Knowledge@Wharton has an interesting article about how people in the academe view blogs and blogging. Some professors appreciate the value of blogs, citing in particular the community aspect of blogs, the intimacy shared between author and reader, and the immediacy of information sharing. However, some are concerned that the blogosphere is flooded with unverified information [...]

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Liz Strauss realized something in her recent accidental click on an advertisement: it’s not such a bad thing.
Her first reaction though was somewhat different.
The second the ad came up, I automatically looked away. NO! I’m not an ad clicker. No, no no! I needed out of there right away!
I looked around for a witness to [...]

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John Chow, becoming more and more well known to me over the last while has decided to take the time to compile a list of all the advertising opportunities that a blogger might want to research and be part of.
He not only breaks them up into different categories, but does not use any affiliate links [...]

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On Make Easy Money with Google and AdSense, there is a post about how having too much content can actually cause problems with your adsense ads.
Adsense detects what type of ads to display by analyzing the content on the page for keywords. If you have too much content on your site from varying categories, [...]

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If you are trying to make some money off your blog, it can be very difficult, and sometimes it does not even seem worth the time, effort or sometimes money to make things happen in that respect, but Dumb Little Man has a post up listing over fourty companies, affiliate programs and whatnot that could [...]

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Simply Blog Job Seeker looks at getting your dream job, and it reminded me how people are always wondering how they can become a blogger, and many of the tips listed on the site converts well for getting a job blogging.
They list eleven tips for getting and keeping that dream job, one of which is:
Once [...]

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Over on Jensense, and interesting little tech tidbit popped up. It seems Norton Internet Security does not like Google’s new video advertisements, going so far as popping up a medium risk intrusion attempt alert.
This is bad, as some less tech savvy people will think that your site is trying to intrude on their computer, [...]

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ReviewMe is going to be an attempt to try to fix some of the problems associated with other pay-per-post services by making sure that their are two ground rules:
1.) You have to disclose you are being paid for the post.
2.) You don’t have to make the post positive.
While I think disclosure is great, they seem [...]

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I started my problogging career as a corporate problogger, meaning I blogged mostly in the context of the company I worked for. Incidentally, I was also part of the company’s team that developed a blogging application, so it was very apt for an insider to blog about the product. I was the blogging evangelist.
Back then, [...]

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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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Paul Gillin has just concluded a blogger survey for the upcoming book, New Influencers: A Marketer’s Guide to Social Media.
The results analysis includes answers from all respondents who took the survey in the 97 day period from Thursday, June 15, 2006 to Tuesday, September 19, 2006. 159 completed responses were received to the survey during [...]

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I recently stumbled upon a July 2006 report by PEW Internet entitled Bloggers: A portrait of the internet’s new storytellers (PDF) and I was intrigued that the word WordPress did not appear on the text a single time. In the telephone survey done to determine blogger- and blog-related data, the most used blogging platform was [...]

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Problogger.net has a post up trying to analyze how much blog posts are worth, in regards to paying hired writers to write on blogs. I am a hired writer, and get paid a variety of different amounts, depending on each factor that Darren lists, as well as the amount that the company can afford, let’s [...]

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Over on Successful Blog, Liz Strauss has a post up about creating a book from your blog archives. While it is maybe not something everyone should or can do, many people out there could repurpose their well written materials into a short book, on a subject. This is something I think more thought leaders should [...]

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Blogher, a well know blog network has started their own advertising network aimed directly at women bloggers. Originally designed just for sites in the network, the new BlogherAds.com goes wider than that.
After successfully launching our premium BlogHer advertising network, featuring 30+ superb parenting bloggers, we are pleased to announce that we are opening [...]

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Probably getting tired of the usual “top ten” list type posting, Steve Rubel posts his A to Z of making money through your blog. Of course, having only one entry per letter makes it a bit limited, but because of this I suppose Steve has only included what he thinks really matters.
And here are my [...]

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The blogosphere is one big echo chamber. Bloggers are, after all, fond of simply linking to and citing content by other writers, which are, themselves, most likely influenced by material elsewhere. And yes, I’m guilty of that, myself. Even this blog post is not entirely original.
While there’s nothing wrong about expressing agreement or dissenting opinion [...]

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It started out as wild ideas exchanged in jest via email and IM. But this concept might just encourage the house-bound problogger in me to go out more often into the wild outdoors to work (meaning anywhere with WiFi, of course). Sacha Chua brought up the concept of networking via messages stuck at the back [...]

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Liz Strauss is a very wise woman, and has posted an article called “The Problem with Writing . . . 25 Things to Know BEFORE You Write for a Living“. This article works very well for the topic of blogging as well, as people are trying to get jobs professionally blogging.
I have taken a [...]

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Chitika, an advertising service that Darren Rowse seems to like, has added new categories to their service, as well as new ad sizes.
The new categories are:
Photography Accessories
Cellular Accessories
Computer Games
Computer Speakers
Laptop Accessories
Scanner Accessories
CD [...]

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