A firestorm of negativity has surrounded Google in recent weeks concerning the company’s practice of advertising its own services as “tips” in SERP pages queried by users. At least for today, the company has put that practice on hold.
The Blogosphere’s Peak
Research firm Gartner has predicted that the growth of the blogosphere will peak at about 100 million by the mid-point of 2007.
The Politics of the Blogosphere
Candidates for political office often run advertisements that portray opponents in a damaging light. Likewise, bloggers are beginning to take an increasing amount of liberty in their negative portrayal of certain individuals who are viewed as influential throughout the blogosphere.
Blogosphere Cracks 57 Million Mark
Technorati’s blog tracking system has found 100,000 blogs were created each day in the third quarter of 2006, and 55 percent of all blogs were active enough to have been updated with a new post at least once every three months.
The Blogosphere
For those of us that reside primarily in geekdom, the state of any major technology, especially of the online variety, is big news.
Does PR add value to the blogosphere?
On November 1, I posted an item to this blog, part of the ongoing Edelman/Wal-Mart kerfuffle. In that post, I noted that the interview Edelman CEO Richard Edelman gave to IT World would be dissected, “the group of bloggers who don’t like PR people being in the blogosphere,” as Richard put it. In response, Amy Bellinger commented:
Measuring Blogosphere Influence with BuzzLogic
Among the toughest tasks that marketers face daily is tracking what is being said about their company or its brands in the media, identifying which of the external voices are most influential and are having the most impact-positively or negatively-and then devising a strategy and specific tactics to influence the influencers.
Measuring Influence in the Blogosphere with BuzzLogic
Among the toughest tasks that marketers face daily is tracking what is being said about their company or its brands in the media, identifying which of the external voices are most influential and are having the most impact-positively or negatively-and then devising a strategy and specific tactics to influence the influencers.
Paid Blogging & Blogosphere Ethics
Influential bloggers are taking a harsh stance against services that offer payment to blog posters in return for product reviews, bringing the question of “blogosphere ethics” to the forefront of the blogging community.
BlogHer Aftershocks Rumble Through Blogosphere
The aftershocks of BlogHer rumble through the blogosphere…the confidence, the insights, the diversity, (and even the vitriol and invective), 700++ voices from the individuals who were there, as well as the multitudes who followed the conference online.