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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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!
New Record Level of Blogger Arrests
August 13, 2008
Arresting bloggers to suppress freedom of speech becomes more and more common. China threw a political blogger in jail, Egypt detained a blogger without a trial, Malaysia arrested a blogger for sedition – and Iran considers a law to murder bloggers. (Even at the U.S. border feds can now ‘detain’ anybody’s laptop).
The World Information Access Project at the University of Washington released a report that identified 64 bloggers, unaffiliated with news organizations, who had been arrested for the contents of their blogs between 2003 and 2008.
WIA writes:
After surveying our data, we predict that the number of blogger arrests will rise in 2008. The popularity of online blogs continues to grow and inspire more media coverage of arrest incidents. Countries are enforcing greater Internet regulation, which will only increase with the elections in China, Pakistan, Iran and the United States this year.