Greg Storey at Airbag has written a pensive peice on "blahgs." His piece was inspired by Jeffrey Zelman's question, "Are you still fired up about blogging?" Storey's answer: Not so much. Our content is all starting to look the same because of the tools used to manage it and web-two-point-dough has homogenized the Internet. For sure, anyone who spends a great deal of time researching and organizing content will …
Colorado’s Ad and PR Scene Gets A Blog
First, there was the Idaho Ad Agencies blog. Now, it's Colorado's turn, thanks to freelance writer Andy Bosselman. Blog AB promises "Advertising, design, and PR blogged from a Colorado perspective." I like how there are now locally focused ad blogs. It's interesting that the two we've seen are coming from the mountain states. C'mon, North Dakota. You're up next! …
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Eerily Familiar
The Ongoing Migration To Word Press
Now that Tom Sherman has moved his site to the Word Press blogging platform he is angry no more. Yes, this is news. I’m not angry anymore. I’m just kind of sad. I mean, I wasted a lot of time on that Movable Type shit. I’m past the denial and the anger; I’ve quietly accepted the trial that was Running a Large Blog Using Movable Type™. I’m not angry about the 10 minute rebuilds or the 90 second post times. I’m not …
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Frequent Fliers
BedJump.com is an odd little blog. It's creator, a Canadian named Chris, also has several other hotel blogs looking closely at hotel bathrooms, pools, etc. …
Link Requests Are Lame
Satire is one of the greatest literary devices ever conceived. Wired writer, Lore Sjöberg, uses it deftly, in a funny piece on blogging's rising popularity. Creating your own blog is about as easy as creating your own urine, and you're about as likely to find someone else interested in it. One popular technique for building readership is to send e-mail to more well-trafficked blogs offering to exchange links with …
First Person Backlash
Netanel Jacobsson, 38, a former reggae singer and AOL business development executive who now owns a strategic media consulting and business developement agency, is done with A-list bloggers (with two notable exceptions). Most of the so called A–list bloggers have very little to say besides reporting their latest parties, or their other fellow A-list bloggers latest links and posts. Very, very seldom you find any …
Money Moves To Blogs
Business 2.0 is running an interesting article on the handful of men and women currently milking the bloatosphere for all its worth. Boing Boing, a four-person operation that bills itself as a directory of wonderful things, is on track to gross an estimated $1 million in ad revenue this year. The digital-media news site PaidContent.org, headquartered in the second bedroom of a Santa Monica apartment, is set to post …
