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FTC Disclosures Made Simple For Bloggers With Conflicts
The new FTC disclosure rules for bloggers can be confusing. While many people do their best to explain when they may have received gifts or food or books for free, it's not very easy to know just how to disclose, and when! That's why, with the help o...
Disclose This: I Can\'t Disclose Everything Everywhere!
Though hubbub around the FTC's plans to require bloggers to disclose relationships with companies, services and products has lessened over the last few weeks, the December 1st date for enactment is rapidly approaching. As promised before, and many ot...
The Blog\'s Place In A World of Microblogging: Not Dead Yet!
Even as the microblogging space seems to be white hot these days, the world of longer-form blogging is still seeing impressive growth, with all major blogging platforms showing greater than 20 to 40 percent growth year over year, and record users, bl...
Technorati Roars Back To Life After Self-Imposed Slumber
There are a select few Web 2.0 companies who have suffered such a roller coaster of peaks and valleys the way Technorati has. Once a clear industry leader for blog search, statistics, and individual site "authority", Technorati's influence withered a...
Why Would I Say to "Stop Talking About Social Media"?
Two weeks ago, the second in a pair of guest blog posts from me for Brian Solis' PR 2.0 site suggested that people should "stop talking about social media and go do it already". For those of you who know me, and this blog, you know we actually use (a...
Why I Don't Think The FTC's Rules On Disclosure Will Have Much Effect
As you no doubt already know, the Federal Trade Commission posted a revision to guidance to advertisers around endorsements that might have far-reaching effects in the blogosphere, asking authors who receive free product, services or are paid outrigh...
Google Translate Widget Takes Sites and Blogs Global
According to my Google Analytics statistics, about 25 percent or more of the visitors to my blog over the last 30 days prefer a language other than English. Given I tend to use more words than pictures, it would be assumed readers would either be mul...
Ev and Biz Discuss Early Days of Blogger After 10th Anniversary
Today, the Web is lit up with reports of vulnerabilities in the geeky Web blogging platform, WordPress. Meanwhile, quietly, its predecessor, sporting 300 million active readers (measured on a 30-day basis), with nearly 400 million words added per day...
Five Blogs Under the Radar: July 2009 Edition
Seventeenth Edition Of a Monthly SeriesAs we wrap up July, it comes time again to highlight some enterprising bloggers who are practicing their craft with little attention - or at least a lot less than some of the brand names we frequently run up aga...
Google Reader "Likes" Find the More Shy Blog Readers
Since Google Reader introduced new social aspects to their popular RSS reader last Wednesday, there have been a number of reactions to the additions - most specifically around their introduction of a "like" feature, enabling readers to essentially gi...
Venture Capitalists, But In Text Form
On Monday night, during a blogger briefing, I struck up a conversation with Dave McClure (he being the Master of 500 Hats) around the process of blogging, and participating in those social networks where we have put our energy. And during this exchan...
JS-Kit Declares the Death of Comments, Launches New Echo Platform
There is no question that as activity on social networks has broadened, conversations have become decentralized and distributed. Only a short few years ago, bloggers could anticipate their posts would rile up deep conversations on their blogs, throug...
Five Blogs Under the Radar: June 2009 Edition
Sixteenth Edition Of a Monthly SeriesEven as many people are debating the importance of blogging, the number of active bloggers is still growing. And even if we have grown comfortable with the number of people we are reading, there are voices we are ...
Blogging Is Still the Foundation In A World of Streams
Last week, Edelman's Steve Rubel made an aggressive jump - away from traditional blogging, turning over his site to a lifestream, which captures all of his activity from around the Web. His move, he reported, was due to a feeling that blogging "feels...
Are Authors or Publications Impacting How You Consume the News?
Over the last few years, participating in the tech blogosphere and meeting many of the people who create and report on the tech news we read every day has made the entire process of consuming the news more than simply a passive exercise. While in 200...
LiveFlows Highlights Popular Posts from Your Blog and Network
Ever visit a blog for the first time, and wonder if they have other posts that might be interesting to you, or wonder what other readers like you found popular? What about wondering if there were other blogs like the one you were reading that had sim...
