CategoryPro Blogging News

Jeremy Wright over at Ensight is putting out a call for experienced bloggers for an unannounced blogging project: ‘I need A Few Good Bloggers, for topics such as Gaming (preferrably a girl, to be honest), Aviation (hobbyist, including the VATSim stuff, Flight Simulator, gliding, etc), as well as a “well ...more

A study by BigResearch shows that the biggest users of blogs are the 18-24 age group with 29.6% saying that they regularly or occasionally use blogs. This is in comparison to 21.7% of 25-34 year olds, 15.5% of 35-54 year olds and 11.4% of the 55+ age group. ‘“The 18-24 ...more

Jim Kukral is releasing information from the BlogKits Survey of bloggers that he did a while back over at ReveNews and finds that 36% of blogger maintain blogs primarily because they like to write. There’s nothing too profound in that – but the other categories show the increasing focus upon ...more

Here’s a quote for the day from Dave Winer for us to ponder – I’m interested in your thoughts in comments below: ‘A blog without ads is itself an ad, interesting to a small number of people. Blogs with ads, like their print counterparts, strive to be as broad as ...more

If you’re interested in getting a blogging gig at Gawker you might like to read how the new editor at Gridskipper, Chris Mohney, got the job by writing an anonymous ‘Gawker Watch’ blog. Chris writes: ‘The “stunt” I pulled was writing an anonymous blog called Gawkerist that paid an absurd ...more

Duncan points to a study by Nielsen Netratings that finds that 13% of blog visitors don’t know what a blog is and that 66% didn’t realize that the blog they were on was in fact a blog. This does not surprise me in the least and connects with my experience ...more

WeblogsInc was hacked in the last few hours. ScottKidder.com has the news and screenshot. Their sites now seem to be up and running again. Not a nice experience to go through I’m sure for the WeblogsInc team.

I wondered how long it would take for the Search Engines to get into blogging themselves as a commercial endeavor and it seems that Yahoo! have decided to get in on the act with Yahoo! Health Expert Blogs. As Steve points out this is probably a strategy that they’ll roll ...more

Megablog – Gizmodo – is going through some changes at the moment with the leaving of editor Joel Johnson who is leaving to pursue a freelance career and plans to find a new Gizmodo team (apply via that link). It will be interesting to see how the changes impact the ...more