BlogHer, the online community (and conference) for women bloggers, has entered a strategic partnership with iVillage, a subsidiary of NBC Universal and a popular website toward female viewers/readers. The agreement provides iVillage access to BlogHer’s network of 2200 member blogs, and shared promotional and advertising opportunities across BlogHer’s audience. As part of the [...]

It starting to look like geeking out with new media may be good for your social life.
First, Cosmo revealed that the Apple Store is a great place to meet people “for a fun fling or a long term relationship”:
Most guys are natural gadget lovers, and with sales of iPods and MacBooks skyrocketing, more men than [...]

Liveblog of Mark Cuban’s Closing Keynote at BlogWorld:
My experience on “dancing w stars” is a lot like blogging — people I don’t know come up and feel free to tell me their opinions.
I started my blog in 2004, after doing an interview for Dallas Morning News about Mavericks, half a dozen questions with half a [...]

Amid an ever-increasing number of podcast event offerings, the very first Blog World and New Media Expo officially kicks off tomorrow in Las Vegas, Nevada. Business executives were gathering today for a special pre-conference new media workshop, followed by a special sneak preview of the upcoming movie, “The Kite Runner.”
Podcasting News‘ publisher Elisabeth McLaury Lewin [...]

Microsoft invited a small group of influential bloggers to their Redmond campus Thursday for an hour long one-on-one with Bill Gates, as part of Microsoft’s Mix n’ Mash ‘07 event.
In doing so, Gates demonstrated how to use bloggers to pwn the media:

Invite a group of influential bloggers
Pay their expenses
Give them free stuff
Answer some softball questions
Work [...]

Human rights group Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres, or RSF) today announced its list of 13 worst “enemies of the Internet.”
The list consists of countries that RSF believes are suppressing freedom of expression on the internet. For the first time, Egypt has been added to the list while former “enemies” Nepal, Libya and [...]

Blogger Greg Verdinos writes about the irony of the Nielsen BuzzMetrics clients-only CGM Summit 2006, held last week:
“The agenda is cram packed with sessions covering all aspects of Consumer Generated Media CGM including an overview of where we are today, why people do this stuff, where CGM is going in the future, and how exactly [...]

Mobasoft has introduced a free version of its MyChingo audio comment system that will record up to two minutes of audio. MyChingo provides an audio comment system to bloggers and podcasters without requiring them to download software or purchase expensive equipment.“We’ve seen how much added value the audio comment system has created for our members,” [...]