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Blog Action Day was founded by three bloggers Collis Ta'eed, Cyan Ta'eed and Leo Babauta in 2007. The inaugural theme chosen was the environment.The event was hosted by Envato. 23,327 blog posts were published by 20,603 participating blogs including 19 of the Technorati Top 100 blogs at the time.
Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry, with its headquarters in San Francisco. Kevin Marks was the site's Principal Engineer. [5] Tantek Çelik was the site's Chief Technologist. The site won the SXSW 2006 awards for Best Technical Achievement and Best of Show. [6] It was nominated for a 2006 Webby Award for Best Practices, but lost to Flickr ...
This is a list of notable blogs. A blog (contraction of weblog) is a web site with frequent, periodic posts creating an ongoing narrative. They are maintained by both groups and individuals, the latter being the most common. Blogs can focus on a wide variety of topics, ranging from the political to personal experiences. Specific blogs include:
In August 2008, the blog search engine, Technorati, acquired Blogcritics for an undisclosed amount of money. As a result, publisher Olsen and technical director Winn became full-time Technorati employees. [2] One of the first collaborative ventures of the two entities was for Blogcritics writers to begin writing descriptions of Technorati tags. [3]
[23] In 2009, Americablog was ranked as one of the top ten political blogs by the Personal Democracy Forum, [24] and as the 23rd most popular political blog by Wikio. In 2010, Technorati ranked Americablog in the top 100 political blogs and top 100 US politics blogs, and in 2013 Pingdom cited Americablog as one of the top 100 blogs. [25]
[11] In 2009, AMERICAblog was ranked as one of the top ten political blogs by the Personal Democracy Forum, [12] and as the 23rd most popular political blog by Wikio. In 2010, Technorati ranked AMERICAblog in the top 100 political blogs and top 100 US politics blogs, and in 2013 Pingdom cited AMERICAblog as one of the top 100 blogs. [13]
In a 2010 Technorati study, 36% of bloggers reported some sort of income from their blogs, most often in the form of ad revenue. [14] This shows a steady increase from their 2009 report, in which 28% of the blogging world reported their blog as a source of income, with the mean annual income from advertisements at $42,548. [ 15 ]
Dave Sifry is an American software entrepreneur and blogosphere icon known for founding Technorati in 2004, [1] [2] formerly a leading blog search engine. He also lectures widely on wireless technology and policy, weblogs, and open source software.