Technorati has been hard at work cutting deals to bring the blogosphere to the masses. This week was a busy one for them with three separate announcements:
1. Technorati has teamed up with the Associated Press to add blogger commentary to AP newstories.
When readers visit an AP member Web site that uses AP Hosted Custom News, they will see a module featuring the "Top Five Most Blogged About" AP articles right next to the article text, dynamically powered by Technorati. Additionally, when readers click on an AP article, Technorati will deliver "Who's Blogging About" that article. (more...)
Technorati Expands Reach of Blogs
By admin in Recent Trends
May
28
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You can’t trick bloggers
By admin in Recent Trends
May
28
Two recent revelations about the validity of comments being posted on blogs are raising some interesting questions. In one instance, an LA Times columnist was caught in April posting comments to his own blog under a pseudonym. More recently, bloggers have identified an apparent coordinated effort to post opposing views on some pro-Net Neutrality blogs with concerns that the effort is being funded by the opposition. (For more on both, see Mark Glaser's Media Shift.) (more...)
The Blogosphere: Changing the Face of American Politics?
By admin in Uncategorized
Jun
30
Banking off the success of Howard Dean’s 2004 online fundraising campaign, liberal blogger Markos Moulitsas Zuniga (head of www.thedailykos.com and co-author of “Crashing the Gates”) and the hundreds of others who joined him in Las Vegas for the first annual YearlyKos convention last July, seem to be attempting to re-vamp the Progressive movement by tapping into the blogosphere. They’re hoping that by developing a unified Democratic message and packaging it into a series of powerbites, they can use their interactive daily blogs to re-connect with the American people and form a collective party identity. Read the rest of this entry »
The Blogosphere: Changing the Face of American Politics
By admin in Public Relations
Jun
30
Banking off the success of Howard Dean’s 2004 online fundraising campaign, liberal blogger Markos Moulitsas Zuniga (head of www.thedailykos.com and co-author of “Crashing the Gates”) and the hundreds of others who joined him in Las Vegas for the first annual YearlyKos convention last July, seem to be attempting to re-vamp the Progressive movement by tapping into the blogosphere. Read the rest of this entry »