http://www.proweblogger.com About The Struggle of a Newbie Blogger Going Pro... Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:32:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In a court ruling earlier this week, The California Supreme Court said Internet publishers cannot be held liable for if defematory comments, which were written by others, are found on their sites/blogs. The court, in a unanimous decision, said those claiming defamation can only sue the original ... http://www.proweblogger.com/archives/news-grossip/california-web-publishers-arent-liable-for-defamation/ Nick Wilson knows his stuff when it comes to blogging and social media. He started Threadwatch back in 2004 and turned into a leading technology board/community/blog on the net. He then sold the board and started Performancing, which later ventured into different avenues covering from publishing tools and up to ... http://www.proweblogger.com/archives/general/blogging-guru-nick-wilson-starts-podcasting/ Seems like people high up there are starting to realize that bloggers are regular people and that some of their work may be qualified as actual news reporting. Now, forget the fact that blogger's have been reporting the news for a couple of years now, a new bill offers that ... http://www.proweblogger.com/archives/news-grossip/news-bloggers-would-be-protected-by-shield-law/ Very inspirational, indeed. After rumors started flowing in last night about a possible deal between AOL and WeblogsInc for the sale of the successful blog network for around $25 Million. It's been officially confirmed in an email correspondance between Duncan and Jason Calacanis. Some people like to see this sale as ... http://www.proweblogger.com/archives/news-grossip/weblogsinc-a-multi-million-success-story/ AOL and SixApart have announced a partnership that will allow bloggers to add their AIM services into SixAparts LiveJournal and TypePad. Under the new agreement, AOL will allow SixApart users to show their their presence status on their blogs and improve connectivity with other bloggers and readers. With AIM Presence, you can ... http://www.proweblogger.com/archives/corporate/aol-sixapart-team-up-to-improve-services-for-sixapart-blogs/ Graywolf is fed up with Google's site targeting option and is dumping Adsense. He is offering advertisers which currently target his blog to contact him directly (which makes a lot of sense). I will be removing Google Adsense from this blog this week. If you had previously used site targeting to ... http://www.proweblogger.com/archives/general/adsense-dumped-contact-direct/ Google has officially announced that Adsense EFT is now out of beta: Electronic Funds Transfer is ready for the big-time! We've been working hard on our payment system, and with our thanks to the thousands of AdSense publishers who took part in our beta test, we're now ready to bring EFT ... http://www.proweblogger.com/archives/adsense-tips-and-news/adsense-electronic-funds-transfer-is-out-of-beta/ With the new re-organization and announcement of b5media, Duncan had posted about a position as an editor for his blog Search Engine Herald. I decided to take the challenge and offer myself. I obviously still hard of blogging, but he mentioned to me that he expects a minimum of 15 new ... http://www.proweblogger.com/archives/general/editing-for-searchengineheraldcom/ This is an interesting post by a college graduate who chose to write his thesis about blogging. To give a brief over view of the paper, it was written for people who have a basic understanding of Blogs. I looked at how Blogs have impacted business and communication, how some ... http://www.proweblogger.com/archives/uncategorized/blogging-and-university/ The question of "what to do in case of losing your million $$ Adsense check?" came up in a forum post at DigitalPoint. The answer, aparently is very simple. Alph wrote: I've had a check get lost in the mail. You have to wait 30 days from issue date, then contact ... http://www.proweblogger.com/archives/adsense-tips-and-news/lost-your-adsense-check-no-problem/