VideoEgg, TypePad Team on Video Blogging Hoping to spur more bloggers into using video for their online diaries, VideoEgg Inc. is integrating its video publishing technology with blogging company Six Apart Ltd.’s TypePad service. Interesting. Video blogging could be demanding on many different arenas but has always interested me. Thanks Google Alerts.

After running around like a chimpanzee with its head cut off (check out the animatronics chimp from WowWee, thus the similie) with the last WordPress Plugin Competition, I would like to be better prepared. We are about to embark upon another WordPress Programming Competition (notice the change in the name) starting at the beginning of December and lasting through the end of May next year. Much of the competition will remain the same but I would like to give authors the chance to strut their stuff and get their code together and published and advertised for everyone to make a good determination. However, this post is about the judges. If you would like to be considered as a judge, please send me an email with a list of stuff that makes you eligible. Mark the subject as “WordPress Programming Competition Judge”. Though the judges’ names will not be made public, […]

Budget Launches Blog-Based Treasure Hunt In a first, Car rental company Budget has launched a blog-based, four-week, 16-city treasure hunt, called Up Your Budget, which offers a total of $160,000 in prizes. To win, participants must find a sticker which has been placed in a public location in each of the 16 cities, call the number on the sticker and provide photographic or video proof they’ve located the sticker. Renting a car anytime soon?

Frapper – Google Map’ed Messageboard: Interesting but slow. Add yourself to the map and see who else visits weblogtoolscollection from the Continental US.

Cliff Notes From the Blog World “I have 400 feeds, and reading those takes me four hours — and I was doing that every morning,” Arrington said. “Since Memeorandum, I use my feed reader significantly less.” I completely agree. The mish mash of live news from the technology world along with a good smattering of code and usability has made Memeorandum a favorite of mine. Now only if I could get WeblogToolsCollection to become one of the sites that Memeorandum caches and gets its news from. Anyone know how? 😉

Boxy Blue is a two column “boxy” theme by Jennifer Ledbetter. You can preview the theme here.

Free eBooks from Apress Including “A Programmer’s Introduction to PHP 4.0”, “Writing Perl Modules for CPAN” and “COM and .NET Interoperability”. Thanks again Slickdeals

McDonald’s Dips Toe In Blogging Waters Last week, the company began an internal program that introduced corporate blogs, available only on the corporate intranet, behind the firewall. While this is seen as a small first step, it’s an important one in a company the size of McDonald’s, said Steve Wilson, senior director of global Web communications for McDonalds. Wilson spoke to a crowd of bloggers and curious marketing folk at Monday’s BlogOn social media summit in New York.