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In an article on Wired in November of 2002, Kendra Mayfield wrote in “Blog to Court: Check Your Facts” about the “first” time a blog influenced and corrected a court decision. When attorney Howard Bashman noticed a small error in the footnote of a 5th Circuit appellate court opinion, he quickly noted it on his weblog. The next day, Judge Jerry Smith, who wrote the opinion and also happens to be a reader of Bashman’s blog, fixed the error in an amended version. The judge e-mailed Bashman, personally thanking him for bringing the mistake to his attention. “It’s the first time that I’ve noticed a weblog credited for pointing out an error and causing a correction (in a court decision),” Bash...

On 'fatblogs,' heavy people weigh in  —  Many struggling with extra pounds go public in search of willpower.  —  Jason McCabe Calacanis is a blogging maestro.  About 10,000 people visit his website each day to read his new business ideas, musings on technology and potshots at rival entrepreneurs. Source:   Los Angeles Times Author:   Alex Pham Link:   http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi… Techmeme permalink

I posted (manually) yesterday about how many Blogger users, including myself, were <a href="http://blog.seoptimise.com/2007/06/bloggercom-not-publishing-any-posts-or.html">experiencing problems when publishing posts or comments</a>. <br /><br />I'm not sure why this was happening but as a workaround it seems that if you set the date of your latest post to tomorrow's date this fixes the problem. Thanks to <a href="http://groups.google.co.uk/group/blogger-help-publishing/browse_thread/thread/353c0cfddeb33b90">Abandon Skip</a> who posted about the fix on Google Groups.<div class="blogger-post-footer">-------------------------<br /><a href="http://www.seoptimise.com">Search Engine Optimisati...

This is a long over due thank you. It's also a pretty good list of where to find some great marketing blogs and a few cool, bloggy resources. To Philippe Deltenre for the opportunity to be part of your Trilogy Interviews with BBFs from all over the world. Mark Goren has links to all the interviews. A walk in the Viral Garden, with Mack Collier The free (conversation) agent, with Valeria Maltoni CK – Psyche, with Christina Kerley (C.K.) Dial S for Servant of Chaos, with Gavin Heaton Viva la Diva, with Toby Bloomberg Last transmission, Mark Goren To Mack Collier for the Viral Garden's Top 25 Marketing Blogs. Diva Marketing has had the honor to be included since day one. Today Diva ranks #11. Sidebar: Mack rece...

According to William Houston [scroll down to story ' hockey blogging'], <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070614.TRUTH14/TPStory/?query=islanders">The New York Islanders have determined</a> that the blogosphere "cannot be ignored," and they've set up a work area for bloggers. This report from a newspaper that now has a /sports/hockey blog online. (If professional journalists are also bloggers, are they in the blogosphere or not?)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Traffickdotcom/~4/124792178" height="1" width="1"/>

The state of our video ID tools  —  Recent speculation and stories like this Wall Street Journal article or this Reuters report on YouTube's use of video identification tools made us think it would be useful to clarify what we're doing.  —  We've been developing improved content identification for months … Source:   Official Google Blog Author:   Karen Link:   http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/state-of-our… Techmeme permalink

TechCrunch was barely crawling this evening, due to a double slowdown from two third party apps on the site. Stripped both out, and the site is humming. Fastest load time I’ve ever seen.

Finally, someone really ‘gets‘ bloggers: Traffick reports that the New York Islanders think “the blogosphere can no longer be ignored,” and have created a work area for bloggers. No, not on their website: at the rink. The Globe and Mail reports (see the last section in the article, ‘Hockey blogging’) that they’ll have a workplace in Nassau Coliseum. The Islanders’ VP of Media Relations, Chris Botta, said, “We believe it is a significant new avenue to grow the popularity not just of the Islanders, but of the game of hockey.” If only all industries were so easily persuaded. (Incidentally, during the hockey season, the Islanders run two blogs on their website.) Loren Baker report...

Here’s a trick that you can see done by many bloggers: write authoritatively, no matter how little you know about a subject. Nobody actually checks your credentials, so it’s quite easy to pretend to be an expert, especially if you adopt the proper tone. Blogging is at a point where credibility is beginning to matter, but it’s still not of paramount importance. You don’t have to get a degree from “Blogging University” to get started. All it takes is Wordpress and some free hosting. Or, if you want to spend nothing, you can do Blogger and get your blog on. Will acting important do the trick in the long run? No. Real experts will eventually figure out what’s going on, but you might be able to g...

Google (or rather Blogger) is releasing a new feature entitled “Blogger in Draft” which allows users to beta test new features before they go live with the general blog*spot population. The first feature the search engine giant seems to be testing is video uploading, which many bloggers have been requesting ever since Google came out with Google Video (not to mention the billion dollar plus YouTube purchase). (more…)

Google’s Blogger has a new homepage for early adopters, as they say: draft.blogger.com*. From here you will be able to get new features still in test mode, like a current video upload option which you can trigger with an icon button above your editor (your video will be hosted at Google Video, not YouTube, by the way). There’s also a new blog for the draft Blogger (which I’ve added to the Google’s blogs page). *To recap, when a Google product or feature is in early status, it’s called: Labs, Experimental, Draft, Test, or Beta. [Via Blogger Buzz.] [By Philipp Lenssen | Original post | Comments][Advertisement] Google books at eBay: background info on Google, AdWords, AdSense, Blogger and more...   [Ad...

Marie Howell, UK SEO at Bruce Clay Europe attended last week’s Blogs and Social Media Forum held at The London Marriot Grosvenor Hotel and was kind enough to share her experience. Thanks, Marie! Although certainly not SMX, nor the dizzy (metaphorically speaking) heights of Seattle, the Blogs and Social Media...

A daily affirmation to assure the success of any blogger Each day face the East and say the following in a sonorous tone. “My blogging helps prosper myself and the Universe. My Adsense Revenue is strong like a Bull and ever soaring like an Eagle. My Kontera Content Links set revenue records like the company’s top salesman. Each day my [...]

<p>A June 4th article in <strong>Ad Age</strong> (subscription required) compiles some useful studies of the blogosphere, but, like most mainstream media articles about blogging, it largely misses the point about what really makes blogs influential. That got me thinking about what <em>really</em> makes a blog popular.</p> <p>The article notes: <blockquote>"[Blogs] have the power to send stock prices plummeting and influence the buying decisions of millions. Consumers count them as more credible than your advertising and e-mail marketing."</blockquote> And that's absolutely true. But it's not the 15 million active bloggers who have that kind of influence, it's the top 5,000. ...

As blogs continue to gain popularity, banks are seeking to understand the impact of this phenomenon on their business strategy.

If you didn’t know, today is Blog Backup Day. The 13th of every month is the one day that you should take a few minutes and backup your blog posts in case something bad happens. What if the database server decides to crash tomorrow? Then what?! I started Blog Backup Day in hopes to encourage other blog authors to save their data. You never know when a hosting error or hacker will pop up. There is nothing worse for a blogger than realizing that your past year (or more) worth of blog posts are simply gone. So, take a few minutes and backup your blog!

I love outing friends that are blogging.  My partner Ryan McIntyre’s wife Katherine has started a blog titled It is what it is.  Katherine and Ryan moved to Boulder in August 2006 and – other than the worst winter ever in the history of man – have been settling in nicely.  Katherine is a beautiful writer: upfront, personal, and articulate while being willing to tackle juicy stuff.  Her posts have quickly become some of my favorites to read when they show up in FeedDemon.  Katherine - welcome to the blogosphere or whatever it is called these days.

When FeedBurner announced that it was being bought out by Google last month, several things were immediately clear.  First, it became clear that the owners of FeedBurner were going to receive a $100 million payday. Second, it was clear that Google would receive access to a berth of statistics about RSS feeds not previously available to them. Finally, it was clear that Google was making yet another foray into the advertising market, buying up the the budding FeedBurner Advertising Network.  However, many questions have gone unanswered. Though FeedBurner attempted to head off some of the questions with their FAQ on the subject, many of the more difficult questions remain. Will Google integrate FeedBurner into its analytics program? Will the F...

Technorati has expanded its mission to become the authority on tagging of all types of content. The former blog search tool now indexes videos and music along with blogs and news, allowing a personalized window into what's hot. The new utility provides more data about the hottest tags and detail about the buzz about websites, news, and tags, and the company offers several widget tools for tracking links to websites that compliments the raw traffic data that you can get from Google Analytics. You can see who's linking, where you rank and what are the most popular tags associated with your blog. Technorati's tags are becoming so popular with users that they are gaining in rank with Google's natural results, according to Google Blogoscope....

The Associated Press is reporting that a journalist from the The Courier-Journal was booted out of the press box at an NCAA baseball game for blogging about the game. The NCAA policy is that there is to be no blogging about NCAA baseball games during the game. NCAA spokesman Bob Williams said Monday that Bennett was asked not to blog about game action before Sunday's game. "In a nutshell, we asked the blogger repeatedly not to cover it in that manner, because it violates the policy, and he continued, and his credential was revoked," Williams said. Williams said it didn't matter that the newspaper had blogged at other NCAA events, like the Orange Bowl and NCAA basketball tournament. "Essentially, we enforce the policy when we learn of vi...

Jack Slocum saw our post on the Joomla widget, and pointed us to a his FeedViewer 3 application, slated to be released with Ext 2.0: The FeedViewer example app has been rewritten from scratch for Ext 2.0. It is intended to be a good reference implementation of 2.0 and unlike the other examples which were written with speed of development in mind, FeedViewer 3 features it's code broken up into logical classes. This makes the code much more organized and easier to maintain. Some new things in FeedViewer 3 are reading pane placement, post summaries, context menus (tabs, grid and tree context menus), combobox (in "Add feed" window) and some significant performance improvements. It starting to look pretty decent, so I have thrown a dev copy u...

Wrong. But you didn’t need me to tell you that. Those who are making a living directly from blogging (as opposed to using a blog to promote an existing business) know that it took a lot of hard work to get there. Those that think the secret is cranking out generic “content” that does little more than fill up space are quitting in droves or desperately searching for the answer that will get them over the hump. When I first collaborated with Yaro Starak over a year ago, he struck me as someone who would make it. But at the time, Yaro was only making about $1,000 a month from his online marketing efforts after a year of hard work. He seemed resolved to take things to the next level, but I could tell he was a bit frustrated. What a difference a...

I cannot thank the guys over at Blazer Six enough! They have done an excellent redesign which will expose far more content and given me a far better use of space and also integrating a Chat Room, Photos . Brady & Brody are a real professional duo and I actually got the recommendation from Ken Yarmosh when he redesigned his Technosight blog - and I can honestly say I was not disappointed in the least!! Although I highly doubt it, there may be some bugs in the site - please let me know if you find any! The fact that this entire blog is built on open source software (Wordpress) is truly a testament to the future of open source. I’ve been holding off on doing too many posts this week, until this new theme was in place (and also, t...

Marc Andreessen, Ning cofounder and onetime Netscape cofounder, has started blogging. And hey--he's real good. He should have been a writer (except he was smart enough to realize there's no money in it). The posts are long but useful, and...

Brian Clark posted about how to get more subscribers through remarkable writing and vangogh follow up with an extended purple cow analogy: CopyBlogger (as one example) gets talked about and linked to often and rightfully so. Brian’s content is generally remarkable. However if you took a few of Brian’s more talked about posts and moved them to a relatively unknown blog they wouldn’t get talked about as much or even at all. In a sense it’s the purple cow in the barn syndrome. CopyBlogger is out of the barn and standing in the middle of the field. Once there are enough purple cows in your field then people will look longer at your ordinary black and white cow and some will even believe they see purple. It’s all the purple from the other cows i...

YORK, Pa. (AdAge.com) -- They have the power to send stock prices plummeting and influence the buying decisions of millions. Consumers count them as more credible than your advertising and e-mail marketing. But odds are you have no idea who they are. It's time to get introduced: Marketers, meet the bloggers.

I haven’t had a chance to think long and hard yet about Google’s recent decision to acquire FeedBurner, and I’m sure most reactions will center on how this provides Google yet another medium to deliver contextual ads. But my first reaction was slightly different: What FeedBurner seems to provide Google — as much as an advertising medium — is an automatic feed of new Web content and an instant mapping of the all important links between pages. Now, instead of Google needing to rely on the efficiency of its crawlers to find these new blog posts, they will be delivered right to Google’s front door every time we ping http://ping.feedburner.com. Share This

With the new technology available in the worlds of electronic communication and the Internet, it can be hard to keep up with all the latest gadgets. In this article, we cover the basics of RSS feeds. ...

FeedBurner just quietly posted to their site the official announcement that Google has indeed acquired Feedburner. Here’s what CEO Dick Costolo has to say about why it’s such a great fit (which it really is): 1. Google’s competencies and focus around publisher analytics, distribution, and monetization map perfectly to our suite of services. 2. Publishers want a single dashboard and single source for the metrics that give them feedback about the value of their content and its impact on their business. By combining our market leading feed metrics with Google’s market leading site and marketing analytics, publishers now get a comprehensive, 360-degree view of their audience. This ‘total perspective’ has lon...

When I sent the rough draft of ActoBlog.com over to a colleague of mine, his immediate reaction was one of dissatisfaction with the design, citing it as "unprofessional." This got me thinking: what does professional really mean, especially on the Internet? I prefer to think about it in terms of the target customer: will professional bloggers, the target users for ActoBlogs, find the site to be "unprofessional"? Professional bloggers can span a wide range of individuals, from Steve Pavlina to Michael Arrington, and loads more people with smaller audiences. In this context, I did not find the ActoBlog design to be unprofessional. Perhaps my colleague was just being tactful, and what he really means is that it "loo...

Academia has embraced RSS as a means to educate, but scrutinizing how educational institutions are using RSS feeds in their daily routines show RSS is utilized can vary across different industries. 1. Share Resources Academics are using social bookmarking websites to share quality websites that relate to their area of expertise with colleagues and students. RSS and Education

Well, some of you love the Technorati search ticker on the home page and some of you, well, don't like it so much. We've listened to your feedback and have added a close button on the right hand side of the ticker. Thanks for the feedback - we aim to please. Do note that, at the moment, there isn't an Undo, so, once it's closed, it's closed. The good news is, if you never want to see it, you won't have to. For those who want to get it back, please be patient, we'll add a recovery preference soon.

Feedburner is a central hub of hundreds of thousands of blog and podcast feeds owned by corporations, small businesses and individuals alike that can use its software to publicize their feeds, monitor subscriptions and user interaction, and to monetize their feeds. So How Might Owning Feedburner Help Google?

<p>Eager to explore the emerging new medium of podcasting, we launched our own <a href="http://customerevangelists.typepad.com/podcast/">podcast </a>in February 2005. Our goal was to produce thoughtful and interesting shows about customer evangelism and word of mouth. </p> <p>It was fun for about 10 episodes but exhausted by the work, we stopped. For the NPR-sounding quality we sought, the production was time-consuming and laborious. We usually spent 8-10 hours editing a 30-40 minute show.</p> <p>We were in "the dip," as Seth Godin describes in his terrific new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dip-Little-Book-Teaches-Stick/dp/1591841666">"The Dip: </a><sp...

(Note: an alternative way of phrasing the question above would be, “How many laws is your blog breaking?”). I came across a post today that begged discussion. The topic was “blogger law” and the post served up some useful and interesting facts of what a blogger (can and cannot) do legally. While the post had some great info of which I was unaware, there were some serious problems that just reminded me of how much I hate politicians. Regarding the requirement of bloggers to disclose paid sponsorships (a la PPP & ReviewMe): CONSIDER that even though the FTC’s paid review disclosure recommendation doesn’t appear to apply to links, meaning that webmasters aren’t required to “NoFollow” the paid links they give as of...

I've got some wonderful news, six month's hard work of our entire team has just gone out the door. http://www.technorati.com/ We just launched a major refresh to www.technorati.com. Some of the changes are subtle, some are big, and they all build on a bunch of improvements we've been making to the site since January. We've been spending a lot of time listening to you, and incorporating an enormous amount of feedback into this refresh - dozens of changes to both our look and feel and to our backend systems to make Technorati more useful to you. As I've blogged about before, the world has changed. Whereas folks using Technorati a couple of years ago were predominantly coming to us to search the blogosphere to surface the conversations...

You know, I look around at other blogs, and instead of paying attention to a faulty or very conservative figures Feedburner counter, I typically guage how popular a blog is by the amount of consecutive comments they have on each blog post entry. There are so many big boy bloggers out there that are not [...]

Yes, it's been a while since I posted here. The curse of the pro blogger, your own blog gets neglected sometimes. Regardless, Jim and I are doing are first BlogTalkRadio show on social media called Mediasphere Radio on Tuesday at 3 PDT. There will be call in lines and you can IM questions in through Skype (either Jim or I) ... heck we'll even take questions via Twitter. Should be a blast.

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The party Monday is on Upcoming, and also got some coverage at Laughing Squid with a bit of historical perspective. Also next week on Thursday is the NewTeeVee Pier Screening, which looks like it’s going to be a fun event.