Google CEO Eric Schmidt made some comments to the American Society of News Editors that may have raised eyebrows in the blogging community (via Valleywag via Nieman Lab):
There is an art to what you do. And if you’re ever confused as to the value of newspaper editors, look at the blog world. That’s all you need to see.
Gawker blogger Ryan Tate points out that Schmidt “runs the biggest single blog network in the world, which makes it all the more bizarre that the Google CEO was insulting bloggers at a newspaper conference.”
Yes, newspaper editors need to take a very close look at the blogging world. According to Technorati, full time bloggers who advertised on their site made an average of $122,222 in the year 2009. Meanwhile The New York Times, strapped for cash, is mortgaging its headquarter building.
**Important update below Dark Reading has reported that hundreds of WordPress blogs have been hacked over the past week do to improperly chmod-ed wp-config.php files. The vulnerabilities were a result of owner hosting provider negligence and not faulty WordPress software. All of the blogs affected were hosted by Network Solutions. The attacker used a type of scanner that extracts [...]
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A guest post by Gagandeep Singh, an Internet Marketing Executive working for Fortepromo Promotional Products, a promotional tool Kits Company based in Minneapolis, USA. If content is the king and visitors are the loyal subjects of your blog, then links are the kingdom’s currency. Simply put: the greater the number of external links to your [...]
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That would depend on what kind of things you put up on your blog. Pictures of you and your drunk buddy spitting off the top of a skyscraper probably won’t roll over to well with potential employers. But blogs that are niche-oriented can really make you out to look like a professional in your field: especially [...]
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If it’s one thing serious bloggers need, it’s an objective style book like what print publications have in The Associated Press Stylebook or The Chicago Manual of Style. Is website one word or two? Is internet capitalized? Is it re-tweet or retweet?
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I’m not too much of an Apple fan. To me: Apple products, with their streamline engineering and dumbified interfaces, have become somewhat of a cliche. Kind of like the Mustangs of the automobile industry. The 2010 Mustang might be a kick-ass car but seeing it on the road after every 40 cars just leaves a bad [...]
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WordPress is already known for its reliable backup features. By default, every time a post is revised on a WordPress blog, the WordPress engine creates a backup just for that revision. Users can export a backup of all their posts and user settings into an XML file that can be easily imported through the admin control panel. [...]
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Yesterday, I gave a very thorough definition of what blog tags are. Today, I’m going to tell you how to create blog tags for SEO as well as for human interaction purposes. The practice of blog SEO can sometimes create a dilemma. Everyone wants their blog to be optimized for search engines but no one [...]
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Picture yourself: a big time sports blogger at the top of your niche. The AdSense dollars are rolling in. You’ve got more subscribers than Curt Shilling. You’re sensational. Not a care in the world. Then a problem arises like a pigeon from hell. You would like to give your visitors the ability to view all [...]
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Rather than paying a $329 annual subscription to WordTracker, I’ve found alternative free keyword traffic analysis software that works just as good if not better. The Google Adwords Keyword Tool is a tool designed to help Adwords advertisers analyze competition for keywords. I have found that you can use it to analyze traffic for keywords regardless of [...]
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After a panel on using social media as a marketing vehicle, Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra was asked by one of the listeners for an exclusive social media marketing tip. “I can give you a tip but that one won’t work again,” Jalichandra said. With that response, Jalichandra revealed a powerful piece of Internet marketing wisdom that most [...]
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An elementary school teacher who forgot her lunch one day was forced to eat what the kids eat in the cafeteria. Yuck! What ensued was a day by day blogging crusade of every food served in the cafeteria in 2010 to raise awareness for inadequate nutrition in school lunches. In a matter of months “Mrs. Q” [...]
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