For the last few years anyone in the tech industry could tell you who the ‘evil empire’ was and why it was known as such.  However, after a hugely successfull blog adoption campaign, utilizing over 1500 bloggers within the company, Microsoft has almost completely overcome the unwanted moniker.
Into this world that has lost an evil [...]

Randy, at the RSS Blog, has more info on Technorati’s Performance of late. While Technorati says response time is down:
David Sifry: Since beginning our infrastructure improvements, Technorati’s uptime has improved significantly. [cut] According to GrabPerf,
even while our overall traffic has increased, our response times have
consistently decreased. [cut] The index is over 3 years old, [...]

This graphic is large, but I wanted to make sure you could read the text well.  Notice the change in RSS usage in 2003 as compared with 2005.  Watchlists (or search notifiers) and Podcasts have really picked up steam in the last year, in fact entirely new markets are being served in these areas for [...]

After reading an article by Darren Rowse I was struck how similar blog marketing and podcast marketing can be. 

We are blogging in a context where there are literally millions of
blogs, in some niches there are hundreds (if not thousands) of
alternatives for people to read. Successful blogs do something that
makes them distinct from the rest.

They [...]

Besides giving you a good SEO boost, outside links bring readers to your site and help you feel your work is making a difference. Unfortunately, sometimes getting a link back to your blog can be difficult at best. Here are some simple things you can do to get your post linked to a larger site:
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