New PR Wiki has a useful list of corporations who are blogging.

Steve Reubel reports /a> on the launch of gada.be a new search engine from Chris Pirillo which could be a really useful tool for journalists wanting to set up persistent searches on topics which you can run time and time again – just add the word you want to search on in front of “gada.be” and save to favourites [eg. boeing.gada.be].

The Blog Herald reports in its Blog Count in Octoberthat there are now over 100 million blogs in the world.

The Blog Herald reports on the launch of The Blooker Prize a new literary award set up to honour books which started life as blogs…

Steve Rubel picks his top 10 blogs, listed in “no particular order”

Technorati charts the rise in daily blog postings with an interesting chart detailing significant events.

Intelligent Bacon has 16 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

Micro Persuasion has the answer…

Qumana Blog has a survey on bloggers.

Chris Horrie has done lots of stuff around journalism, writing and lecturing, and he’s also a writer of books including “Stick it up your punter!”.

He predicts journalism will become an all female professional based on the evidence of the students coming through his post graduate journalism course at the University of Westminster – 70% female at least. And he is now considering abolishing the twin tracks of print and broadcast in favour of one multi-media track.

He demonstrates tools like Wordtracker to determine what key words works best for which audience group.

Chris urged B2B companies to be more visible in the colleges in order to help attract more people into business journalism.

Quote: “All you need to work for Heat magazine is a powerful camera, a blackbelt in Karate and a motorbike”.

“A story is a story no matter what the medium may be”

“Old fashioned TV news was over produced”. Modern technology allows for much more immediate journalism.