This is page 83 of the blogging news archives.

Aggregator Activity: Rojo Launches and NewsGator Gets More Funding (April 29, 2005): Rojo.

Doc Searls: Blogs are Not Sites, Content, Media, etc. (April 28, 2005): Doc Searls gave a keynote speech about blogs at the Les Blog conference in France.

Can Mainstream Media Counter Growing Popularity of Blogs? (April 28, 2005): BusinessWeek's Blogspotting blog raises an interesting question as to whether the mainstream media has an overall strategy to counter the growing popularity of blogs.

BlogPulse.com Is Tracking Over Ten Million Blogs (April 28, 2005): BlogPulse.

Alan Meckler: 99.99% of All Blogs are Worthless (April 27, 2005): Legal departments around the world are concerned that people in their company are just blogging away.

Blogspotting Trying Not to Be Too BusinessWeeky (April 26, 2005): The new BusinessWeek bloggers Stephen Baker and Heather Green are trying hard to blog without writing in the style of a magazine article each time they blog.

Boing Boing's Growing Competition (April 26, 2005): Boing Boing, which has the tagline, "A Directory of Wonderful Things," tracks the wacky, unusual and interesting.

Buster the Bunny has a Travel Blog (April 25, 2005): Strategic Public Relations has pointed out another character blog.

BaseBlogs: Major League Baseball Launches Tommy Lasorda Blog (April 25, 2005): Major League Baseball is offering blogs for baseball fans as well as a blog from celebrity blogger Tommy Lasorda.

Blogger Payments Tied to Traffic (April 24, 2005): For many bloggers that are getting paid their income is tied directly to the traffic their blog receives.

Who Writes Those Letters to the Editor? (April 24, 2005): Think that those well-written letters to the editor in your local newspaper are always written by real people? Think again, says the Contra Costa Times.

BusinessWeek Blogs About Blogs (April 23, 2005): BusinessWeek has a new article about blogging and why it is important for companies to get involved.

Study: 53.4 Million Blogs Expected by Year End (April 22, 2005): Perseus Development Corp.

Millie the Cow's Bovine Blog (April 22, 2005): There is another character blog.

Microsoft Claims Huge Blog Numbers (April 22, 2005): In a new Wall Street Journal article Walter S.

The Future of Blogging From Cubicles (April 22, 2005): Will future company policies forbid blogging while on the job? We first raised the question last week in this blog entry which discusses Mark Sahm's "Blogging on Company Time?" post on Blogcritics.

Zucker Considering Blogs for Brian Williams and Katie Couric (April 20, 2005): Jeff Zucker, the President of NBC Universal Television Group is considering creating blogs for NBC's top television personalities.

Blogging Growing Fast in Japan (April 20, 2005): The Blog Herald reports that a Netratings Japan study has found 1 million blogs in Japan.

Celebrities Find Many Uses for Blogs (April 19, 2005): More celebrities are turning to blogs to voice opinions, promote films and counter media coverage.

Expect Lots More Character Blogs (April 19, 2005): The Captain's Blog from the Captain Morgan Rum Company that we mentioned last month is still going strong.