Bloggers Buzz

Blog Republic has interviewed popular blogger Aaron Brazell in a timely interview just after his blog Technosailor joined b5media. You can check out the full interview at Blog Republic.

Tags: blogging, blogging interviews, Aaron Brazell

Blog Republic has kicked off its Blogger Interviews with two interviews. The first was with Easton Ellsworth:

Easton Ellsworth is an associate editor for the Know More Media network of business-related blogs. His blog, Business Blog Wire, covers corporate and professional blogging. He has been blogging since October 2005 and is the founder of blogtipping. Easton is 25 and lives in Mesa, Arizona with his wife and one-year-old son

And the second was with myself, Greg Kiernan.

Tags: interviews, professional bloggers

Yaro Starak of Blog Traffic School has posted an interting article on the Power of Credibility:

One of the seriously positive benefits of blogging is the credibility you can build in your chosen field. If you blog well and blog often and the topics you write about inform people, you will quickly become associated with those topics as someone who knows something of value. This is called credibility.

Credibility is a powerful force and can have many positive impacts on your life. It can make it easier for you to sell something since your credibility is a stamp of approval on any products you offer. It can make it easier for you to open doors for partnerships since people want to work with you. It can get you clients because it’s a form of reputation that stimulates word of mouth. Of course, it can also get you blog traffic, which is nice because as I mentioned, a blog builds your credibility - that a good combination and symbiotic relationship.

The rest can be read at Blog Traffic School

Tags: blog traffic, credibility, reputation

Warm congratulations to Darren Rowse of problogger on the arrival of his new son Xavier this morning (post does have baby shots).

While Darren is on paternity leave, problogger will be on a different mode of operation:

• Regular ProBlogger columnist, Aaron Brazell, will be writing some guest posts over the coming two weeks
• I’ve advanced posted a series of short ‘one question interviews’ with some bloggers that I admire (see the upcoming post explaining this) - these will run on a once per day basis for two weeks
• There will probably be one or two other guest posts this week from another blogger (or two) who has volunteered to stop by
• I won’t be responding to any emails over the next couple of weeks (unless I see them as urgent)

Congrats again Darren

Tags: blogging, problogger, baby

According to TechCrunch, Amanda Congdon has been forced to leave the RocketBoom video blog.

At least i am not the only one who doesn’t know who Amanda is

Tags: rocketboom, amanda congdon

Tags: PubSub, Bob Wyman, Salim Ismail

Pubsub co-founder Bob Wyman has gone public about the recent rumors of the company’s impending demise and laid the blame on the former CEO Salim Ismail.

I believe firmly that the cause of our difficulties is not the team we have built nor is it the technology we’ve developed. Both are great. What has prevented us moving forward is a battle with a group of minority shareholders, some of whom claim to be lead by our ex-CEO Salim Ismail and are, in any case, primarily his "friends and family." This group is using very unusual clauses in our Shareholder’s agreements to block mergers or financings.

I think that the best assessment of the whole crisis was Michael Arrington who summed up nicely what i was thinking:

A founder should never try to solve problems by publicly attacking another founder. Who’s going to step in now and fund or buy the company with all of this incredibly immature drama being thrown about?

The TechCrunch article is to me on the mark in my opinion and also includes a reply in the comments from Bob Wyman.

Tags: Robert Scoble, Microsoft, Podtech,

The blogsphere has been buzzing since the report broke in the Silicon Valley Watcher that Robert Scoble, microsoft’s technical evangelist has accepted a new position with Podtech. The article suggest Scoble was unhappy with various aspects of his employment with microsoft and as a result Scoble has made a post on his blog Correcting the Record about Microsoft. In the post he rebutts claims he didn’t get support from his management team amoungst other aspects reported as his reasons for departure from microsoft.