Blog Tools from Problogger

Here goes an excellent list of tools for bloggers, including Statistics Packages, Blog Editors, News Aggregators and News Sourcing Tools, Email Subscription and Newsletter Services, and more.

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NewsGator Online

News aggregator

Blogopaedia

Some useful links for bloggers:

All Consuming - aggregates what the weblog community is reading.
Annotated New York Times, The - tracks blog postings that cite articles published by The New York Times.
blogcount.com - Blogcount asks: How big is the blogosphere? What is its shape, color, true nature? Blogcount catalogs efforts to answer these questions. We collect and organize the best reports and analyses on this subject.
Blogdex - Blogdex is a research project of the MIT Media Laboratory tracking the diffusion of information through the weblog community. Ideas can have very similar properties to a disease, spreading through the population like wildfire. The goal of Blogdex is to explore what it is about information, people, and their relationships that allows for this contagious media.
Blogdigger : RSS / Atom Search Engine - Search Blogs Blogdigger is a search engine for blogs. Blogdigger uses state of the art syndication technologies, such as RSS and Atom, to index blog content and make it available for search. Blogdigger also makes all search results available in RSS or Atom, so users can subscribe to keyword searches and automatically be notified, via the News Aggregator of their choice, of new content pertaining to their interests. Blogdigger searches thousands of RSS and Atom feeds, and is built-in to many popular News Aggregators, such as FeedDemon and NetNewsWire.
Blogdigger also uses it's vast collection of blog content for novel applications:
Blogdigger Groups is a state-of-the-art online aggregator, providing RSS or Atom feed grouping into a single configurable page. A Group can be filtered either by blog or by keyword, and content is exported in RSS, RDF, Atom, OPML and OCS, making it the richest and most full-featured feed splicing tool available.
Blogdigger Link Search provides backlink checking, seeing which posts are linking to other online content, tracking the conversation as it evolves.
Blogdigger Media provides RSS feeds of recent media content for many well known media types (WindowsMedia, MP3, QuickTime, BitTorrent) that support RSS 2.0 enclosures. Subscribers to the Media feeds are automatically pushed links to media content of their choice.
BlogPulse - automated trend discovery for weblogs mined daily from new entries in over 80,000 blogs using machine learning and natural language processing techniques.
blo.gs
blogsearchengine.com
BlogShares - Fantasy Blog Share Market
BlogStreet : Blog Profiles, RSS Ecosystem, Blog Tops, Search and ...BlogStreet. BlogStreet India login faq. Blog Profile, RSS Ecosystem, Search &Directory, Blog Tops. Blog Profile, RSS Ecosystem, Search and Directory
Bloogz The Blog Search Engine: Bloogz The Blog Search Engine. ... Weblogs, Url. Search Blogs in. Italian, English,German, Español, French. All languages Order by Relevance
Daypop Top 40 Links - regularly updated list of links that are currently popular with webloggers from around the world.
eatonweb portal
Globe of Blogs An index of weblogs as submitted by their authors. ... Globe of Blogs.
Intelliseek - Marketing Intelligence, Business IntelligenceUsing cutting edge technology, Intelliseek helps F1000 companies transformunstructured data into relevant, actionable insights.
memeorandum - following the latest meme of the political and news blogs.
Myelin: Blogging Ecosystem - ranks blogs that are the most linked and the most prolific linkers.
Popdex - web site popularity index.
PubSub PubSub is the world's first Internet-scale matching engine
Truth Laid Bear Blogosphere Ecosystem, The - application which scans weblogs once daily and generates a list of weblogs ranked by the number of incoming links they receive from other weblogs on the list.
Waypath - Blog Discovery Engine
Weblog BookWatch - tracks links to books and other media appearing on weblogs.
Weblogs, Inc. Weblogs, Inc. is dedicated to creating trade Weblogs (aka “blogs”) across niche industries in which user participation is an essential

Some interesting wiki

Podcasting
Godcast
Skypecasting
PODS
Blogcast
Mobcasting
Autocast
Pod
Bloggercon
Audioblogging
Egocasting
Broadcatching
Folksonomy
Flash fiction
News aggregator
Atom (standard)
RSS (file format)
List of Internet stations
MP3 blog
Digital video
Geocaching
Weblog
BitTorrent
IPod
List of portmanteaux

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Triangle Bloggers

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Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc.

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Business blogging by Fortune.

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BostonWorks - Jobs, Events, and Information from The Boston Globe

First chapter of business blogging book posted
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MBA ZoNe Resource Site

The Bottom Line on Business Blogs

They've moved beyond the realm of diarists and techies to benefit mainstream businesses.August 09, 2004

excerpts:
So how do blogs fit into a business?
They can be used in several different ways. Many companies use them for communication and collaboration among distributed colleagues, partners, suppliers, customers and others. That's the most popular use. My personal favorite is that they also can be used as a unique, informal way to establish a company or individual's reputation or brand. Other businesses use them to improve operations (like for project management or tech support knowledge-sharing), to demonstrate expertise (useful for professional services businesses) and to establish competitive differentiation. Blogs let companies reach out to value chain members with organizational news, marketing promotions, new product announcements and more.
To get a sense for the effective use of small-business blogs, check out www.clip-n-seal.com/news and www.sbblog.com.

-Blogs can really give a company substantial business benefits:
-They're cheap, easy to launch and don't require HTML expertise.
-They make working in groups easier, are community-builders and can be more inclusive (and interesting!) than e-mail.
-They strengthen internal and external business relationships and improve productivity through interactive information exchange.
-They're not intrusive, since users have to seek out a URL to read the content.
-They improve branding by presenting a more authentic and distinctive voice for a business than canned PR or MarCom messaging.
-They're more searchable than e-mail and instant messaging, so they're effective as an information or knowledge-base archive.

Tools of the Trade
What do you need to get a blog started? You must acquire a blogging software platform or personal publishing application, easily identified with a Web search. You also should have RSS, which will help you syndicate and share your content with other sites. RSS will let you post your headlines to blog aggregators and search engines. That way, they're easily findable and don't get lost in the noise of millions of blogs.

Joining the Blogosphere
For many companies, blogs have become a business staple. They're mainstream and not just for techies! Blogs, though, are not for every company. Their informal style probably won't suit very conservative organizations. But they're great for companies that value freedom of thought and informal communication of ideas. If the fit is right, companies must decide:

-Who should blog.
-Whether the company is really committed to the ongoing care and feeding that blogs demand.
-What's to be achieved by the blog.
-Who will get access to company blogs. (They're password and access level protectable.)
-How blogs will fit in with the company's content strategy, which may include e-mail, blogs, wikis, the Web, voice mail, newsletters, PR and MarCom.

Blogs are a unique vehicle for communication. While they're not for everyone, many small and midsized businesses will find that they're a great way to craft a distinctive image, convey important messages and relate informally with the outside world.