Feedster Top 500 Weblogs | Each month, Feedster brings you a list of 500 of the most interesting and important blogs. Enjoy browsing to see what people are reading, to find feeds that will bring topics of interest to you on a regular basis, and to discover new voices in the Blogosphere.
Finding a Blog in a Haystack | Traffic at blog search engines is soaring. When will Google and Yahoo! join the fray?
June 16, 2005
Yahoo Acquires Blo.gs | I wonder if this means Yahoo Search will start crawling based on pings from blogs.
June 13, 2005
Technorati Beta | A new UI, improved tagging and a lot more...
March 23, 2005
Poll: How Much Do You Earn From Adsense? | I get so many emails asking me how much I make from AdSense on my blogs. You can check out the results of this poll to see what some people are making.
Don't Fear the Blog and the Fury | Does a blogosphere frenzy that helps bring down a CNN news exec for a comment he made mean free speech is in peril? Nope. It's exploding
February 06, 2005
Looking For Weblog Gold | Weblogs have yet to show much potential for attracting advertisers, but that doesn't stop people from looking for the path to that pot of gold.
Job Posting: Blogger Wanted | $500/month for 3 to 6 posts per day. Not a bad deal. That's definitely more than one could make from ads on a brand new blog.
Neville's Financial Blog | Comments (1)
| Here's another 'personal finance journey' blog similar to PFBlog and 'Simplify My Life'. You can follow the 22 year old Neville as he shoots for his 5-year goal of accumulating $1,000,000 in liguid assets.
The Current State of Stock Market Blogs | Roger makes some great points about blogging to counter all the 'hateration' going on about bloggers in the mainstream press.
The Fine (F)Art of Link Sharing | I couldn't have said it better myself. This kind of link sharing (whoring) has been a pet peeve of mine almost since my first day of blogging. I especially love the people that send a message saying if you link to me then I'll link back to you. All you have to do is link to the site, they WILL notice it. If the other party likes the site they'll link back to you. Anyway, let me stop before I write a book about this... :-)
George Soros is Now a Blogger | I guess he'll get a reality show next a la Trump, Cuban & Branson. (link via MaoXian)
September 23, 2004
Sell Your Blog! | A very interesting development in the blogosphere. Jeremy sold his blog for $15,000 and monthly compensation.
September 15, 2004
Bloggers Declare War on Comment Spam, but Can They Win? | The history of the battle between spammers and bloggers. All I have to say is that if it wasn't for MT-Blacklist (Jay Allen is the man) the spamers would have won long ago.
GalaTime - A New Stock Market Blog | Comments (2)
| A blog that chronicles the author's learning experiences as a novice trader - with an emphasis on trading options in the US financial markets.
Creating a Merged View of Movable Type Blogs | I've been wanting to show my quicklinks in-line on my other blogs for a while now. This looks like a great way to accomplish that.
Celebrating the UnderBlog | Do you know of (or run) a quality blog that deserves a bit of extra attention? What blog/s do you read that you wish others knew about?
The Bloggist | The Bloggist is a pre-project idea to bounce around the idea of a blogging magazine. With 4 millions bloggers (and 20,000 new blogs starting every day) and thousands of companies blogging, there needs to be a resource of guidance, inspiration, information and cultural dissemination. There needs to something there which not only gives bloggers a great sense of identity, but also a greater media presence. In short, bloggers need a representative magazine.
June 17, 2004
Want a High Google Ranking? Get a Weblog! | Ernie gives an excellent example of how much Google likes blogs. I'm amazed at how quickly many my own pages jump into the top 10 Google results.
June 15, 2004
Meet Joe Blog | Finally a mainstream media piece on blogs with a very positive spin.
June 10, 2004
WordPress Styles Collection | Some real nice looking styles. One of these days I'm switching to WordPress... really.
June 04, 2004
Weblog Tools Collection | Note to self: Visit this site once I switch my blogs over to WordPress.
May 26, 2004
News Style | Some good tips on writing like newspaper journalists.
May 16, 2004
OpenSourceCMS.com | This site was created to give you the opportunity to "try out" some of the best open source and free php/mysql based software systems in the world. You can log in as the administrator to any site here, thus allowing you to decide which system best suits your needs.
Each system is deleted and reinstalled every two hours. This allows you to be the administrator of any system here without fear of messing anything up.
Blog Service Pinger | Now all of you non-pingers have no (good) excuse for not pinging after updating your weblogs. You can easily ping all the blog tracking services at once via this service.
Free Movable Type Blogs for Music Bloggers | Abe at Abstract Dynamics does a public service by offering ClogSpot music bloggers free space on his site. A tear drops my eye :-) Now if we can just find a good Reggae blog and a Drum & Bass blog...
Identity Blogging | Prometheus 6 has done a great job of tracking the Identity Blogging Meme. Some great stuff has been written in these psots. Check them out and join in.
Fast Company's Weblog | Nice looking blog done in MT and has RSS feeds. Would you expect anything less from FC?
August 15, 2003
Ethical Trackbacking | Haydur makes some excellent points about the use of TrackBack
August 14, 2003
Movable Type BlogRoll | Very nice implementation of a BlogRoll using Movable Type. Now if we could just get it to tell when a blog gets updated.
Blackout MoBlog | They got this up MoBlog up with a quickness
Can Little Johnny Blog? | The New York Times has a few articles this week about weblogs and online writing in schools. Weblogg-ed does a good job of covering them.
FlashMob.com | Flashmob.com is a website for growing the idea of flash mobbing. Projects are under way to implement what can be called a flash mob search engine. This will allow flash mob organizers to more easily promote their flash mob. Other projects are targeted towards maintaining the history of these developing events. In the future many other community based projects will enrich and promote the flash mob idea.
A Young Writers' Roundtable, via the Web | Even 4th graders understand that their writing must be on point if it's going to be posted online. Some adults need to take note.
Links, Links, and More Links | OverStated.net is keeping a list of link blogs (like this one). So far they all have RSS feeds, so load up your newsreader.
August 08, 2003
All Over for Blogs? | Blogs have been seen by some as a new wave of internet development but are they losing their appeal, wonders technology analyst Bill Thompson.
Web Style Guide | This style guide seeks to serve as a resource for anyone writing or editing web copy, and to document some of the conventions that distinguish good writing, as published on the web, from writing published in other media.
Recomendo | Get recommendations on a variety of products. Here's the site's description: 'Here are my recommendations for cool stuff. I include any books, tools, software, videos, maps, gadgets, hardware, websites, or gear that are extraordinarily handy or useful for individual and small groups. The best items are those that open up new possibilities. I depend on friends and readers to suggest things. Generally I try something out first if I can. I only recommend things I like and I ignore the rest.'
July 24, 2003
Sparkpod | Sparkpod is a service that allows you to easily create and maintain your own web log. You can share with friends, family, colleagues, or have it be a private journal that only you can read. A web log is a web site based log -- like a journal or diary. Sparkpod's service makes creating and editing your web log easier than ever.
July 18, 2003
Blogging for Bucks | Journalist Rafat Ali is an unusual beast: a laid-off dot-com reporter who's making money online writing about, well, making money online. Ali, a former reporter for Inside.com and an editor at the Silicon Alley Reporter, is making a comfortable living as an independent journalist-cum-blogger. Working out of his East London flat, Ali publishes PaidContent, a one-man trade newsletter about the business of online media.
TypePad Features Revealed | A listing of some of the features in TypePad 1.0. I hope some of these make it into Movable Type. (Found via http://kadyellebee.com )
The beta TypePad blogs are now viewable by the public too.
Technorati Pinger | Now you can ping Technorati directly when you update your blog.
July 05, 2003
Blog Resource Page | A nice collection of Movable Type Plugins, Tutorials, Tips, Templates, and Resources. The page also has resources for Blogger, Greymatter, and Userland Manila
BlogChatter | Real-time weblog aggregation - BlogChatter is a window into weblog activity right now, at this moment. It is a real-time event stream of weblog updates, similar to the data provided by weblogs.com, without polling or a static data format. Pings to BlogChatter are displayed instantly the moment they are received, and only persisted in memory for no longer than 30 seconds.
July 04, 2003
HumanDescent | Some bugged-out, digitally altered animal pictures. (at least I hopethey've been altered) Check out the galleries too.
Bloglines | Bloglines is a free service that makes it easy to keep up with your favorite blogs and newsfeeds. With Bloglines, you can subscribe to the RSS feeds of your favorite blogs, and Bloglines will monitor updates to those sites. You can read the latest entries easily within Bloglines.
Unlike other aggregators which require you to download and install software, Bloglines runs on our servers and requires no installation. Because your Bloglines account is accessible through a web browser, you can access your account from any Internet-connected machine.
memigo | Memigo is a website for news junkies. Technically, memigo is an intelligent news agent: it goes out on the internet and it finds news articles, stories and editorials from "trusted", high quality sources. When you log in to memigo as a registered user (try it: it's free and anonymous), memigo will give you its idea of the best links of the past 24 hours or more. Unlike a news or weblog aggregator (like NewsIsFree, Syndic8, Blogdex or Daypop), memigo tries to guess what news you personally will be most interested in.
July 03, 2003
Multiple Blog Suite | This is a must-have tool for Movable Type blogs! - With multiple blogs, there are a lot of paths and settings! Wouldn't you like to be able to view and backup the templates and config settings all in one place? The Multiple Blog Suite will connect to your database and provide you easy access to all of the info. Then you can save a copy of the page to your hard drive for reference and backup.
The Revolution Will be Blogged | Bloggers in America are aiming to spark a political revolution that will be delivered by the web.
July 02, 2003
NewsMonster | NewsMonster is a news, weblog, and RSS aggregator that runs in directly in your web browser. NewsMonster offers a superior web experience and outstanding integration with existing websites and weblogs that support RSS. Even sites that don't support RSS can work with NewsMonster. That's not all! NewsMonster incorporates an advanced reputation system to prevent spam and discover and inform you of important news.
Get all the latest news -- as it arrives! Cache entire web sites in the background while you surf! Rate your favorite and least-favorite websites and share ratings with the online community - automatically!
Photo Blog from Your Cell Phone | Your new cell phone comes with a digital camera built in. And that would be good for ... hmm. Now thousands of phone-cam owners and a few wireless carriers are answering that stumper with phone-cam blogs — websites designed specifically for posting and sharing digital photos from mobile phones.
Secrets of Breakout Blogs | Another excellent article on blogging by Dave Pollard. Here he reveals some tips on how to increase your blog's reach.
June 03, 2003
The FCC, Weblogs, and Inequality | from the point of view of analyzing the FCC ruling, the lesson of weblog popularity is clear: inequality can arise in systems where users are free to make choices among a large set of options, even in the absence of central control or manipulation
QuickColor | Basically a Flash version of ColorMatch. Allows you to quickly create a color scheme for your site.
Feedster | Feedster is a search engine for what is called an RSS Feed. An RSS Feed is an XML tagged file which allows a website, news site or blog (actually any site) to provide to the world a list of its current contents. RSS feeds can contain all kinds of information from news to blog / weblog posts to stock quotes and more.
Blogs ! US | An interesting blog directory thay I just came across. It allows you to see a thumbnail of the site, and rates sites based on access speed, size, word count, readability, and grade level of the writing! :-)
SideBlog | Watch this site for their soon-to-be-released SideBlog/QuickLinks application
May 30, 2003
The Mirror Project | The Mirror Project is a growing community of like-minded individuals who have photographed themselves in all manner of reflective surfaces.
A Day in the Life | Each week, a new person in a new city takes a series of seven photos, one each day.
