Author Archives: Lisa Meyers

Blog For Hope Launches Today

Check out the Blog For Hope today and for the next 30 days.  It’s been a fun project to work on with Yahoo and my guess is, this will be the first of many Blogs for Hope (since it’s an off shot of their new Health Blogs section which focuses on an array of health concerns, they’ll probably tackle a ...

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Yet another new study

Check out the findings from a new study conducted by Six Apart and Gawker Media, "Blog Readers Young and Well Off: Study"…not to mention the little tiff between blog providers. I was particularly interested in this finding — of the 400 biggest blogs, blogs focused on news and politics were most popular; followed by "hipster" and lifestyle blogs, tech blogs, ...

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RFL Blogathon??

Blogathon 2005 will kick off on August 6 and I think they could be on to something.  They held the first one in July 2001 and it raised $20K, and in July 2003, they raised $103K through 400 participants. Essentially they’ve pre-selected a group of charities and recruited bloggers that will post every thirty minutes while raising money on behalf ...

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Next Big Thing — ACS Webcams???

According to a new Pew Internet & American Life report, one out of six American adult internet users (16%) have gone online to view another person or a place via a web cam. That translates into roughly 21 million people who have viewed material on web cams and on any given day, about two million internet users that have checked ...

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