WizbangTech Trackback Pinger. Best of Mashable: Blogging. This may come as a shock to all of the readers here, but blogging is something we're passionate about around these parts. So this Best Of is a mixture of some amazing toolboxes filled with resources for you to use, and some stories about the history and future of blogging. News Blogging’s 10th Birthday: Are We Journalists Yet? - Pete asks an appropriate question on the supposed 10th anniversary of blogging: Are we journalists yet?
What will it take for us to be taken as a serious medium, just transmitted in a non-traditional media? Blogging Pays, But Not By the Hour - It's always amusing when the traditional media gets wind of what they think is a story they don't fully comprehend. Here it was the idea that bloggers are getting insanely rich and that the big guns, this site included, was earning just insane money. Blogrush: Traffic Generator or Pyramid Scheme?
Toolboxes Blogging Toolbox: 120+ Resources for Bloggers - Tools for numerous blogging platforms such as WordPress and Movable Type. Best of Mashable: WordPress. It's hard to throw a rock now without hitting a WordPress powered blog. For those of you running your own installs of the popular platform, there is a world of plugins and themes out there for you to use. Enjoy some of our news and toolboxes covering this mega-popular blogging platform. News HP Launches Wordpress Plugin for Blog Printing Options - You've all seen the ability on major sites to get printer friendly versions of entries so you can print them out for sharing or reading at your leisure. Well, thanks to HP, all WordPress powered installs got that power. MovableType 4 vs. Wordpress 2.3 Released - WordPress got several needed upgrades in this including built in tags and tag cloud (finally), plugin update notification and more.
Wordpress & Sproose Facebook Applications - For those who have their blogs through WordPress.com, don't think there isn't any love for you. Wordpress Plugins Directory - Thanks, Wordpress! Toolboxes & Lists. Simonyoung.co.nz. Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Blog Interesting - 32 Ways to Keep Your Blog from Sucking.