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Chronicleive.co.uk:
Ceyhan Mihcioglu, 19, has a golf handicap of five but says he will now play the sport for fun and make his living through the internet.
The Newcastle College student, who has entered the If We Can You Can Challenge, has already secured partial funding for the project through the Government’s Business Link and says his […]
The New York Times:
Microsoft is one of Wal-Mart’s biggest suppliers. But that did not stop the Wal-Mart employee in charge of buying computers from panning Microsoft’s newest operating system, Vista.
“Is it really all that and a bag of chips?” he wrote on his blog. “My life has not changed dramatically — well, for that matter, […]
Can blogging be considered a full time income? Some blogs are cashing in making over 6 figures. BusinessWeek reports:
1. icanhascheezburger.com
Launched: January, 2007
Revenue: Estimated $5,600 a month based on ad rates and self-reported traffic data
This blog, consisting of silly photos of cats, and even sillier captions, rocketed to the top of the blogosphere a few months […]
ars technica:
Happy blog-a-versary! This week is the tenth anniversary of the coining of the term that makes some of us giddy and others recoil in horror: blogging.
If you subscribe to the view that says the term was coined by Jorn Barger on December 17, 1997, today’s the day. It was on that day that he […]
Six years ago this month, this website was born. Today, it’s the number one business blog in the world.
Thank you for all for reading.
Original post by Dane and software by Elliott Back
CNET News:
Angie Mecklenburg, a mother of four in Sutter, Ill., blogs about chickens, God, and her farm. For an estimated $15, she’ll write about soy-wax candles for a marketer.
Over the last 18 months, Mecklenburg has kept up three blogs, the most popular being Ang’s Chicken Coop, which has the tagline “a view of the world […]
The New York Times:
Without quite having a clear plan, Gregg Rottler began contemplating his Web empire last year on his desktop computer at his home near Tampa, Fla.
As many bloggers have done, Mr. Rottler, a state environmental code officer, followed an impulse to share stories about annoyances. He and his wife, Karen, an elementary school […]
Guardian Unlimited:
Blogger.com helped spark a revolution - and it still makes self-publishing quick and easy.
Blogger was launched by Ev Williams of Pyra Labs in 1999, and bought by Google in 2003. Google eventually started to improve it, and a few months ago it finally moved to Google servers. New users can sign in with any […]
This week’s Carnival of Small Business is up at The Freestyle Entrepreneur.
The Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Sharp Brains.
Original post by Dane and software by Elliott Back
Wall Street Journal:
Five years ago, Steve Spangler was a science teacher outside Denver. These days, his educational toy company, Steve Spangler Science, employs nearly 30 people and he speaks to groups of science teachers across the country.
Mr. Spangler largely credits his blog for his success. Steve Spangler Science recorded more than $5 million in revenues […]
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