WordPress.com Suffers Major Outage

WordPress.com, the hosted blog service from Automattic has suffered a major outage today, bringing down millions of free blogs, and a number of well known blogs. The outage started at around 1pm US PST (8am AEDT), and at ... continue

Mathew Ingram Joins GigaOm

Canadian tech journalist Mathew Ingram has forgone for the corporate teet and joined the GigaOm blog network. Ingram writes on GigaOm that "As the web has filled up with fast-food-style news hits and me-too blog posts, each more ... continue

White is the new black in blog design

Blog design has always evolved. Last year many sites embraced the "magazine" layout, a big shift from the traditional read ten posts down the page layout that was typical of blogs for a long time. In 2009 ... continue

2009 Will Be The Year of the Uber Blog

As we end 2008, the year ahead offers the biggest challenge ever in the history of blogging. Although blogging dates back to the beginning of the first dot com boom, it truly came of age as the second ... continue

GigaOM: Goodbye FM – Hello IDG

In what can only be termed as a warm and mushy goodbye post GigaOM has joined the number of big name blogging properties that have left the Federated Media stable for other pastures. As Om Malik said ... continue

Now is the time to start panicking: Sequoia

Sequoia Capital, arguably Silicon Valley's most prestigious VC firm (they were the first investors in both Yahoo and Google) called a crisis meeting today of its portfolio companies, preaching that the entire industry is facing an abyss. According ... continue

Steady Hands: Giga Omni Media takes $4.5 million

Giga Omni Media, the Om Malik run vehicle behind sites including GigaOm and the excellent NewTeeVee, has taken $4.5 million Series C in a round led by Alloy Ventures that included previous investors True Ventures, Rakesh Mathur, ... continue