The business of football blogging
24 May
How to find the right images for your blog, quickly and legally.
Images are worth a thousand words, but on far too many sites, they could also mean thousands in fines as sports bloggers in all niches look to Google’s Image Search to find what they need. Unfortunately, this is not a legal source for images, and could cost bloggers in the long run.
There are ways to find images for sites, especially if you are looking for stock images for creative purposes or just to fill a spot, but recent, high quality images of events can be very difficult or very expensive.
Enter PicApp.
15 May
I’m sure you’ve heard the news by now - that Arseblog.com has joined OleOle.com.
Ok, so it’s not exactly headline news, what with the credit crunch, the gasoline prices, the fluctuating currency markets, the China earthquake and the fact that your girlfriend left you, but on a football blogging level (and trust me on this one), this is significant.
Not because Arseblog was one of the biggest (if not the biggest) independent football blog around. Not because the man sold out, or because he’s one of the lucky few who can now earn a full-time living writing (and doing other blogging-related stuff) about what he loves.
It’s significant because it’s the first step in organised blog aggregation. Welcome to the world of football blog networks.
