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Dirtyspoke(nsfw), home of Meme and the rest of the crazy cast mentioned to me in New York last week that they were hosting the 2006 Sex Blog Awards in cooperation with Playboy Radio. I just spaced out posting about it until now because of the amount of booze I drank. They even bribed me to post about it with a bottle of wine. How nice of them.
So go nominate your favorite sex blog. We all know you read them… Or maybe that’s just me.
Originally posted on January 2, 2007 @ 5:13 am
It’s rare that I come upon a new resource that makes me go Wow! . But The Simple Dollar made me do just that. Check out his recent series of posts entitled Building A Better Blog.
One of my personal favorites out of this is his article about defining your own success. He lays out perfectly what I see day in and day out talking to bloggers. They have an idea they are going to have overnight success and if they don’t get it they quit.
Blogging isn’t like that. It’s about slow and steady growth and taking the good with the bad. My tip for 2007. Perseverance and longevity wins the prize.
Originally posted on January 2, 2007 @ 2:32 am
Mike Arrington, HitWise, Gigaom and a bunch of other folks including me now all are talking about useless numbers comparing Google Blog Search to Technorati. Does anyone really care? I know I don’t. In fact I think they do entirely different things. I use technorati feeds more than anything. I use Google Blog Search when I’m bored out of my mind and am looking for something new. Comscore, Hitwise, Blogpulse, and Alexa are all pretty useless but they make great egoboosters when things are good, and can sure make you feel crappy when the numbers aren’t leaning your way.
Originally posted on December 29, 2006 @ 3:36 am
EdTech Live is hosting a conference in nearby Philly at the end of the month. I may try to drag the Blog Herald’s Educational Guru along and do some live coverage, or just act like I’m doing some live coverage. If you can’t make the conference they have quite a list of podcasts and other media to enjoy.
Originally posted on January 2, 2007 @ 4:17 am
2006 Sure was the year of the blog. Can it get any better or bigger than what we have done already?
As Time magazine hammered home this month, you had an incredible year.
Blogs and other citizenry-generated media dominated discourse in 2006, and mainstream media had no choice but to clear a spot at the grown-up’s table. Twentysomethings in their PJs attracted as much — if not more — attention than some cable news channels, while YouTube cost businesses millions of dollars in distraction and procrastination.
But to limit discussion of the topic to ephemeral entertainment would be a grave disservice (just ask the geniuses behind “Snakes on a Plane” how valuable that is). Bloggers transcended their medium in substantial ways that had real effects on society at large.
Source: Hampton Roads
Originally posted on January 1, 2007 @ 5:13 am