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There are still two weeks to apply for guest contributors to Pro Blogging News. Benefits include greater public recognition for the blogger, multiple links to the blogger’s site and/or rss feed and a learning experience for future guest blogging. Bloggers also receive a portion of advertising revenue.

We are also offering contributing writer positions (with the same benefits as those described above) for the following blogs that will launch August 1:

• Online consumer news (posts about eBay, Amazon, PayPal, etc.)
• Business news (posts about deals happening with tech companies.)
• Wireless news (posts about Wi-Fi, WiMax and Femtocells)
• Media news (posts about television network activity and news of Hollywood studio happenings.)

To apply, use the “Contact” link.

Ed

New York, NY (AB) — The women’s blogging network BlogHer Thursday gained $5 million in second-round funding from the venture capital arm of NBC Universal, Venrock. Along with the cash, BlogHer entered a cross-promotion deal with NBC-owned iVillage. The arrangement means iVillage, Oxygen.com and BravoTV.com will use BlogHer content. NBC will also hawk its Women@NBC ad network to BlogHer readers.

The pact comes as NBC tries to salvage its iVillage property which has been in upheaval.

Source: NBC, PaidContent

Getty Images, the well-heeled licensing firm getting around $600 per photo, is looking upon the ocean of photos at Yahoo-owned Flickr as a hungry bear might see a new stream of tasty salmon — it wants a bite.

In a statement, Getty said the free Flickr photos were “impacting” (read: cutting into the profits) its commercial licensing business. Flickr photos, the company said, gives customers that “authenticity” not available with slick commercial images.

Late Tuesday, Getty and Yahoo announced a deal where Getty Images can package and sell the photos and Yahoo gets a cut. Photographers als get a chance to become part of the program.

Read more at our news hub, Associated Blogging.

We’ve launched Associated Blogging, our newest site. The goals are two-fold: to promote and encourage blogs that break trail, publishing news not found elsewhere. We’ll provide regular update on some of the best examples of blogs that break news, plus sightings of blogs credited in last-century news organs. We’re currently debating which blogs do the best job breaking news and encourage you to drop by and voice your opinion.

The other purpose for Associated Blogging is to create an atmosphere where bloggers can collectively rise above their given role of quirky commentators and launch a real 21st Century worldwide social media news service. I encourage you to drop by the site, give it a look and subscribe to the feed- we have lots planned for the future.

We’ve created a widget that you can place on your blog to display headlines from Pro Blogging News. You can download the widget from SpringWidget.

We’ve created a news tip e-mail address in preparation for our blogging news wire. If you want to alert us to a breaking blogging-related item, have a news tip or a blogging-related news release, send it to news(at)blogmediagroup.com.

We’ve published our concept for a blogging news wire as part of our launch of umbrella organization Blog Media Group. The news service is in response to the uproar over the AP’s demand for payment whenever a blogger quotes a news item. Our newswire will combine the power of blogging with the rapid dissemenation of information by bloggers to create a free, user-created worldwide news service. Check out our plan here and let us know what you think.

Professional Blogging News is opening the doors for guest-blogging opportunities on this site and many others under development. Bloggers would receive a compensation package, including byline, link, bio and advertising revenue-sharing opportunities. To receive details, use the contact form and choose “Apply for Guest Blogging.”

I’m choosing to offer guest blogging at PBN because my full-time job has made regular updates difficult. I’ll be accepting applications through July 31 and a staff will be created from those entries will be used starting in August.

I’m excited about the changes underway and will share details soon.

Canadian blog network B5 Media has recently launched several new blogs, including a chatty site from healthcare “insiders” and a business blog written in Spanish.

Healthcareinsiders.com promises to focus on “the tricky issues surrounding the health care industry in today’s world.”

The blog is written by Jennifer Hinkel, a Philadelphia, Pa.-based self-described healthcare writer and lecturer, and Beck Ramsey, a health care graduate student.