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• Blogging: Ten percent of consumers read blogs once a week or more, compared with 5 percent in 2004.
  
• Real Simple Syndication (RSS): Six percent of consumers use RSS feeds once a week or more, compared with 2 percent in 2004.
  
• Social networking: Six percent of consumers use social networking sites once a week or more, compared with 4 percent in 2004.

SplogSpot is just a piece of software that feeds on Pingoat's blacklist database. It is the service designed to make Pingoat's blacklist database public. With the Splogspot API, anyone can query Pingoat's blacklist database. So if you are starting a blog aggegator or something, or even a blog directory, use SplogSpot's api to keep your sites clean!

LinkRanks
LinkRanks is PubSub's method of measuring the strength, persistence, and vitality of links appearing in over 16 million sources that PubSub monitors.

PubSub uses LinkRanks to help users hone their subscriptions. LinkRanks can also tell you how influential a particular site is on a particular day and over time.
» LinkRanks

LinkCounts
LinkCounts complements LinkRanks by tallying a site's InLinks, OutLinks, and entries from day to day. These tallies provide a general suggestion for why a site's LinkRanks may have risen or fallen.

In addition, LinkCounts can show you whose feeds are linking to whom.
» LinkCounts

SiteStats
SiteStats offers a daily dashboard of LinkRank and LinkCounts data for an individual site.
» SiteStats

Technorati and Edelman are partnering in an attempt to better understand how blogging and traditional PR intersect, and what bloggers think about communication from mainstream companies.

... This survey is intended as a starting point for discussion, and not a comprehensive be-all, end-all survey. Personally identifiable information is not tracked but you may explicitly give us permission upon submission to send you the final results of the survey. We will review the aggregated results and include the findings in a public white paper next month to help inform bloggers, companies, and public relations firms. ...

• Internet ad revenues for the newspaper-related properties increased 28.3% for August 2005 due to strong growth in display advertising and in all classified advertising categories. Year-to-date Internet ad revenues grew 28.9%.
• Advertising revenues for About.com increased approximately 41% in August and 34% year to date.
• Strong categories at About.com include telecommunications, retail, consumer package goods, travel and technology. The unit also achieved gains in the entertainment, pharmaceuticals and financial advertising categories.

We wanted to launch the FeedBurner podcast to give you a better sense of what we're up to, help you understand how to get more out of FeedBurner, and generally provide some thoughts about relevant developments in a changing media landscape. This first podcast is mostly about us. You're forgiven for not submitting questions or comments since you didn't know about our new podcast. But now you have no excuse: if you speak up, this podcast will be all about you. Make Mom proud!

He carried out quantitative research by twice sending out a survey via email
to 750 Bloggers who are ranked by Technorati. A total 174 Bloggers filled out
the survey.

• Downloading music and movies
• Opening email attachments or clicking on links in unsolicited emails
• Surfing pornographic or other dubious websites
• Running "joke" programs sent by friends and colleagues
• Installing unauthorized software and web browser plug-ins
• Giving information to unknown parties via phone or email
• Using the same password on different websites

Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. Google is a strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging, and we hope Blog Search will help our users to explore the blogging universe more effectively, and perhaps inspire many to join the revolution themselves. Whether you're looking for Harry Potter reviews, political commentary, summer salad recipes or anything else, Blog Search enables you to find out what people are saying on any subject of your choice.

Your results include all blogs, not just those published through Blogger; our blog index is continually updated, so you'll always get the most accurate and up-to-date results; and you can search not just for blogs written in English, but in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and other languages as well.

Time wasters

Starting the session with an extensive demographic survey. It's better to collect this data using an online website survey. For test participants, make do with the data collected during the up-front screening process and refrain from asking additional questions during the test.

Asking users for subjective satisfaction ratings after each task. Subjective ratings are weak data in the first place. Research projects aside, overly fine-grained ratings are rarely worth the time required to collect them.

Using a satisfaction questionnaire with dozens of questions instead of a single overall satisfaction score. It's stupid to ask users to rate, for example, how much they like the graphics. If people have strong feelings about how something looks -- whether it be pleasing, ugly, or inappropriate -- they'll voice those feelings during the task. The one thing a questionnaire should ask users about is overall satisfaction. Detailed issues are much more valid if you assess them based on users' behavior while performing tasks, rather than asking for a retrospective rating.

Ending the session with a long discussion about how users might feel about potential new product developments. Again, focus groups are better for this. Also, users' reactions to prototype designs while performing tasks are much more valid than people's hypothetical speculations about what they might like. Spend your time collecting valid data rather than speculative data, even if doing so requires you to mock up a few more pages.

Who's There is not an ebook about how to write better or how to follow the traditional conventions about formatting and building a blog. It's not designed to sell you one service instead of another, either.

Instead, I divide the blog world into three groups and turn my attention to one. And in particular, I try to sell you hard on how building a blog asset can have a spectacular impact on you, your career, your organization and your ideas.

I promise this ebook is incomplete. I hope, though, that it encourages you to pay attention to some of the underlying forces at work online and off. And it's small enough to email to your colleagues or to post on your own site. Hey, it's free and it comes with its own carrying case.

Blogging is frackin' hard! And what is the whole point of a blog? To get comments. Yes, it is! You know good and well that to write things because you have to simply “get them off your chest,” you could write in a diary or a journal (by journal, I mean, the “book,” not the “webjournal”). You could even type it on your computer and save it away in your “My Documents/Private Diary of 2 am Thoughts.” Nobody would ever have to see it. But, you don’t. Why? Because we have something inside us that wants people to give a crap! We don’t want our thoughts to remain silent. Especially controversial thoughts. Why? Maybe because controversial thoughts gain ATTENTION!

• Digital Photography Blog - A blog looking at all things ‘Digital Photography’ including Digital Camera reviews, tutorials, tips and news. DPB is read daily by 10,000 - 12,000 readers.
• Athens Olympics Blog - A blog about the Athens Olympic games with news, opinion and information on the Olympics in August 2004. Over the two weeks of the games this blog was visited by close to 2 million readers.
• Printer Reviews - a new blog covering the latest printer news, reviews and information.
• Camera Phone Zone - a new blog about camera phones, smart phones and the like.
• Laptop Reviews - a blog with news information and reviews on Laptop and Notebook computers.
• Secure Instant Messaging - a new blog on the growing instant messaging industry.