August 9th, 2005 | Published in Google Blogger Buzz
Lucas writes in to say:
I hate your Blogger Mobile Jingle!!! It's SO catchy that I haven't been able to get it out of my head!!! Who makes these things?!
The parties to blame are Biz Stone (lyrics) and Grant Shellen (music). If you haven't heard the song of the year, check it out at go.blogger.com. (You've been warned.)
And Cruz asks:
I recently read and article on opportunities on how bloggers can make money. I was wondering if I created a blog through your web site if that will prevent me from benefitting financially?
Heck no! In fact, all Blogger users are eligible to sign up with Google's AdSense program - an easy way to add content targeted ads to your blog. Check it out.
August 4th, 2005 | Published in Google Blogger Buzz
Identical twins Cameron and Damien Barrett from Brooklyn, NY are long-time bloggers
using a blog to try and up their chances of getting cast on CBS' hit show, The Amazing Race.
This site, therefore, is a grand experiement. How much influence can we generate from the blogosphere and fans of the show? Will we succeed in getting the casting directors to take a second look at our audition tape? (Some estimates put the number of tapes they receive each season is upwards of 20,000 to 30,000.) Do we have any natural advantage because we are identical twins and long-time bloggers?
How cool would that be? I've never seen that show but if these guys got on it, I would watch and I would tell everyone I know to watch. Good luck Barretts!
August 2nd, 2005 | Published in Google Adwords API
As we explained a few weeks ago, the new quota structure for the AdWords API went into effect yesterday (August 1st). The Quota & Usage page gives you all the details about the new system. This change has been accompanied by a significant quota increase for most users, so fire up your favorite clients and check out what getUsageQuotaThisMonth returns. We're still working on updating the AdWords online interface, so please use the InfoService calls to retrieve quota allocation and usage information in the meantime. We'll post another note when that update is complete.
--Patrick Chanezon, AdWords API evangelist
August 1st, 2005 | Published in Google Blogger Buzz
The Nonist has published (in PDF form) an interesting little pamphlet called What Everyone Should Know About Blog Depression.
There is a growing epidemic in the cyberworld. a scourge which causes more suffering with each passing day. as blogging has exploded and, under the stewardship of the veterans, the form has matured more and more bloggers are finding themselves disillusioned, dissatisfied, taking long breaks, and in many cases simply closing up shop. this debilitating scourge ebbs and flows but there is hardly a blogger among us who has not felt it’s dark touch. we’re speaking, of course, about blog depression.
That's some deep, dark stuff. Nice! (Via zephoria.)
July 27th, 2005 | Published in Google Blogger Buzz
Director Kevin Smith's blog is called My Boring Ass Life. What's in a name?
July 25th, 2005 | Published in Google Blogger Buzz
Blogger and news correspondent Kevin Sites has been nominated for an Emmy. Congratulations Kevin! (Via BoingBoing)
July 25th, 2005 | Published in Google Blogger Buzz
Aliens love blogs too!
Alien Blog IconSome 60 years ago humans first began transmitting television signals powerful enough to reach beyond our earth's atmosphere. Since then the media has continued to broadcast messages from I Love Lucy to the five o'clock news into space, potentially reaching intelligent alien life forms beyond our solar system. Blogs In Space is the first entity to allow everyday bloggers to transmit the news and thoughts of an everyday person into space. Simply put we take your feed and transmit it out on a powerful deep space transmission dish.
July 21st, 2005 | Published in Google Blogger Buzz
From CNET's latest top 10 list: "Whether it was dancing hamsters, a kid enjoying his day as a Jedi Knight, or the sudden ability to publish your thoughts online with just a few simple clicks, the following 10 Web fads still make us laugh, make us wonder, or make us feel guilty enough to update our blogs."
At #9, it's neat that Blogger is both on this list of memes as well as the means by which such memes are propagated. Take that Kiss Me Mahir!
Also, it reminds me that we should make some new t-shirts.
July 20th, 2005 | Published in Google Blogger Buzz
Wired News has published an article about Blogs Taking Off in Cambodia.
A Cambodian nonprofit worker traverses the country, teaching students to publish blogs. The project promotes democracy and spurs internet use in a land where few people have access to the web. Matt Reed reports from Phnom Penh.
Page two of the article links to this list of Cambodian bloggers.
July 20th, 2005 | Published in Google Blogger Buzz
This slideshow of photos from some photoblogs over at the BBC's web site is neato. Should you be so inspired, remember that you can upload photos to your blog for free. So, post 'em if you got 'em.
July 19th, 2005 | Published in Google Blogger Buzz
I was just reading BoingBoing and found this blog by incessant doodler Paige Pooler. She's got a little blogfolio going over there. I like it.
July 18th, 2005 | Published in Google Blogger Buzz
Daddy Types calls attention to some interesting developments of the blogging-at-work variety. There was this Nanny, see. And she had this blog. And her employers started reading it and they didn't think it was the best thing ever so they fired her. But they didn't just fire her. They sifted through her blog looking for anything that could be pulled out and made to sound unseemly. Then one of these former employers published an essay in The New York Times which began thusly:
OUR former nanny, a 26-year-old former teacher with excellent references, liked to touch her breasts while reading The New Yorker and often woke her lovers in the night by biting them. She took sleeping pills, joked about offbeat erotic fantasies involving Tucker Carlson and determined she'd had more female sexual partners than her boyfriend.
Zing! Do you take salt or lemon with your wound? But the nanny is not the sort to take this lying down. She blasted back on her blog. See how that works? That's good stuff. And now the nanny, a student of literature, is being read by thousands of people. So you see, there is a silver lining to all things. (Also? The NYT illustration portrays the nanny as having man-hands and dating The Rock. I'm no lawyer but that very well could be libelous. I mean, he's the Scorpion King, that could reflect poorly on her future prospects.)
July 15th, 2005 | Published in Google Blogger Buzz
The Daily Show recently underwent a set redesign and people are not happy about the fact that the couch is gone. Especially this guy.
July 14th, 2005 | Published in Google Adwords API
Soon, we'll be changing the Google AdWords keyword evaluation system to help give advertisers more control over keywords they find important.
From an API perspective, there is a new minCpc field in the Keyword object that you can use to determine how much to bid in order to keep a keyword active. Keyword statuses changed a bit in the AdWords online interface, but not in the API.
In addition, with the release of the rate sheet scheduled for Aug. 1, 2005, you should have more keyword stats operations available to adjust to these keyword evaluation changes. For more information on how the new keyword evaluation system impacts the AdWords API, please visit our help page.
--Patrick Chanezon, AdWords API evangelist
July 14th, 2005 | Published in Google Adwords API
Starting August 1, we’re introducing a significant change to the AdWords API quota system. The new quota structure will value operation types differently. While some operations will still consume just one quota unit, other operations will consume more - up to 1,000 quota units per operation. For example, generating a report for your whole account will now consume more quota units than downloading stats for a single keyword. As part of this overhaul, we will increase API users’ quota by 10 times. For the majority of API users, we believe this improved quota structure will result in more free API usage. Specifically, we hope this will satisfy the requests we've heard through the Developer Forum for more stats operations. For details, please see the Quota & Usage page.
-- Patrick Chanezon, Adwords API evangelist
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