August 6, 2005

O'Reilly Digital Media has published an informative article explaining how to get started with Vlogging, or video blogging. The article goes over the basic steps, including creating a video, posting a video, and syndicating a video.

June 10, 2005

According to a number of credible blog postings, Yahoo! is currently in acquisition talks with Skype, the VOIP provider. If this deal happens, expect both Google and Microsoft to move fairly quickly into the VOIP market with acquisitions of their own.

May 21, 2005

Informit.com has published a very informative article explaining RSS in great detail. Learn how to use RSS aggregators, see how an RSS feed is constructed using XML, and learn to create RSS feeds from your own web applications. In addition, the article explains the differences between the various versions of RSS like RSS 0.91, RSS 0.92, RSS 1.0, and RSS 2.0.

May 10, 2005

It appears that users of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger are concerned about how easily third-party widgets are distributed and installed in the new operating system. Clicking on a specific link is enough to get one installed. Many are wondering how long before malicious widgets appear, and asking Apple to make it more difficult to install widgets.

April 27, 2005

Google is testing a new service that allows blogs using RSS or Atom feeds to carry AdSense advertising. Other companies like Kanoodle, Moreover, BlogAds, and Yahoo either already offer or are testing similar services.

April 23, 2005

BusinessWeek has published an article looking at how blogs are being used as competitive weapons in business. According to the article, blogs are shaking up the business world, and most businesses cannot afford to ignore the power of blogs. They advise that businesses should not postpone using blogs and related technologies like RSS and Podcasting to gain a competitive advantage.

April 11, 2005

Jason Kottke, the man recently quit his job to blog for a living, has posted an update of his current financial situation as a full-time blogger. According to his graph, he is quickly approaching one third of his previous salary. While not specifying actual dollar amounts, he has posted enough details about how things are going to make it interesting reading. He also provides tips and advice for anyone else thinking of doing the same thing. Some of these include: consider advertising, build a community, be committed to growing traffic, and keep costs low.

March 28, 2005

John Carmack, the man behind games like Quake and Doom decided to take a recreational break from aerospace coding and write DoomRPG, a 3D cell phone game in Java using CDLC and MIDP. In a very interesting blog entry, he talks about his coding adventures in the cell phone world.

March 27, 2005

Mark Cuban, the dot-com billionaire who founded and sold Broadcast.com, has said that he will pay for Grokster's legal defense in the peer-to-peer lawsuit brought by MGM. This very important case will be argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday.

March 25, 2005

A Portland man took quick action and proceeded to hunt down his identity thief within hours of being notified by his credit card company. He tracked him to a nearby hotel, called the cops, and watched as the bad guy was taken away in handcuffs.

March 16, 2005

NewsForge posted a review of the new Wordpress 1.5 open source blogging software. New features include an advanced theming system, support for Blogger and MetaWebLog APIs, support for static content, advanced commenting and trackback features, a better comment filtering system, and an enhanced plug-in architecture.

March 14, 2005

According to the latest State of the Blogosphere report, there are now over 7.8 million active blogs with 30,000 - 40,000 new blogs being created each day.

March 8, 2005

CNET has posted an interesting FAQ about blogging and your job. The bottom line is that if you blog, do it on your own time and don't talk about your employer in your blog. Also, employment laws will not save you if you get fired for blogging.

March 7, 2005

According to an article at CNN.com, more and more people are getting fired for keeping blogs. It seems that regular people are getting the boot; you don't have to be a high-profile employee for this to happen.

March 6, 2005

According to experts, political blogs are in for some rough times in the coming months and years. New campaign reforms being proposed may alter how the political blogging community operates.

March 4, 2005

A judge has ruled that Apple Computer can force three online publications to surrender names of confidential sources who may have disclosed information about Apple's upcoming products. The case has serious implications in defining who is considered a journalist in the eyes of the law. Apple claimed that legal protections for shielding confidential sources only apply to "legitimate members of the press" and not online publications and blogs, and the judge agreed.

February 27, 2005

Web blogger Kevin Kelly has just published a very informative and useful guide for aspiring micro-publishers. Kevin guides you through Amazon's confusing requirements including ISBN, UPC, and bar codes.

February 24, 2005

Jason Kottke has quit his job so that he can update his personal blog full-time. He plans to beg visitors to his blog for monetary support, and refuses to run ads on his site. Whatever this guy is smoking can't be legal. We wish him the best of luck.

February 20, 2005

CNN/AP has an interesting story about Ben and Mena Trott. The young couple runs Six Apart, the pioneering blogging software and services company behind MovableType, TypePad and now LiveJournal.

February 19, 2005

An in depth article about podcasting in the N.Y. Times, brought to you by CNET. According to the article, over 3,000 podcasts have sprung up in just months.