Can A Fashion Blogger Make It Pay? Frockwriter Is About To Find Out
Fashion blogging has grown from a few wannabe writers looking from outside in at the industry to an influential new media category that desi… Read more »
Populis Blog Network Buying In To Latin America
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) rival Populis is continuing to build up its non-English blog network and publishing business through acquisition, t… Read more »
Microsoft SkyDrive 'Confuses Naked With Nude', Art Account Frozen
photo: Michael Ohajuru
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has an image police – but an arrest they have made may be mistaken. A blogger using its SkyDrive cloud storage servic… Read more »
Updated: HuffPo’s UK Edition Launches July 6, 10 More Editions Planned
Second on Huffington Post’s international expansion list, after its recent Canadian launch, will be a new UK site, now scheduled for launch… Read more »
GigaOm Raises $6 Million Fifth Round; Will Expand Subscriptions, Events
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Less than a year after its last round, GigaOm is upping its investment take to $15 million.
The $6 million new round, led by Reed Elsevier… Read more »
SB Nation Wins Tech Publishing Fantasy Draft; Signs Engadget Team
We have an answer to the tech publishing world’s version of And Then There Were None: the core team formerly known as Engadget has surfaced… Read more »
Interview: Armstrong On Layoffs: ‘News & Finance Was Losing $20 Million’
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AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong warned that layoffs would be coming last week, and today, the pink slips were released. Armstrong spoke ab… Read more »
AOL-HuffPo: Arianna And The Free Blog Economy
Some of Huffington Post’s 9,000+ bloggers have already announced that they won’t be following Arianna to AOL (NYSE: AOL) – either unhappy ab… Read more »
AOL Consolidates Content; Lemondrop Dissolves, No More Asylum
AOL (NYSE: AOL) is rearranging one of the vestiges of its early content strategy and is now focused on creating virtual “towns” to hold its… Read more »
Tomkins Times – How One Indie Football Blogger Made A ‘Paywall’ Work
Ashley Norris is CEO of branded content advisory Sutro Digital and director of Anorak Publishing, including the Whoateallthepies.tv soccer b… Read more »
Related-Links Blog Plugin Zemanta Raises $3 Million
Zemanta, a web add-on that injects blog posts and CMS articles with links to related material, has raised its biggest venture round so far i… Read more »
Michael Arrington And TechCrunch Could Wind Up At AOL After All
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Very few people could post about TechCrunch sale possibilities (especially during a TechCrunch conference) and get me to pay attention. Om M… Read more »
WordPress Parent Automattic Buys Daily Blog Prompter Plinky
WordPress parent Automattic has purchased Plinky, a service that tries to help writers overcome writers’ block by providing them with daily… Read more »
SB Nation Launching 20 Regional Sports Sites; First Batch Includes NYC, DC
With minimal additional investment and no extra hires, fan-based SB Nation is launching 20 new regional sports sites during the next few we… Read more »
Indie Blog Publisher Hybrid News Mulls New Launches After Investment
The independent publishing startup behind regional blog aggregator AsianCorrespondent.com is considering launching in other verticals, after… Read more »
GoAdv Acquires Italian Professional Blog Network Blogosfere
Some consolidation in the European internet market: GoAdv, a pan-European Internet company, has bought Italian professional blog aggregator… Read more »
Google, Amazon Offer Indie Bloggers Another Way To Make Money
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While big publishers try to figure out how to get millions of web users to pay for their content, indie bloggers continue to churn out blog… Read more »
Daily Beast On The Syndication Trail
Now branching out in to e-books after recently marking its first birthday, Tina Brown’s Daily Beast is starting to syndicate its webzine con… Read more »
C4 Invests In Political Blogger Slugger O’Toole
Channel 4′s 4iP fund is continuing its pattern of investing in projects that “keep an eye on money and power” by funding Northern Ireland’s… Read more »
Fox Turns To TypePad Bloggers To Hype New Movie, ‘Avatar’
Twentieth Century Fox is going social to promote its upcoming film, AVATAR, by partnering with TypePad owner Six Apart, to launch branded bl… Read more »
No Laughing Matter: An IIM-A Alum Aspires To Create India’s Onion
Angelina Jolie reads his website when Brad Pitt bores her. And Pitt, in turn, reads the site to keep his wife happy. Meet Paagal Patrakar (m… Read more »
Exclusive: Dan Wagner Will Use Shiny Blogs To Build Fashion Network
Bright Station Ventures investor Dan Wagner is declaring a “win” after buying 10 fashion blogs from the former Shiny Media. Now he intends t… Read more »
Shiny Shutdown Mired In Strife, Co-Founder ‘Heartbroken’
Shiny Media is not dying quietly. While writers await payment from the collapsed blog publisher, its founders and investors are locked in a… Read more »
Interview: Adam Doree, Kikizo: Indie Web Publishers Are Still Viable
The independent web publishing community may have lost Shiny Media for now, but it’s not all doom and gloom.
Kikizo – a below-the-radar, en… Read more »
Football Blog WhoAteAllThePies Changes Hands In Transfer Market
Shiny Media co-founder Ashley Norris has retaken control of his WhoAteAllThePies football blog from the blog house for his new publishing en… Read more »
Technorati Seeks Some Twitter Juice, Launching Twittorati
Apparently, Technorati is still going. The seven-year-old blog index site once threatened to be to the web’s nascent conversational search p… Read more »
paidContent Quick Hits: 7.04.09
» The Economist attempts to lure back UK readers with a new cinema ad, trying to recreate the cool aura it has in U.S. [WSJ] The… Read more »
Handpicked Tries Its Luck At Being Another Indie Blog Network
A new network has formed to try again at creating a UK blog enterprise of any scale. BeautyAndTheDirt.com editor Krista Madden has started H… Read more »
FT.com Looks To Readers For Leader Column Inspiration
Not content with inviting readers to debate in a virtual pub, The Financial Times is now asking them to join senior writers in a kind of dig… Read more »
UK Gadget News Site Pocket Lint Expands To New York
These days, you’re more likely to read of news sites cutting back or shutting down entirely than expanding overseas. No such caution from St… Read more »
