Our fabulous BlogBurst Arts & Entertainment bloggers. Here’s some of the coverage from Sunday night’s awards ceremony.
With much ado, the BlogBurst team is happy to announce that we are finally ready to pay out the Q4 2006 Leaderboard to bloggers! The BlogBurst 100 Leaderboard is representative of the top 100 blogs ranked by audience views each quarter throughout the BlogBurst Blog Syndication network. Blogs are featured on some of the top names in media including Reuters, FOX News and USA Today.
Bloggers included in the BlogBurst 100 are eligible to receive compensation as a part of the BlogBurst Rewards Program, which they can use personally or donate to charity.
We sincerely appreciate your patience as we worked out the last-minute kinks. We are beginning payments today, and will continue over the next several days, so if you are on the BlogBurst 100 Leaderboard and have responded to us with your payment preferences and tax forms (if applicable), please be on the lookout for a receipt for payment via PayPal.
If you have questions about payment or do not receive payment by early next week, please contact us at rewards@blogburst.com.
Read the full press release here.
According to a new We Media/Zogby poll, a majority of Americans said that bloggers are important to the future of journalism. Over 70 percent said that citizen journalism will play a critical role in the media revolution.
And here’s the kicker: Almost nine out of 10 media insiders responded that bloggers will play a vital part in reshaping journalism.
We are now seeing mainstream acceptance of what we call the Power of Us - the value, credibility, and vital expression of citizen and collaborative media. We’ve arrived at a tipping point. A new definition of democratic media is emerging in our society.
- Dale Peskin, Managing Director of iFOCOS which sponsors the annual We Media conference
To read the full article and survey results from iFOCOS, click here.
Last week, Pluck sponsored and exhibited at Media Summit New York. Media Summit is an annual media industry trade show that brings together the top names in media - publishing, broadcast and online. The whole conference was abuzz with speaker and panel discussions on user-generated content, social media, social networking, and, of course, blogs - and how they are changing the landscape of media, information and audience reach. CEO Dave Panos spoke on a panel covering the social media space and the huge impact of user-generated content on the media business.
More and more, we’re seeing media companies and publishers such as Reuters and Internet Broadcasting embracing user-generated content and blogs for their sites, leveraging networks such as BlogBurst. This model is helping drive more post views, increase readership and create greater brand awareness for blogs.
BlogBurst is excited to welcome Internet Broadcasting, which contains sites from over 70 TV news stations. If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments.
NEW YORK - February 7, 2007- At the 2007 Digital Media Summit, the fusion of old and new media continued its momentum today as Internet Broadcasting, the nation’s largest publisher of TV station web sites, and Pluck Corporation, a pioneer in social media technologies, announced that Internet Broadcasting has begun distributing blog content from the Pluck BlogBurst Syndication Network to its broadcast partner web sites. Internet Broadcasting publishes web sites for more than 70 of America’s premier broadcasters, including NBC, Cox Television, Hearst-Argyle, The McGraw Hill Companies, Post-Newsweek and Meredith Broadcasting.
“Working with Pluck, our broadcast partners can easily share the unique and valuable perspectives of a broad set of reputable bloggers with their audience,” said Clayton Rose, EVP of Business and Corporate Development of Internet Broadcasting. “In addition, the new service provides another vehicle for our broadcasters to offer compelling, targeted and locally relevant advertising opportunities.”
The long lead-up to Sunday’s Superbowl XLI was full of plots and sub-plots and the blogosphere didn’t disappoint. We had the hard-core fans from Stampede Blue and Windy City Gridiron leading the chest-thumping, trash-talking hype for the game. The guys from Real Football 365, NFL Gridiron Gab, Fan IQ and Squib Kick had a little less smack but the same passionate coverage.
It wouldn’t be the Superbowl without some discussion of the ads and several from the blogosphere chimed in:
And the consensus seems to be that Prince reigned supreme at halftime:
Hello all, Eric Roach, your friendly blog recruiter here. I had the good fortune to attend the 2007 Science Blogging Conference in Chapel Hill last weekend (January 20, actually), and I thought I should take some time to point out a few of the very cool things going on in the science blogging universe.
First off, I would like to give tremendous props to the organizer Anton Zuiker. What started off as a conference primarily for the high concentration of science bloggers in the triangle area grew into a very large very helpful event attended by 170+ interested parties.
As opposed to many blogging conferences, which tend to focus in part on SEO and gaining readers, this conference really was focused on how to become better bloggers, as well as how to take advantage of these new social technologies to advance science at an even quicker pace. This was my first exposure to the unconference mentaility and I found the free discussion of ideas very stimulating. There were very fun break out sessions (I attended one on illustrating blog posts — something science bloggers do with great effect — as well as one on the emerging field of nanotechnology) and a lot of watercooler focus on the educational aspects of blogging (there were many educators present who utilize blogs to further the classroom experiences).
The attendees were a very diverse crowd, from straight up a-list science bloggers, to science publishers, to professional scientists evaluating a possible leap into bloggerdom, to junior-high science teachers, to local political bloggers. The campus was beautiful and the ideas were inspiring.
Keep an eye out for the next conference in your area, and let us know about them.
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