The sale of Weblogs Inc. to AOL last month for $25+ million got a lot of bloggers excited. Tristan Louis did the math and put the sale value into perspective against the number of incoming links the the Weblogs Inc. properties. It’s an interesting assertion of the value of the Google Economy, no?
The various properties [...]
Posted November 25, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: ad revenue, ad revenues, aol, assertion, blog, blogger, bloggers, bought, citation analysis, google economy, link value, linking, links, sale, sale price, sold, technorati, weblog, weblogs, weblogs inc, weblogsinc. 3 Comments.
Ken (I wish he had a blog to link to) pointed out Bloggers Need Not Apply in the Chronicle Of Higher Ed over the weekend. The story is to some a highly cautionary tale:
A candidate’s blog is more accessible to the search committee than most forms of scholarly output. It can be hard to lay [...]
Posted July 13, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: blogger, bloggers, chronicle of higher ed, many2many, modes of communication, personal matters, survey, weblog. 3 Comments.
