Parents whose children are into blogging should definitely check out BlogSafety – it’s got a number of articles and tips, including some good guidelines for teens and a section for parents.
MarsEdit 1.1 for Mac is out, and Blogger post titles are finally supported. (as well as lots of other stuff)Mac users can snag it here.Thanks Brent and crew!
Just wanted to remind everybody that the annual MacWorld SF blogger lunch is coming up in a few weeks, so mark your calendars!Upcoming.org: Macworld SF bloggers lunch and schmoozefest at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (Tuesday, January 10, 2006)A grou…
Last week the folks from Lovento wrote in, letting us know that their site now supports Blogger’s API. You can see the functionality in action on their Venue pages.
Like Blogger-powered Diary of a London Call Girl, a few months ago a Brazilian blogger (nsfw) landed a book deal, and apparently it’s selling quite well:”In just over a month, it has sold some 30,000 copies and is already in its third edition — a huge…
Not quite, but according to the CBC, online journalists are now eligible for the Pulitzer Prize:”Internet journalism received a leap in recognition Wednesday as the Pulitzer Prize Board widened its submission guidelines to include online material for a…
In addition to their Legal Guide, the EFF has published a Guide to Student Blogging; here’s a snippet:Do I Have More Protections for a Personal Blog? Yes. In Emmett v. Kent School District, 92 F. Supp.2d 1088 (W.D. Wash. 2000), the court held that publ…
Sounds like cooking blog Chocolate & Zucchini just scored a book deal:”Life changes? Yes, indeed: today seems like the perfect day to announce that I have just signed a book deal with a NYC publisher, that I have quit my dayjob and that I now live …
Our friends at Photolightning just released their latest version, which incorporates some nifty Blogger functionality — it can post photos to blogs, which can then be purchased at ClubPhoto. Here’s an example blog with some Photolightning posts.
A few of us got to have lunch with Neil Gaiman today — he’s on tour and stopped by to give a short talk about (and reading from!) his new book, Anansi Boys. Apparently it’ll soon be taking the top spot on the NYTimes Bestseller list, and Neil att…
Jason Goldman demoing Blogger during the blogging tool dance-off.
Reporters Without Borders just released a “Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents:”"Reporters Without Borders has produced this handbook to help them, with handy tips and technical advice on how to to remain anonymous and to get round censorship, b…
Sorry for the late notice, but there’ll be a brief outage (~15 mins) at 4pm PST today, for a server memory upgrade. Details are on Status.Update: This is complete.
w00t! The Billboard Liberation Front is now blogging.[via BB]
This sounds like a fantastic program:”New Voices is a pioneering program to seed innovative community news ventures in the United States. Through 2006, New Voices will help fund the start-up of 10 micro-local news projects with $12,000 grants; support …