Up until now, the Kindle has only had a few blogs amongst other content for sale. Now, Amazon has a new beta program called “Kindle Publishing for Blogs Beta” that lets anyone publish their blog in the Kindle Store. We’ve got a photo gallery to show you a walk through of setting up your own more »

If you actively use the Internet to socialize on social networking sites, participate in forums, blog, or play games, then you know that communication is key. In any sort of online game, death is the worst possible outcome. It could meaning losing all of your valuable items, starting over, and humiliation. The focus of this article isn’t dying in a game, but dying in real life and what it means to your life on the Internet.

Now with a new survey on Media Influence, bloggers can no longer revel in the belief they exist in a vacuum where they can make fun of just about anything and get away with it.

See what influence this survey says blogs have over you.

In private beta testing mode since January, the England-based ProofHQ has just opened it’s program up to the the public. What makes it so appealing to so many is the obvious allowance for collaboration. ProofHQ makes this simple with the use of several formats on the web. Blogs, social media applications…users are able to comment and give feedback on a project that can be seen by anyone working on it by using embeddable objects.

There is no cost for this new personal version, unless you want to upgrade to a more advanced package that offers more storage. The free package only allows for five proofs a months (50 megabytes of storage), and the upgrades run anywhere from $29 to $99 a month. However, you can get a feel for it to see what you think by taking advantage of their 14 day free trial offer. It is both PC and Mac compatible.

Once again, the Web works its magic in mysterious ways. I had just completed posting a comment on a favorite blog – and yes, I signed my real name – when I read about a discussion at a Digital Hollywood conference that focused on Internet comments.

The man in charge of the Washington Post’s online division told the audience he’d like to see technology ride to the rescue to get rid of trolls and flame-throwing commenters on the newspaper’s blogs. Jim Brady was describing the aftermath of what happened two years ago when the newspaper’s ombudsman erred on a political story. Hundreds of commenters high on conspiracy theory fumes blasted the website, and many were very nasty, so Brady shut down all comments. The resulting furor made its way to other websites and forums, and many there accused him of trampling on free speech.

On the contrary, says Brady. He just wants a civil discussion, and anonymity doesn’t help the cause. Maybe some form of identity authorization – credit cards? drivers licenses? – would do the trick, he argued:

It looks like another web 2.0 product has emerged from the darkness, they seem to be coming out of nowhere with various different ideas and solutions for getting attention of the buzz world. You’ve all heard of fantasy football and probably more recently fantasy politics. Now there is fantasy blog share trading from BlogShares, you more »