Nike Art of Speed weblog

Nike now has a weblog published by Nick Denton’s Gawker Media. “Nike commissioned 15 talented young filmmakers to interpret the idea of speed. Over the course of 20 days, this weblog will introduce these innovative directors, their short films, and the digital technology behind the scenes.” (via Scoble)…

Steven Levy writes about Nick

Steven Levy writes about Nick Denton and Gawker Media in Wired magazine. Writers are typically paid $1500 a month (contract, not full time) and build a reputation good enough for a traditional publisher. Levy estimates Gawker Media nets $80,000 per blog per year. “Denton’s move to professionalize blogs bestowed instant credibility on an unknown single-writer Web site.”…

Fast Company on blogging

Jena McGreggor discusses corporate weblogs in the April issue of Fast Company. Some of the uses mentioned, such as project status, seem like candidates for a wiki instead of a weblog. The article makes Scoble seem like a marketing arm of Microsoft, in the same class as Macromedia blogs. I would have liked to see mention of Scoble having a Userland weblog and not a MSDN weblog. Robert Scoble may well be one of the most powerful people in Redmond right now. A trusted group of employees started blogs to answer users’ questions, and the blogs have grown into online…

Pew Internet and American Life Project on Content Creation

Pew Internet and American Life Project’s latest survey covers content creation online. Some interesting findings from a phone survey conducted between March 12 and May 20, 2003. 13% maintain their own Web sites 7% have Web cams running on their computers 2% maintain Weblogs, 11% read weblogs, and about a third of readers have left comments. 10% of bloggers update daily. Power creators, average age of 25, are most likely to be blogging. It is interesting to note what has happened since May 20, 2003 that has most likely increased those numbers. AOL launched its AOL Journals service. TypePad launched….