Google has unveiled a website that lets people search web journals or blogs. The database behind the search site will index all weblogs not just the ones published on the Google-owned blog writing site Blogger. Currently the index only holds blog postings from June 2005 but Google said it was working on ways to add older posts. Via the site searchers can look up particular journals, authors or track down specific posts.   more »

Blogging is hot, and seems to be becoming hotter each month. Although blogging originally was dismissed by many successful publishers and other online "gurus", the truth is that today, a few years after the "blogging trend" began, there are actually more blogs and more bloggers online than ever before. Blogging, obviously, is "here to stay"! Actually first documented in 1997, Web logs initially used the abbreviated version: wee-blog, with a Web log editor referred to as a blogger. Since then, all types of Web logs (blogs) and blogging software have emerged, giving rise to this lucrative and dynamic market.   more »

Reflections on the blog exchange industry I've been surfing away a lot lately at a bunch of blog-specific traffic exchanges. I've come to the perhaps somewhat obvious conclusion after seeing hundreds of sites that if a particular blog doesn't have compelling content and isn't updated fairly frequently, few blog exchange users are going to take a break from clicking and take time to peruse the blog and perhaps leave comments as well. It doesn't matter how much "traffic" or how many "hits" a blog gets unless the content is worth looking at.   more »