From GreenOptions.com‘s Sustainablog, a feature on the government’s drive to get people to trade in their old clunky cars for newer more efficient ones is underway. The post started with an idea from a child who suggested that everybody with old cars trade them in for new hybrids to solve the whole global warming thingy’. Bright idea right, well somebody in Washington thought of that too and the “Cash for Clunkers” program was born. The program is designed to make the world a cleaner place by giving incentives to people who trade in their old inefficient cars for newer cleaner cars that use alternative energy for fuel. The program is beginning to catch on and every family who opts to avail of the program helps mother nature and also gets a new car in the process making the approach a viable one that is good for the earth and the US auto industry as a whole.
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Gawker media, one of the blogosphere’s biggest blog networks has adopted the Atribution-NonCommercial license for all their original content which makes them one of the few networks who allows use of their materials for free. This doesn’t however a free for all fir there are limitations on how, what and where such original content can be used which can be found in their very extensive Legal Page. This maybe the trend for most of the blogosphere’s biggest names for as said in a previous post, policing content is a practice in futility. The practice of plagiarism is quite widespread and it seems the wide expanse of the internet and the many social networks that inter-twine in between have been so much for people to search fpor instances of content copying they simply gave up.
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Splashpress media has announced the addition of Twitter Buttons to the network as they continue to expand as one of the net’s biggest blogs groups. Twitter buttons is a dedicated site that allows users to create catchy icons that link to Twitter functions for use on their wen sites. Twittering has just become a whole lot easier from your desktop or page, much like the several hundred or so similar offerings on the internet with a twist, it’s totally free. Button creation is limitless as you let your creativity take you to unknown heights. The site is relatively easy to use and registration does not require you to release any personal information.
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Franky Branckaute that is, one of the most dynamic editors of the blogosphere is back at the helm of Forever Geek one of Splashpress Media’s best blogs. Associated with Splashpress since 2006, he has been online for more than a decade and has been moving from tech blog to tech blog. He returns with a vengeance, ready again to grace the blogosphere with his insight, angst and energy.
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Digitization has been approached with caution by major publishers for quite sometime mainly due to fears of piracy and other content related crimes. The current economic conditions makes it relatively expensive to pursue conventional print media and has given way to these people to finally realize that it is the way to go. Major titles from McGraw hill and others have taken up the call and are beginning to experiment with digitization for their book titles. According to CMS Wire, the avenue is the one to pursue for it opens up a whole new arena of profits for publishers due to the advantages and marketing advantages of viral marketing and SEO.
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The global economy is down and more people lose jobs, luckily the social web has blogging and other writing jobs that allows you to pass time and earn some cash in the process. Sadly however, blogs have also been hit hard with many networks losing so much money they have been forced to cut back on people.
Putting all the negative stuff aside, blogging remains to be a wide open space for those who seek to earn a living through one of the products of the social internet. The only problem, even this form of media isn’t safe from people who are motivated by greed, earning a buck or two out of your hard earned blog posts. From “Copy-Paste” artists to scammers, they use or hijack blogs for their own benefit leaving you out of the equation. Plagiarism as it is called in technical terms has become so bad that our own Splashpress Media has launched it’s own Copyright Service. With support from Plagiarism Today with regards to the specific legalities involved, it hopes to cater to the needs of customers who want to protect their hard-earned reputations.
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Skinny Moose Media’s Steve Remington announced in an email that they are partnering up with a new blog network, Adventure Bay Media which we have added to our watchlist. From their about blurb:

The Adventure Bay Media Network is a portal to the world of adventure. Our network of blogs and media represents some of the best adventure and outdoor writers in the field. We cover mountain climbing, kayaking, surfing, hiking, mountain biking and a whole lot more of what you would expect with big time adventure and the great outdoors.

The network currently has four member blogs.

Visit the Adventure Bay Media network here.

We have added the Zedomax Blog Network to our watchlist. From their about blurb:

We are a Niche Online Media Company with a network of wikis, blogs, and social networks.

Zedomax.Net was created to cover Web 2.0, social networking, and other tools for webmasters/entrepreneurs at the speed of technology.

Visit the Zedomax Blog Network here.

The Blog Herald’s Thord Daniel Hedengren invited three heavy hitters in the blog network industry for our sister site’s first roundtable discussion. Those invited were:

• Jeremy Wright, CEO of b5media
• Collis Ta’eed, CEO of Envato
• Mike Rundle, triad member of 9rules

The discussion revolves around the health of the blog network business model, the current financial situation, and today’s ideal blog network setup, among others.

Read the full discussion here.

Splashpress Media, owner of Blog Network Watch, has just launched Yurto, a “blog about living an eco-friendly life.”

From the announcement:

Yurto is a blog created for those who want to change their lifestyle into an eco-friendly one, but don’t quite know how to start. At Yurto we’ve found that the best way to start living green is from the most important place of all, our homes.

Visit Yurto today.