I'm quoted in today's San Jose Mercury News in an article about the new Google China blog: "Google launches China blog a day before China hearing." The reporter, Elise Ackerman, has just been assigned full-time to "Google" as a beat which she was really excited about. She phoned me late yesterday for an interview. Could hear her madly typing as we spoke, as she was on deadline. The story got a "weird edit" at the last minute, Elise said in an

I'm quoted in today's San Jose Mercury News in an article about the new Google China blog: "Google launches China blog a day before China hearing." The reporter, Elise Ackerman, has just been assigned full-time to "Google" as a beat which she was really excited about. She phoned me late yesterday for an interview. Could hear her madly typing as we spoke, as she was on deadline. The story got a "weird edit" at the last minute, Elise said in an email this morning.

As in a, um, run-on sentence:

"Debbie Weil, author of the forthcoming "The Corporate Blogging Book: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Get It Right,'' said the idea was sound, but did not bring up the questions Google faced about its dealings with China overshadowed what would otherwise be a chirpy corporate branding effort.

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I'm quoted in today's San Jose Mercury News in an article about the new Google China blog: "Google launches China blog a day before China hearing." The reporter, Elise Ackerman, has just been assigned full-time to "Google" as a beat which she was really excited about. She phoned me late yesterday for an interview. Could hear her madly typing as we spoke, as she was on deadline. The story got a "weird edit" at the last minute, Elise said in an

I'm quoted in today's San Jose Mercury News in an article about the new Google China blog: "Google launches China blog a day before China hearing." The reporter, Elise Ackerman, has just been assigned full-time to "Google" as a beat which she was really excited about. She phoned me late yesterday for an interview. Could hear her madly typing as we spoke, as she was on deadline. The story got a "weird edit" at the last minute, Elise said in an email this morning.

As in a, um, run-on sentence:

"Debbie Weil, author of the forthcoming "The Corporate Blogging Book: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Get It Right,'' said the idea was sound, but did not bring up the questions Google faced about its dealings with China overshadowed what would otherwise be a chirpy corporate branding effort.

[Update: the run-on was fixed.]

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Entertaining update from David Kline on the latest publishing deals inked by blogger-authors. Two that caught my eye (David's comments in quotations):

- "Former Wonkette blogger Ana Marie Cox's first nonfiction book, on the next generation of political activists, again to Riverhead, reportedly for "mid-six-figures" (Washington Post)"

[Her "juicy" political novel Dog Days, just published, is reviewed here.]

- "Seth Godin's SMALL IS THE NEW

Entertaining update from David Kline on the latest publishing deals inked by blogger-authors. Two that caught my eye (David's comments in quotations):

- "Former Wonkette blogger Ana Marie Cox's first nonfiction book, on the next generation of political activists, again to Riverhead, reportedly for "mid-six-figures" (Washington Post)"

[Her "juicy" political novel Dog Days, just published, is reviewed here.]

- "Seth Godin's SMALL IS THE NEW BIG: And Other (Little) Ideas that Change Everything, a small collection of big articles - from blog posts, ebooks, and magazine articles, to Portfolio [note: this is my publisher], for an advance somewhere between $100,000-$250,000"

When I can turn entries from BlogWriteForCEOs into a 6-figure - plus deal then I'll know I've arrived. Don't hold your breath... But heck, who knows?!

Below is an update of my original 101 list. If you've got a great resource page or article - of specific interest to marketers - leave me a comment below and I might add it. No promises. 

Blogging 101

Blogging 101 by Rebecca Blood (on MSN Spaces)

Blogging 101 by Kari Chisholm

Blogs 101 by Rich Meislin in New York Times' Technology section

Blogging 101 by Technorati

Blog knowledge center by Cymfony

Business Blogging 101 on the

Below is an update of my original 101 list. If you've got a great resource page or article - of specific interest to marketers - leave me a comment below and I might add it. No promises. 

Blogging 101

Blogging 101 by Rebecca Blood (on MSN Spaces)

Blogging 101 by Kari Chisholm

Blogs 101 by Rich Meislin in New York Times' Technology section

Blogging 101 by Technorati

Blog knowledge center by Cymfony

Business Blogging 101 on the NEWPRWiki

Business Blogging Resources by Dave Taylor

Global Voices' Intro to Blogs

Weblog Basics on About.com

Wikibooks' Blogging 101

Wikipedia definition of Weblog

Blog marketing resources from Paul Gillin

Podcasting 101

Podcasting 101 on MacZealots.com

Podcasting 101 on TechWeb

Podcasting 101…

Just saw this. Google has launched a Google China Blog. Yes, it's in Chinese so I can't read it. But clearly it's an attempt to answer critics of the company's decision to cooperate with the Chinese government in censoring search results. Here's the story in ChinaTechNews. And a less charitable spin on it here at P2Pnet.

Included are a few links in English in the right-hand column including John Battelle's Searchblog. Kinda cool. That's what

Just saw this. Google has launched a Google China Blog. Yes, it's in Chinese so I can't read it. But clearly it's an attempt to answer critics of the company's decision to cooperate with the Chinese government in censoring search results. Here's the story in ChinaTechNews. And a less charitable spin on it here at P2Pnet.

Included are a few links in English in the right-hand column including John Battelle's Searchblog. Kinda cool. That's what you might call "getting exposure." What's the population of China? I forget... [see below] but probably growing exponentially along with the blogosphere. Leave me a comment if you know!

Oh, and what's my stance on the doing-business-with-a-repressive-government thing? It's complicated. I lean towards the view that Google's being available…