February 22nd, 2006 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
“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…
February 16th, 2006 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
John Kricfalusi, the creator of Ren & Stimpy, has a Blog*Spot blog!
February 15th, 2006 | by andrea drugay | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Hi, everyone – it’s Andrea from Blogger Support here. I’m very excited to announce the launch of our new Blogger User-to-User Help Group. It’s a new community on Google Groups that will let you talk to other Blogger users, ask questions, and share your…
February 15th, 2006 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
The Jane Goodall Institute has started a Gombe Chimpanzee blog for documenting their research in Tanzania.(photo courtesy of janegoodall.org)What’s especially neat is that they’ve tied the blog to Google Earth. So you can click on a Google Earth file …
February 14th, 2006 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Us Blogger folks couldn’t be more excited that Measure Map, a slick and beautiful statistics app for blogs, has joined Google! Jeff Veen introduces himself on the official Google blog:My first post to my blog was a little paragraph about my obsession…
February 14th, 2006 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
NPR’s Story of the Day podcast recently included an All Things Considered story by Julie Zickefoose about how blogging has affected her relationship with her husband:Bill and I now judge events in our lives as to whether they are blog-worthy. When we…
February 14th, 2006 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
The SF Chronicle reports on a group of post-consumerists and their vow to “not buy anything new in 2006 — except food, health and safety items and underwear.”Fortunately, Blog*Spot is free so the group, called Compact, can happily blog away.
February 10th, 2006 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
BlogHer, the fine folks behind the conference of the same name, now have a community site:Together we’re building a guide to women bloggers. In 20+ popular topics, you’ll find lists of blogs by women and constantly updating guides to what’s hot, writte…
January 26th, 2006 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
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…
January 26th, 2006 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
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
January 26th, 2006 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Two complementary articles came up in my feed reader today. Russell Beattie criticizes a trend he’s seeing in the blog posts he reads:I know how once in a while throwing a juicy post up on your server with some name calling, extreme opinions and a sw…
January 25th, 2006 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
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…
January 23rd, 2006 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
“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 …
January 11th, 2006 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
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.
January 10th, 2006 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
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!