In my news reader this morning I read an article by Erick Sass regarding ex Gawker editor, Elizabeth Spiers (login required). Spiers is ramping up the blog network, Dead Horse.  The article states:

Dead Horse plans to hire freelancers to produce the content–a point of difference from Fashionista, which has a full-time editor, Faran Krentcil. Dead […]

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Getting noticed in your niche or in your expertise can be difficult.  There are over 60 million blogs out there today and getting your voice heard among the noise can be a difficult thing to accomplish.  One of the things that has worked for me as a no lose tool is making many comments on […]

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It seems that the people at Performancing have decided to end the Performancing Partners advertising network.  I’m not sure of the reasons behind the decision to close down that operation, but with Nick Wilson leaving and Chris Garrett taking over at the helm, it could be that the ship is headed in a different direction.  […]

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Jennifer Slegg has posted about the updated terms of service for using Google Adsense on blogs, and this has many professional bloggers scrambling to make sure their blogs are in compliance with the new rules.  Google updated a number of key areas and Jen has a good compilation with analysis.
It appears that Google will be […]

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I have many feeds that come to me whenever a company is looking to hire a blogger for a position.  One such feed I was able to glean before tossing was a position open in Dell’s Commercial Business Group.  It made me chuckle wondering if Jeff Jarvis, who would be perfect for the job, is […]

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Web Metrics Guru, Marshall Sponder, points us to a Washington post article by Sara Goo that discusses the monetization of blogs and earning money blogging. Of interest is a take by Technorati CEO David Sifry:
“What we’re seeing is still a significant growth in both the number of people who are creating blogs as well […]

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Chris Anderson, author of the Long Tail, has posted his take on the recap posted by Guy Kawasaki of his first full year of blogging. His conclusion, if I read between the lines correctly, Mr. Kawasaki is not the best professional blogger. On the other hand, if I also read between the lines of […]

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