Business Logs

BREAKING NEWS: Weblogs Inc. has been hacked by someone purportedly named “Fuxz”. Affected sites include the homepage and Jason’s weblog.
The scoop is at Scott Kidder’s weblog including a screenshot.

It’s only natural for a company to want to discuss every positive aspect of their service, product, or themselves, but when do you get to see them talk about the negative aspects?
Yesterday Darren Rowse talked about what he saw as the postives for the new 9rules Network. It’s always great to see others discussing the [...]

Six Apart has partnered with Major League Baseball to create MLBlogs.com, a new service that lets baseball aficionados use TypePad to blog about their favorite team with branded templates. Also, MLB has contracted some big names in baseball to start blogging — I highly doubt they’ll keep it up with any sort of passion, [...]

What do you do if you are a large company whose sole business is to host weblogs for thousands of people only to find out that everything has been shutdown? Well first you tell your customers what happened and apologize. Then you could do what LiveJournal did and go into great detail about exactly what [...]

We would like to apologize for any discrepancies people may have come across with the site this weekend. We had to move everything over to a new server and I just happened to forget to bring 30% of the site with me. Everything should be working okay now, but if you see anything wrong please [...]

Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team has a weblog. In it, he writes (not ghostwrites like other executives may be compelled to do) about real subjects that pertain to his life, his basketball franchise, and other things that Mavs fans would love to read about. The coolest thing about Cuban’s [...]

Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo fame has received a new position at Yahoo where people are claiming that he has become Yahoo’s Robert Scoble. Jeremy explains that his role is “not quite the same, but similar in some ways.”
We think it’s a great idea for every company to have a blog. We believe that it is [...]

Dave Winer, inventor of the
syndication format known as RSS
and former-proprietor of Userland
software, shut down close to 3000 weblogs this week after releasing
a statement noting that the financial burden of hosting these free
weblogs was finally too much to bear.
Moments after the shutdown, the user outcry reverberated around the web
community (as well as Blogdex,
where at one point, [...]

There has been a lot of press lately (well the last 2 years I suppose) about how special blogs are and what they bring to the web. Much of this has to do with Nick Denton and Robert Scoble who use blogs for different reasons (one for business, the other for PR). In any case [...]