There is a second print publication about blogging called Artful Blogging. We blogged about the launch of Blogger & Podcaster magazine nearly a year ago but we missed the debut of this quarterly publication that also launched in 2007. Artful Blogging is focused more on creative blogging and the artwork and photography found on these arts and crafts blogs. Take a virtual tour of some of the most visually inspiring blogs on the internet with the second issue of Artful Blogging! Each page of this captivating publication is like a digital gallery, filled with photography, artwork and blog excerpts sure to stir your imagination. Within this 144-page quarterly publication, you’ll find features that include “Blogging Etiquette,” “Blogger’s Must-Haves” and “How to Get Started” on your own blog spot You can see a few sample pages from Artful Blogging here. The quarterly magazine is published by Stampington & Company. Artful Blogging is now on its second issue. Several blogggers were more on top of things and caught the launch of this new print publication. The Guardian’s blog provides a good explanation of what the blog is all about. Other blogs discussing Artful Blogging include Artsy Mama, Persisting Stars, Navylane and Blogher. Permalink | Recent Headlines | Twitter | WWFeeds.com

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Steve Outing Launching Resource For Online News Publishers
Steve Outing blogged recently that he soft-launched a website called GrowingYourNewsWebsite.com. As the website’s name suggets it offers tips and ideas for online news publishers. I’ve just debuted a new website/blog designed to be a resource for ideas, tips and advice for online news publishers. It’s called GrowingYourNewsWebsite.com, and it’s NOT another industry news blog. The focus is exclusively on advice. I hope you’ll find it useful. I soft-launched the site yesterday, so hardly anyone knows about it. I’d love it if a few of you checked it out and maybe commented on the early posts. My intent is to post a tip a day. There will be ideas on how to increase traffic and earn more money, primarily. I’m aiming for actionable tips and advice. Steve Outing writes the Stop the Presses column for Editor & Publisher so this should be a great resource for news publishers. One of the entries on the new blog suggests that some news providers should just use YouTube instead of trying to overcomplicate things by hosting their own videos. A few news outlets and news tv stations are already using YouTube (see Fast Lane Daily, KTLA, KMBC, KRQE, Chicago Tribune, FoxNewsBlast and Martha Stewart) but it is surprising how few are taking advantage of YouTube’s easy distribution service. This could be why YouTube recently launched a new service that allows publishers to make their own YouTube-type services. Permalink | Recent Headlines | Twitter | WWFeeds.com

2008 April Fool’s Day Jokes
It’s April 1st again and that means there will be stupid pranks, fake news and lots of links that turn out to be RickRolls. Many people are annoyed because April 1st has become overdone on the Internet. There is a lot of truth to this. It can be difficult to determine what is real and what is not. There are also a lot of jokes that suck - but it is only one day and it will be over soon. Below are a few Internet April Fool’s Day highlights - both good and bad. If you want a longer list check out Wikipedia’s exhausting list of April 1st jokes. The BBC’s Flying Penguin’s - this one is the best April Fools’ joke out there this year. You can watch the video here or below. The video is also aviable here. This one has been well-received on Twitter. CNET has TechCrunch acquiring TigerBeat is renaming it CrunchKids. Google and Sir Richard Branson launched Project Virgle and plan to colonize Mars. See also the Google Blog announcement. TechCrunch is suing Facebook for $25 million. Meanwhile, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will be hosting SNL. PizzaHut has become PastaHut. Search the future with Google Australia’s gDay technology. Too busy to search? Let someone Google for you. Catch up on your old email with Gmail Custom Time. You can only send mail back in time as far as 2004. “Gmail utilizes an e-flux capacitor to resolve issues of causality.” ProBlogger has announced the launch of PayPerTweet. Now you can finally make money from all that time you spend on Twitter. Scribd will scan all your documents and publish them on the Internet for free. (via Boing Boing) Bungie’s next project is a LEGO version of Halo. PirateBay is relocating to the desert of Sinai. YouTube rickrolled people clicking on featured YouTube videos. LiveJournal has added Rick Astley to its advisory board. (via Search Engine Watch) ThinkGeek’s ZapCam is a taser that transmits footage of your tasering directly to YouTube. Orkut is now Yogurt. Many more Google created or inspired April Fool’s jokes listed here. LifeHacker has a list of harmless geek pranks for those who want to prank their friends without causing permanent damage. Our Previous April Fool’s Day coverage: 2007 | 2006 Permalink | Recent Headlines | Twitter | WWFeeds.com

Pro-Hillary Bloggers Abandon Daily Kos
A growing number of Daily Kos diarists are leaving the Daily Kos blog in a protest over the blog’s increasingly negative treatment of Hillary Clinton. A post by Alegre kicked off the writer’s strike. You can read Allegre’s post here on Taylor Marsh’s blog, here on MyDD and here on the Daily Kos website. The Moderate Voice explains why this is a significant issue even though it may not seem important to people who don’t read political blogs. To those who don’t visit blogs or get their news from them (which a recent poll shows includes the vast majority of the American public) this might seem to be a provincial conflict, but it is highly significant. In political terms, it underscores the raw, angry and bitter rivalrly between supporters of Obama and Clinton (as I noted in my appearance on CNN’s blog segment last Sunday). The mirror image distrust, hatred and dismissiveness felt by each side towards the others’ candidates accentuates by the day - raising the authentic prospect that even in an awful economy the Democrats will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory - as some supporters of the losing nomination candidate stay home. Barack Obama’s campaign has been under fire for hate-filled comments made by his pastor. The Daily Kos blog has become extremely biased towards Senator Obama and against Senator Clinton. Pro-Clinton bloggers are leaving to go blogs like MyDD, Talk Left and other progressive blogs. ABC’s Political Punch talked to Markos Moulitsas, the owner of Daily Kos. Moulitsas says the large number of bloggers leaving his blog is “great.” “First, these people should read up on the definition of ’strike.’ What they’re doing is a ‘boycott.’ But whatever they call it, I think it’s great. It’s a big Internet, so I hope they find what they’re looking for.” Moulitsas sounds happy to see all the Hillary Clinton supporters go. More discussion of the Daily Kos writers’ strike can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. Posted in Politics Permalink | Recent Headlines | Twitter | WWFeeds.com

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