So Google Blogoscoped asked some of the most well known bloggers what their most popular post was, garnering answers from Mike Arrington, Om Malik, Chris Pirillo, Nick Denton and Darren Rowse.
There were a few things that made their most popular posts stand out — and I think its worth recognizing for all of us in the z-list jonsing for some blog traffic / recognition / validation.
1) Breaking real news (or rumours that become news): From Om Malik’s breaking of the Six Apart acquisition, Nial Kennedy’s cracking of the Google reader API, to Mike Arrington covering the rumour that would become the Google acquisition fact, the unfortunate fact is that many of their best posts are ones where they are covering real news. I saw “unfortunate” because not many of us are in the position, or have the contacts, within an industry to scoop news before major outlets. Nor do many of us have the technical expertise to discover something new like Mr. Kennedy.
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That’s the fundamental question asked by Mr. Peter Sheer, the Excutive Director of the California First Amendment Coalition (a non-profit organization promoting free speech)
In our semi regular segment “Brass Balls”, we look at bloggers who have shown exceptional gumption, chutzpah and otherwise plain ol’ balls. In the past, we said
So with the pay-per-post reformation happening as we speak, spreading to all four corners of the blogosphere, some of you might still feel uncomfortable shilling for a company, even if you do disclose your shilling sugar daddy. If that’s the case, there may be a service that you can get involved with that can sooth your blogging conscience:
Many thanks to John “Dot com Mogul”, and fellow Canadian, Chow who took my whiny braying to heart, and decided to do some investigative blogging to sort out why
[UPDATE 2: Seems like I'm not the only one who has this opinion about ReviewMe. Check out Yardley's better and fleshed out opinion (
Well, as soon as ReviewMe opened up this evening, I had planned to sign up and test it out. ReviewMe is another service, like PayPerPost, that allows advertisers to match up with bloggers so that they can get blogospheric coverage — at a price. However, the prospect of a PayPerPost competitor is intriguing — especially one that: