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The challenge confronting the mainstream media is no longer about bloggers and citizen journalists, if it ever was.

Blogs are attractive to search engines for many reasons, and there are a range of techniques bloggers can employ to grow their readership. 15 SEO experts contribute their tips to Heidi Cohen.

Who judges the judges? Thanks to the proliferation of food bloggers, everyone can be a restaurant reviewer. But there’s so much noise and so little intelligence and thought, argues Tom Harrow.

Check out Time’s annual roundup of the best of the blogs, from kooky travel blog The Everywhereist to a list of blogs — hello birther Dr Orkly Taitz! — that the world could do without.

Social media including blogs and, especially, Twitter, offer unprecedented opportunities for politicians, but take-up remains low because party machines still see it as a threat.

It would be a strange law that said the minute you become influential, you are less free in what you say.

An attempt to link the online and offline food worlds in Melbourne has resulted in bloggers fury and the publishers of GRAM magazine rethinking their entire business strategy.

The Australian has reacted to this whole Julia Posetti defamation saga like an angry blogger, with ridiculous slurs, contradictions and a touch of Godwin’s Law. Problem is, it’s our national newspaper, laments John Quiggin.

I don’t think it would be hyperbolic to say that 2010 has been the most momentous and exciting year since the dawn of time, writes Ben Pobjie.

Internet journalism isn’t just sex, gore and photoshopped galleries of celebrities as fruit. Think of the Iran protests and the WikiLeaks Collateral Murder video, says Crikey editor Sophie Black, in a defence of online news.

Yes, its more on Grog’s Gamut. Some people are suggesting that bloggers should have a RIGHT to anonymity and/or the use of pseudonyms. But WHEN and HOW bloggers should identify themselves? Margaret Simons discusses a previous example.

The outing of Grog’s Gamut and the petty, vindictive thuggery and implied threats behind it, speak much more about the character of the paper and the journalist involved than it does about any vacuous nonsense over imagined rights of anonymity online, says Possum Comitatus.

A whole new world of internet advertising is developing in the Forbes blogs stable, far more involved than the old sponsored post. Instead advertisers can pay to run an entire blog alongside the normal blogs run by Forbes journos.

Grog’s Gamut is the pseudonymous political blogger who drew much attention during the recent election. Now The Australian has deemed his identity news and decided public servants aren’t entitled to hold political opinions. Wrong on both counts, says Tobias Ziegler.

They may be web 2.0 savvy, but when it comes to blogging small companies are streets ahead of larger organisations. Smart Company offers its picks for the business blogs worth clicking on.

Wilson “Ironbar” Tuckey officially broke the internet yesterday when he announced during a press conference from his home in Western Australia that he was going to start a blog. So what will Ironbar blog about?

The rise of Australia’s literary journal blogs as intellectual spaces is a great thing. But with no money in blogging, can an effective long term model be found to sustain them? asks Jessica Au.

Steve Jobs is adamant to nip the blogger movement in the bud using iPad newspaper apps, and Rupert Murdoch is happy for him to do so. So far, 20,000 have downloaded Murdoch newspaper apps.

The coming and going of independent sites is part of new media. But what lessons, if any, are there in the death of the leftish website New Matilda?

With news that New Matilda is folding, the tiny Aussie political blogosphere has shrunk even further. Replicating the magazine model online just doesn’t work, says Mark Bahnisch.