Archive for June, 2006

BIG News from the Blogosphere

PaulThere’s still a lot of tweaking to be done with the template, but the new site seems to be fully functional. “BIG News from the Blogosphere” is the theme and we’re going the tabloid news approach with bigger sensational headlines to add Umph! Read more »

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Digg Founder Kevin Rose one of CNN’s “50 People Who Matter Now”

kevinrose.pngDigg.com founder Kevin Rose is tied for #23rd spot on CNN’s Business 2.0 Magazine list of “50 People Who Matter NOW” with Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales.

The #2 spot is shared by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Co-founders of Google, but who’s #1? Read more »

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Gada.be Renamed TagJag

TagJagThe tag metasearch engine, Gada.be, run by tech pundit and Lockergnome founder Chris Pirillo, is moving to a new domain sometime this week. The service will be nearly identical, except for the new name, TagJag and a complete redesign. Read more »

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Rafat Ali Gets First Round Funding

Rafat Ali Gets Venture CapitalRafat Ali, the owner and blogger of the infamous paidContent.org site that’s broken more top news than most normal bloggers can dream of, announces that his parent company just recieved it’s first round of funding from Alan Patricof’s new venture firm, Greycroft Partners. Read more »

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Ecto For Windows 2.1 BETA Released

Ecto 2.1 BETA ReleasedThe makers of the desktop blogging tool, Ecto, have just released their Ecto 2.1 for Windows. It’s available for download here. The major features added to this update are Amazon search and additional settings for Thumbnail Uploads. Read more »

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Bloglogic.net will be Relaunching Soon

This site will relaunch sometime on June 26/06.

Here are some details.

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New Site goes BETA Tomorrow

I’ll be opening up a new site to the public tomorrow around noon, EST. Then, on Monday, July 02/06 the site will officially launch.

The site itself is not what makes the whole thing special though. It’s the purpose. Bloglogic.net as we know it now will no longer exist as a standalone blog network. Instead, it will be absorbed into something a lot bigger, better and more diverse. Read more »

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BlogHerald.com gets Snazzy New Look

Just popped over to the Blog Herald and discovered Matt and Chris have given the place a facelift.

The newspaper/portal/blog look will take some getting used to but I’m starting to like it already.

Nice work guys.

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Gadgetizer Forums Gone

That’s right, I deleted the forums from the Gadgetizer site. I kept going there to post and had to spend my time deleting mortgage spam and bogus users who only signed up to get links on the member list pages.

It’s nearly impossible to stay ahead of it all. Spam is like a disease that chips away at any immune systems you throw at it and you eventually have to give in or walk away from being too tired to fight it any more.

To hell with people who want links for nothing. From now on they have to earn them or pay for them.

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Gadgetizer and the Museum of Hoaxes

Well folks, last year when I flipped the lights on at Gadgetizer.com, if you had told me the site would eventually end up in the Museum of Hoaxes, I would have snorted coffee all over my keyboard.

But Tiago did it. Here’s the entry.

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