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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Darren has posted about this numerous times in the past, but Marco from TheWhiteHawk.com is looking at making it a meme, as well as finding out more than just the objects you got because of blogging.
So basically the intention is to find out what people have gotten from blogging. It doesn’t necessarily have to [...]

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Letting me know through a comment on BloggingPro, Thord has launched a new site called BloggerTalks. They are going around doing interviews on various bloggers. They already have two interviews up, including one from Liz Strauss of Successful Blog and John Evans of Syntagma Media. Not too bad for a site that hadn’t even launched [...]

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If you are one of the few people that is currently using Bloggers new beta version, you can now add Adsense ads to your blog easily using the AdSense widget.

1. First, log into the new version of Blogger with your Google Account. Click on the Layout link next to the blog where you’d like [...]

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Steve Rubel noticed something interesting over at Google News.
On the top right hand part of the page next to the Archive Search there’s now a link to Google Blog Search. Is Google one step closer to integrating the two products? They already do on Google Finance. News and blogs seem even more like a [...]

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It looks like with all the 2.0 buzz on the Internet, blogs are going to try to push their way into adding the 2.0 by trying to make a more social site. That is what Instablogs is saying in a recent post on their site, as they lay out their plan to revamp their blogging [...]

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Some people knew I was going to have to touch this subject sooner or later. I was hoping to ignore it and it would go away, but there has just been too much press around Chartreuse2.
For the longest time you could go to Chartreuse on WordPress.com. There were some interesting posts that were mostly converation [...]

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Military bloggers beware, the US Army is clamping down on blogs that could be spreading some information that the government does not want others to read.
From DefenseTech:
Since the relatively wide-open days following the Iraq invasion in 2003, the Pentagon has been slowly tightening the screws on military bloggers. Officers started busting frontline diarists for their [...]

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You thought that b5media getting $2 million dollars was a big deal? Well, blog network Sugar Publishing, which includes the very popular site PopSugar, has raised somewhere around $5 million US in a Series A round investment from Sequoia Capital.
From TechCrunch:
The Sugar Publishing network, which includes a number of blogs and other sites catering [...]

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I Want Media has a great interview with Josh Quittner, the editor of Business 2.0, and a new shift the magazine is making by asking every journalist at the magazine to create a blog.
Josh Quittner: I’ve asked all of my journalists to create a blog. It’s an experiment in response to a lot of [...]

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For those of you that did not know, a friend of mine, David Krug was recently imprisoned in Mexico for ten days. I had thought something had happened when I stopped hearing from him, but I assumed it was something more simple as just having a cold or something.
He is slowly covering his prison experience, [...]

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Greg Storey of Airbag Industries is not so excited about blogging anymore and he says that “web-two-point-dough has homogenized the Internet”.
When content is forced through a entry-commment-trackback-pagerank strainer it all comes out looking the same no matter how the templates are designed. Sure this format is functional but it’s more like a Maersk shipping [...]

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I absolutely love this post by Jeffery Veen on how blogging effects traditional media, using both Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw as examples to talk about.
Someone from the audience asked about how the blogosphere has changed the way the nightly news is considered. Brokaw answered unsurprisingly, saying that he believed people were capable of [...]

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Scotty and Fiddy are taking on an adventure, in hitchhiking to all fifty US state capitals in fifty consecutive days, and blogging their adventure on Hitch50.com.
The rules of Hitch50 are simple. We can’t pay for ANY transportation. And we must get a photo in front of every state capitol building in 50 days or less. [...]

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A Whole Lotta Nothing has a great interview up with Joel Johnson, from Dethroner and Gawker.
MH: So how do you find the motivation for it? I know lots of people (myself included) that might leave a professional writing gig with a book, blog, or magazine and say “fuck this mere pittance they’re paying me, [...]

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Bloggers are generally affable individuals. There’s usually a sense of community among groups of blogger-acquaintances and friends and even strangers. And whenever there are disagreements, these are usually handled as diplomatically as possible, except, perhaps for some rare cases.
But bloggers are a sensitive bunch, too, espeically when it comes to their content. I, for one, [...]

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indeed is a new site focused on job searches, but they also have a handy tool to let you know the average wages for a job. I put in things like Blogger, Journalist, Reporter, Computer Support Technician, Writer among others and got some interesting figures. I will tell you right now, I make way less [...]

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Blogs are exploding into the lives of many from all corners of the Earth, and China is not being left behind as they quickly adopt blogs and blogging. Some of the top blogs on the Technorati top 100 are from China, making you wonder, due to their massive amount of people, if the language of [...]

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