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December 18, 2005Getting Video Blogs by Real-World Location
Here's your new vocabulary word for the day: vlog. A vlog is a video weblog. And here's a new site for you to look at, Vlogmap http://www.vlogmap.org/. This is a site that maps the location of vlogs. The front page...
Continue reading "Getting Video Blogs by Real-World Location" » October 19, 2005Another Mass-Pinging Service
Webloggers and other pingpeople might appreciate Pingoat, which offers a huge number of services to ping at once divided up into three categories. It's at http://pingoat.com/ . (Pinging == sending an alert to a crawling or aggregation service, letting them...
October 17, 2005Google Got a Very Broken SplogSpot
Remember when I'd gush about RSS feeds and how great they were because we'd be able to get just the content we wanted and it wouldn't have a bunch of spam and everything would be all rainbow Skittles and fluffy...
September 28, 2005See Where Blogs/Feeds Are in Meatspace
Wondering if there are any blogs/RSS feeds in your neighborhood? You can find out with gFeedMap, which puts FeedMap'd blogs onto Google Maps. It's at http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~kkalu/gfeedmap/browse.php and is affiliated with neither Google nor FeedMap. FeedMap, at http://www.feedmap.net/BlogMap/ , lets you...
August 07, 2005Directory of Blogs by Tag or by Subject
There's an interesting directory of blogs available at Blogflux ( http://dir.blogflux.com/ ). Interesting because it bypasses the standard Yahooesque directory structure, and it incorporates tags. At this writing it has more than 950 blogs listed. The directory isn't that arts/sports/reference...
Continue reading "Directory of Blogs by Tag or by Subject" » April 11, 2005Browse Blogs by Geographic Location
Ah, blogs, and geography. Two great tastes that go great together. Witness their beautiful music at BlogMap -- http://www.feedmap.net/BlogMap/ . Here you can browse for weblogs by location, set the location of your blog, and search for blogs by location....
April 10, 2005Tracking Blog Citations to NYT Articles
This weekend has the weekend for finding "nifty-as-all-getout" stuff. The latest on the plate is The Annotated New York Times, available at http://nytimes.blogrunner.com/ . This cool tool tracks blogosphere citations to NYT articles. The front page is set up with...
Continue reading "Tracking Blog Citations to NYT Articles" » February 24, 2005MT Blogroll Tool for Movable Type
Those smart folks at Movalog have come up with a blogrolling utility for Movable Type. MT Blogroll is available at http://www.movalog.com/archives/plugins/mt-blogroll/mt-blogroll-10.php . From the page: "Basically MT Blogroll is a blogroll manager, similar to blogrolling.com. You are able to store...
February 02, 2005Tekrati Introduces Directory of Industry Analyst Blogs
As if my RSS reader wasn't overloaded enough. Tekrati has announced a directory of Weblogs written by information technology and telecommunications industry analysts. It's available at http://www.tekrati.com/T2/Analyst_Relations/AnalystBlogs.asp . There are currently 67 blogs listed here, organized by firm. Listings include...
Continue reading "Tekrati Introduces Directory of Industry Analyst Blogs" » January 25, 2005The NOFOLLOW Roundup -- Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc.
The NOFOLLOW news has been floating around for a few days, but I wanted to wait for some things to shake out before I covered it. I figure it's as shaken as it's going to be for now, so away...
Continue reading "The NOFOLLOW Roundup -- Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc." » January 17, 2005From Here to Bloggernity
No no no, you can't get enough of the Weblog directories. To prove it go visit Bloggernity at http://www.bloggernity.com/ . This site is a searchable subject index of 'blogs from Art and Photography Blogs to Writers Blogs (and there's at...
January 01, 20052005 Resolutions in the Blogosphere
Technorati has a cute tool for finding out other blogs' 2005 resolutions at http://www.technorati.com/2005resolutions.html. I'd include mine but the document would be about ten terabytes....
December 31, 2004Bacon's Is Going to Start Tracking Blogs
According to MediaPost, Bacon's will start tracking what it considers to be the most reputable 'blogs in 2005. All 250 of them. They've only released the names of three of them, however. Are they talking general blogs, or specific ones?...
Continue reading "Bacon's Is Going to Start Tracking Blogs" » December 11, 2004Ping Moreover with Moreover's New Ping Server
For those of you collecting places to ping when your weblog updates, add Moreover. They have a new ping server and instructions on how to use it at http://w.moreover.com/main_site/solutions/ping_server.html . Those of you using Movable Type, just chunk http://api.moreover.com/ping into...
Continue reading "Ping Moreover with Moreover's New Ping Server" » December 06, 2004YeahYeahYeah Another Blog Directory -- QuackTrack
Well, they came up with a name I won't forget in a hurry, anyway. QuackTrack ( http://quacktrack.com/ ) is a searchable subject index for Weblogs -- as they put it "330,000 links to 85,000 blogs in a thousand categories". The...
Continue reading "YeahYeahYeah Another Blog Directory -- QuackTrack" » October 08, 2004Another Searchable Subject Index of Blog-Related Sites
I know, I know. I could sit here all day and do writeups of blog-related Web sites. But the reason I'm choosing to cover LS Blogs ( http://www.lsblogs.com/ ) is their nice blog directories/search engines category. The listing of Weblogs...
Continue reading "Another Searchable Subject Index of Blog-Related Sites" » August 16, 2004Attack of the Marcus Zillman White Paper
Marcus Zillman is offering a new research white paper called "Bots, Blogs, and News Aggregators". It's free and available at http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/BotsBlogs.pdf (1.5 MB PDF). It's a 20-page pointer to 'bots, 'blogs, and aggregators. Most of these I knew about but...
Continue reading "Attack of the Marcus Zillman White Paper" » January 29, 2004Why Yes, it Is Another 'Blog Directory.
But I find them useful so I'll cover it anyway. Blogarama ( http://www.blogarama.com/ ) is a searchable subject index of over 6800 Weblogs sorted by category. Front page categories are the standard ones with a bloggish bent -- including soapbox,...
Continue reading "Why Yes, it Is Another 'Blog Directory." » December 29, 2003Find Out What's Popular With Blogpulse
Hey, how did I miss this? If you're looking for the buzz in blog discussion, you could do a lot worse than Blogpulse. It's still in beta and I found a couple of wonky things on my tour, but some...
December 04, 2003Blizg for Blog Metadata Information
For a long time I've wondered why search engines didn't promote metadata standards more. I can understand that many metadata tags would be open to abuse by SEOs, but how about something like a metatag that lets a Webmaster indicate...
December 02, 2003Information Today Launches a Blog
Information Today -- they of the conferences and the magazines and the books -- have started blogging! You can check out their new blog at http://www.infotodayblog.com . Lots of pictures and comments. The first entry of the blog -- from...
October 29, 2001Weblogs.com Turns the Corner
A little background. Weblogs.com was a place that automatically checked Web logs (including ResearchBuzz) and listed the most recently-changed pages. Recently Weblogs.com "turned the corner" and changed the way they operate, because of the large number of Web logs that...
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