SplashPress Media is on a roll with its acquisitions of Tubetorial, a video tutorial site, and Cutline, a theme and community. Just recently they also added the Performancing brand to their network.
From 901am:
According to David Krug, “Over the last year Tubetorial has defined itself as a destination for people looking to learn on the web. [...]

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If you have ever wanted to be a part of a blog network, but not all the way, then Syntagma might be the place for you, at least if you fit into one of their network magazines.
The move will allow external sites inclusion in our rolling feeds, plus graphic representation on the portal and participation [...]

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It looks like b5media is organizing a little impromptu get together for blog networks. Jeremy Wright posts this on his blog:
Anyways, there’s some decent discussion happening around the blogging world about how blog networks should pay bloggers. Some good discussion. Hell, it’s great discussion. Stirring up good ideas, which is great for network owners as [...]

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Mike Rundle has put up his personal thoughts about how his digital records, like his e-mail and IM conversations are basically his memory, because his human brain, just can’t hold any more data, and its easier to rely on computers to record things.
because my memory is so poor, they’re a necessity in my life. Email [...]

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The best session during MooseCamp by far in my opinion was called “Hacking the Mothercorp” which was managed by Tod Maffin from Inside the CBC. The CBC is a Canadian national broadcaster, supported by the government and thus the taxes paid by people living in Canada.
The session was created to allow us to give feedback [...]

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Over on the Gravatar blog you might be surprised to find out that Gravatar is finally coming back, and it is only three days away.

That’s right, I’ve finally set a solid date. The semi-private beta will open (for anyone who has left a comment on this blog) sometime this weekend. That’ll give a few [...]

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Our sister blog, TechSoapBox has put up a post regarding made for adsense sites, also known as just MFA sites, have started to be replaced by MFL sites, or made for linkbait.
A Google search for Made for Adsense incidentally has a Wikipedia entry on scraper sites as the #1 result. Definitely not a popular [...]

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A trend that I rather enjoy is watching live blogging events unfold. Many of them are surrounding conferences and whatnot, but some are just for fun or personal interest. James Yu, over at Buzz Shout, has written out his thoughts on the Live Blogging trend.
He specifically talks about how different sites dealt with the Macworld [...]

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MyBlogLog, a service that allows people to leave information about themselves on blogs, has been purchased by Yahoo!.
Is this a good thing? I am not sure, but it does continue the trend of Yahoo! buying up ideas they think are hot, rather than building competing projects.
Here is a bit from the group’s blog:
Todd, John, Steve, [...]

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Darren Rowse pointed out some startling news, it seems the deal between Performancing and Pay Per Post wasn’t set in stone, and has now fallen through.
When I saw it, my jaw dropped as many of the people I know were not happy with Pay Per Post taking over Performancing’s Metrics blog stats package, and now [...]

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Steve Rubel pointed out an article that the Wall Street Journal has put up that has a strong negative opinion of blogs.
The blogs are not as significant as their self-endeared curators would like to think. Journalism requires journalists, who are at least fitfully confronting the digital age. The bloggers, for their part, produce minimal reportage. [...]

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Well, over on the Blog Herald, the new owners have revealed themselves, and its the Bloggy-Network that bought the site. No…I don’t mean us. I mean the UK Bloggy-Network. See the dash…that makes them different and should quell any confusion.
This post, as much as any other tone it has, should serve as a warning. Just [...]

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With the recent transition of The Blog Herald to a new company, I couldn’t let Matt off the hook without a few short questions, and thankfully he was willing to talk to me.
1. With the startling news of your sale of the Blog Herald, I think everyone is wondering “why!?”. It has been a [...]

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Matt Craven has let it be known that just ten months after acquiring the site from Duncan Riley, The Blog Herald’s founder, they have closed a deal selling the site to an undisclosed buyer.
I am currently trying to get more details on the sale in a short impromptu interview with Matt Craven, owner of Problogging [...]

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Duncan Riley, whom I consider to be one of the pillars of the blog network industry (which is quite young, if I may say), has recently left b5media, a blog network which he co-founded. Thing is, in the aftermath of his resignation, there were a lot of speculations on the details behind his leaving the [...]

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I was browsing around on C|Net’s News.com and noticed a very interesting post talking about ethics and blogging. This is something that has become very heated over the past few years especially when there is an opportunity for either side, traditional media or new media, to strike at each other trying to make the other [...]

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Over at Modern Life is Rubbish, they take a look at blog trends in the Top 100 blogs on Technorati and have some sweet graphs to display the information in a way that anyone can understand it.
The best blogs all have a quite few things in common - regular, well written content and a large [...]

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When I am 92, I hope I can still blog. My hopes where raised when Boing Boing reported that 92 year-old Donald Crowdis, the former host of a Canadian television show The Nature of Things,continues to blog at Don to Earth.
[T]he best food, or at least the best protein, is that which is most [...]

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A survey by conducted by online advertisement outfit DoubleClick has came up with 30% of the respondents clicking on banner advertisements, but a whopping 60% don’t click, but instead visit the advertiser’s website much later by directly entering the URL.
The finding suggests that consumers prefer to reach sites on their own, rather than by linking [...]

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In a shocking note on b5media’s blog, it looks like one of the founders, and noted VP of Development for b5media has left the team. After a visit to Toronto to meet the other founding members and talking about the future of b5media, Duncan found himself with what he considers a wound in his back.
From [...]

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