Hey Bloggers,
We’ve been busy compiling the Q4 Leaderboard winners and we’re almost ready to post the results. Stay tuned.
BlogBurst Team
Archive for December, 2006
Hey Bloggers,
2006 proved to be a phenomenal year for BlogBurst. And we couldn’t have done it without you. We sincerely wish you the happiest of holidays and look forward to working with you in 2007.
Cheers!
BlogBurst Team
Congratulations to our BlogBurst members who won the Weblog Award in their designated categories. (And congratulations again to everyone who made it to the finals.) You can see the full list here.
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Best Liberal Blog: Think Progress
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Best Gossip Blog: DListed
- Best of the Top 250: TalkLeft
In a big nod to the Information Age and citizen media, TIME Magazine announced its Person of the Year as ‘You.’ The bloggers, the social networkers, the gamers and the online journalists: this is your year.
Congratulations and here’s to the future!
In anticipation of the post-holiday hangover (the financial one), BlogBurst editors are searching for relevant content such as credit card debt, personal finance, money management and cost saving tips. If you’ve got posts related to the impact of the holidays on your wallet, please shoot us an email at blogburst-editors@pluck.com. And be sure to leave suggestions in the comments!
Hey all!
Eric Roach, your friendly blog recruiter here. On Monday I had the distinct pleasure of hosting the first-ever non-Austin blogger meetup in Washington, DC. I was in town to attend the Healthcare Blogging Summit (which was quite enlightening - great bloggers talking about all things blog), after which I went down to the brickskeller (holder of the guinness record for most varieties of beer!)
Matt, John and Doug came down from Hotpads.com. They are a very 2.0 business that helps connect you with great places to live, and their blog is chock full of good advice on looking for a home, as well as chronicling the ups and downs of 2.0 startup land.
David from Fight HIV in DC was there, and we got to talk about the current crisis, and the ups and downs of being an activist and a blogger.
And, although she didn’t have a beer, SeeJaneMom came by. She’s a relatively new blogger, but is already having a fair amount of luck, good traffic, and a lot of fun. She also has the kidalog, which is a blog about shopping for kids.
Overall it was a lot fun and we look forward to bringing a meetup to your town soon.
The 2006 Weblog Award Finalists were announced this week. This is the world’s largest blog competition, featuring 45 categories. You can vote for your favorite blog until December 15.
Congratulations to our BlogBurst network bloggers who made it to the finals!
Best Individual Blog
- Dr. Sanity
Best Humor Blog
- Jon Swift
Best Online Community
- BlogHer
Best Liberal Blog
- Pandagon
- Think Progress
- skippy the bush kangaroo
- Shakespeare’s Sister
- Bring It On!
Best Centrist Blog
- Homeland Stupidity
- The Gun Toting Liberal
- QandO
Best Technology Blog
- TechCrunch
Best Sports Blog
- Baseball Musings
- the mighty mjd sports blog
- Full Throttle
Best Business Blog
- BizzyBlog
- Influential Interactive Marketing
- ShopFloor.org
Best GLBT Blog
- Towleroad
- The Republic of T.
Best Parenting Blog
- Rocks in my Dryer
Best Education Blog
- Eduwonk
Best Science Blog
- Bad Astronomy Blog
Best Gossip Blog
- D-Listed
- Young, Black & Fabulous
Best Music Blog
- My Old Kentucky Blog
Best Canadian Blog
- milkmoney or not, here I come
Best European Blog (not UK)
- A Fistful of Euros
Best Asian Blog
- The China Law Blog
Best Middle East Blog
- ‘Agoul
- Saudi Jeans
Best Latino Blog
- Venezuela News and Reviews
Best of the Top 250 Blogs
- Stop the ACLU
- Feministe
- TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime
Best of the Top 251-500 Blogs
- Texas Rainmaker
Best of the Top 1001-1750 Blogs
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WILLisms.com
Best of the Top 1751-2500 Blogs
- Coyote Blog
- Nehring The Edge
Best of the Top 2501-3500 Blogs
- The Stupid Shall Be Punished
Best of the Top 6751-8750
- Pruned
Best of the Rest of the Blogs (8751+)
- A Templar Knight
- The Centre for Emotional Well-Being
- Popped Culture
BlogBurst team members are going to be in the D.C. and New York area on Monday, Dec.11 and Tuesday, Dec.12 respectively. While we are in your town, we wanted to gather our syndicated and member bloggers for drinks and just have a good time. We did one of these in Austin a few months back and wanted to continue this tradition for bloggers in other cities.
Where/When:
Washington D.C.
Monday, Dec.11 at 6 p.m. EST
Brickskellar
1523 22nd St. NW (Dupont Circle)
New York, NY:
Tuesday, Dec.12 at 6 p.m. EST
Four-Faced Liar Irish Pub
165 W 4th St (Cross Street: 6th Avenue)
New York, NY 10014
(212) 366-0608
PLEASE RSVP by commenting on this post.
BlogBurst will do more of these local blogger meet ups in various cities in 2007. Stay tuned for when we are coming to your city.
Pluck has officially come out of beta and launched Version 1.0 of the BlogBurst network, announcing more than 3,000 participating bloggers around the world, and an expanding audience reach through the addition of new publishers such as USA TODAY and Reuters.
As new and existing syndication partners continue to explore the BlogBurst network and its wide range of rich content, we are confident that more bloggers will be picked up by publishers, gaining visibility, increased traffic and new readers.
“Blogs can be a valuable complement to traditional news coverage,” said Jeff Webber, Senior Vice President and Publisher, USATODAY.com. “By tapping into the BlogBurst network, we can help readers find the best of those independent writers and gain new insights on topics ranging from technology to entertainment, travel, business, and sports.”
The new “Lighthouse†syndication partners include:
Newspapers
USA TODAY – The nation’s top-selling newspaper
Broadcasters
Discovery – Parent company of Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Travel Channel and other major media brands
Syndicated News Services
Reuters – One of the world’s largest providers of syndicated news
Magazines
IDG UK – Parent company for UK publications such as MacWorld, Techworld and PC Advisor
Rodale - Publisher of popular consumer titles including Runners World, Men’s Health and Women’s Health
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