Comments on: BLOG08: How to build a blog empire

By: Citizen Media Watch » Are status updates on social media sites a form of microblogging?

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:52:08 +0000

[...] Twitter, which recently passed its 1 billionth tweet (via Media Culpa), are immensely popular, and some even say they’ll completely take over from regular [...]

By: Bloggers, making money is not a crime

Bloggers, making money is not a crime — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:35:56 +0000

[...] the Mashable founder asked the crowd about monetizing, something noteworthy occurred. Anne Helmond reports: When asked, hardly anyone in the room actually wants to monetize its blog. Pete is kind of [...]

By: BLOG08 Verslag | niektenhoopen.nl

BLOG08 Verslag | niektenhoopen.nl — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:24:37 +0000

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By: Blog08: Pete Cashmore - Blogging is dead, microblogging is the future | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:22:07 +0000

[...] Pete Cashmore, founder and CEO of Mashable, has said bloggers should be finding niches to blog about and focusing on microblogging, according to Anne Helmond, our blogger on the ground at the Blog08 conference taking place in Amsterdam today. “Apparently blogging is dead, it’s all about microblogging. Blogging is hard now. How do you compete with blogs created by established media empires who create blogs? Find a niche. What’s the future of blogs? According to Pete it is about how do you aggregate the dispersed conversation that’s on FriendFeed and Twitter, or do you want to completely distribute content as a brand?” Anne writes in a post, which appears in full on her own blog [...]