Who wins the blogging war – WordPress or Blogger?

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

There is an inevitable war going on in the ‘blogosphere’ and it starts with one blogging platform competing against another. The one who wins will get a control over the world of blogs. The Blogger and WordPress are unanimously acknowledged as the two most famous blogging platforms for all bloggers who are in search of web space without even purchasing a domain or a package. If you’re new to this field of blogging, it’s time for you to go through some serious comparisons between Blogger and WordPress so that you end up making an informed and measured choice. Read on to know about the comparison scale. (more…)

Tags: blog services, blogging platforms, google blogger, wordpress 3.0
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InfoLinks In-text Advertising Network Comes to Google Blogger

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Article first published as New In-text Advertising Network Comes to Google Blogger on Technorati.

With in-text advertisements, bloggers can hyperlink keywords as advertisements and earn PPC (pay per click) dollars every time a hyperlink is clicked. Services like InfoLinks, Kontera and Vibrant provide the ad network and tools to install the advertisements on a blog.

InfoLinks recently released a new widget, which will allow Google Blogger blogs to earn revenue with in-text ads through the InfoLinks network. Similar widget and plugins have been released for sites that run on Joomla and WordPress platforms.

Before you go and implement in-text contextual advertising on your blog, consider some of the ups and downs.

The advent of in-text advertising is comparable to the advent of in-show and in-movie advertising in television and movies. Differing from traditional forms of advertising like commercials, product placements within the media itself can sometimes give consumers powerful subliminal inclinations to buy a product or service.

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Tags: advertising, blogging for money, google blogger, technorati
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[Gawker - Valleywag] Google CEO ‘disses’ blogging

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

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.

Tags: google, google blogger, technorati
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Create a blog to decry a social issue or start a Bolivarian Revolution

Friday, March 26th, 2010

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” (the alias for the undercover eater) managed to attract an audience of over 3,000 followers to her “Fed Up With Lunch” Google Blogger blog and got her story heard on ABC’s Good Morning America.

Now that says something about the power of wee little blogs to raise awareness for social issues.

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Tags: google blogger, political blogging
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