Blogs

4 Tips for pitching your great idea to a blog

Part of being a blogger is constantly advertising your ideas as unique. Even if you maintain your own site, you have to establish credibility….

Yo mama’s blog: 10 of the ‘best’

“Why don’t you write about the non-mumsy mom type sites? Or something like that. You know what I mean” was pretty much the brief…

‘Gay girl in Damascus’ blogger a middle-aged US man

A 40-year-old US student based in Scotland has unmasked himself as the author of the “Gay Girl in Damascus” blogs, which sparked a security…

Six ways companies cash in on Facebook ads

We have all seen them, but how many of us have made good use of Facebook ads? The major selling point on a network…

Ways to enhance your WordPress blog

WordPress has, for many, become the platform of choice for powering business websites, both general content-managed and blog websites alike. Let us not forget…

Is Gawker Media’s hydra-like content network ‘death of the blog’??

Gawker Media launched a redesigned version of its hydra-like content network this week, bringing with it talk of the “death of the blog”. Its…

When is a blogger not a blogger anymore?

A post on Poynter’s e-media Tidbits by Paul Bradshaw caught my eye. It essentially captures something I’ve been mulling for a while: When is…

After 10 Years of Blogs, the Future's Brighter Than Ever

From Wired: In the 10 years since the first site known as a “weblog” went online, the blog has matured from a geek niche…

Is it a bird, is it a plane, is it a blog?

What is this? Can someone tell me.

Blogs mark the first 10 years

Interesting article spotted in the Guardian. “After a quiet start they revolutionised the web; now one is born every second. The first entry on…

Linklove: what big media can learn from bloggers

The fundamental art of linking is something online media could learn from the blogosphere….

Without linking there wouldn’t be an internet. It’s the web of links that leads a user from website-to-website that essentially creates the thing we know as the world wide web. Many commercial online media publishers hate linking from their websites to the “outside”, especially when there’s a competitor involved. It’s a protective, “walled garden” mentality, prevalent in many traditional media businesses, which doesn’t translate particularly well on the wild world wide web. It’s pretty silly, because linking is the whole point of the web.

This where the blogosphere could teach online publishers a thing or two…. read on

Moneyweb relaunch

One of my favourite websites, Moneyweb, has relaunched, featuring a wide-format design. Their site used to be run by iafrica.com, who lost the contract…

SA's online newspapers set to grow

Francois Nel from the For the Media blog pointed me towards his blog recently (pretty good, I must say). This post in particular caught…

Bloggers can now enter major journalism award

Just noticed that the Telkom ICT Journalist of the year award now has a “Citizen Journalist” category, accepting entries from blogs or personal websites….

Online ‘permanence’

Imagine a world where you could actively sell advertising on archived content. Well, it’s here. Content on a website should never die. Never, ever. To delete content on a website is a waste. Online articles and their links should be permanent. In the world of the dead tree, articles have limited lifespans. You read your paper, then it’s used to wrap fish and chips, is thrown in the rubbish bin, or lives a lonely life of obscurity in some dusty library archive….

Why can’t we all just get along?

The media world is undergoing profound change. We know the great catalyst for these changes has been the onward march of the digital age and the arrival of the internet.

This changing mediascape is often incorrectly portrayed as a battlefield, with two main skirmishes on the go. In the first “battle”, the soldiers have grown weary or just rather bored. This battle involves traditional media (newspapers, radio, TV) versus online media. The second “battle” is a much more interesting to look at. This skirmish involves mainstream media (which in this instance includes online publishers as they mostly practise traditional journalism) versus citizen media, which includes bloggers, vloggers and podcasters….

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