Blog Media, Inc. has acquired The Blog Herad from Australian entrepreneur and blogger, Duncan Riley. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. BlogMedia, Inc., headquartered in Minnesota, is a privately owned online publisher of a unique variety of content. Jack of all Blogs, ProBlogging, BloggerJobs and Major League Blog are some of their other properties. An earlier deal for that would have paid Riley $76,000 …
Passing The Hat
Jason Kottke quit his day job over a year ago in order to blog full time. His large and loyal following, helped him achieve this via 1450 micropayments totalling $39,900 (collected in the first three weeks of the drive). Of course, he's thankful, but he won't be asking for more of the same. I'm not going to be asking for contributions again. I haven't grown traffic enough or developed a sufficient cult of personality …
Put This In Your “Markets Are Conversations” Pipe
Tom Sherman recently wrote a great post on blog comments and the various problems they encourage, expose and amplify. One of the biggest potential problems with the weblog format is also a hallmark and defining aspect of the blog: comments. Most blogs allow comments. Most blogs encourage comments. But comments are limiting, (usually) non-hierarchical, and almost always disorganized. A blog is not a message board. A …
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“The Rahulio” Gives “The Manolo” A Flat Tire
The Manolo has a copycat. And you know what they say, flattery is the sincerest form of imitation, or some such thing. The new third person blogger is known as "The Rahulio," and is in the employ of Ice.com, an online jewelry merchant. Here's a sample of The Rahulio's prose: The Rahulio knows that maybe you are reading the Sparkle Like the Stars lately and you are saying “Rahulio and the Icegrrl! Already there is so …
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Calacanis Shares The Love
Jason Calacanis speaks fondly of his Engadget man, Peter Rojas. Peter Rojas is on the cover of New York Magazine this week--right where he belongs. Seeing him get such major recognition got me to thinking about my history with Peter. One of my favorite moments came a month or two after Peter Rojas had jumped ship from Gawker to Weblogs, Inc. Nick Denton and I were having drinks and he told me that I would never be …
No Syrup In This Butterworth
"Blogging is the closest literary culture has come to instant obsolescence." -Trevor Butterworth Mainstream journalist, Trevor Butterworth, delivered a thought provoking but ultimately dismissive article on blogs called "Time for the last post" for the weekend edition of Financial Times. In an ironic twist, FT set up a blog, where readers can chime in on the story. One of the more interesting aspects in the piece is …
Gawker Poaches Another One
Ben Popken, of The Spunker has a new gig—editor of Gawker Media's The Consumerist. Joel Johnson will be moving up to Executive Editor of the site. Hit me up at ben [the darn at sign] consumerist.com with your consumer kvetching, hot ads and dishy industry dirt. You may recall Ben was recently looking at becoming a copywriter. I think he made a wise turn. I mean, why be told what to write by uncaring clients, when …
Edelman The Blog Snatcher
Steve Rubel is moving to Edelman (from CooperKatz) and taking Micropersuasion with him. According to Ad Age: Rubel is taking a senior VP role at the much larger Edelman, where he’ll craft word-of-mouth and social-media campaigns for a consumer-client list that includes Unilever and Microsoft's Xbox. Edelman paid CooperKatz so Mr. Rubel could keep the name and URL. He won’t, however, be able to carry over the …