Real Time Collaboration and Web 2.0 tools, tips, and reviews

BlogBurst sounds like a pretty cool idea. It finds blogs that are filled with interesting and informative content (like this one apparently!), and then finds major media outlets to broadcast that content, giving the participating blogs much greater visability and a wider audience. Some of Blogburst's customers include the Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Mike Arrington at TechCrunch gives it a good review, although he admits to having done some consulting work for them. Darren Rowse of ProBlogger points out that it's great for increased visibility, but it's not going to provide bloggers with any revenue. BlogBurst gets paid by the top-tier news outlets, but there's no trickle effect!

Frankly, I'm happy with the increased visibility, and if other bloggers took the long view, they would see that there are a lot of ways to see squeeze income out of a wider readership then just the obvious one.