YouTube Creator Playbook Just Got Better for Publishers

The 2013 Digital Influence Report from TechnoratiMedia has been released, and in addition to analyzing how brands connect with online influencers to promote products and services, the report analyzes how influence is created.

When Andrew Sullivan---former blogger for Time and The Atlantic and best known for blogging for The Daily Beast and The Daily Dish---announced last week that he was retiring from blogging to focus on other things, the media world took notice.

This week, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a new law requiring any website (including blogs) that gets more than 3,000 visitors per day to register with the government.

Recently, there have been a number of situations in Europe where bloggers and content publishers have been the victims of censorship. The cause---because their content ranked high on search engines.

If BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins is correct, tablets will be obsolete in just five years. He made that bold statement at the Milken Institute Conference in Los Angeles yesterday, and as Bloomberg reports, he explained, “In five years, I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore.

As big publishers like Time cut costs and staff, the opposite is happening to their online publishing frequencies. According to Poynter, Time has doubled the amount of content it publishes online each year.

It's always good to go back to the basics sometimes, and a new infographic from LaunchGrowJoy.com provides 30 ways to promote your blog posts that are good reminders for all bloggers.

This week, the Associated Press released an updated version of its Social Media Guidelines for AP Employees.

In its seventh annual Blawg 100 list of the best legal blogs, the American Bar Association's (ABA) ABA Journal has compiled a collection of 100 of the best legal blogs, which includes many of publishers who syndicate their Authoritative Content through Newstex.