Evangelical Alliance Names The Ten Blogging Commandments
The Evangelical Alliance recently came up with the "Ten Blogging Commandments." The Evangelical Alliance says they are loosely based on the real Ten Commandments from the Old Testament. The Evangelical Alliance says these commandments are "intended to cause bloggers to consider the social impact of their blogging."
The commandments were released at Godblogs, a gathering held by the Evangelical Alliance. If you start breaking the 2nd commandment then your blogging has really gone to your head. Hat tip to J-Walk Blog who says he has already violated a few of the commandments.
You shall not put your blog before your integrity.
You shall not make an idol of your blog.
You shall not misuse your screen name by using your anonymity to sin.
Remember the Sabbath day by taking one day off a week from your blog.
Honour your fellow-bloggers above yourselves and do not give undue significance to their mistakes.
You shall not murder someone else's honour, reputation or feelings.
You shall not use the web to commit or permit adultery in your mind.
You shall not steal another person's content.
You shall not give false testimony against your fellow-blogger.
You shall not covet your neighbour's blog ranking. Be content with your own content.
Amit's Bike Took Another Picture Yahoo! created several bikes that take photos every 60 seconds and upload them instantly to Flickr. The bikes each have a GPS enabled camera installed. The cameras are powered by solar panels. People can follow the rider's travels online. Blogger Amit Gupta was one of the lucky ones to get one of Yahoo's GPS photo bikes. You can see the photographs from Amit's bike here. Sometimes the photos are dark but other times the photos catch scenery and people. Here's the video from the AP about the bikes.
The National Society of Newspaper Columnists is thinking about adding a blogging category to its annual awards contest.
At its recent meeting, the NSNC board of directors passed a motion to ask the contest chair to present a proposal for such a category.
Current categories cover general-interest, humor, notes/items, and online writing. Award winners are announced during the NSNC's annual June conference.
You can also read about it here on columnists.com, the NSNC's website. It wouldn't be a surprise to see blogging categories add to lots more journalism awards given the number large number of journalists who are now blogging for magazines and newspapers.
Obsessable covers the latest in the world of technology, including cell phones, cameras, and HDTVs - obsessively, of course. Obsessable is powered by the rapid content development engine, Crowd Fusion.
Obsessable is the first blog from Crowd Fusion. Tech and gadget blogging is obviously a very crowded field already. Duncan Riley at The Inquisitr says that many of the people behind Crowd Fusion were previously with Weblogs Inc. so they do have people with past experience in the tech blog field. Duncan Riley also says that Crowd Fusion raised $3 million from investors.
Like Weblogs Inc before it, Crowd Fusion is being built on a custom built content management system (at Weblogs Inc it was BlogSmith). The angle is that the new CMS allows the team to do things they think are important in a better way, without relying on an existing platform such as MovableType (which powers Gawker Media sites among others) and WordPress.
Backed with $3 million from investors including Marc Andreessen and Ross Levinsohn, the list of team members reads like a walk down Weblogs Inc memory lane. Along with Alvey, Barb Dybwad was a former producer at Engadget, CTO Craig Wood was formerley a member of the Blogsmith team, COO Judith Meskill was at one time COO of Weblogs Inc, and CMO Steve Friedman was on the Weblogs Inc sales team...and that's just the ones we know about so far.
It looks like Crowd Fusion makes it easy to create blog posts and product descriptions and tie them together. This would be useful technology for anyone considering a product type of website. You can see how the Xbox 360 product listing here includes photos, current Obsessable blog posts and links to content found elsewhere on the web.
AOL Launches More Blogs AOL has officially launched two blog sites: PopEater, a celebrity gossip blog, and LemonDrop, a women's blog. The Social notes that these sites had been in beta for a while before launching.
After letting them gestate in beta for a while, AOL has formally launched two new "lifestyle" sites: entertainment blog PopEater and quirky women's lifestyle title Lemondrop. They're the latest in a series of original blogs that AOL has rolled out, from men's site Asylum to Web meme blog Urlesque, adding to the titles it absorbed when it acquired the Weblogs Inc. network.
Lemondrop is cute, fluffier than Jezebel but a little bit edgier than anything you'd see in the squeaky-clean Sugar Inc. blog network. When I loaded it up, the top story was a rant called "I Miss Making Out," and further down was a gallery of sexy fictional murderers in conjunction with the recent news that the slasher flick American Psycho will be adapted into a stage musical.
As for PopEater, AOL already owns a phenomenally successful entertainment site, TMZ.com, so a new one may look a bit redundant. PopEater, however, looks like it's more Entertainment Weekly than Us Weekly, focused more on how the fall TV season's faring than which celebrity is staggering drunk out of which West Hollywood nigthclub.
AOL's blog plan seems to be a "try everything" approach. They don't seem to have a problem launching new blogs even if they already have a blog in that category. AOL has also added a blog to its Digital City website featuring entertainment news. The Social has more thoughts on the Digital City blog launch here. The Digital City blog makes sense because it offers a way for AOL to improve an existing website.
Technorati recently acquired the BlogCritics network. This makes Technorati a search/content/ad-network hybrid sort of like Yahoo has become - but obviously on a smaller scale than Yahoo.
Study finds more hiring managers are using social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn to evaluate potential hires.
Twittermoms is a site where Twitter moms can connect with other Twittering moms. (via TechCrunch)
Bits reports that Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers have started a blog about the iPhone and their $100 million iFund in mobile applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. The blog is at ifundvc.com
Another Bits post asks
how many web services one person can use. A person can update a lot of web services with tools like Ping.fm but they can't really maintain an active presence on too many websites.
TwitterKeys will let you add some UFT8 icons to your Twitter conversations.
1.1 million people read the Wikipedia entry for Sarah Palin in the 36 hours following her introduction. Slate says a college sophmore gets credit for pushing Palin as the vp choice.
Twitter is Growing Like a Weed Mashable reports that Twitter is growing like a weed. The Mashable post cites new figures from Nielsen Online that show Twitter has grew 422% from August, 2007 to August, 2008.
The latest numbers are in, and Twitter is apparently growing at a torrid pace. According to stats just released from Nielsen Online, Twitter recorded 2.3 million unique visitors in August (US-only), an increase of 422% from the same period last year.
Moreover, visitors to Twitter spent 55% more time on the site on average - a total of more than 7 minutes per user. Those numbers point to rather robust growth for the site, especially considering many of its most rabid users access it through a third-party client like Twhirl or Tweetdeck.
It helps when a CNN anchors is incorporating Twitter into his show. It also helps that everytime there is a major disaster somewhere in the world there are immediately stories about how Twitter was the first place to hear about it. Twitter has always been a great way to cover breaking news invents and share information. It's use by news organizations alone should continue to foster growth and let Twitter remain follower central despite spam and uptime issues.
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