The public relations war of newspapers against both Google and blogs shows no signs of ebbing. Today, we get a proposal that newspapers deserve special laws to protect them. I’ll come back to that, but I wanted to float the idea that perhaps it’s time for an Associated Blogs to take on the Associated Press. [...]
It’s been over three years since I launched Daggle, and things have been overdue for an update. So, I’ve finally gotten to that. For those who care, a rundown on changes and some further thoughts on the latest version of the Thesis theme for WordPress. WordPress? Yes, I’ve moved off of Movable Type. Since my [...]
Now we are a two blog family. My wife, Lorna Harris, now is blogging over at Calif Lorna. I spent a few years here on Daggle talking about life in Britain from the perspective of an American. Now she’s doing the flipside, looking at being in America as a Brit! It’s also the second blog [...]
In Read The Wall Street Journal For Free, I explained how to get Wall Street Journal content for free via Google News. But in the past few weeks, I’ve noticed a problem. You can’t find some of the articles that the Wall Street Journal publishes using Google News, not if you look for them using [...]
Last week, I did my own personal account of how it felt to have left newspapers behind to do blogging and the perceived rivalries but also support between them. Guess there’s a meme going around. Today, the New Yorker has a nice article looking at the seeming coming death of newspapers and how blogs like [...]
There’s been noise this week about the rivalry between competing blogs as well as the rivalry between blogs and the mainstream media. I found myself reflecting on all of this from the perspective of someone who has worked in both places, who has a great love of online reporting but also deeply appreciates the in-depth [...]
Jason Calacanis is great. Sure, I know there are those in the SEO community who think he’s full of shit. But come on? Do you really understand Jason and the reasons why you should listen to him?
Checking my email, I found not one but two different requests to be an coauthor at MyBlogLog. It’s making me guess that this is simply a new way people are trying to draw attention to their own sites, related to the MyBlogLog visit spamming reported by SoloSEO last month. In one of the cases, I [...]
I run backlink checks on the sites I watch over via Google Blog Search, you know, now the number one blog search or something like that. For the past two weeks, they’re getting clogged with the type of crap I’ll list below. There’s always been some of this, but it’s worse than normal. Now really, [...]
I’ve confessed my love of Techmeme many times. I still love it. But man, the drama of late. I was thinking that we shouldn’t be having so much drama right now, during the holiday season when everyone’s hoping things will wind down. But then I thought that lots of families have drama during the holiday [...]