How to prevent spam in your blog's comments

"The power of the blog comment has turned commenting into a free-for-all contest for this powerful piece of blogging real estate. As your blog grows in readership and popularity, it will act as a magnet. The blog should entice thoughtful readers to communicate with you. On...

Things to Do When Google Buys Digg

"MrBabyMan hates the idea, the Digg top 100 surely hates the idea and the Digg Mafia REALLY hates the idea. Let me go on record right now saying that I LOVE the idea, especially if Microsoft aquires Digg and uses Digg to finally become a viable search engine. Microsoft you...

Fish Wrap No More: News"papers" Packing Pixels with Punch

Newspapers are dead. Long live newspapers. With the spread of broadband, and Wal-Mart featuring some pretty affordable PCs, iPhones and Blackberries jumping into more and more hands, how can good news lose as it starts to become more than "shovelware" and exploits an...

Bloggers with press passes

"The Texas legislature is revisiting the big question: are bloggers really journalists? Some TX legislators want bloggers to have the same rights as mainstream media in covering the legislature from the floor. With mainstream media coverage in Austin shrinking by half, from...

New Nielsen ratings show newspapers having success with blogs

Newspapers are having a rough go of it - so it's no wonder they have reached out to the blogosphere for support - and new readers. Now new research  from Nielsen NetRatings that it's paying off."Now, however, there's some objective support showing that online newspaper...

New Study Ranks Newspapers on Crucial 'Integrated' Readership

"More people are exclusively reading newspapers online, growing readership anywhere from 2% to 15%, a new study from Scarborough Research finds. This is the second report from the marketing research firm that looks at the increasingly important weekly-integrated newspaper...