On I go with the Fortune 500 Blog Project, and today I’ll be going to Disney.com – the land of Mickey, Donald and all the rest. 
The feeling is a little different because I already know Disney has blogs. So my job is not to find blogs, but to find what these blogs do and how they are used! *excited*
Pardon me, I haven’t slept last night, fiddling with my blog and surfing around. Haha… Let’s start!
Disney.com Website
The Disney website is cartooney! Erm… *duh*. There is a separate URL for corporate information. No obvious sign of blogs.
Website search for “blog”. Whoa! 337 entries. But most of them are similar. Here are the distinct ones.
Most of the results came under the subdomain http://wondertime.go.com, which is actually a magazine site under Go.com,
dedicated to helping parents nurture their children’s love of learning. A blend of how and why, Wondertime inspires moms of infants through 6-year-olds to see the world through the eyes of their children, and to celebrate the wonder of this all-too-fleeting time.
The Catherine Newman blog listed is owned by Wondertime, not Disney.
The second link does not really link to a blog either! Its a… erm… website. I don’t really get what is going on on that page. It just like a showcase of a kid who has done wonders. 
I’ll search again, this time for “corporate blog”. One result. Eww… it leads to something like a news release – announcing that ABC.com has released some new features and among these are some blogs.
Google Search Then!
Yes! Blogs! Lots of them! I’ll just list the more interesting stuff here – too much going on about Disney blogs
- The Unofficial Disney blog or the typepad URL
- Luxo, a blog featuring some stuff by Pixar, and since Disney acquired Pixar, that makes it related to Disney
- Re-Imagineering, A forum for Pixar and Disney professionals – don’t know yet if it is BY them, I’ll list it here first anyway.
- A fellow blogger who has previously done research on Disney’s blogs in Feb 2004
- A blog talking about law stuff – they seem to be talking a lot about Disney, but they don’t seem to be affiliated to Disney at all.
- Mouse Kingdom Blog
- A section of Yahoo directory dedicated to Disney related blogs! – this should get me going for some time!
- A photo blog featuring Disney stuff
- Someone’s blog dedicated to Disney – don’t know if he’s an Employee or not.
- A site for people to create blogs for their trip to Disneyland!
I’m not certain at this time if any of these are owned by Disney or Disney’s employees yet, but, I’ll stop here for Google results – heh. So many more results, but from observation, most are people’s blogs about Disney. Some are just individual posts, and some are really blogs dedicated for Disney news.
(Thanks Quacky1)
I’ll stop here for today and continue when I get back home tonight to continue my search on Technorati and the other search engines, and then we’ll dive deeper into the individual links to see what they are about!
Visit John Frost
Hi,
This is John Frost. I edit the The Disney Blog. Thank you for the link, but I have a request to make. Right now you have the blog listed as ‘The Official Disney Blog’, however, it is totally unofficial. It states that clearly on the front page.
Can you please change your post to read ‘Unofficial’, so your readers aren’t left confused and so Disney doesn’t get upset with me.
Thank you
John
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Thanks John for your advice over email. I have edited my post accordingly. Its great to have learnt about Disney’s blogs from you!
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Visit Quacky1
Hi!
Would you ming posting a link to our blog, Duckau.com? Our site has collected information on several decades of lawsuits by and against Disney (as well as the outcomes, if available). As well, we’ve collected stories and links about the “steamier” side of Disney, the side they don’t want people to know about. Thanks!
Quacky1
Visit Kian Ann
Sure Quacky1, as long as your site stays relevant
I’ll get it done now.
Visit neda
hello,
i love disney
tanks for u because picture the miky and miny
sorry,not very well english
bye
Visit MrMickeyman
Hiya.
I’m number 8 on your list.
Thank you for listing it~
To clarify, I’ve never received a penny from disneyland nor any company affiliated with them or disney.
No free admission, no free sodas, no press passes, nothing
Not even a thank you card, nor coupon.
They’ve never even commented on my blog.
Which is kind of sad since I put years of my time into that and it’s on the internet so they’re aware of it, just as you are.
I had to stand in line like anyone else and pay for every single thing, which is why I always brought bottled water and something to nibble on.
I drove 1hr each way by myself to get to Disneyland to take my pictures weekly and my site never earned anywhere near enough to pay for an inexpensive soda and burger each week. I wish I could say the opposite
Some bloggers, however, seemed to get preferential treatment and access to the front of the lines or good spots to see the fireworks or parades and press passes, and permission to photograph private Disneyland events. I guess you have to know the right people or work from the inside somehow :S
That’s why I was never able to get that many photos since I spent hours upon hours in line on each visit there. If I got a good picture of the fireworks it’s because I spent 1-3hrs standing there in the same spot by myself. I once stood in the same spot for about 9hrs to photograph a disneyland red carpet event~
I liked going to the park but in retrospect it would have been nice to get a pat on the back at least. Maybe now that I wrote this comment they’ll send me a coupon book