Tag Archives: Blog

Advertising Industry Notes Blog Growth

Some interesting statistics from Ad Age’s 2006 Interactive FactPack: * My Space is now the second most trafficked blogging destination with 11.3 million unique visitors in February 2006. Blogger is at the top with 15.6 million. * At-home broadband users … Continue reading

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Blog Aggregation

Here at IDI, we are taking careful note of the trend of building blog advertising networks in an effort to make blogs more attractive to businesses. Nick Denton and Gawker Media is one of the pioneers in aggregation with five … Continue reading

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Can I Post This Picture?

I attended an interesting panel at last week’s Internet Caucus State of the Net conference. The speakers examined the growth of blogging and “self publishing” and the different means for spreading messages via the blogosphere, including vlogs. Internet Caucus has … Continue reading

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Cool Tool: Qumana Desktop Blog Editor

The latest version of this blog-editing tool allows you to insert keyword specific text ads directly into the body of your blog post. The tool is compatible with all of the major blog hosts (e.g. blogger, Typepad, WordPress, etc.). Qumana … Continue reading

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Blog Issue Evolution

Blog Evolution Social Security reform. Dan Rather. Harriet Miers. What do these things have in common? They were all derailed by blogs. Beltway Blogroll runs a great story (that appeared first in National Journal – MSM beat the blogs on … Continue reading

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Americans Adopting High-Speed Access

A new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows more than 40 percent of Americans now have high-speed access at home. More users with high-speed access means more reasons to add multimedia features to your blog. Blogs … Continue reading

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To Blog or Not To Blog

That was the question at the recent 3rd annual Personal Democracy Forum conference earlier this May. I sat on a panel moderated by Jonah Seiger of Connections Media and which featured Mary Katherine Ham of TownHall.com and HughHewitt.com, Matt Stoller … Continue reading

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