Holtz Communications + Technology

Technorati’s Dave Sifry has released the first part of his latest “State of the Blogosphere,” which (he reports) is 60 times bigger than it was in 2003. Among the more interesting results is the fact that 13.7 million bloggers are still posting items three months after launching their blogs. While there are still plenty of people who start a blog on a whim but don’t…

Japanese athletes competing at the upcoming Winter Olympics won’t be able to blog about their experiences because their posts could be construed as journalism and disqualify them from the Games.

TMC Net reports that the Japanese Olympic Committee has informed its athletes that the Olympic Charter prohibits athletes from engaging in journalistic activities during the Games.

Statements from the Committee note that blogs…

Op-Ed News is reporting that US Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) held a conference call with a group of political bloggers to provide an update on a filibuster he is planning with Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass) to stall the confirmation of US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito.

I’m not going to get all political in this blog. What struck me about this item…

I’ve seen two instances recently in which companies apologized after incurring the wrath of bloggers.

The most recent is the head of Jung von Matt, a German advertising agency. Jean-Remy von Matt sent an email to his staff complaining about bloggers after several savaged a campaign for which his agency was responsible. He called blogs “the toilet walls of the Internet” and asked, “What on…

...it occurred to me that there is no such thing as blogging. There is no such thing as a blogger. Blogging is just writing—writing using a particularly efficient type of publishing technology. Even though I tend to first use Microsoft Word on the way to being published, I am not, say, a Worder or Wordder. It’s just software, people! The underlying…

The lead on the press release sounds great: “Initial results of the “Business Case For Blogging” survey by Write2Market show that over half of business bloggers report closing sales through leads they receive through their blog. This statistic, along with other surprising results, paints an unexpectedly rich landscape of sales opportunities for businesses that blog.”

Reading on, though, you find this: “The survey is still gathering…