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Women Get Online and Advertisers Follow
Published in CMSWire - 22 days 16 hours ago
Where women go, advertising follows. The web is no exception.
As we've mentioned before, women appear to outnumber men online, with many writing, reading or otherwise contributing to blogs. And advertisers are finally getting hip to their jive.
ComScore results, as highlighted in a recent New York Times article, indicated that advertisers served up "4.4 billion display ads on womens Web sites in May" and that womens sites had recorded 84 million visitors in July 2008.
Should Newspapers Eliminate User Comments?
Fri, 07/25/2008 - 15:29
User comments seem to be a hot topic as of late. Much of it related to why newspapers should either eliminate or enhance them.
In a recent article on Gawker.com, it was strongly suggested that comments should be rid of altogether, citing that "newspapers have more important things to do than worry about comments" and that blogs are "not equipped to regularly break the news."
They don't think that the comments a published story garners adds anything to the content, nor do they help to engage a discussion among readers. Though they do find value in the blogs hosted by reporters, they argue that the comments posted by users do nothing more than expose the ignorance of readers and had they been submitted as letters to the editor, they would never been published in the first place.
Reach Out and BlogHer!
Fri, 07/25/2008 - 13:12
If you were unable to attend BlogHer's conference in San Francisco last week, never fear. BlogHer, the community for women who blog, have announced that they are taking the show on the road in a spectacle called the Reach Out Tour 2008.
They will be condensing their annual event into six one-day extravaganzas in Boston, DC, Nashville, Greensboro, Atlanta and New Orleans. BlogHer will focus on topics that seem to resonate strongest in each city and look for your local bloggers to lead the discussions. The one-day conference will also feature a broad range of topics and speakers, cocktail parties for networking and socializing, and a little bit of local flavor.
Interesting reads from the Blogosphere
Mon, 07/14/2008 - 11:41Below are some of the interesting reads from the Blogosphere.
Interesting reads from the blogosphere
1.) How to use Gmail’s SMTP server and Gmail to send mails using Ruby : This post gives a very precise and clear way to use Gmail’s SMTP server and Gmail to send mails using Ruby. Once you are done with this tutorial you can send an email using Google’s Gmail server in three easy steps using Ruby.
Blogging 101: Which Blogging Software Do I Choose?
Wed, 07/09/2008 - 14:28
We all know that blogs and blogging are a shockingly effective means of sharing your most ingenious thoughts and building or participating in online communities.
Right. You got that message a while back. But considering that there are a number of options to choose from, the final step of getting going can still seem a touch daunting. We've put in a little spadework and here's a quick guide through the woods for the rest of us.
Bit.ly Provides Shorter URLs with Advanced Traffic Tracking [Links]
Wed, 07/09/2008 - 13:00Feedbook Creates PDFs from RSS Feeds [Ebooks]
Tue, 06/17/2008 - 12:00New FSDaily feature: community blogs!
Wed, 06/11/2008 - 13:59AjaxDaddy Adds Slick Applets to Your Web Site [Web Publishing]
Sun, 05/25/2008 - 17:00Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done [Lifehacker Top 10]
Wed, 05/07/2008 - 16:00[HowTo] Know if someone is copying your Blogposts?
Sun, 04/20/2008 - 04:36
I was at the Bangalore Barcamp 6 or the BCB6 as it is popularly known and one of the most important doubt queried there was related to Copying of Blogs, Plagiarism. Lets learn how to know if someone is copying your blog contents and the next steps after that.
Copyspace is a free service which makes it easier for you to find copies of your contents on the web. All you need to do is type in the address of your blog or webpage and Copyscape does the rest. Copyscape finds out the sites which have copied your content without permission and also those which have quoted you. However, Copyscape only provides first 10 searches free, in order to get more searches, you need to be a premium user.
Copyspace is a free service which makes it easier for you to find copies of your contents on the web. All you need to do is type in the address of your blog or webpage and Copyscape does the rest. Copyscape finds out the sites which have copied your content without permission and also those which have quoted you. However, Copyscape only provides first 10 searches free, in order to get more searches, you need to be a premium user.
Better Than Chocolate: Secret of Blogging Revealed
Wed, 04/16/2008 - 14:00
The BlogHer mission is to create opportunities for women who blog to pursue exposure, education, community and economic empowerment and women are lining up at the virtual door, eager to participate in Web 2.0 applications.
Recently, the results of the BlogHer/Compass Partners 2008 Social Media Benchmark Study were revealed and they show great new insights into the power of the blogosphere and the significant role it plays in the lives of U.S. women.
Go Web 2.0 with Open Source and Pligg
Tue, 04/15/2008 - 19:58
Its getting the point that if you arent using some form of Web 2.0 in your online endeavors that you are behind the game by about a year. Web 2.0, and particularly the social aspects of it, is the fastest growing web setup around. Remember when YouTube sold for more than a billion dollars (and it had only been live online for about two years)? It was all because two guys wanted to create a social environment that they and their friends could share videos over.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Blogject Overlords
Mon, 04/14/2008 - 08:04
Now objects are on-line too - blogjects , blogging objects. Once “things” are connected to the Internet, they immediately become part of the relational system, thus improving and boosting the connections in the social network, and they finally define a new relationship between presence and mobility in the physical world. With a pervading Internet network objects are now “citizens” of our space, with the possibility to communicate and interact with them.
Uh-huh. (Via Collaborative Thinking.)
Welcome to ... The Spittoon
Thu, 02/21/2008 - 11:07
Last night I had the pleasure - and privilege - of attempting to hack the minds of a roomful of young scientists. It was my usual Digital Code of Life riff, and in the course of preparing my thoughts I wandered over to the 23AndMe site. This, you will recall, is:
a web-based service that helps you read and understand your DNA. After providing a saliva sample using an at-home kit, you can use our interactive tools to shed new light on your distant ancestors, your close family and most of all, yourself.It is also the company set up by the wife of one of the Google founders - you can join the dots yourself.
But one thing I'd not come across before was the company's blog - called, rather charmingly, The Spittoon....
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