Upon news that 30-year-old magazine InfoWorld was shutting down its print operations and moving online, and that the San Francisco Chronicle is also in trouble, a debate is raging in the blogosphere. The general consensus near Silicon Valley: print is dead.
Before Becoming A-List Bloggers
This is not your typical rags to riches story, but an interesting rant from Jason Calacanis over at calacanis.com about what people did before they hit the A-List in blogging.
A List Bloggers Shouldn’t Throw Stones
There are a number of fatal, hypocritical or naive flaws in almost every attack on paid posts by A list bloggers and it is time to show them their Achilles heel(s).
Getting Links from A-List Bloggers
As in any community, there are the trend setters, the visionaries and the superstars. They’re the ones that are quoted, read and referenced most, the movers and shakers of their particular realm. Blogging is no different.
Job-A-Matic Recruiting Appeal With Bloggers
Job search engine Simply Hired has been gaining ground with its Job-a-matic service, snagging over 600 bloggers and other site publishers since launch.
Before You Send Stuff to Bloggers…
Karl over at ExperienceCurve posted an interesting question for bloggers yesterday about how you would react to getting free products as a blogger and what sense of obligation you might feel. Nokia is experimenting with this, and just about every consumer products brand I work with is considering it and trying to find the right way to do it as well.
Smart Phones for Smart Bloggers
I have noted a couple of times before that Nokia sent out phones and internet tablets in the past to some bloggers.
Technorati Closes Album On 2000 Bloggers
A link scheme designed to game the rankings at sites like blog tracker Technorati, along with other search sites, received a swift kick in the routers from the Technorati crew.
Apple Ordered To Pay Legal Fees For Bloggers
A California court made it clear to Apple that if the company wanted to find out who leaked details of an in-development product to bloggers, they’d actually have to do it legally. That lesson cost the company almost $700,000 in legal fee reimbursement.
Apple Pays Bloggers’ Legal Fees
Wow, Apple is ordered to pay $700,000 for bloggers’ legal fees.