Here is a blurb from MarketWatch’s Weekly Roundup I just got:

Writing on the Wall: Bloggers come to the Street, but is anyone reading?

By now you’ve heard just about all you can take about blogs. You know, the amateurish web sites that the media keeps yabbering on about, but no one actually reads. See full story.

Writer David Weidner is not as judgmental as the headline reads. He points people to the good, the bad, and the future of Wall Street blogs. If you are interested in the genre you might want to check it out.

Today, Scoble pointed to Haydn Trumpets and their Student Trumpet Blog.

When I was in the fourth grade, I joined the grade school band and started playing a Holton B flat cornet. It was the same instrument my mother played through in grade school and high school.

(The cool local connection is that Holton plant is located in Elkhorn, WI and is the oldest instrument maker in the country. One more cool connection – parent company LeBlanc is located in Kenosha, WI. I always though the all these Wisconsin roots for musical instrument companies was interesting.)

Anyway, the next year there were so many people playing trumpet and cornet I got moved to baritone. I ended up playing baritone all the way through high school and college.

Tip for the kids: Learn trombone, it is way cooler…

Dana is up for blog of the week now. Go vote.

BTW, I didn’t win.

I was looking through the BizLinkBlog today and notice I have not posted two links from the same site. While there are only forty or so links, I find it pretty amazing, because it was not intentional in any way. It just proves there is alot of great stuff being written out there.

Spammers have completely taken over the BizBlogDirectory. In the past, I was able to combat it by bringing up an old version of the page and restoring it. So many spammers have put crap on the page that the good version of the page has dropped off the list.

It was an experiment that served as a resource center for about 100 business blogs. Thanks to everyone that participated.

Here are two great lists of business blogs I have run across recently:

Marketing Blogs from Business Blog Consulting
Businesses that Blog from ProBlogger

Loyal reader Pat sent me a note this morning that Matt Lesko has a blog [Matt is a fellow Marquette alum that I linked to a couple weeks ago].

What I find interesting is that he talks about starting the blog to fight bad press he has been getting. Mark Cuban has talked about this and recommended it to Chad Pennington. I think it is the reason that Boeing started their blog. Their message wasn’t getting out with the gallons of ink that Airbus has been getting.

More companies are going to start seeing this as the reason why they should start blogs.

Here are some suggestions from DL Byron and Keith Robinson for good blog design:

• Everything Basecamp
• SimpleBits
• Business Logs
• Asterisk

I would like to have seen some other examples that were not sponsors or speakers at the conference.

I am attending BBS for the next couple of days. Here are my thoughts on the morning.

Robert Scoble gave the keynote. Here are two important points.

First, he makes the point that stories are bubbling up from the blogsphere and into the mainstream press. He mentioned that many SEA tsunami stories made that move in a day or two. I loved this quote – “If a product sucks, people will know in 24 hours”. This has huge implication for companies.

Second, he talked about pitching to A-list bloggers. He says there is no problem pitching the big guys. Consider pitching the people he reads. He says when he seeing five bloggers talk about something he knows something is up.

I have no idea what Marc Canter and Chris Pirillo were doing on stage. They were filling in for someone who couldn’t make it, but I have no idea what they were saying that was of much use to the audience.

Molly Holzschlag gave a building traffic pitch that covered alot of basics. She liked that she talked about options for things like comments and trackbacks. What I missed where some convictions about what business should do.

I had a great lunch with Erik Hansen. I met him at the Re-Imagine Summit and it was great to talk more.

Steve Broback and Glenn Feishman gave a interesting talk on monetizing your blog. Their answer is ads, whether it be Google or direct sponsorships. They were really talking about entrepreneurs writing about what they are passionate about and using AdSense to get paid for it. I think they missed the option that bloggers can be hired by companies to write about their passions. That is another way to get paid for what you love. I have some experience there.

I couldn’t sit through “Picking a Platform: Blogging Engines Compared”. I chatted with Evelyn and Scoble instead.

Halley and Stowe ended the day with “True Voice: The Art and Science of Blog Writing”. My thought here is that more people are writing more than they ever have in public. People need to get thicker skins and stronger convictions. I totally agree with their idea – “If you write more, you will become a better writer.”

More tomorrow.