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Izea, the controversial company formerly called Pay Per Post, is well-known for paying bloggers to post articles about products. These "sponsored conversations" have had big-name advertisers like K-Mart and Sears

On a less serious note than my previous post, it also occured to me that bloggers are like rock n roll bands. The best bands explore a different theme each

Man it gets quiet in the blogosphere over xmas. I've had to resort to some real work to keep myself occupied. I've been diving into XSLT to try and develop

John: this idea of prosumer media, define more. prosumer media is big business Mark: started bloglines to scratch my own itch. other people must have this problem too, that was

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Self_Publishing_Tool_Kit_How_to_Write_and_Publish_a_Novel'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Over the weekend the final book in the Harry Potter series was released. In the first 24 hours of release

I've upgraded my blog to Movable Type 3.2, in order to defeat some bugs and trackback spam that had infiltrated the previous installation. So apologies if you'd visited my site

Tim O'Reilly has posted a meme map of Web 2.0, from the "What is Web 2.0?" brainstorming session at FOO Camp 2005. Hat-tip Josh for the link. It's kind of

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 new startup called Zemanta launched in alpha mode today. The service integrates with blogging platforms like Wordpress, Blogger, and Typepad to suggest pictures, links, articles, and tags related to

UPDATE 6/11/04: I decided to nominate The Fractal Blogosphere and Evolution of Corporate Web Sites for the Best Software Essays of 2004 book that Joel Spolsky is editing. If you