67% of Tech Journalists Cite Blogs As Sources

A Fusion PR survey of technology journalists produced some WEIRD RESULTS. First, some two thirds (67%) said they "cite blogs in their articles," but only 31% "regard bloggers as credible sources." That means 36% of tech journalists both cite blogs AND don't regard them as credible. Second, 35% of tech journalists maintain their own blogs. Some 78% read blogs -- which means 22% of tech journalists don't read blogs (including the blogs of other journalists)! And, finally, when asked: "Has social media impacted your stories or the way you cover news?" only 40% said "yes." Wow!

How to Make Every Site As Easy As Blogging

Everyone talks about blogs as if they're something truly different from other kinds of Web pages. In fact, blogs are nothing more than content Web pages published with tools that make publishing super easy. Once you set up a blog, you simply open a page, type in your text, maybe add a picture or video, then click a button. The blogging software does the rest of the work. Thanks to a free new service called Texty, just about any page can be THAT EASY TO PUBLISH.

Blogger PWNS Russian Who Hacked His Blog

The justinsomnia.org blog was HACKED AND HIJACKED on August 8, and used for "displaying search engine spam to search engine bots only." The blog was still there, but the search engines were no longer able to index it. Justin's traffic plummeted. But Justin leveraged a contact at Google and good Sherlock skills to track down and prove who did it: A Russian named Vadim Smelyansky. Justin then posted links to Smelyansky's Linked-In page, his personal and professional pages, his address and phone number, and much more. Here's the whole story.