Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know about Gizmodo‘s stolen-phone scoop on the 4th generation Apple iPhone. Gizmodo paid an unnamed source $5,000 for the stolen phone, and, in exchange, got the biggest Apple scoop in many years. They found that the new Apple iPhone features: Front-facing video chat camera Improved regular […]

Against the background of story after story of hard times in the newspaper industry, the Wall Street Journal today declared blogging “America’s Newest Profession”: In America today, there are almost as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers. Already more Americans are making their primary income from posting their opinions than […]

If you’re looking for a hosted blog platform, you may want to avoid Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces. According to figures released today by Royal Pingdom, Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces is down more than 12 times as much as WordPress, Blogger and TypePad. Royal Pingdom checked nine major blogging services over a four month period to […]

The Committee to Protect Bloggers is reporting that blogger Omid Reza Mir Sayafi has died in prison in Iran. Omid was sentenced in December to three years in jail.  Omid was accused of “insulting Iranian religious leaders and spreading propaganda” against the Iranian state. Human Rights Activists in Iran (translated from Arabic by Hamid Tehrani […]

Martha Stewart dedicated the September 17th episode of the Martha Stewart Show to blogging, and she does a great job of covering the topic for newbies: “I’ve been writing this blog for almost a year now and I have to say that I love being able to communicate so easily on a daily basis. Being in […]

This video, via BloggerHelp, looks at how to create a podcast with Blogger.