-source content management systems, including Drupal and WordPress blogging software. The community-based project turned 10-employee start-up relies on an open series of discussion boards to service its customers

Intel, Asustek Aim to Compete with OLPC
MobileMag - Wordpress Blogging Goes Mobile with AdMob - posted on Friday April 27, 2007 1:36 PM CDT Sony Tackles YouTube with PSP-Compatible eyeVio - posted on Friday April 27, 2007 1:27 PM CDT Keyport Stores Six Keys in Lighter-Sized Gadget - posted on Friday April

ad:tech London handed Digital Marketing Manifesto by Hamburg steering
PR Inside - 21 June 2007, London, UK —- ad:tech London ( www.ad-techlondon.co.uk ) is to take on the Digital Marketing Manifesto ( adtechdmm.wordpress.com ), an ad:tech ( www.ad-techeurope.com ) initiative for the European digital marketing industry. The

Online Office Apps Fall Short for Enterprise
eWeek - ThinkFree supports a number of blog platforms, including TypePad, WordPress and Blogger. A server-based version of ThinkFree Office is also available, and eWEEK Labs will be taking a look at it in the near future. Senior Writer Anne Chen can be

Word Processors
Forbes - Bloggers will appreciate its ability to link directly into accounts for Blogger, LiveJournal, WordPress and TypePad, and to upload your current document as a post. There is one downside to this site: I found it to be slow to load, and the initial