Blog Universe News

I’ve found that it takes too much time to try to maintain three sites when the topics are constantly overlapping so Im consolidating the bloguniverse.com subdomains, weblog and podcast, over to Blog Hacking.
The feed is already pointed over there and this site will be left up for archival purposes, but the action has moved. And […]

So after months of trying out a new design and software, I’ve updated the Blog Universe Directory. It has also moved to a different faster server and seems to be running well, despite the occasional hiccup.
During the transition we didn’t have much downtime and the handoff appeared to go over smoothly which is blessing.
Feedback is […]

Digital Media Adoption - from Ian@Work:
“AdAge on the adoption of blogs, podcasts and newsfeeds: “According to Jupiter Research, 7% of American adults write blogs and 22% read them; about 8% listen to podcasts and 5% use RSS feeds. According to a separate study by WorkPlace Print Media, 88% of the at-work audience doesn’t even know […]

AOL to offer video from all the big guys - from Techcrunch
While this may be a good thing for most, it would be nice if they start off or develop some technology that would work with growing Mac user base other than Windows Media Player.
Technorati Tags: aol, video, vod, techcrunch, downloads, […]

Fallout continues from AOL release of search (from Reuters)
“AOL’s chief technology officer Maureen
Govern, who oversaw the division responsible for accidentally
releasing search data for more than a half a millions users, has
resigned from the company, according to an internal company
memorandum.
AOL declined comment.
The online division of Time Warner Inc. (TWX.N: Quote, Profile,
Research) drew the ire of privacy […]

The blog universe has responded with taking their dollar to the opening weekend of “Snakes On A Plane”:
“Fandango, the nation’s largest online, phone and mobile movie ticketing service, reports that SNAKES ON A PLANE swallowed 62% of Thursday’s ticket sales. In a recent Fandango online poll, 41% of respondents said they plan to […]

PayPerPost.com released Beta 2.0 of its online blog advertising service on Friday, August 11, 2006. The new features allow more interaction between advertisers and publishers in an effort to combat spam posts, one of the biggest past criticisms about the company.
“This upgrade is focused on improving the quality of content for advertisers and bloggers,” stated […]

If you think you have the programming chops, come one come all:
Google Inc., announced today that registration is now open for Google Code Jam 2006. Google’s annual
online coding competition presents participants with a series of challenges that they must use their programming skills and creativity to solve. Programmers ready to match their skills against the […]

Podcast Academy has become part of GigaVox Media’s offerings and can be accessed at http://pa.gigavox.com.
Technorati Tags: podcast academy, podcasting, gigavoc, doug kaye, it conversations

Pheedo announced that it is the largest RSS ad network for Apple related publishers.
Current Pheedo publishers include Apple Insider, Mac Daily News,
MacNN, Think Secret, Mac Fix-it, BackBeat Media and Mac Observer. As
Apple makes the headlines this week at its Worldwide Developers
Conference (WWDC), these publishers are leveraging Pheedo’s RSS
management services to broadcast news, analysis and […]