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I thought I’d close out the year 2005 with a heads-up on some new research on the cutting-edge business blogging tools we know as podcasting and videocasting (or vidcasting, vodcasting, videoblogging, whatever).  The research findings at Peter Chen’s website begin with an abstract that says, "Based on a survey of 366 podcasters and videobloggers, this [...]

The BlogPulse 2005 Year in Review report includes a list of the top media sources referenced in blogs.  BlogPulse compiled this data by counting the number of times bloggers linked to different media sources throughout 2005.  Here are the top five:
1 . Yahoo! News2 . BBC NEWS3 . The New York Times4 . CNN.com5 . Washington Post
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It’s almost 2006, so here are five New Year’s resolutions you should consider for your corporate blog or business blog (or listen if your eyes are tired):
1. I will spend no more than 30 minutes writing each blog post.  Harder than it sounds, but with practice, you can become consistently quick at publishing to your [...]

Yes, folks, NASA now offers podcasts galore.  The main NASA podcasting page offers a simple explanation of podcasts for the non-bloggers out there, and offers several downloading and listening options.  You can easily immerse yourself in NASA’s rich library of multimedia content, now with RSS-enabled streaming of podcasts to your own computer or other Web-enabled [...]

Christmas Day is almost here in the United States, and of course now in full swing in much of the world.  I won’t be working until Tuesday the 27th, so I wanted to drop a note here saying MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you and Happy Holidays as well.  I look forward to many excellent [...]

On Tuesday, I found a great article by Selena Maranjian about IBM’s use of corporate blogging. The article, "IBM in the Blogosphere," is online at the Motley Fool (subscription required) and at Yahoo! News (free).
Maranjian introduces the topic of corporate blogging by mentioning the "dark side" of the Web - that which causes employees to [...]

Jeremiah Owyang has an interesting post up about things he learned at the recent Syndication Conference in San Francisco, California.  In his post, Jeremiah lists several ways in which the Internet, blogs and RSS feeds are forcing changes in public relations, marketing and advertising, among other industries.  I especially like his personal list of shifting [...]

In the coming days I will be testing out Stock.Xchng, a popular stock photography site, to see if it can spice up my blog without taking too much of my time.  I’ve been looking for a way to put free photos up at Business Blog Wire without violating any copyright protections.  The beautiful cloudy sunset photo [...]

In a December 20 article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daniel Rubin highlights blogging’s speedy rise in popularity.  The points that interest me most as a business blogger:

In 2004, "blog" was Merriam-Webster’s word of the year.
A recent study says that 39 million American adults read blogs and 13 million write them.  Imagine how many younger people [...]

Hey, business bloggers: the best blog search engine just got a little better.  The Technorati weblog describes various improvements, including search popularity charts, tag clouds for user profiles, searching within tags, and more.  I prefer Technorati to other blog search engines because it seems to the most comprehensive and constantly updated alternative.
I’ve written about Technorati [...]