Blogs

Welcome to the Show #12 of The Voice of Support! The next 4 podcasts will focus on the ins and outs of the MVP program. Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality,…

I first learned about Clint Rutkas when I read a Coding4Fun article in which he described what it took to build a C#-driven disco floor for his apartment (Clint has since become the Coding4Fun blog home page author - congrats on that). I figured I'd meet him at a conference…

Marty Collins is senior marketing manager with the solution architecture group responsible for msdn.microsoft.com/architecture and skyscrapr.net. She wanted to interview me about the relationship between blogs and technical marketing, and I wanted to hear her thoughts on the same subject,…

In the world of the blog, search juice is the drink of the Gods. Anyone's web presence is most easily measured by the history and persistence of one's search results. Now the squad at Automattic made it that much easier to start down the road to juicy Web supremacy.Now one of the most favored places…

The beta version of Windows Live Writer dropped this past Friday, and today we bring you a walkthrough with the man in charge, J.J. Alaire. This latest Microsoft tool for bloggers has lit a fire over at Techmeme, and we're certainly very excited to start using it at 10.Live Writer is being built to…

John Edwards spoke at Gnomedex to listen to the audience and  learn more from them on how to open up the process of voting and choosing government officials.  Of course blogging and podcasting came up, but also mobile texting as well as a reality tv…

What happens when all of your favorite female bloggers come together to mix, mingle and network? Well, check out my trip to the BlogHer convention to find out.

Every so often we highlight the tools that have passed our seven day rule (thanks Jeff for turning the phrase). These are things that quickly become indispensible in our work and play online. Whether they be applications, services, or any collection of code that grows on us, if we’re still using it…

Do you read blogs? Do you write a blog? Are you having trouble pronouncing the word blog? Well Dave Sifry spends every day as the head of Technorati making it easier for the blogosphere to soak up every minute of free time you’ve got, as well as keeping up with what the world says about your…