My 10 Most Favorite Blog World Expo Collections on Flickr

September 26, 2008

Blog World celebs John Chow and Tim Ferriss (Photo by Shashi Bellamkonda)

Richard Avedon once said: “All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”

Truth or not – the good news is: Hundreds of little Avedons were among the attendees of this year’s Blog World Expo. Everybody took pictures of everything and everybody else (especially of the ‘celebs’). Since we live in the age of photo sharing, I don’t have to rely on my own snapshots anymore. As of now, 4587 photos related to the BWE have been posted on Flickr. Wow – and all these pics were taken in 3 days (if you include Friday with all the BWE partner programs)!

Since I was curious what kind of pictures my fellow bloggers were taking, I made the effort to browse through Flickr and find the accounts which include a great variety of this year’s new media and blogging conference in Las Vegas.

These are my 10 most favorite Blog World Expo photo collections on Flickr:

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Blog Word Expo Recap: Great sessions at the B5 Blogger Summit

September 25, 2008

One day before the official Blog Word Expo started, B5 Media – one of the largest blog networks in the world – was running a training day for their bloggers, titled B5 Blogger Summit, that was opened up to any BWE registrants that wanted to attend.  Needless to say that I did not want to miss this great opportunity to get blogging tips from the pros and get to know the people behind this rapidly expanding blog network in person.

In the hindsight I have to say that it was totally worth to take this additional day off and travel to Las Vegas already on Thursday night in order to be fresh and ready for the first session on Friday at 9 AM. Here’s why:
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The World’s 20 Most Popular Ad Blogs

September 8, 2008

As measured by traffic rankings from Alexa, per January 2008. Let me know if your have updates. (Via Scampblog)

A Must For Bloggers – The Blog World Expo

September 5, 2008

I am excited to say that I am going to attend the world’s largest blogging and new media conference this year, the Blog World Expo in Las Vegas. Over 130 speakers will talk about a wide range of topics in 50+ seminars, workshops and keynotes during September 20 and 21. The seminar cover topics such as Blog monetization, Podcasting, Widgets, Open Source, Social Media, Political Blogging, Content Marketing, Personal Branding – and much much more. Given that there are so many great speakers and fascinating things to hear, learn and talk about, it’s difficult to pick the ‘best’ sessions.

One thing I already know: I definitely want to go to the Seminar Making money online with a blog, where the “super panel” including iconic personalities like Darren Rowse (Problogger), Brian Clark (Copy Blogger), John Chow, Shoemoney, Zac Johnson and Jim Kukral are going to talk about their journey to become successful blogger and hopefully share some great tips. As John Chow promised on his blog: “You will not want to miss this session because we’re going to blow your mind.” Well, that’s a teaser…
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Big Blog Buzz Around Sarah Palin

September 3, 2008

Whatever your opinion is about John McCain’s pick for Vice President of the United States – but Sarah Palin from Alaska certainly gets a lot of coverage from the blogosphere.

According to blog engine Technorati the term “Sarah Palin” has been mentioned over 10,000 times in blogs (of any language) on the day when the news of her nomination as VP broke. Since then the buzz only got slightly smaller. Prediction: There is more to come..
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Growth of the Blogosphere

September 3, 2008

There is nothing which can stop the growing popularity of blogs. U.S. consumers are not only increasingly passionate blog authors, but also rely more often on blogs in their daily news consumption. Emarketer writes in its report:

Once a haven for techies, there are now blogs for everything from celebrity gossip to political commentary to the most mundane personal minutiae. By 2012, more than 145 million people – or 67% of the US Internet population—will be reading blogs at least once per month.

More interesting findings:

- The number of people creating blogs in the US will also grow, reaching 34.7 million people by 2011 – 16% of the Internet population.
- There were some 22.6 million US bloggers in 2007, a number that correlates to 12% of Internet users.

Fortune 500 Companies With Blogs

September 3, 2008

11.6%
Percentage of Fortune 500 companies with active business blogs.
(Source: Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki)

What Is A Blogomist?

September 1, 2008

Google, the smartest search engine in the word, doesn’t know what a Blogonomist is:

What a relief!

My take:
It a person who is

• passionate about blogging
• follows trends in the blogosphere
• a strong believer that blogging is good for your health
• possessed by all kind of blogging numbers and stats.

Stay tuned!