Category: Business

In Weblog Hosting Priced to Move, Rogers Cadenhead explains that hosting the Weblogs.com refugees has turned out not to be as cost-intensive as he anticipated and that with some sponsored links he will be able to continue to host all active migrated blogs at Buzzword.com for free.

Warner Bros. dabbles in the MP3-blogging space as a p.r. strategy (paging Steve Rubel) and gets a bit burned by the experience, according to this New York Times article: Warner’s Tryst With Bloggers Hits Sour Note. I’ll have to check out J.D.’s coverage of this story. (nonrotting link courtesy of the userland-partnership feature, generated automatically…

Farhad Manjoo chronicles Movable Type’s rise from a opular nearly free weblogging tool to a product positioning itself for the corporate market (Salon.com Technology | Blogging grows up).

As some of my readers know, my literary agency, Waterside, hosts a publishing and technology conference every spring. For years we did it in San Diego near the Waterside mothership but last year we did it in Berkeley and had such a good time we’re having it there again. This year’s conference (Waterside: Conference 11.0)…

At urgreyhot, jibbajabba posts links to several versions of a slideshow for the Computers in Libraries conference on the topic urlgreyhot : Supporting enterprise knowledge management with weblogs: A weblog services roadmap.

Scott Kessler writes in Business Week that Macromedia has suffered from its acquisition of Allaire and continues to see soft demand for its products: Macromedia’s wager was poorly timed. Some 17 months after the company bought Allaire, demand for its products is still weak and there’s no recovery in sight. In effect, the company doubled…