Posts from — August 2007

Blog Herald Podcast 2007.3 posted

August 31st, 2007

We’ve posted edition 2007.3 of The Blog Herald Podcast over at The Blog Herald wherein we discuss blog comments, our acquisition of Telegraphik, and a little about NBC and Vivendi leaving the iTunes store.

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Telegraphik acquired by Bryghtpath LLC

August 31st, 2007

We’re pleased to announce that Telegraphik has been acquired by Bryghtpath LLC, a new media company based near Minneapolis, Minnesota. Telegraphik was launched by David Krug in May 2007 and quickly became a well known online property. Whether it was discussing whether or not bloggers needed a union or looking at the latest star coming [...]

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WordPress.com gets a facelift

August 9th, 2007

WordPress.com got a facelift the last few days and I didn’t even notice it. I hardly ever login to my WordPress.com blog but happened upon it late this evening. It appears WordPress.com want’s to become more of a newsy site utilizing user generated content from WordPress.com hosted blogs. According to Automattic Have you seen the [...]

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Freakonomics joins the NY Times

August 9th, 2007

According to Editor and Publisher Freakonoics has a new home and that’s the NYTimes. The NYTimes.com announced today that it is now the exclusive host of the popular Freakonomics blog. The deal will bring best-selling Freakonomics authors Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt to the online Opinion section of The Times. Melissa Lafsky, previously [...]

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Is Facebook Killing Personal Blogging?

August 9th, 2007

TechDigest had an interesting editorial about how they believe Facebook is killing personal blogging. I signed into Vox the other day, for the first time in months. It looks like everyone in my personal neighbourhood has been similarly lax too – only one of my friends has blogged in August, and several last posted in [...]

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YouTube Launches Another New Star

August 6th, 2007

If you got a chance to watch Carson Daly’s Last Call last night you could have caught YouTube Star Marie Digby play her cover of Umbrella by Rihanna. Youtube continues to push forward high quality stars that normally would have fallen through the cracks.

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The Ever Declining Fall of CNET

August 6th, 2007

I remember the day when I used to check in to CNET on a daily basis sometimes even multiple times a day. I read an interesting article on 24/7 WallSt that signaled a real decline in revenues with CNET. And the large culprits appear to be independent tech blogs. It’s a sign that the little [...]

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