Sina aims at Baidu with blogger ads (Market Watch)
SHANGHAI (MarketWatch) -- Look for more from China's leading portal Sina, private deals to keep flowing in strange directions, and IPO hopefuls to put their house in order. 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