Category Archives: Weblogs

The latest issue of Time magazine introduces readers to blogs and blog search engines. The layout of the online version is a bit confusing but perhaps the print version is better arranged. Time describes Technorati as “long the best blog-search option on the Web.” Thanks! Tags: technorati, timemagazine…

Many people have cold feet when they think about starting a blog. Do I really have anything important to say? Will anyone read what I write? Choose a topic you are passionate about and share it with the world. My favorite coffee spot in San Francisco is Blue Bottle Coffee Company, an artisan small-batch roaster located a few blocks from my house. The company’s San Francisco location serves their own coffee from a small storefront in an alley. The staff even writes their own blog about new equipment, bean comparisons, and other topics that show the passion in their work….

Marble Sportswear of Beverly Hills, California recently applied for a trademark and service mark for the word “blog.” Is there a new line of blog-specific clothing on the way or are they just squatting? Small Business Blog is also an applied service mark the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council and their “virtual destination where small business owners and entrepreneurs can communicate about issues impacting their enterprises and the economy.” Both trademarks seem pointless but maybe pushing the government papers really does pay off. Tags: trademark…

Tom Foremski wrote this morning about a presentation that included some possible future products from Technorati. I won’t comment on future products, but it’s interesting to take a look at some of the underlying issues some bloggers are worried about. Commercial Use Can another company make money off of your content? I currently receive a lot of referral traffic from a variety of search services such as Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. Each search company sells advertisements alongside an excerpt of my content. I have no problem with Google, Yahoo!, and MSN making money off of my content because they also…

I saw this poster produced by the Royal Typewriter Company during World War II in the United States and I think it’s a good female blogging poster as everyone has something interesting to say. Keep ’em flying, Miss U.S.A.Tags: wwii…

Blo.gs is currently down, indicating an announcement is imminent. Whois records show Jim Winstead is still the domain contact and resource, but Jim previously announced the domain and its assets would change hands on or after Monday, June 13.Tags: blo.gs…

CNN reports that Country Music Television has just signed Christopher Nelson to a $100,000 contract to watch Dukes of Hazzard and blog about it. Nelson emerged from almost 2,000 applicants by creating a website for a fictional character called Slick. No news on whether a 1969 Dodge Charger comes with the job.Tags: dukesofhazard…

The Wall Street Journal published some good quotes from this week’s sessions at the D conference in Carlsbad. Mena Trott of Six Apart has a new self-described title of “chief egotist.” Anna Marie Cox of Wonkette mentioned that people at the top will get commercialized but “there is always someone in the garage.” Donald Graham of The Washington Post described the self-publishing nature of the blogging world as “one person who’s Ben Franklin and 100,000 people who think they’re Ben Franklin.” Peter Kahn of Dow Jones thinks publishers in general have underpriced their products. “I don’t think we were particularly…