Fired Washington Post Blogger Ben Domenech called the Washington Post Editorial Staff Fools.

“While I appreciated the opportunity to go and join the Washington Post,??? Domenech said, “if they didn’t expect the leftists were going to come after me with their sharpened knives, then they were fools.???

– Human Events Online

Ben Domenech fired back a rebuttal to all the claims of plagiarism. But clearly if he wants to work in journalism, he’s now passed himself off as The Bob Knight of Blogging. An ill tempered, yet talented guy who everyone admires but no one wants to get near. This is a bad label for anyone who wants to make it in journalism. Luckily for him we live in a new media world. He can always spin this bad press into developing a new level of prowess for his blog.

Originally posted on March 26, 2006 @ 1:31 pm

There has been a lot of conversation going around the blogosphere about MySpace. I’m in a younger age bracket so I presumably should have a myspace right? Wrong. I use TagWorld. Either way MySpaceWatch now has a free acount level that allows parents to monitor their children’s activities. Or maybe a boyfriend wants to monitor his girlfriend. You get the idea. Spread the word. We can now stalk our significant others better today than ever before.

We have decided to create a free account level to myspaceWatch. The free account is functionally similar, and has a text-based advertisement through AdBrite at the top of the page. This seemed to be the best “happy medium??? for advertising, since AdBrite lets us show decent ads without being cheesy. The people who currently have paid accounts have been bumped up to the “pro??? level.

Here’s the scoop on the new account levels:

Free Account
Sign Up Now

* Monitor 1 profile
* Profile is crawled twice daily
* View up to 25 of a profile’s friends
* Ad-Supported

Pro Account ($6/month via PayPal)
Sign Up Now

* Monitor up to 5 profiles
* Profile is crawled every 6 hours
* View up to 100 of a profile’s friends
* No Ads

via MySpaceWatch

Originally posted on March 23, 2006 @ 2:00 pm

Google deleted its own blog last night while we were all sleeping. Joy. I’m just curious stuff like this happens over @ Google.

Google Blog Accidentally Deleted By Google

Jennifer Slegg over at the Search Engine Watch blog reports that the Official Google Blog Deleted. In short, yes, Google had accidently deleted their own blog. They have confirmed the mistake;

We’ve determined the cause of tonight’s outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d’oh!) which allowed the blog address to be temporarily claimed by another user. This was not a hack, and nobody guessed our password. Our bad.

Oopppss…

via Search Engine Journal

Who knows maybe they will delete my pagerank tommorow.

Originally posted on March 28, 2006 @ 3:41 pm

Microsoft continues to confuse the heck out of me. I am always more and more perplexed by the decision of this company to rebrand products create poor interfaces, and launch products a year late. And have Robert Scoble as its unofficial company spokesman, err evangelist. While this post is highly opinionated. The product MSN Spaces is more MySpace and less blogging platform and hopefully that will change with the rebranding. It needs to be more powerful blogging application with simplification if its going to become one of the market leaders if you ask me. Oh Scoble where art thou? If Spaces was so great why are you using WordPress?

MSN INTENDS TO ADD NEW features to its blogging service and change its name from “MSN Spaces” to “Windows Live Spaces” this summer, reflecting the Redmond software giant’s plan to monetize its online offerings under the “Live” flag.

An MSN spokesman said the company will gradually add Windows Live features, rather than relaunch the site. “MSN Spaces will focus on building Windows Live innovations into a ready=for-market product, rather than shipping as a beta in the Ideas site,” the spokesman said. “MSN Spaces will seamlessly transition to Windows Live Spaces as we add new Live features to the service later this summer.”

Via MediaPost

Originally posted on March 24, 2006 @ 1:04 pm

Over the last week or so Google’s Adsense has opened up a help center. Also Yahoo has updated its terms and conditions and added some new features.

Jen and Darren have some conversations and discussion going about all of this.

I’m not big into following all the details of the advertising world. But these seem like some moderately good decisions.

Originally posted on March 24, 2006 @ 4:05 am