There’s an amusing public spat over at TechCrunch in a comment thread between Trent Kang, founder of CreamAid, and Michael Arrington that highlights the hypocrisy of the blogosphere elite when they worry out loud about the pernicious effects of the emerging pay for blogging models. Arrington likens such pay to payola in the music [...]

WikiHow famously exploited the Wiki for commercial profit by making it friendly to use and adapting it to produce user guides. Jumpstarting by self-seeding the content, HowTo now claims nearly 14,000 HowTos and nearly 5 million page views. Revenue comes from Google Adsense. Koonji – founded by Sudhir Jha with personal and part-time resources - [...]

Yepic launched in beta yesterday as a marketplace for information. Technically it seems fairly complete with categories, tags, reviews, ratings and reviews for content or authors; a system for buyers to request content; a collaboration system; and a payment system. Co-founders Richard Tripp and Corey Davis position the versatile platform as a means for bloggers [...]

The responses to A Look at 19 Social Activities Websites brought to my attention other new sites. Ironically, one of them, Vibely, is gestating right here in my own backyard, the DC metro area. Funny how the internet works that way.
Vibely released an alpha preview this week. Founders John L. Kim and [...]