Check out the Blogswana project! Background here:”The one-year pilot project will work with a group of about 20 college students from one of the major universities, and provide them with blogging and journalism expertise and guidance. They would commit…
PC World has some kind things to say about Blogger, in its 101 Fabulous Freebies feature:”Our favorite service is Blogger. The first major free blogging tool (launched in 1999), Blogger stays ahead of the game by remaining incredibly convenient to use …
Be sure to check out the New York Times redesign that just launched. Anil talks a bit about it at the SixApart blog, and Khoi discusses it on his site. The part I’m most excited about is the Most Popular box in the right column — next to most ema…
Last week at SxSW I met Michael Verdi, who pointed me toward Freevlog, “a step-by-step guide to setting up a videoblog for free.”Definitely check it out if you’re interested in adding video to your blog — it features Blogger as well as the Internet A…
Just a small FYI — we’ve updated Blogger’s Profile Editor with a few more places:Serbia and MontenegroPalestinian TerritoryEast Timor
Have you ever tried creating a Blogger blog, and every address you can think of for it is already taken? We just added a ‘Check Availability’ link on the Create Blog page to suggest available alternatives:
The Greensboro News-Record just posted an article about Michael Brown, a homeless man who is using Blogger to describe his (and his family’s) experiences. Here’s a snippet from the article:”After Brown, 43, and his family were evicted from their northe…
MC Hammer is blogging on blogspot — check it out!He’s using Blogger Mobile to post photos via his Sidekick, and is using Audioblogger to post audio clips.
“Blargon’s” a new one for me, but this William Safire piece in the NYTimes lists a bunch of bloggy lingo:MSM: “mainstream media”Above the fold: “what we see on a blog’s screen before we begin to scroll down”The jump: “a place to which the blog’s reader…
The Berkman Center’s Global Voices project is an incredibly well-done aggregation of the global blogging community:”A growing number of bloggers around the world are emerging as “bridge bloggers:” people who are talking about their country or regio…
Blog Safer: The Anoniblogging Wiki has downloadable (and editable – it’s a wiki afterall) guides for blogging anonymously around the world.More at HTDAW, via IP
This time, it’s Riverbend:”Earlier this year, Baghdad Burning the blog was turned into “Baghdad Burning” – the book. Feminist Press published the whole first year of blogs in book form and it was a huge honor. The book is available at both Amazon and B…
“The Lulu Blooker Prize is the world’s first literary prize devoted to ‘blooks’: books based on blogs or websites.”Three categories: Fiction, Non-Fiction and ComicsPrizes total $4,000:$2,000 to an overall winner$1,000 to the other category winnersMore …