Robin Mayfield made a video on how to setup and use BlogJet with TypePad. Check it out here.

Thanks, Robin!

Blue Eye: “If you are using BlogJet (and possibly other remote publishing solutions) to publish on Wordpress and are using the Post Moderation plugin, this post is for you.”

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Software Marketing Blog:

According to the article headline Russians Use Affiliate Model To Spread Spyware, Adware [an article @ Yahoo] realizing the extent of the spyware and adware problem and knowing Russian developers I find the title a bit misleading. Imagine the reaction from US developers if the headline read - Americans Using Affiliate Model etc... a little irresponsible of TechWeb if you ask me. The practice is very alarming and something the world should know about but the title is misleading.

Thanks, Sharon!

Heh, it’s like watching Hollywood movies about Russian mafia. Ten years ago most bad guys for movies came either from Russia or from Japanese. (Today, of course, they’re either Siths or agents Smiths).

My opinion: the author of this article just tries to find an enemy (“hey, spyware’s made by Russians”). You know, it’s easier to find an enemy somewhere outside than realize that corporations which make spyware are your neighbours. Of course, similar things happen in Russia, but mostly on political topics.

I hope that the SPY ACT will finally stop spyware, so that Yahoo won’t publish articles with such provocative articles. (You can read about SPY ACT @ www.spywareinfo.com)

I’ve done a mini-interview with Jack Trout for my Russian marketing-related blog. I decided to publish it here too. If you don’t know who Jack is, you don’t know what “positioning” means.

Dmitry Chestnykh: What do you think about weblogs (blogs)?

Jack Trout: Like "letters to the editor" in newspapers, some are interesting. But most are of little value. If you're going to read, there are many books far better than blogs. I don't read blogs because they are not properly edited.

Dmitry Chestnykh: How do you think marketers can use the power of direct talk with customers via blogs?

Jack Trout: Maybe. But you have to organize them so that opinions represent a good cross-section of your market.

Dmitry Chestnykh: Do you think blogsphere will be a 'PR-medium of the 21st century'?

Jack Trout: Blogs that are perceived as "independent" might have some PR value. If not, they will lose credibility or third party validity.

Dmitry Chestnykh:  Thank you very much for your answers! Keep up a good work.

NewsGator has acquired FeedDemon and TopStyle, and brought Nick Bradbury on board in the process.

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Great news for WordPress fans – WordPress 1.5.1 has been released. Please, everyone who has problems with posts, published by BlogJet, not showing on the main page, update to this version.

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
I want to congratulate everybody with the Victory of people against fascism.
On May 9, 1945 the World became a better place to live. Today is the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. Let's remember this day.

Google moved their blog to Blogspot (Blogger’s hosting):

To make the Google Blog a bit easier to manage behind the scenes, we're now publishing it to its new home at Blogspot: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

Now, Google, don’t you want a few copies of BlogJet to replace that “a bit easier to manage” with “super-mega-easier to manage”?

There’s something odd happening with TypePad today—their API instead of categories listing gives the following error:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soap:Body> <soap:Fault><faultcode>soap:Client</faultcode><faultstring>Can't find root element in the message at /usr/local/prod/cpan-lib/SOAP/Lite.pm line 2431.
</faultstring></soap:Fault></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>

Please be patient while I contact their developers.

Update: TypePad fixed this issue. Thanks to Adriaan from ecto.

I’m a bit late, but, hey Dave, happy birthday to ya!