Blogger's Choice Awards Crosses 200,000-Vote Mark, Becomes Internet's Biggest Blog Competition (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
ORLANDO, Fla.----The Blogger's Choice Awards, the largest fan-determined blog competition on the Internet, announced today it has garnered over 200,000 votes from more than 75,000 individual users since its launch last April. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Crime blogger gives voice to the missing and forgotten (The State)
The story of 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown touched South Carolina crime blogger Stephen McCaskill’s heart. Her stepfather allegedly beat her, dunked her head in the bathtub and let her die in January 2006 at her Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment, authorities say. She reportedly was killed over a missing container of yogurt. “Kids are supposed to look at their parents as someone who’s supposed to take care ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
BLOGGING Beyond Katrina (The Advocate)
Hurricane season never ends in a newsroom. Even when the weather itself isn’t the story, the devastation — or the recovery, or the politics, or the anniversary — is, until finally it’s time to start writing “preparation stories” for the next never-ending storm season. us.rd.yahoo.com |
7 Blog Promotion Techniques (WebProNews)
A reader asked me a question that I found quite intriguing, “ How do I get people to find my blog posts? ” There are a number of ways that people can come across you and your blog posts. Here are just a few. Search Engines - Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask are constantly looking for new content to crawl and rank. Ensure your site is search friendly and submit an XML sitemap for faster ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
The Gawker Job Interview
The following is an instant-message exchange between Nick Denton, the owner of Gawker Media, and Richard Morgan, who was eventually hired as a reporter at Mr. Denton’s flagship Gawker.com , but who quit earlier this month, after his first full day on the job. This exchange, in which Mr. Denton discusses much of his philosophy behind Gawker, occurred on Dec. 19, 2007. Mr. Morgan provided the transcript. nytimes.com |