Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp has announced that his blogging platform will start to build in paid for advertising from May 2nd, despite him telling the Los Angeles Times that “we’re pretty opposed to advertising. It really turns our stomachs,” back in 2010.

Dressed in the CEO uniform of hoody and jeans, he told the AdAge conference in New York that “you’ve already seen our ad unit”  - the Radar section of the dashboard, which currently highlights popular posts, and gives 120 million impressions a day. Karp also admitted that he had been “an idiot” for for his previous comments on advertising.

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Revered American film critic Roger Ebert asked his 196,838 followers if they would be willing to pay to use Twitter — 20% of them said that they would cough up for the privilege as the debate about how will Twitter make money continues. Read More »

Tory MP Therese Coffey’s Twitter account has been exhibiting some rather phishy behaviour in the last two days – telling her 351 followers that “David Camerons wifes a slut…she dresses like a whore”. Read More »

This will excite a lot of people who not only like to tell their Twitter followers what they’re doing, but where they’re doing it – the social networking site has launched a one-click-and-here-I-am function called Twitter Places, which comes with Foursquare and Gowalla integration. Read More »

Recently at a business networking event, I met someone who, upon discovery that I’m a blogger, gave a derogatory reaction, as if being a blogger meant that I was pretty much the scum of the earth. Read More »

Today 8,000+ bloggers from 144 countries, reaching 11 million viewers, are joining together to chime in with posts about one single important global issue of climate change. Did you post yet? Visit the Blog Action Day website to find out more about this event.

I take climate change personally. 

I live here on earth, along with you and millions of others, and the damage our planet is facing because of manmade, careless actions infuriates me and makes me sad. Nature has given me some of the most memorable moments in my life. Today in London we have a beautiful day and I am enjoying seeing the sunlight light up the green leaves on the plants I have on my balcony. I’m enjoying looking at the green trees I can see scattered across parks in my neighborhood, and I’m looking forward to pulling away from the computer soon and going outside to enjoy this day before it slips away.

Will these simple pleasures I have from nature be no more in the face of climate change?

What personal moments spent with nature will only be left to memory, if every one of us does not do something right now to prevent climate change from happening?

Will the world leaders gathering at Copenhagen in December for the United Nations Climate Change Conference think enough about their own special personal memories of enjoying the natural environment, to make a true difference in how we tackle climate change issues?

Climate change is personal for me, and for you.

I’ve shared three very personal memories about experiences I’ve had in the natural environment on my blog for Blog Action Day 2009 and hope to read other blogs that tell stories about why they care about climate change.

Please post on your blog about your thoughts about climate change, and let’s see if collective blogging can make a difference on this issue.

Taking climate change personally,

-Lisa

I’m in Manchester this week to attend bTWEEN08, where I’ll be sharing ideas with other digital entrepreneurs from thoughout the UK.

• My agency Hai Media Group is a finalist in the Branding Talent competition at bTWEEN08, and from what I can tell, this may be a bit like The Apprentice, Dragon’s Den and X-Factor all rolled into one for entrepreneur’s in digital media. Along with my media partner Isabella Hu, who’s design portfolio can be seen at Ecolocate.org, we’ll be offering our seed idea for our Rare Fruits campaign concept for Littlewoods. We’ve worked hard together to come up what we think is a client winning proposal to build excitement and customers for littlewoodsdirect.com.

• Facing the Judge’s Panel Who’s our Sir Alan Sugar, Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, Sharon Osbourne, den of talent scouting dragons for this experience? The mentors are:

• Steve Taylor, Director of Innovation, Aegis
• James Estill, Senior Producer, 4Talent
• Nicole Yershon, Director, Innovative Solutions, Ogilvy
• Paul Bennun, Creative Director, Somethin’ else
• Neil Richards, Script writer
• Katz Kiely, Managing Director, Just-b. Productions 

• Shivers & Shakes Yes! We are nervous, but looking forward to the learning experience, and to gaining a lot of valuable creative confidence throughout the week.

• Take a Peek I’ll be peeking around bTWEEN08 and popping in here with updates about what’s happening.

• Follow Me You can also keep track of some of my updates by following lisadevaney on Twitter.

-Lisa