Blogging

Over Half Of Americans Find Ads Interesting

People are exposed to a variety of types of ads on a daily basis from television ads to online ads and more than half (55%) of Americans say they find current advertising to be interesting while 41 percent say it is not interesting, according to a new survey by Harris Interactive. Younger adults and those [...]

TypePad Introduces New Features

TypePad has introduced three new features to its blogging platform, they include a new profiles feature, new commenting capabilities and TypePad Connect, a new beta service that is free to bloggers and extends features to any site. The TypePad profiles feature helps bloggers manage their profiles and keep them up to date. The Six Apart [...]

Tips For Secure Blogging

Business bloggers should take steps to protect their online reputation from a number of common threats according to a new secure guide to blogging from online security firm Network Box. The most common threats to blogs are comment spam that may contain links to a Web site with malicious code and SQL injection attacks that [...]

Political Blogs Seeing Big Gains

Political blogs and news sites have seen healthy gains during the 2008 presidential election season compared to a year ago, according to a new study from comScore. The HuffingtonPost.com led among a group of stand-alone political blogs and news sites with 4.5 million visitors in September, up 472 percent compared to a year ago, while [...]

Google Launches New Blog Search

Google has introduced a new homepage for its blog search that breaks down topics into several specific categories. Visitors to the Google Blog Search page can now navigate through the following categories, politics, US, world, business, technology, video games, science, entertainment, movies, television and sports. The new homepage is very similar to Google News in [...]

RSS Hugger

Hopefully you’ve heard about RSS Hugger before and if you haven’t let me briefly explain it’s purpose. Putting it simply the site can be used as your feed reader as well as for including your own blog. You can then distribute these feeds with others, somewhat like social bookmarking for blogs. Here is a quote [...]

Why Bloggers (should) Love List Posts

Here we go: Readers enjoy lists because they get straight to the point, they’re an easy read. Lists can provide large amounts of information in a small number of words. Lists are easy to write. They do not require any complex compilation of writing. Lists do not take long to write, for the same reason [...]