While oil prices continue to soar to record highs, the price of gas has pinched pocketbooks and sparked conversations surrounding everything from family travel and food prices to alternative fuels and political policies. The topic has landed in debates between presidential candidates who either favor or oppose a fuel tax holiday. In business news, the airline industry is taking a beating as jet fuel costs climb. On the home front, rising gas prices cause families to cancel their Summer vacation plans and begin checking their mailboxes for economic stimulus checks.
The topic of gas prices has yeilded increased placement opportunities as publishers utilize blogs from the BlogBurst network to provide additional coverage to readers. IBS has launched a “Gas Prices” section, featuring content from BlogBurst network members, across the majority of their local television station websites:
Learn more about the topic by reading posts authored by some of your fellow BlogBurst bloggers who have been featured on IBS’ Gas Price news section:
Business
Fuel-enomics: 10 Tips for Small Businesses as Prices Continue to Rise - The goWholesale Blog
Dairy Farmers to Receive Help With Fuel Costs - Food and Fuel America.com
Gas and Diesel Prices Rocket Upwards…Again! - Food and Fuel America.com
Politics
Savings from suspending state gas taxes - Don’t Mess With Taxes
President Bush Troubled By High Gas Prices - Hutch Report
Hillary Spurns Economist on Gas Tax - Donklephant
Leading Democrats Side With Obama in Gas Tax Dispute - WSJ Washington Wire
Consumers
Drivers slow down as gas prices rise - Auto Insider Blog
American Life Altered by Rising Gas Prices - LiveScience.com Blogs
What’s Fueling Higher Food Costs? - Debtors Relief
Save Money on Gas Tips from Consumer Reports - The Sun’s Financial Diary
Tax Help - Tired of Those High Gas Prices? - “The Baby Boomer Generation”
Get An Oil Change and Save on Gas - Basil & Spice - Living Green!
Ease Gas Pump Pains by Replacing Old Habits with New Ones - Ask Patty
We are just approaching the second round of March Madness and publishers have created a big dance of their own with posts from the BlogBurst network. Both IBS and Cox Ohio have picked up posts for placement in the sports sections of multiple television websites.
I’m Writing Sports’ post, “Bracketology 101: Back to the Basics,” has been featured in the March Mania sections of television sites such as Whio.tv, Kansas City TV 5, The Pittsburgh Channel, Click on Detroit, and NBC 5 Chicago, as well as on Cox Ohio’s Dayton Daily News. Other blogs posting on the hoopla include Hoopraker, Conquest Chronicles, Bruins Nation, A Sea of Blue, and The Big Dance Blog.
Have you got some spring love from publishers that are placing your March Madness posts? Let us know in the comment section below.
Aside from March Madness posts, other bloggers are experience some Spring love from publisher placement opportunities.From Newslite.tv:
My blog has been on BlogBurst for just over one week now and in the past seven days I have had over 73,000 headline impressions and my posts have been used on Reuters, USAToday.com and Chicago Sun Times - wow…
I only have good things to say about BlogBurst and the visibility it have a given my blog. In terms of headline impressions, post placement and click through rate it has exceeded all of my expectations.
One of our newest blogs, Blogflict, has an interesting angle on “Eliot Mess,” praising the New York Times online.
It was major news across all mediums, with BlogBurst publishing partners USA Today and Reuters both incorporating bloggers’ perspectives into the story.
Here’s but a few of the BlogBurst bloggers who weighed-in:
Hypocrisy- They name is Spitzer (jobsanger)
Political Perceptions: The Spitzer Effect (WSJ.com: Washington Wire)
Eliot’s Mess: Spitzer scandal details emerge (The Carpetbagger Report)
The BlogBurst editorial team is excited to announce that BlogBurst blogs have been selected by The Wall Street Journal to fuel a new site featuring content surrounding the retirement debate.
Retirementdebate.com, which launched on Monday, March 3rd, features news, business, finance, and political posts with a narrowed focus on retirement, social security, Medicare, baby boomer, and senior living issues.
Here are just a few examples of posts by BlogBurst network members that were placed on new WSJ Retirement Debate site:
Still Clickin: You Bet Your Life…Insurance
The New Business World: Declining Dollar, Pension Funds and Downward Business
Senior Housing Daily: Housing Market Decline Affecting Senior Housing?
Net News Publisher: Social Security Union Endorses Obama
Take the recent global market tumble, a housing market crisis, and the declining value of the US dollar and add a dash or two of interest rate cuts and a side order of the President’s proposed stimulus package and you’ve got the recipe for a baked economy disaster. It’s said that you don’t know if you’re in a recession until you are looking back in retrospect. But it’s only fitting that the “R” word would rear its ugly head as presidential election campaigns kick into high gear for Super Tuesday primaries. Are we really in a recession? Will the Economic Stimulus Package help or hurt? Will retired boomers get a check? Should I use my $600 rebate to pay down debt or buy a Wii? Is the recession the real reason for Brittney’s latest breakdown? Depending on who you are, these are all valid questions.
Take a look at some articles about the subject from fellow BlogBurst bloggers:
Forex Trading TV Video Blog: How Deep Will The Rate Cut Be?
Jobsanger: Stimulus Package Sounds Good - Won’t Work
The Populist Party: America, the Next Great Banana Republic
The WorkLife Monitor: It’s Job Security, Stupid!
Retail Contrarian: Recession or Recession Not? A Retailer’s Viewpoint
Land of Black Gold: The recession is in.
Buck Naked Politics: The Economic “Stimulus” Package
Where’s the Outrage: Poor in America - it ain’t getting better
Salt Lake Real Estate: Housing Crisis - There’s Light at the End of the Tunnel
Blown Mortgage: Predicting Rates, The Newest Vegas Tablegame
I am not the only one that has noticed the in-depth coverage by BlogBurst bloggers. Check out how these publishers are placing BlogBurst content to keep their readers informed about the state of the US economy:
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It is day 2 of the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Technology and gadget blogs are reporting on everything from the latest high-tech toys to the highlights from popular keynote speakers.
BlogBurst editors put together some of the best posts and recommended the continuously updated content to publishers. Have a look at USA Today’s placement of technology and gadget blogs by members of the BlogBurst network:
In addition to the posts placed on USA Today’s Technology Live section, have a look at some of the 2008 CES posts authored by your fellow BlogBurst network members:
Panasonic’s 150-inch plasma perspective (SlipperyBrick)
ASUS Unveils World’s First Terabyte Notebook at CES 2008 (MobileWhack)
CES a Disappointment to Gamers (British Gaming Blog)
Yahoo! unveils Modular Go 3.0 Beta at the 2008 International CES in a bid to counter Google (TechBuzz)
CES 2008 Innovation Honoree for Home Appliances: Looj (Gadget Spy)
The primary lesson of CES for Radio (hear2.0)
Business Intelligence at CES (BrainBasedBusiness)
Surviving CES Tips: 2008 Edition (LIVEdigitally)
The blogosphere reacted quickly to the shocking news that former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto had been assassinated. Shock, outrage and thoughtful ruminations on the political implications of Bhutto’s death for Pakistan and the US.
BlogBurst publishing partner, Internet Broadcast Systems utilized featured some posts from BlogBurst bloggers covering this developing story.
Here’s but a few posts that have been featured:
Benazir Bhutto: 1953-2007 (Polidose)
Benazir Bhutto: A true shero is assassinated (Culture Kitchen)
Bhutto’s Assassination: The Political Impact (the 7-10 Palmer on Politics)
Blogger’s React :’A Sobbering and Frightening Reninder’ (WSJ: The Washington Wire)
As BlogBurst has expanded its reach across destination sites over the last year, we’re increasingly hearing success stories from our esteemed participating bloggers. These folks have some good things to say about their experience so far:
Patrix talks about gaining exposure and dollars here.
And Chuck is happy to be appearing on Reuters.com as well as a few other major sites recently.
Earth & Sky is known as “A Clear Voice for Science”, and with BlogBurst, they’ve made that voice a bit louder on sites like USAToday.
What we’re happy about is that they’ve reaped those benefits just by doing what they were already doing in the first place — writing great independent content that people find interesting.
What has BlogBurst done for you? Good or bad, please let us know.
One of the big values of using blogs to help cover a story is that publishers offer readers a wide range of perspectives. The BlogBurst team has been promoting posts covering the wildfires in California - and the mix of posts in our network offers a wide range of perspectives: a scientific look at Santa Ana winds, environmental commentary, posts from California residents, and social commentary on how the wealth of the area is impacting the resources dedicated to the disaster.
Some blogs that have been adding to the coverage include:
See how USA Today is using BlogBurst to add to its coverage of the story:
It seems like breaking news stories are happening every day, and Monday was certainly no exception. When Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced his resignation, bloggers jumped on the news with unique analysis and, of course, strong opinions from both sides of the political spectrum.
BlogBurst editors were excited to discover that bloggers outside the typical national news blogs were responding in kind. Here are just some of the bloggers who were picked up for the first time by The San Antonio Express-News and USA Today. Not too shabby…
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