A life coach - and much more

Sounds almost like a dream. There is a Los Angeles based company called Concierge3 which services include life organizing and consulting, project organizing and management, traveling massage and healing therapists - and assistance in manifesting desired changes in life. No wonder this firm chose its location in Tinseltown. The overworked Hollywood executives probably looove this full range service - and desperately need it.

9 words not to use in blog posts

WhatsNextBlog knows.

Yahoo tests blend of blogging

AP reports that Yahoo is preparing to introduce a new service that blends several of its Web site's popular features with blogging and social networking. The hybrid service, called Yahoo! 360°, won't be available until March 29, but the promotional web site is live now.

The Hot Site

Always interesting to check out: the Hot Sites list in USA today.

Good-bye classifieds, hello community

Great idea. In Bakersfield (CA) there has been recently launched a community-based classifieds site built with off the shelf software.

Cats and dogs blogs

What we always have been waiting for: a list with blogs and sites by pets. For Leslie...

Two news blogs: Cinematical and TVSquad

WeblogsInc. - with over 70 blogs one of the biggest blog publishers in the United States, just launched two additional blogs: Cinematical and TVSquad. They're about a a bunch of bloggers talking about their favorite movies and TV shows.

10 reasons why blogging is good for your career

This guy will tell you.

The Word Spy

This website is devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases. These aren't "stunt words" or "sniglets," but new terms that have appeared multiple times in newspapers, magazines, books, Web sites, and other recorded sources. Most popular words: metrosexual, Google bombing, furkid. Plus: The Top 100.

Aggregator site for corporate blogging

Nashville-based Thomas Nelson Publishers is about to launch a site called "House Work"that will aggregate feeds from employees' weblogs, according to the company's president and COO and blogger-in-chief Michael Hyatt.

"Preople" - Its about who you are...

The great European PR blogger Neville Hobson,just launched a new service called "Preople">Preople. He calls Preople "an intriguing-looking web tool that ranks your name based on a complicated calculation on how many times your name is found in a few search engines."

The Blogger's anonymous 12 step program

The Bloggers Anonymous 12 Step Program:

1. We admitted we were powerless over blogging, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than Jeff Jarvis could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our livelihood over to the care of Jason Calacanis as we understood Him and his 50-50 revenue split.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our waypath related links.
5. Admitted to Blogger.com, to Movable Type and through any other blogging software the exact nature of our blogging.
6. We are entirely ready to have Joi Ito remove all these defects of character.

Of course, there are 6 more!
Stolen! Looks like Dominant Princess borrowed the 12-steps-list from Peter Caputa who published it in 2004.

Measuring the blogosphere's influence

Technorati's David Sifry writes that the most influential media sites on the web are still well-funded mainstream media (MSM) sites, however, a lot of bloggers are achieving a significant amount of attention and influence. Blogs like Boing Boing and Instapundit are highly influential, especially among technology and political thought leaders, and sites like Gizmodo are seeing as much influence as mainstream media sites like MTV.com. (Via Micro Persuasion)

Blogging jobs

They're getting finally recognized in the corporate world. This job website also specializes on positions for bloggers. So there must be an emerging market...

States of media: No flattering picture

Check out this study.