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The usual debate over Twitter Inc., the mobile "microblogging" startup that Thursday disclosed its first outside round of venture capital funding, usually breaks down along these lines: Yay: Twitter offers a new way to communicate electronically, expanding the range of expression available through blogging, the dominant mode of discourse on the Internet. Nay: Twitter's mad stupid. Underlying the latter idea...

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Technorati's release of its Web traffic, which related blog VC Ratings analyzed, already has prompted rumors of Google Inc.'s interest in the blog search engine. Technorati is a natural fit for Google, which not only offers its own blog search tool, but manages popular blog publishing site Blogger. However, technology aside, Technorati's reported 9 million unique visitors in February...

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Enough has been said about the struggling newspaper industry, but here's a bit of good news. Numbers just released from Nielson/NetRatings show that traffic to the blog sites of the top 10 online newspapers jumped some 210% last year. In December 2005, those newspapers counted a total of about 1.2 million blog readers; by this December just passed, the figure...

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Let me be the first to state that we at Tech Confidential have not received a wicked cool laptop from Microsoft and AMD. Nor do we accept any compensation other than our salaries paid by The Deal. This saddens us. Imagine the world of electronic gadgets or other shiny objects we could snag if only our pesky ethics and possibly...

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Back in October, I wrote about a column on blogs in Time Magazine that seemed hopelessly out-of-touch in its assertion that all blogs were written by clueless adolescents. It wasn’t just that the column failed to recognize the well-informed and talented people who were writing many blogs, but that it was so ready to dismiss the influence those clueless...

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Loïc Le Meur’s manifesto on the blogging revolution (and its discontents) makes some interesting points about the practice moving out of the tech-geek ghetto and into the mainstream, where "artists, academics, politicians and so many others" are joining the social networking party. True, as the success of Loïc’s recent conference, which included just plain folks like Shimon Peres and Nicolas...

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In his continued fight against child pornography on the Internet, Sen. John McCain has introduced a new proposal in the U.S. Senate which would require commercial Web sites and individual blogs to report illegal images or videos posted by users, and delete user profiles created by sex offenders. The penalty for failing to do so would be a fine of...

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Early last week we broke the news that Om Malik would be rolling out two new blogs from his GigaOm network. Last night, the first one landed, NewTeeVee. Malik announced that GigaOm contributor Liz Gannes will take the lead on the new blog which will cover all things video-over-Internet. Check out the screenshot below. The second new blog from Malik,...

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Taking part in a panel today at the Digital Magazine Forum in Manhattan, Peter Rojas, founder of Engadget, made one thing very clear, "We would never charge for any content. Not as long as I'm involved." Rojas went on to explain that Engadget derives a great deal of its traffic from its high Google rankings. If a firewall was put...

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As part of a panel at the Digital Magazine Forum in New York this afternoon, Om Malik, announced he will be launching two new blogs out of his GigaOm network. Malik is part of a select group of bloggers who have transcended the outsider image of a blogger to become something more significant, and raised seed money to expand a...

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