Technorati.com Acquires Online Magazine Blogcritics.org
Major site news for you here. Today it was officially announced that Technorati.com has purchased Glosslip’s parent company, Blogcritics.org, which includes Glosslip.com. We couldn’t be more thrilled. Since launching this site back in January of 2006, my goal as publisher of this site was to augment the already incredible writing that goes on at Blogcritics.org. While Glosslip is a more “bloggy” style of writing, anyone who surfs the web, or reads blogs, knows how popular celebrity gossip is.
Though I started this site as the sole writer, Glosslip didn’t really take off until I wisely convinced “k” the other (and lately main) writer of this site to join me. Since that brilliant move on my part, Glosslip, a proud Google News site and network site of Blogcritics.org has carved a niche for itself in the growing world of celeb blogs. While there are more gossip sites than you can shake a stick at, both “k” and I strive to present well-crafted, highly thought out articles on today’s most popular celebrity and pop culture stories. “Celebrity news with a conscience” is a phrase which is often used to describe what we do.
We are looking forward to bringing our voices to a broader spectrum of readers through this new partnership and will continue to bring our regular readers the kinds of stories which keep you thinking and interacting with us (which we LOVE btw)!
Here’s the official press release on this fantastic merger of two great entities, and a link to the TechCrunch story which leaked earlier today:
Technorati Media Acquires Blogcritics
Award Winning Site Gives Bloggers an Entry Point for Publishing to a Broad Audience
San Francisco, CA, August 26, 2008 - Technorati, the recognized leader in blog search technology today announced the acquisition of Blogcritics. org, an online community of bloggers and a full service news and reviews source.
The award winning property hosts a community of more than 2,000 bloggers and authors that contribute hundreds of articles every week: news, opinions, and product reviews across entertainment, technology, and politics. The site also provides bloggers with an entry point to publish their content to a much broader audience than their own blogs afford.
“As part of Technorati Media, we’ll be able to grow the community and further improve our platform to attract new audiences,” said Eric Olsen founder of Blogcritics. “Technorati’ s mission to help bloggers and people who read blogs is the ideal complement for us.”
In addition to devoting resources to scaling the property and its operations, Technorati Media will seek to work more closely with Blogcritics authors so they can monetize their own blogs. Advertisers will benefit by the ability to run more fully integrated programs across the site and its related blogs.
“Together with the bloggers themselves, Blogcritics has successfully built a thriving community with an extensive following, and given bloggers what has become a very large forum in which to express themselves. We’re thrilled to help them realize their full potential ” Said Richard Jalichandra, president and CEO of Technorati.
Blogcritics joined the Technorati Media Network in June. There are no plans to merge the two properties.
About Blogcritics:
Blogcritics. org was founded in 2002 by veteran broadcaster and music journalist Eric Olsen. Originally conceived for music fanatics to write and post reviews online, the site quickly evolved and took on a life all its own. Hundreds of bloggers flocked to Blogcritics. org, and sections including politics, film, television, culture, and books were added to support a truly grassroots phenomenon. Product reviews came to be supplemented by news, interviews, and opinion articles. Writers and readers alike found kindred spirits online who were interested in both pop culture and the world at large. In 2005, online gaming, sports, and science/technology sections were added to the mix.About Technorati:
The recognized authority in the blogosphere, Technorati collects, organizes, highlights and distributes the online global conversation, surfacing this content to millions of consumers. Founded as the first blog search engine, Technorati has become the definitive source for the top stories, opinions, photos and videos emerging across news, entertainment, technology, lifestyle, sports, politics and business. Technorati tracks not only the authority and influence of blogs, but also the most comprehensive and current index of who and what is most popular in the blogosphere.
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Comment by k — August 26, 2008 @ 5:20 pm
“both “k” and I strive to present well-crafted, highly thought out articles on today’s most popular celebrity and pop culture stories”
Is that what that was? Still, it was adorable.
Comment by Matt Sussman — August 27, 2008 @ 3:32 am