Blogging News: Page 87

This is page 87 of the blogging news archives.

Are Bloggers Obsessed with Blogging? (February 22, 2005): The Mercury News has an article (no longer available) about how some bloggers are blogging so much that it might be causing them harm.

Jeff Gannon Considering Blawgsuit (February 20, 2005): Newsweek reports that Jeff Gannon, the "reporter" who resigned after blogs indicated that he was not using his real name (James Guckert) when he lobbed softballs at the president during press conferences.

Noonan: MSM Just Another Player Now (February 18, 2005): Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor of The Wall Street Journal, looks at the blogging world and its impact on journalism and the media in her latest opinion piece.

Daily Show Covers Gannon and Jordan Blogging News (February 16, 2005): Even the Daily Show With John Stewart gave kudos to bloggers for blog posts that led to the firing of one reporter and one fake reporter.

CEOs Blog While Corporate Lawyers Worry (February 16, 2005): More and more corporations are launching executive blogs.

News-Record.com Pursuing Innovative Virtual Town Square Idea (February 15, 2005): The News-Record.

Bloggers Cover Growing Gannongate Scandal (February 14, 2005): Two recent media firings have occurred after questions were raised in numerous blogs.

More Blogging Tools Bubble Up (February 14, 2005): The popularity of blogging is leading to the release of new technologies by companies hoping to cash in on the blog publishing boom.

Mysterious Yahoo Search Bot Indexing Feeds (February 13, 2005): Some bloggers and webmasters are reporting that a possibly new Yahoo RSS Feed search engine is in development because they are seeing a new bot from Yahoo crawling through their RSS feeds.

Jobless Mark Jen Blogs On (February 12, 2005): As if there was ever any doubt, Google employee Mark Jen confirms that he was fired because of his blog.

Is the Blogosphere Just an Echo Chamber? (February 12, 2005): There is an argument that blogosphere is an echo chamber. It is in many cases but there are also blogs creating original content.

Every Conversation Could Be a Potential Blog (February 11, 2005): The corporate blogging trend has top executives blogging about everything from exciting product launches to past business success stories.

Amazon Invests in 43 Things (February 10, 2005): Amazon.

Business Bloggers Go to the Polls (February 9, 2005): Business bloggers have just one week left to vote for their favorite business blog at the 2005 Business Blogging Awards.

Blog Gets Google Employee Fired (February 9, 2005): Another blogger has lost their job for blogging.

Nora Roberts' Irish Adventure (February 9, 2005): You would think that with now having 280 million books in print, that uber-romance author Nora Roberts wouldn't have time to blog about her vacations.

Ask Jeeves Acquisition of Bloglines Confirmed (February 8, 2005): Bloglines has confirmed tha acquisition rumor that spread around the Blogosphere over the weekend.

Blog Today, Fired Tomorrow (February 8, 2005): If you blog about your employer or blog about something your employer may not approve of then you could be putting your job on the line.

McDonald's Fake Lincoln Fry Blog (February 8, 2005): McDonald's developed a fake blog and flash website to go with its "french fry that looks like President Abraham Lincoln" advertising campaign.

Baghdad Blogger Shoots Documentary (February 8, 2005): Salam Pax, a former Iraqi architect, is also known as the Baghdad Blogger.