One of my favorite blogs to read has just been sold. TC broke the news last Friday that popular tech blog Ars Technica was bought by Conde Nast.
Continue reading ‘Ars Technica sold for $25 Million Big Ones’
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I was sent this PDF file containing Universal McCann’s Social Media Research for March 2008. The research surveyed 17,000 internet users in 29 countries. It’s an 80-page report that covers topics on blogging, online videos and social networking sites in general.
This should be an inspiration to a lot of bloggers out there. A Cuban blogger, a 32-year old woman named Yoani Sanchez, received a Spanish Journalism award for her 13-month old blog.
Tony of DJI talks about an unexpected outcome from TailRank’s River, a blog monitoring service. A large number of blogs turned out to have been hacked to promote spammy content and affiliate links.
Since the Brian Gorrell blog has emerged a couple weeks ago, I tried to steer away from it because of its libelous nature. Obviously, tens of thousands of people are visiting this Australian guy’s blog about his Filipino ex-lover and the $70,000 money the latter owed him that it has gotten him much attention from the press. This evening, we taped the panel discussion at ANC’s Media in Focus discussing the social and legal ramifications of this phenomenon.
Continue reading ‘The Brian Gorrell Story on Media in Focus’
I’m amused with people who speak their mind and exercise their freedom of speech whether or not they’re correct, morally upright, or just plain misguided. At least, they stand and own up to their words.
Continue reading ‘Malu Fernandez gunning for Master Link Baiter of the Year’
That’s what Founder and former Technorati CEO David Sifry said when asked to comment about the latest numbers and development in the blogosphere.
The recent controversy over the recent CES has gotten everyone hyped up. One Gizmodo editor pulled a prank by turning off a few TVs with a remote and eventually got banned from future conferences.
Last day of the year 2007. As we head for another year, let me venture a fearless forecast for 2008.
The hot item over at TechCrunch is all about comment trolling having some psychological explanation. Well, of course, every human action has some sort of psychological explanation except of course if one has a bout of epilepsy.
Continue reading ‘Comment Trolling Has A Psychological Explanation’
One of the fastest ways of getting feed subscribers is by offering RSS-to-Email subscriptions in your blog. This gives visitors a way to get updates from your blog even if they’re not familiar with feed readers like Bloglines, Netvibes or FeedDemon. However, this option also opens you to accidental or arbitrary subscribers.
Continue reading ‘How to deal with arbitrary feed subscribers?’
Every so often, a company, media agency or PR firm would contact me and ask for help on how to reach specific bloggers. Given that most of them are still uninitiated and do not have a comprehensive understanding of the local blogosphere, they find it hard to initiate the engagement.
I’ve been reading a lot about this BlogRush traffic exchange program in the past couple of days from almost all big blogging sites around. However, every time I hear about some structured traffic exchange program, I shy away from such campaigns due to several reasons. Let me share why I think BlogRush isn’t something to really rush about.
Been getting a lot of SMS and emails from people all over asking that bloggers should make a stand for Mark Verzo and the harassment he got from the NBI. All hatred points to Sen. Loren Legarda.
Before we go on an all out war, let’s review the facts and the apparent misinformation that’s been going around the blogosphere.
There’s a plot to release the iPhone unlocking software into the wild, wild web. A prize of $100,000 is in the offing. Several individuals and companies have actually solved the AT&T unlocking dilemma but threats of lawsuits prevent them to move forward.
Reports say that unlocking the iPhone invites DMCA complaints from AT&T and Apple. As usual, Apple will fiercely try to lock this down to protect their contract with AT&T. But what if they can’t?
It’s all about the money…
Just read from Marc Macuha’s blog that columnist Malu Fernandez of Manila Standard Today and People Asia has resigned and apologized for what she wrote on some of her recent articles.
This would have been a huge triumph for the blogosphere that have been very vocal against her — but death threats?
Continue reading ‘Death threats forced Malu Fernandez to resign?’
Been raining all week, floods all over and two out-of-town trips canceled. Still, if anyone is interested in some offline action, join us in our weekly badminton games at WestDrive Badminton at Brgy. Kapitolyo, Pasig. That’s every Thursday starting 9PM ’til midnight. Play-all-you-can for only Php75. Just tell the reception it’s under Bimbo’s name in the reservation list.
I’ve been meaning to write some more local stuff but ended up deleting 3 separate drafts. Will just point you to some of the brewing discussions elsewhere…
Here’s one really interesting trend I dug from the stats log Pinoy Top Blogs — an hourly trend of internet traffic for blogs. Although, I’m only basing these figures from the said site which tracks close to 3,000 Filipino blogs, I’m sure we can derive something useful from this.
Here are the numbers and the charts:
Continue reading ‘Hourly Internet Traffic Trends for Philippine Blogs’
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