Is Amazon seriously launching a tech blog that aims to compete with gadget blogs like the Verge and Gizmodo? According to a new report from “The Daily,” yes. The funny thing is that Amazon already has a gadget blog called End User (although it hasn’t been updated in almost exactly a year), as well as [...]

Aiming to help curate the site’s vast array of content, Tumblr has launched a new initiative called Storyboard, billed as “tales from behind the dashboard.” The micro-blogging platform and social networking website will be posting regular features from those within the Tumblr community with an interesting story to tell… Tweet This Post

Over the past couple of months, Gawker Media founder Nick Denton has made it clear that he doesn’t like blog comments very much, and that includes the ones on his own sites such as Gizmodo and Jezebel… Tweet This Post

1. Watercolor Splash some color over your header with this modern design. The hint of paper texture will do wonders beneath your content. Preview it here. Get it here.Click here to view this gallery.By the end of the year, there may be more people Googling the word “Tumblr” than “blog… Tweet This Post

The Pulitzer Prize win by the Huffington Post for a series on injured soldiers was hailed by some as a victory for the “blogosphere,” a first-time win of the prestigious journalism award by a “blog… Tweet This Post

For a while there, David Karp, the founder and CEO of microblogging and sharing platform Tumblr was enamored with his start-up’s exploding numbers: 20 billion blog posts, 50 million blogs and more than 120 million users… Tweet This Post

If you spend long enough reading blogs — or even newspapers, for that matter — you will eventually come across an essay about how a site is struggling with the question of whether to allow comments, or has decided to shut them down… Tweet This Post

1. Cats. Where They Do Not Belong From the creator: “I decided there is not enough internet space devoted to pictures of cats trying to fit into anything they can, so I have graciously decided to take on this challenge… Tweet This Post

Technology blog GigaOM has agreed to purchase ContentNext Media, which owns paidContent, mocoNews, and several other websites with odd capitalization choices, the company announced today. The move will help GigaOM increase its presence in New York City and Europe… Tweet This Post

Shane Snow is a New York-based tech journalist and co-founder of Contently.com, a marketplace for brand publishers and journalists. In 2010, New York City startup, Birchbox launched a blog about beauty products before it had any customers… Tweet This Post

Texas congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul may be trailing in the polls, but he is the only politician with positive Twitter buzz, according to a new study. The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism — which analyzes online conversation, news coverage and more than 20 million tweets about politics over the past [...]

Yahoo has shut down The Projector, The Set, The Amplifier and The Famous, four blogs covering television, movie, music and celebrity topics, respectively. The blogs announced the news on their Twitter accounts, adding that “other blogs” will be shut down as well… Tweet This Post