San Francisco-based blogging startup Six Apart has announced they will be giving away free accounts on their TypePad blogging system for professional bloggers and journalists who recently lost their jobs Continue reading »

"Constraints drive innovation and force focus," according to 37Signals in their popular "Getting Real" book. If that's true, then Copyblogger's Twitter Writing Contest, announced a couple of weeks ago, should Continue reading »

This from Sir Robert Scoble: "Watch for more business deals and from places you wouldn't expect them. I'm hearing from several of my friends, for instance, that AOL is looking

A Network of Niches is a group of niche bloggers, each with their own unique look n' feel but collectively part of a branded network of like minds. This could

Remember my post last year entitled Gettin' Paid: A Future for Content Creators?. In it I passionately made the case that there is a future for niche writers to make

You know how Jude Law seemed to be in just about every movie released in Hollywood last year? Well on a smaller scale, my writing is being published on various

Anybody with an interest in the publishing industry will be familiar with the dream of Print On Demand, whereby you order a book from a kiosk or similar service and

In lieu of a weekly Web 2.0 wrap-up (because nothing much happened this week), I did a cut-up of a recent blog post by ex-Microsoft employee and now Google employee

Back in the early 90's I used to read William S. Burroughs books and for a while I was quite taken with his "cut-up" method of writing. The cut-up technique

Summary: Let bloggers focus on getting the content right. Delivering that content to a large readership is another business altogether and one which media companies are best suited to provide.