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• Ne-Yo Blogs to Promote Upcoming Album
12 May 2008 at 7:00pm
 Vibe reports that singer/songwriter Ne-Yo has turned bloggy for his upcoming album.
R&B singer/songwriter Ne-Yo has launched his very own blog called "Year of The Gentleman" to promote his album of the same title. In his blog, Ne-Yo writes about his experiences on his latest tour alongside R&B diva Alicia Keys and newcomer, Jordin Sparks. He also posts pictures with fans and writes about all of his favorite things, from cars to cologne.
The singer also gives his fans the ability to send their mothers a personalized greeting for Mother's Day, encouraging them to get "Closer" (the title of the first single off of The Year of the Gentleman) to the women who raised t... ( cont'd )
• Twitter Apps and Tools Becoming More Plentiful
6 May 2008 at 4:47pm
The number of new Twitter tools and services launching seems to really be accelerating. In the past couple weeks we have seen the launch of tools like TrackThis, a useful tool that tracks package deliveries, and TwittEarth, a 3-D model of the Twitter universe that uses cute avatars to represent Twitter users. Here are some of the new apps and tools recently added to the Twitter tools list.
Autopostr.com, Autopostr.com lets your twitterfriends automatically know you posted a new photo on Flickr
FuelFrog, FuelFrog provides a way to track gas mileage on Twitter
Intwition, Intwition shows popular links on Twitter broken into will be popular, is popular and was popu... ( cont'd )
• Tom Cruise Launches New Website Sans Blog
5 May 2008 at 9:00pm
 Can you think of anything crazier than launching a new website in 2008 without a blog? Leave it to Tom Cruise's web team to do just that. Last week the people that work for Tom Cruise (scientologists and hollywood pr experts) were busy buying up Google Adwords across the Internet to promote his new website at TomCruise.com.
ITEM: Tom Cruise is buying Google Adwords. His Scientology handlers must be working on his SEO optimization; type in "Tom Cruise" in Google Search - and his paid sponsored ads pop up at the top of the search results. It directs surfers to a new official TomCruise.com launching soon... Some of the google ads say "Get the real scoop from Tom Cr... ( cont'd )
• It's RSS Awareness Day
1 May 2008 at 5:10pm
 Bloggers and people in the Internet industry are aware of RSS but it's reach seems to stop there. To inform more people about the benefits of RSS the RSS Awareness Day campaign was launched by Daily Blog Tips. You can find the RSS Awareness Day website at Rssday.org. The website has a page with buttons and banners for bloggers who want to spread the word about the RSS holiday. This page also contains information that shows how few Internet users know about RSS.
Feedburner recently reported that they track around 60 million RSS subscribers. Even if we bump that number to 70 million RSS users (counting people that use RSS with other applications or platforms) this... ( cont'd )
• U.S. Transportation Secretary Launches a Blog
1 May 2008 at 1:30pm
 The Associated Press reports that U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters launched the DOT's first blog on Tuesday. It is called Fast Lane. In the blog's launch post Secretary Peters admits the need for twenty-first century communication.
I want the Fast Lane to be a true on-line community, and I encourage you to submit your comments and thoughts. After all, if I'm going to insist on twenty-first century solutions for our transportation system, I better communicate in a twenty-first century way!
The AP says the blog was already receiving about as much traffic on as the main DOT website on the first day.
The blog has received about 11,000 site visits since 1... ( cont'd )
• Services and Tools Emerge to Fight Twitter Spam
28 Apr 2008 at 11:48am
If Twitter is not yet in the mainstream maybe someone should tell that to the spammy folks who are desperately trying to get their messages distributed on Twitter. Some Twitter users are launching tools in an attempt to fight the rise in Twitter spam. There are a few spam methods that are bothering Twitter users. One is follower spam where a Twitter user attempts to follow an exceedingly large number of people. Twitter sends out email notices when a new person is following you but there is scant information in this new follower email so people have to visit the new followers Twitter to see who they are. Another type of spammer is one that sends out lots and lots ... ( cont'd )
• Marketers Should Make Things Easy For Bloggers
26 Apr 2008 at 8:40pm
Novelist and Boing Boing blogger Cory Doctorow has some excellent tips for marketers wanting to reach bloggers in an article in Information Week called "17 Tips For Getting Bloggers To Write About You." To most bloggers these tips are common sense but a surprising number of marketers don't follow them. Some of Doctorow's best suggestions have to do with linking.
Have a link. Seriously: if you want bloggers to link to you, you need to have something linkable. Your upcoming TV show, protest march, product or soccer tournament is literally unbloggable unless you put it on the Web somewhere first.
Have a permanent link. Don't just change the front page of your site... ( cont'd )
• Is It Acceptable Behavior to Tweet and Run?
24 Apr 2008 at 3:50pm
 People use Twitter in many different ways and there is no standard way to use it. There isn't a rule book about how to use Twitter. Most of us even ignore the question Twitter asks us "What are you doing?" most of the time. Because it is an evolving community it can be complicated to determine whether a specific behavior is appropriate or not but you can find behavior and usage patterns emerging.
Earlier on the bloggersblog twitter (using PollDaddy's nifty poll feature) I posted a poll asking "Is it okay to Tweet and Run? How long should someone remain on Twitter after posting a tweet?" The responses have varied but most people don't have a problem with someone ... ( cont'd )
• Tear-Water Tweets
21 Apr 2008 at 10:35am
 The latest Twitter problem would make a perfect addition to the tear-water tea Owl makes in Arnold Lobel's short story "Tear-water Tea" - from the children's book Owl at Home.
"Tweets that no one ever sees because they never arrive," said Owl. Owl was crying. Many large tears dropped into the kettle.
This happened with much greater frequency in 2007. It happened multiple times that year as Twitter struggled with rapid growth and it was always very confusing and frustrating. Much of Twitter's growth this year has been during a period of very good uptime.
Paris Lemon calls the partial tweet outage Twitter Fail: Day 3 and points to the Twitter Status Twitter. T... ( cont'd )
• Time-Relevant Widget Needed?
21 Apr 2008 at 3:38pm
Author and designer Jeffrey Zeldman recently left an interesting comment in a post where he discusses removing the Ma.gnolia bookmarks feed form his blog. In this interesting comment Zeldman discusses the need for a time-relevant plug-in that could unite content from Flickr, Twitter, bookmarking tools, etc.
For about six months, I've been trying to figure out how to create a plug-in that would associate any stream (such as Flickr, Ma.gnolia, and Twitter for example) with a given post, so that a post from a particular day in April 2008 would have photos and Tweets and links from that same day, or a user-determined close time frame.
The idea is to collect time-re... ( cont'd )
• Profane Blogging Gets Washington Post Writer Fired
18 Apr 2008 at 9:00pm
Washington Post journalist Michael Tunison was fired for blogging at Kissing Suzy Kolber, a humorous sports blog. Apparently, the Post was unhappy with the language Tunison used in the blog. Tunison used the pseudonym Christmas Ape while blogging and was fired not too long after revealing his journo job in this post where he says he works for a "dying medium."
Editor & Publisher posted this email from Tunison in a recent article.
"There was no conflict of interest between my writing for Kissing Suzy Kolber and my work for The Washington Post. The blog is not a journalistic endeavor and it is not something I was paid for until I revealed my identity. It is a hum... ( cont'd )
• PollDaddy Makes It Easy to Create Twitter Polls
15 Apr 2008 at 2:00pm
PollDaddy has launched a clever new service called PollDaddy Twitter Polls (via Webare) that lets you set-up an online poll and send out a tweet that informs your followers about the new poll. Here is an example of a poll we made about what Andrew Baron should do with the money he makes from auctioning off his Twitter on eBay. You can see the poll and participate in it here.
So far it looks like most people think Andrew Baron should donate the money to charity like Karoli at Odd Time Signatures suggested. Giving the money to his followers is in second and keeping it all for himself is third.
The polls are easy to use. The poll includes a descripton of the Tw... ( cont'd )
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