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b5media Severs Ties with Shai Coggins

January 18, 2009 By jangelo

As reported over at the Blog Herald, b5media has severed ties with several bloggers and managers, including co-founder Shai Coggins. In a memo circulated within b5media's staffers, and subsequently shared with a few bloggers outside of the network, founder Jeremy Wright cited economic reasons for the move. [I]t appears that this move was due to some belt-tightening … [Read more...]

Are Network Bloggers Like Magazine Editors?

June 30, 2007 By jangelo

Jayvee Fernandez, b5media's technology channel editor asks on his blog: If a network problogger left the blogosphere, would anyone care? Jayvee compares network bloggers to editors of magazines. Jayvee comes from the print/publications industry (a fact I know), and I can surmise that he has quite some experience with the inner workings of print magazines. And in these, the … [Read more...]

b5media Breaks the 200 Mark

June 19, 2007 By jangelo

b5media has recently announced that it has broken the 200 blog count mark. In the press release (while quite strange for a network that publishes blogs, is surely a welcome thing), b5medial lauds how it has grown from five blogs in 2005 to a strong 200 today. CEO Jeremy Wright cites one difference in how they approach blogging. "Rather than forcing people to drink … [Read more...]

Shiny Media Launches Four New UK-Oriented Blogs

June 13, 2007 By jangelo

UK-based Shiny Media has recently launched four new blogs aimed at the UK market. Andy Merrett reports via the Blog Herald the launch of Available for Panto, Lost Weekend, Kerching.tv and My Chemical Toilet. Available for Panto is a blog about reality TV, including popularity contest type shows. Lost Weekend, meanwhile, is all about guy stuff. Kerching, as the name suggests, … [Read more...]

Will Blogging Be The Next Offshoring Boom?

June 11, 2007 By jangelo

Tony Hung reacts over at Deep Jive Interests to a recent NY Times article on blogging as possibly the next in profession among connected individuals. While the NY Times article highlights blogging--or actually problogging--as a novel new way of earning, Tony stresses the importance of offshoring opportunities for blogging. The topic of moving creative content off-shore … [Read more...]

901am Launches Japan Edition

June 9, 2007 By jangelo

Splashpress Media's new media site 901am.com has recently launched a localized version for the Japanese market. In its announcement, it cites the prevalence of Japanese as the most used language for blogging in the latest report by Technorati. 901am explains that the translation is done by Ioix, and not automated translation tools. Ioix is also the company that runs the Blog … [Read more...]

ForeverGeek Migrates to WordPress and Sports New Design

March 3, 2007 By jangelo

ForeverGeek, which I used to be part of has recently undergone a massive redesign. The site has also switched from Movable Type to Wordpress. I didn’t realize FG had been redesigned until I saw it on my feed reader. Today we are making the leap from Movable Type to Wordpress. We also have a snazzy new design that we will be debuting. Anyway, this is just a warning to be … [Read more...]

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