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Category: Blogs and Blogging

Baseball blogs?

Not sure why I’m on a baseball tangent today. It’s not like my team (the Pittsburgh Pirates) is doing very well this year. I just read an intriguing post though at Om Malik’s site theorizing that Six Apart and Major League Baseball have a baseball blog project in the works called mlblogs.com. Very interesting and […]

NBC Chief Mulls Blogs for Top News Anchors

NBC’s President, Jeff Zucker, wants his top news anchors (Brian Williams, Katie Couric) to have blogs. Zucker said he was considering a blog for Williams and could envision a similar blog for Katie Couric, the co-host of NBC’s “Today” show. He noted that the morning program hadn’t changed its format much in more than a […]

New Gawker site Sploid launched

Gawker launched a new site in their network yesterday called Sploid. From the site’s description, Sploid is a news site with a tabloid mentality — top stories up top, played big, as fast as they break. If there’s a political line, it’s anarcho-capitalist: sniffing out hypocrisy and absurdity, whether from salon left or religious right.

Google to start 'video blogging'

The BBC has an article on Google beginning an experiment in video blogging. The company plans to archive video clips. Video blogging – vlogging – is still a new phenomenon but is expected to take off as web space becomes cheaper – or even free – and digital cameras become ever more sophisticated. More info […]

Yahoo 360 Review

I’ve had a chance to use the new Yahoo! 360 (thanks Mindsack) and the following is my review. I can’t say that I’m terribly impressed with Yahoo 360 and I will not be using it anytime soon for blogging. Everyone is comparing it to other blogging tools, but I’m not sure if that is an […]