the worlds most easiest blogging-tool…

…must be posterous! to start blogging, follow these steps:

sign-up at posterous.com
e-mail your first post to post@posterous.com

that’s it, really! after receiving your first e-mail, posterous sets up your blog at an auto-generated URL like michael-go12qr.posterous.com. ok, if you’re not into these kind of URLs, there’s one last step:
      3. visit your new blog & change the URL [...]

Vienna Blogtail 3

this wednesday (30.4.) vienna’s (I guess) bloggers meet up at Blogtail 3. I just decided to join them for a beer or two, maybe you’ll come to
sign up here or on Facebook to get a free drink.

Technorati goes pop, Techmeme (& co) goes mobile

Technorati recently went meta by adding a ‘Popular’ section, which is aggregating the most prominently blogged proponents in the categories Music, Internet Video, Movies and News. interestingly, their categorization seems to be based on links to authorative platforms like amazon.com, imdb.com and youtube.com. not really sure, but I guess this could mean that f.e. music-related [...]

blog-search to be added to google.com?

superficial observation might suggest that blog-search & -indexing is a problem solved long time ago – after all we have specialised blog search-engines like Technorati, sphere and Icerocket. however, Technorati – blog-search pioneer and defacto market-leader – is afflicted by repeated technical problems (like randomly “forgetting” to index blogs for weeks – just google for [...]

MyBlogLog: social networking for bloggers

in case you’re not reading this with your favorite RSS-reader, you might have noticed the ‘Recent Readers’ widget – courtesy of MyBlogLog – I recently have added to the sidebar of this blog. MyBlogLog is a social network for blog-readers & -authors, giving a face to the largely anonymous crowd of the blogosphere. besides tracking [...]

News At Seven: 100% artifical news-broadcast

wow, this looks like some awesome patchwork of technology! News At Seven is a video news-show, 100% automatically generated from content-bits all over the net. claimed to work totally autonomous, the engine fetches news-stories from various blogs and websites, runs the text through speech-synthesis, mixes it with matching still-images and video-clips and add’s a Halflife-character [...]

blog: Suicide Bots

if you’re into robotics you should definitely check out Suicide Bots, a fresh blog reporting on everything newsworthy from the world of our metallic friends. logo & title of the blog are a wink at popular “indie”-porn site Suicide Girls, btw…

selling RSS-adspace with Feedvertising

Feedvertising offers bloggers – no matter how big their readership (actually the service turns down low-traffic sites) – a free & easy way to sell advertising-space in their RSS-feeds. Feedvertising works without changing the feed-URL, instead ads are inserted into the feed by a plugin extending the blogging-software (currently only Wordpress [self-hosted] is supported, with [...]

Switchboard: blog + forum

Tooum’s Switchboard (currently in public beta) is a free, hosted service integrating popular blogging-features with classic discussion-based forum-functioniality. although Switchboard offers only very limited functionality at the moment, the basic idea seems appealing and could very well lead to a solid Wordpress-plugin…

blog: Web Worker Daily

Om Malik’s GigaOM blog-network just launched Web Worker Daily – probably not coincidentally on yesterdays Labour Day. featuring hammer&sickle-inspired graphical design, the new blog is dedicated to nowadays’ mobile information-workforce: geographically uprooted from office-space, always-connected through wifi- and mobile broadband connections, laptop-hauling, latte-sipping cyber-beduins … WWD aims to be a place for web-workers sharing [...]