Designs of the Week: Blog Ad Space

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a business brand experience consultancy. How do you design web advertising into a blog, without it becoming an eyesore and a bad experience for readers? Naturally, these decisions will be a trade-off. You can’t just get rid of all ads and ignore your revenue stream. But

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Designs of the Week: Blogs

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. Thanks so much for your feedback last week on ways to improve the user interface design for SramanaMitra.com. Based on your comments, it looks as though the recurring themes are: 1) Readability/Distraction Points: Use of flash, ads, font

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Redesign SramanaMitra.com

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. As regular blog readers, how would you like to see the user interface and experience of SramanaMitra.com redesigned? How would you want to interact with it? What would you add? What would you take away? We’ll be

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Top 8 Blog-related Startups

Blogs have clearly turned the media industry upside down,, with many providing coverage superior to that of newspapers and television. While most of them read poorly, some are excellent, and these are monetizing by quality ad networks with their content and traffic. Here are eight players in the blogosphere worth watching:

Deal Radar 2008: PaidContent

PaidContent—the flagship site of ContentNext Media Inc.— is a blog site that covers news on media related technology worldwide. It was founded by editor and publisher Rafat Ali in 2002 in a bid to raise his personal profile and find a new job. Four years later Ali made PaidContent a business and founded ContentNext Media,

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Deal Radar 2008: Inform

Inform provides media websites with a technology solution that automatically searches, organizes and links content to provide the site with depth with the aim to win and retain more readers. The easy-to-implement technology automatically creates links to relevant information on the site, in archives and anywhere on the web, to create a more detailed reading

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Deal Radar 2008: GigaOM

Blogs have changed the face of the web dramatically over the last few years. GigaOm is a network of blogs published by GigaOmniMedia, Inc. You could read my interview with founder Om Malik here to get a flavor of how he pioneered blogging in the early years of the millennium.

Good Technology Business Blogs

There are many, of course. Here are some we read: TechCrunch: TechCrunch reports on new technology companies in the web space. Ars Technica: Ars Technica is focused on the “art of technology”.