Blogging

Make Yourself a Resource: Adding Value to Your Blog

A blog should be doing work all the time, even when it isn’t speaking directly to your professional history and identity. Here’s how to make sure it is.

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How Twitter Can Make You A Better (and Happier) Person

25 JAN 2009 from the Zappos CEO and COO blog | Read the full story»

1. Transparency & Values: Twitter constantly reminds me of who I want to be, and what I want Zappos to stand for.
2. Reframing Reality: Twitter encourages me to search for ways to view reality in a funnier and/or more positive way.
3. Helping Others: Twitter makes me think about how to make a positive impact on other people's lives.
4. Gratitude: Twitter helps me notice and appreciate the little things in life

Hat tip: Howard Mann

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How Should Your Company Handle Negative Blog Comments?

If you see negative comments on a blog/site, especially those based on inaccurate information, you need to address those comments.

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Air Force Releases 'Counter-Blog' Marching Orders

Bloggers: If you suddenly find Air Force officers leaving barbed comments after one of your posts, don't be surprised. They're just following orders.

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A Modest Blogging Proposal

If "pay per post" lets online writers shill for cash, why not go all the way and sell real-life opinions, too?

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Dell: $1 million in revenue via Twitter

Tweet tweet or ka-ching ka-ching?  Dell attributes $1 million in revenue from Twitter, according to a report at InternetNews.com.  2,475 users follow DellOutlet, the account the company uses to post updates and sales alerts on discounted products from the Dell Outlet Store.  DellOutlet is only one of at least 65 Dell accounts on Twitter, including Direct2Dell, StudioDell, DigitalNomads, and more.

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10 Lessons the Blogosphere Can Learn From Journalism

10. Creating History - Understand that what you write is not only available in the present day for all to see, but that it lives on into the foreseeable future as well. Just something to think about before you hit publish.

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10 Ways to Give Your Corporate Blog a Sense of Purpose

9. The Solution. Find out what keeps your customers up at night and help them address these problems and/or interests.

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Blogs Keep a Company Death Watch

As the number of company failures increases, so does the number of sites charting corporate demise.

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Who killed the blogosphere?

07 NOV 2008 from Rough Type | Read the full story»

Blogging seems to have entered its midlife crisis, with much existential gnashing-of-teeth about the state and fate of a literary form that once seemed new and fresh and now seems familiar and tired. And there's good reason for the teeth-gnashing. While there continue to be many blogs, including a lot of very good ones, it seems to me that one would be hard pressed to make the case that there's still a "blogosphere."

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How Twittering Critics Brought Down Motrin Mom Campaign

18 NOV 2008 from Advertising Age | Read the full story»

Two days after a new ad push for Motrin triggered an online backlash, J&J's McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit is pulling the campaign, from the New York office of independent shop Taxi, and begging a vocal mommy-blogging nation for forgiveness. (Subscription required)

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Company Blog: Single Spokesperson or Many Voices?

"Should a company blog be written by one person, or several, or by a faceless 'voice?' Should a company have one person as it's 'voice' in the market via various social media platforms?"

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In Era of Blog Sniping, Companies Shoot First

Blogging about staff cuts is particularly prevalent in Silicon Valley, where companies feel pressure to break bad news on their own blogs so that they can better control the message. (Subscription required)

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Q&A with a Corporate Blogger: Nick Ayres, The Home Depot

Q: Describe the key social media efforts at The Home Depot.

A: Simply put, social media is a growing part of what we call our "digital orange apron." The big idea is that social media gives us the opportunity to not only recapture some of the ground we've lost in the minds of some of our customers, it also gives us the opportunity to engage with an entirely new set of customers in a way that can really differentiate our brand in the market place.

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Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004

20 OCT 2008 from Wired | Read the full story»

Writing a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths. It's almost impossible to get noticed, except by hecklers. And why bother? The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter.

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The $10,000 College Blogger Scholarship

The College Scholarships organization is still taking applications for its third annual college blogger scholarship, offering one blogtastic student the opportunity to win $10,000 for his/her exceptional online content.

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Business Bloggers

5. One size doesn't fit all. As I've often said before; do not start a corporate blog unless you have a goal in mind. Given that different companies start a corporate blog for different purposes - some may use it to educate their users while some others for recruitment. Thus best practices are also going to vary from one example to the other.

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Technology: Can Bloggers Save the World?

Transforming social networking into social change.

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Blogging: In Praise of Small

Bloggers may long for the page views of a Huffington Post or DailyKos, but there's much to be said for speaking to a small, dedicated community.

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Marketing Moves to the Blogosphere

Sarah Halzack / Washington Post:
Marketing Moves to the Blogosphere  —  One group that has been firing up its keyboards is corporate types. Of the approximately 112.5 million blogs on the Web, almost 5,000 are corporate, according to blog indexer Technorati. Calacanis blogged to start conversations and be a part of a virtual community, but corporate bloggers are in it for other reasons: talking directly to customers or giving a personal touch to a big business.

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Orwell's Blog

23 JUL 2008 from the Orwell Prize | Read the full story»

The Orwell Prize, Britain’s pre-eminent prize for political writing, is publishing George Orwell’s diaries as a blog. From 9th August 2008, Orwell’s domestic and political diaries (from 9th August 1938 until October 1942) will be posted in real-time, exactly 70 years after the entries were written.

Hat tip: Dan Pink

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Blogging Is Not A Crime

The number of incidents it tracks went from five arrests in 2003 to 35 last year. As blogging expands internationally, so do the risk of speaking one’s mind.

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Malwebolence: The Trolls Among Us

27 JUL 2008 from the New York Times | Read the full story»

In the late 1980s, Internet users adopted the word "troll" to denote someone who intentionally disrupts online communities. Early trolling was relatively innocuous, taking place inside of small, single-topic Usenet groups. The trolls employed what the M.I.T. professor Judith Donath calls a "pseudo-naïve" tactic, asking stupid questions and seeing who would rise to the bait. The game was to find out who would see through this stereotypical newbie behavior, and who would fall for it. As one guide to trolldom puts it, “If you don’t fall for the joke, you get to be in on it.”

Today the Internet is much more than esoteric discussion forums. It is a mass medium for defining who we are to ourselves and to others. Teenagers groom their MySpace profiles as intensely as their hair; escapists clock 50-hour weeks in virtual worlds, accumulating gold for their online avatars. Anyone seeking work or love can expect to be Googled. As our emotional investment in the Internet has grown, the stakes for trolling—for provoking strangers online—have risen. Trolling has evolved ...

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12 proven ways to get your post to the top of digg

Well, that was one of them. Put a number in your headline and do a list. You know, there are a ton of tactics that you can use to increase readership. Plenty of blogs will tell you what they are. [But] ... Write what you believe, not what sells.

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Interactive Case Study: Getting Fired for Blogging?

Does your company have the right to say whether you can blog about your job? Read about the former Delta employee who says she was unfairly dismissed for blogging.

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At the Uneasy Intersection of Bloggers and the Law

There is no better way to get a blogger fired up than by telling him what he cannot publish — although you might forgive a government prosecutor for thinking otherwise. (Subscription required)

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The 'Fake' Steve Jobs Is Giving Up Parody Blog

Daniel Lyons, the former Forbes magazine journalist who wrote the blog The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs for the last two years, is moving on with his professional life and creative pursuits. (Subscription required)

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U.K. Uses Blogs To Bring G8 To The People

The administration of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is bringing the Group of Eight meeting to Britons via the social networking site Twitter. Brown's government has been ahead of the technology curve in a bid to reach voters.

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Iran: death penalty for "corrupt weblogs"

New legislation has been proposed in Iran that could make blogging a crime punishable by death.

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Bloggers: Big Media Is Watching

As content recognition software gets more sophisticated, expect more copyright-related battles online like the recent AP-blogger flap.

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The A.P. Asserts Tough (and Still Secret) View of Copyright on Blogs

In a fight with a social news site, The Associated Press has asserted that Internet sites cannot quote the headline and first paragraph of its articles. (Subscription required)

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15 Entrepreneur Blogs Worth Reading

13 JUN 2008 from the Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»

The best entrepreneur blogs – and often the most successful ones — do more than just promote the entrepreneurs or their projects. Star power can draw attention, but it won’t sustain it if the blog doesn’’t "give." Give is a broad term. You can give tangible tools and information to help build a business. Or a motivational story that inspires someone to try an idea. You can give a laugh. You can give food for thought. You can give debate. You can give of yourself, and if you’re interesting enough, people will come back for more. (Subscription required)

Hat tip: MyBusiness Magazine

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The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs

The effort may offer a prominent definition of the important but vague doctrine of "fair use," often a contentious issue in the blogosphere. (Subscription required)

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Welcome to the Web refactory, AP

The Associated Press wants to create guidelines for excerpting from its news articles. But fundamentally the Net is a place where new material is factored out of antecedent matter and connected in an information "web" via links and snippets.

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Bloggers Seek Professional Training From Journalists

Non-journalists entering the world of blogs, online feedback forums, online videos and news websites provide information that newspapers and other media can't or don't. But many are now turning to professional journalists for guidance.

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A commenter's Bill of Rights? Let's think first

A blogosphere spat triggered by a few ticked-off folks leads to a more searching conversation about the rightful extent of a commenter's prerogative.

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Study Shows Blogging Now 'Mainstream' Among Women

28 MAY 2008 from Advertising Age | Read the full story»

According to a recent study by BlogHer and Compass Partners, more than one-third (35%) of all women in the U.S. aged 18 to 75 participate in the blogosphere at least once a week. And that number increases if less-frequent visits are factored in. Of those women who are online any amount of time, 53% read blogs, 37% post comments to blogs and 28% write or update blogs, according to the study. (Subscription required)

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Beyond Blogs

22 MAY 2008 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»

Three years ago our cover story showcased the phenomenon. A lot has changed since then.

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Exposed

What I gained — and lost — by writing about my intimate life online.

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After Forays With ABC and HBO, a Video Blogger Returns to Video Blogging

Feeling a little burned by big media, Amanda Congdon, the former host of "Rocketboom," has returned to online blogging, hosting and producing on "Sometimes Daily."

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Cuba Bars Blogger from Accepting Award in Spain

Last year, Time magazine named Raul Castro one of the 100 most influential people in the world. This year, he is off the list, but another Cuban has taken his place. Her name is Yoani Sanchez, creator of a critical blog titled "Generation Y" that has received over a million hits. (Audio)

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Olympic-Torch Security Troops Block Everest Bloggers' Climb

Climbers on Mount Everest's south side are surreptitiously blogging a standoff with Nepalese soldiers ahead of China's Olympic torch run on the opposite side of the mountain next week. With a news blackout 1 in effect since Monday at the Everest base camp -- and no news media at camps farther up the mountain -- the situation is being chronicled only by a smattering of international climber/bloggers.

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Cuban Blogs Offer Candid View of Life Under Communism

A month after ordinary Cubans won the right to own computers, the government is still keeping a rigid grip on Internet access. But thousands are finding their way online, and a daring few are posting blogs about life in the communist-run country.

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Video Comments? No Thanks - 5 Reasons They Don't Work

Yesterday morning the web's largest web tech blog added video comments courtesy of of live video startup Seesmic. About 24 hours later, video comments had turned into a mini-trend with another 80 blogs installing them. While adding them at TechCrunch was a smart move by founder Michael Arrington -- who is also an investor in Seesmic -- because they've clearly already paid small dividends in spreading the product, I wonder if they're really adding to the conversation. Below are 5 reasons why I don't particularly care for video comments out of the gate.

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Tension Over Sports Blogging

Tension over sports blogging is one of the strains between sports franchises, leagues and reporters to have emerged during the digital age. (Subscription required)

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Does Your Company Need a Chief Blogger?

14 APR 2008 from Advertising Age | Read the full story»

To blog or not to blog? It's a question marketers are still grappling with years after the first waves of corporate blogging flooded the web. But for better or worse, it seems corporate blogging -- and the title of chief blogger -- is beginning to hit its stride. Companies such as Coca-Cola, Marriott and Kodak all have recently recruited chief bloggers, with or without the actual title, to tell their stories and engage consumers. (Subscription required)

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Fake Blogs Banned - Crackdown on Corporate Fakes (Watch Out Wal-Mart, Sony and McDonalds)

Sony, Wal-Mart and McDonalds are amongst companies who could soon find themselves subject to criminal prosecution under a new UK law that bans fake blogs. Specifically, the law would ban the use of 'fake consumer blogs' which mislead real consumers.

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Six Apart wrestles the social-media dragon

The software company behind TypePad and Movable Type launches a Facebook app that lets users update a whole lot of blogging and messaging accounts from one interface.

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Blog Content On Airline Entertainment Systems

On our recent flight on Virgin America to SFO we noticed that music blog/label RCRD LBL has a music channel on their In Flight Entertainment system. VA also has video podcasts from Boing Boing, Digg and TED which are updated monthly. Charles Ogilvie who created and runs the system told PSFK that the new airline hopes to have more daily blog content to sit alongside traditional media when they launch their Read section of the IFE.

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In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop

Some professional bloggers complain of the stressful demands of a constant flow of news and comment. (Subscription required)

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Military Report: Secretly Recruit or Hire Bloggers

U.S. Special Ops undergoes a clandestine effort to establish its own blogging arm.

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Citizen Huff

Since the blog The Huffington Post was launched, it has grown in ways that few people, except perhaps founder Arianna Huffington, expected. (Subscription required)

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A content suggestion engine for blogging? That could work…

Launching in Alpha today is Zemanta, the European startup which has developed a facility for Wordpress blogs to suggest contextually relevant links, pictures, related content and tags using an internally developed semantic analysis engine.

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Doctor Blogs Raise Concerns About Patient Privacy

13 MAR 2008 from NPR | Read the full story»

Medical blogs have drawn back the curtain on the inner workings of the health care profession.

Hat tip: Freakonomics

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10 Easy Ways to Piss Off A Blogger

10 MAR 2008 from the Influential Marketing Blog | Read the full story»

7. Ask for favors as part of your first outreach to them without building a relationship or earning the right to ask them to help you.

Hat tip: Church of the Customer

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17 Tips For Getting Bloggers To Write About You

11 MAR 2008 from InformationWeek | Read the full story»

One of the best ways to get publicity and generate buzz is to get bloggers to write about what you're doing. Boing Boing co-author Cory Doctorow provides some tips on making it easy for bloggers to point to you.

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Political blogs are definitely long tail, survey says

Online survey finds 56 percent of people don't read political blogs, while only 40 percent of U.S. Internet users visit any blog in a month, ComScore says.

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Olympic Athletes Free to Blog… Sort Of

25 FEB 2008 from Popular Science | Read the full story»

Officially, the International Olympic Committee has permitted athletes to blog from the Beijing Games. But that doesn’t mean they’re allowed to write just anything.

Hat tip: Freakonomics

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Wal-Mart Tastemakers Write Unfiltered Blog

Known for its by-the-book culture, Wal-Mart is now encouraging its merchants to speak frankly about the products the chain carries on Checkoutblog.com. (Subscription required)

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Blogger, Sans Pajamas, Rakes Muck and a Prize

Cited for its reporting on the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, the political blog Talking Points Memo became the first Internet-only news operation to win the George Polk Award. (Subscription required)

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Oxymoronic 'Book of Blogs'

'Ultimate Blogs' promises to present 27 'masterworks' from the blogosphere in book form. LOL!

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Solving the Challenges of Corporate Blogging

How do you enable legions of bloggers if you are a company like Microsoft? What policies and procedures do you put in place? What approval process can handle thousands of blogger posting each day? Who owns the corporate blog, Corporate Communications or Interactive?

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Top General Says Let Soldiers Blog

Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, who became the face of the American military effort in Iraq in 2006 and 2007, begs the armed services to let troops blog and post to YouTube. But Army rules squeeze military bloggers hard and military nets ban the video site.

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What happens to blog-posts after you click Publish

Wired has a tasty infographic showing what happens to a blog-post after you click "publish" -- all the scrapers, bots, ad-servers, splogs and bloggers who read and process it.

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Brothers Reconnect Using Video Blogging

When brothers John and Hank Green realized their relationship had become nothing more than a series of text messages and e-mails, they decided to do something about it: They began posting video blogs for each other on YouTube. (Audio)

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How to Leverage the Power of Social Media to Market Your Blog

03 JAN 2008 from North x East | Read the full story»

We know how to join and create an account, but how can we tap into that audience in an organic way, without becoming a spammer? It’s possible. Not necessarily easy, but it can be done.

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15 Powerful Ways to Differentiate Your Blog from the Crowd

19 DEC 2007 from North x East | Read the full story»

The main thing: don’t just do what everyone else is doing. Study your field, see what’s being done, and by all means, do the things that are working for others. But do it in a new or interesting way, with some kind of difference that will get you noticed.

Hat tip: Signal vs. Noise

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An inconvenient truth about blogging

Sure, blogging is an integral part of what transparent leadership looks like cira 2008, and bloggers do great things, but blogging has its downside. (Video )

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New Services Help Bloggers Bring in Ad Revenue

15 JAN 2008 from the Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»

Bloggers are earning advertising dollars on their sites through new services that go well beyond the standard pay-per-click text ads or display ads. (Subscription required)

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For Broadway Play, Mamet Is a Blogger

In a promotion for his soon-to-open play "November," David Mamet will continue to write a blog from the perspective of his leading character after the premier. (Subscription required)

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Clinton Chasing Youth Vote: 'We Should Have a Government Blogging Team!'

With the Facebook generation emerging as the key to primary success, Hillary Clinton picks up a campaign line from presidential rival Barack Obama and says that we should have a more transparent government. Step One: Hire a team of government bloggers.

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Some Brand-Name Bloggers Say Stress of Posting Is a Hazard to Their Health

Blogger Om Malik’s heart attack — and his blogging about it — raises the issue of what happens when a blogger becomes a name brand. (Subscription required)

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Techmeme video highlights blogosphere pile-on effect

Watch two days of the Web go by in under a minute. (Video )

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In Blog, a Military Man Writes About His Own Death

"I died doing a job I loved," U.S. Army Major Andrew Olmsted wrote in his final online piece. (Subscription required)

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Basketball, Iranian Style

03 JAN 2008 from the Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»

Josh Moore came to Iran to play basketball in hopes of getting back to the NBA. But when he came down with food poisoning, he did what any computer-savvy seven-footer would when marooned in Iran: He started blogging. (Subscription required)

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Now You Can Graph Your Twitter Usage

Now You Can Graph Your Twitter Usage  —  Twitter has the potential of breaking into the mainstream this year.  A lot of what's going on around Twitter is not dissimilar to the earlier days of blogging; we're seeing evangelists, some basic mainstream adoptions, and even some tracking services.

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Steven Gilliard Jr. | b. 1964: Invisible Blogger

A shy kid from Harlem but a firebrand online. (Subscription required)

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Blogging Becomes More Mobile

New "microblogging" tools give people the ability to post short blogs -- just a sentence long. A new generation of tools lets users publish audio and video blogs simply by using their cell phones, which means people can blog from almost anywhere and at any time. (Audio)

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Blogging’s a Low-Cost, High Return Marketing Tool

Although small businesses with blogs are still a distinct minority, blogging can be a low-cost way to market and boost a small company’s brand. (Subscription required)

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Blogs Become Serious Business

Blogs matter more than ever -- to political candidates, to a colonel managing a war, to human-rights advocates trying to deliver their message. Two experts discuss the growing impact of blogs. (Audio)

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NCAA to bloggers: Don't post too often

In a move already drawing harsh criticism, the NCAA is setting strict limits on how often bloggers at college sports events can post updates from championship games.

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Japan Leads World In Mobile Blogging

According to the Technorati 2007 "State of the Blogsphere" report, Japanese is the #1 blogging language in the world, accounting for 37% of all blog posts, narrowly edging out English at 36%.

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Top 10 Tips for New Bloggers From Original Blogger Jorn Barger

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the word "blog," one of the original bloggers, Jorn Barger of Robot Wisdom, offers his top 10 tips for new bloggers.

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A license to blog?

David Hazinski feels that "unfettered 'citizen journalism' [is] too risky," and argues that it "isn't journalism at all." In a recent column, he outlines three steps that he feels news media should take to change the information climate.

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When to Talk Back

Media Guerrilla has a great post called Online Response Tactics 101 that gives advice to companies about when to talk back to someone who is writing online. Everyone runs into this question, I think.

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PayPerPost Fights Back Against Google's PageRank Changes

In one fell swoop, Google last month reduced the PageRank of many PayPerPost bloggers, throwing the young advertising network's business model into chaos. NowPayPer Post is fighting back with its own website-ranking system.

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CMU algorithm produces new blog ratings

Just got a release from Carnegie Mellon about a new algorithm that rates the blogs we should read "to be most up to date." Interestingly, if we have only time to read 100 blogs, Instapundit ranks first. (Since it's an...

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Bloggers beware: You're liable to commit libel

If you write, host, or even comment on a blog, you need to know your rights and responsibilities under defamation law. You may be risking more than you know.

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Team Blogging at Southwest: Making a Group of 30 Work for One Blog

I spoke to Paula Berg, PR manager of Southwest Airlines, who has been managing the corporate blog for some time. It has been really successful, and they have more than 30 contributors, all of whom are making it work because they don't have to blog daily or weekly, but quarterly.

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Bloggers have sway in Google for brand name searches

Prominently positioned customer blog posts in the SERPs that either love you or hate you can be more powerful than product reviews for a number of reasons.

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Italy proposes a Ministry of Blogging with mandatory blog-licensing

Nick sez, "Famous Italian anti-government campaigner and blogger Beppe Grillo describes a proposed new Italian law which would force all bloggers to register, pay tax and be regulated by a government body."

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Human Services Secretary Takes Blogging Seriously

In August, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt became the first cabinet secretary to have his own professional blog, which HHS says receives hundreds of visits per day. He writes from his Blackberry at all hours, responding to comments and making sure to post several times a week. (Audio)

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Quote of the Day.

"Blogging is intellectual prototyping." Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. You put the ideas out there and start a conversation that leads to something... or not....

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Companies Try to Score With Athletes Who Blog

04 OCT 2007 from the Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»

Several athletes have seen their online blog comments turn into public relations debacles, giving their marketing partners pause. (Subscription required)

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Blogs get the old-media habit

01 OCT 2007 from the Financial Times | Read the full story»

When Arianna Huffington announced plans two-and-a-half years ago to publish a blog, she was greeted with derision by many of the vocation’s purists. The archetypal blogger, after all, was supposed to be a solitary outsider who worked from home – preferably in pyjamas – railing against the arrogance and excesses of the so-called mainstream media. Ms Huffington, on the other hand, was a multi-millionaire author and socialite with a Rolodex of well-connected friends from Hollywood to Washington. (Subscription required)

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US State Department dips into world of blogs

26 SEP 2007 from Yahoo! News | Read the full story»

The State Department entered the crowded blogosphere Wednesday with the launch of "Dipnote," an Internet chat forum designed to shed cyber-light on US foreign policy. The new blog promised to cut through diplomatic jargon and invited the public to discuss burning issues of the world today...

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Sailboat Blogger Vies for Seaside Broadband

A retired newspaperman and his wife drop out of society and head to Mexico on their sailboat. They learn that blogging presents as many adventures as sailing.

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IBM on governmental blogging

The IBM Center for the Business of Government has issued a report called "The Blogging Revolution: Government in the Age of Web 2.0" by Donald Wyld at Southeastern Louisiana University. It's a nicely done 70-page report, although only the first thirty pages are really on the topic announced in the title. The rest is a more generic backgrounder on blogging.

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D.C.'s New Young Blogging Elite

12 SEP 2007 from the Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»

Blogging is becoming a popular career option for young professionals in Washington who aren't necessarily interested in more traditional media or political positions. (Subscription required)

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Technorati tries to organize the blogosphere

Technorati is making an attempt to organize the growing blogosphere with their new "Topics" feature.

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Penny Pinching Benefits One Blogger

Dawn Meehan started a blog in hopes of getting extra income from ads on the site. She wrote about grocery shopping with her six kids and how hard it is to save money while the kids snuck things into the cart. (Audio)

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Run a Corporate Blog

Steve Rubel, a senior vice president at the Edelman PR firm who blogs at Micro Persuasion, offers a few tips on how to blog for your company without spilling secrets, getting fired or putting your readers to sleep.

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If You Blog It, They May Come

Small businesses find blogging can be useful -- but awfully time consuming.

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Army Reports Brass, Not Bloggers, Breach Security

Military secrets are more likely to be leaked on Defense Department websites than on the blog of any private soldier, Army audits conclude.

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Business Blogging

Fast Company talks to Anil Dash, chief evangelist of Six Apart, the company behind The Movable Type publishing platform, TypePad weblogging service and LiveJournal, an online community organized around personal journals, about the benefits of blogging for businesses. (Audio)

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Companies Seek Edge with Blogs, Video

Inc. 500 companies are actively engaging in a variety of online social media, a new study shows.

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Reports of Blogging's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

This new medium is about opinions, and transparency. And it's here to stay as long as people who feel passionately about broadcasting their opinions can maintain and grow an audience.

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Bloggers Ponder Unionization to Consolidate Their Strength

Is the free-ranging blogosphere ready for the organized discipline that joining a union would mean? Many say no, but a growing number of bloggers think it's a good idea.

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‘Fake Steve’ Blogger Comes Clean

An editor at Forbes has been lampooning Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, on a popular blog, "Fake Steve." (Subscription required)

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Women are blogging. Why isn't the media listening?

The annual BlogHer conference drew 800 female bloggers to Chicago last week. Why didn't the national media cover this important event?

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Malaysia cracks down on bloggers

Malaysia threatens to use anti-terrorism laws against bloggers who insult Islam or the king.

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Podcasting and Not One, but Two Associations

Suddenly, the podcasting world has not one, but two new associations aimed at dealing with the new medium's issues, including helping create standards for measuring traffic and creating ads. After the Association for Downloadable Media was created last week, another...

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Lewis Green: Are Bloggers Allowed to Make Money?

If you read lots of blogs, you likely have come across several posts that discuss selling blog advertising or exchanging space for such things as iPods. The most recent and the best, I think, is Mack Collier's post at The Viral Garden entitled "Blog Monetization; How Do We ALL Win?

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10 Ways to be Productive with Your Blog

... even if blogging isn’t what you hope to do for a living, it might be a smart idea to get one going ... because if used correctly, a blog can make you productive in many ways.

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Corporate Blogging 101: 10 Easy Steps to Get a Corporate Blog Up & Running

Running a corporate blog is a totally different ballgame from running a personal blog. Based on my experience starting the LinkedIn blog, here's a quick primer - just 10 easy steps (encompassing strategy, tactics and measurement) that you need to focus on to get any corporate blog off the ground.

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Happy Blogiversary

14 JUL 2007 from the Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»

It's been 10 years since the blog was born. Love them or hate them, they've roiled presidential campaigns and given everyman a global soapbox. Twelve commentators -- including Tom Wolfe, Newt Gingrich, the SEC's Christopher Cox and actress-turned-blogger Mia Farrow -- on what blogs mean to them. (Subscription required)

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Wall Street Journal Tries to Re-Write Blogging History

Wall Street Journal Tries to Re-Write Blogging History — Tunku Varadarajan at The Wall Street Journal wishes blogging a happy 10th birthday; one problem, blogging is not 10 years old, it's actually older.

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Executives Get the Blogging Bug

The Internet's pitfalls for top executives were highlighted by the news that Whole Foods' CEO posted pro-company messages. (Subscription required)

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Turning Blogging From Hobby to Career

08 JUL 2007 from Read/WriteWeb | Read the full story»

So what does it take to turn blogging into a full-time living? Basically it takes a whole lot of hard work, knowledge and passion about the topic you're blogging about, patience, and some 'being in the right place at the right time' luck.

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Write Articles, Not Blog Postings

09 JUL 2007 from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox | Read the full story»

To demonstrate world-class expertise, avoid quickly written, shallow postings. Instead, invest your time in thorough, value-added content that attracts paying customers.

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TechCrunch Blogger Michael Arrington Can Generate Buzz ... and Cash

22 JUN 2007 from Wired | Read the full story»

To the world outside Silicon Valley's tight-knit community of startups, venture capitalists, and angel investors, TechCrunch is just another mouthy blog. But to entrepreneurs in the white-hot consumer Internet boom — known to many as Web 2.0 — Arrington has become a power broker.

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Blog researcher talks blog success

Blogs: they're here. They're read. Get used to it.

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Free daily pays bloggers

Understanding that citizen journalists are just as happy to be paid for their work as editors on a newspaper's payroll, the Swedish version of Metro newspaper recently launched get-paid-per-view blogging.

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Living to tell the tale

While the traditional media might lead you to believe that blogging about your job is a sure-fire way to find yourself heading for the exit in the company of a burly security guard, it IS possible to blog about work without losing your job.

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Blogging and Your Marketing Program: A Nice Addition... or a Necessary One?

Here and elsewhere, you've read posts from various blog consultants trying to drag you into the social-media swimming pool. If you're like most companies, however, you're kicking and screaming all the way -- clutching the patio umbrella with both hands as you protest, "But will it help my bottom line?" In many cases, you're not going to be particularly reassured by the answers you get to your question.

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Lewis Green: When Will Blogging Become Last Year's Fad?

Even if blogging remains a valuable social media, marketing and branding tool, assuming that it is, where will the fresh ideas and fresh writing come from? Can we expect today's bloggers to continue to post provocative and engaging material for years on end?

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Can blogging really help businesses?

07 JUN 2007 from the Intuitive Life Business Blog | Read the full story»

In essence, blogging makes you famous to your customer community. If you are willing to share your experience, expertise and insight into your own industry, you will gain readers and fans, and they will spread the word. Then you'll gain publicity through mainstream media and that visibility will clearly translate into increased sales.

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Who Blogs?

04 JUN 2007 from AdAge | Read the full story»

There are about 15 million active blogs read by 57 million people, a number that gives bloggers great credibility, power and influence as sources of information for everything from news to corporate reputations to product purchasing. (Subscription required)

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Arab Bloggers Face Government Crackdowns

Press censorship and intimidation are hardly new in the Middle East. But until recently, bloggers were too marginal to gag.

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How Blogs Are Changing Modern Journalism

Blogger and NYU professor Jay Rosen says interviews have been an exercise in unequal power between the writer and the submissive subject. But with blogs the subject has a direct channel to the public. "The interviewer used to be in charge, but that's no longer the case," says media blogger Jeff Jarvis. "I can decide how long the quote is, I can make sure the context is accurate."

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The Art of Blog Marketing

This is a story about building relationships online through blogging and how connecting and sharing is about the art of marketing.

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How Do You Design A Great Blog? Inside A Business Week Debate.

For any individual or corporation interested in the how's and why's of blogs and blogging, the discussion taking place here about the new Business Week blogs is insightful, instructive and rare--you hardly ever get a peek at this kind of internal discussion.

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Third of bloggers 'risk the sack'

More than a third of UK bloggers are risking the sack by posting derogatory details about their job, a study claims.

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China abandons blog identity plan

China backs down from a censorship plan that required people to register on blog sites with their real names.

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David Reich: Blogging For Booty

Brooks Barnes, who covers the TV networks, describes the public relations efforts the networks and the TV production companies are taking to win over bloggers who they feel are influential. They're using the same techniques they employ when seeking coverage by mainstream journalists -- freebies, paid junkets to Hollywood to visit the sets of new and returning shows, access to the stars.

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College recruiters enlist student bloggers

Colleges seeking a competitive edge are increasingly enlisting and sometimes paying student bloggers to chronicle their lives online.

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Casey Serin: The world's most hated blogger?

Failed real-estate speculator finds his foreclosure blog to be wildly popular--among people who hate him and his shady dealings.

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A Boston Newspaper Prints What the Local Bloggers Write

BostonNow, a free weekday daily, is culling blog posts and running excerpts next to articles from reporters and newswires. (Subscription required)

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New Army rules may kill milblogs and email from warzones

The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer.

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The Latest Must-Have for Yuppies: A Blog About the Neighborhood

First come the renovated condominiums, the latte bars and the expensive baby strollers. Next, apparently, come the bloggers. (Subscription required)

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With 15.5 Million Active Blogs, New Technorati Data Shows that Blogging Growth Seems to be Peaking

New data on active blogs and on daily posts in English from Technorati seem to show that blogging growth is plateauing.

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What Small-Biz Owners Can Learn From Blogs

Find out what entrepreneurs and their advisers are talking about online. Here's a look at Web journals by and for start-ups.

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How not to pitch a blogger

To consider bloggers who blog on certain subjects the same as reporters (and therefore fair game) for carpet-bomb pitches is a poor use of a client's money.

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Eight Ideas for Revitalizing Your Blog

17 APR 2007 from Marketing Profs Daily | Read the full story»

Before you give up and decide to pull the plug on your blogging experience, let's look at some ideas for revitalizing your blog so that both you and your customers can benefit from it.

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The Venom of Crowds

BusinessWeek runs the voodoo down as it relates to how ranting against brands online through blogs and other means has become something business must address.

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Kathy Sierra Case: Few Clues, Little Evidence, Much Controversy

In the mountain of commentary that has been published about the Kathy Sierra affair, on blogs and mainstream publications, one fact has so far remained obstinately unconfirmed: Who was it that posted threatening messages and images on Sierra's website and on two other blogs?

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Bloggers lash out at 'code of conduct'

Perhaps inevitably, some bloggers have criticised proposed guidelines designed to curb the harshest online criticisms.

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McKinsey Reports Businesses Loving Web 2.0... Except Blogs

Putting People First blog posted about a survey that strategy consultant McKinsey just conducted with executives about Web 2.0 technologies. Although they found significant interest, execs still shy away from blogs.

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Death threats against bloggers are NOT "protected speech" (why I cancelled my ETech presentations)

Update: I could not bear to leave this post up on the site, as one of the last things people will see and remember about this blog -- and especially with that horrible photo.

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A Call for Manners in the World of Nasty Blogs

High-profile figures in high-tech are proposing a blogger code of conduct to clean up the quality of online discourse. (Subscription required)

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Japanese lead in blogging, blogosphere growth slowing

Japanese has once again taken the top spot as the language with the most blog posts, followed by English, according to a report.

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Rewriting ethics rules for the new media

Traditional journalists often take bloggers to task over their ethics, but some of them are bending the rules for their own online personalities.

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Corporations Like Web 2.0 But Not Blogs. They're Afraid Of Their Own People.

McKinsey is out with a Global Survey that shows business execs love user-driven collaboration, especially peer-to-peer networking, web services, social networking, podcasts, wikis and RSS feeds. But execs do not like blogs very much.

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Business Blogging

Fast Company talks to Anil Dash, chief evangelist of Six Apart, the company behind The Movable Type publishing platform, TypePad weblogging service and LiveJournal, an online community organized around personal journals, about the benefits of blogging for businesses. (Audio)

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'Blogger Boomers': Now What?

Last year's boom is yet another indication that blogs have gone mainstream, probably more so than many other social media platforms.

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Death threats against bloggers are NOT "protected speech" (why I cancelled my ETech presentations)

As I type this, I am supposed to be in San Diego, delivering a workshop at the ETech conference. But I'm not. I'm at home, with the doors locked, terrified. For the last four weeks, I've been getting death threat comments on this blog. But that's not what pushed me over the edge.

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Bad Bots Breeding at Blogger?

A new report claims Google's huge blog network is a major staging zone for phishing attacks and malware downloads.

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Fortinet: Beware of Google's Blogger

Surfing Google's Blogger Web site is dangerous, warns Fortinet.

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Blooker prize honours best blogs

The shortlist for a prize aimed at awarding blogs that become books has been announced.

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Gavin Heaton: Where Do You Belong?

Tim MasiGuy Jackson is an unusual and charming chap. He is one of a kind. He wears his heart on his sleeve and his favorite brand in his name. And today he celebrates TWO years of blogging (well actually it was sometime over the weekend)... and in his post he talks about the way that he has met and become friends with a whole range of people.

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Blog Reading Is a Free-Floating Affair

Thinking of promoting a blog through search? Don't bother.

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Blogs Blogs Blogs - Rebecca

Five, heck, two years ago you rarely heard the word in most offices. Today, everybody's talking about them. Everybody has one!

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Why You May Need a Business Credit Card… Even If You Don’t Run a Business

With the explosion of opportunities to make money online, even cubicle commandos might earn a little self-employment income. If you want to keep as much of that income as possible, you need to track the expenses that helped you acquire it.

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If no one reads your post, does it exist?

The act of writing a blog changes people, especially business people.

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Blogs Track Long Slog Out of Debt

Blogs are creating an online support network for people who are in dire financial situations -- trying to beat back debt and keep their credit cards in their pockets. (Audio)

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Company Blog, or Online Brochure?

More and more companies are adding a blog to their marketing efforts. That's the good news. The bad news is, many of these companies aren't using their blogs as a tool to engage their customers, but rather as an extension of their Web site, as a way to simply promote their products and services.

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Novelties: So, Who Says That a Blog Has to Blare?

For those who want to get their blogging feet wet quietly, several easy-to-use tools for setting up Web pages, with privacy filters included, are on the market. (Subscription required)

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USA Today gets blogging right

It's a little thing, but the headline in Friday's USA Today about the head of Marriott hotels, Bill Marriott, Jr., starting a blog was "Send a note to Marriott." Not read but talk.

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Great writing, unfiltered

Here's what used to happen: A publisher had a magazine, or a big pile of stamps and a mailing list. She'd hire a copywriter or a stable of them. Sometimes the combination worked out and end up with the New Yorker or LL Bean. But other times (most of the time) it's just a waste. Either the stuff that goes out is lousy or the great writers don't get heard. (More than 70,000 books got published in the US last year... how many have you read?) Blogs change that.

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This is Vox

Mena Trott, president of Six Apart, the company behind TypePad, LiveJournal, and Movable Type, tells us about her company's new blogging community Vox. (Audio)

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Southwest's blog effect

"So, because we have heard the opinions of our Customers (man, oh MAN have we heard you!) on this subject, going forward we are going to much more strictly maintain a minimum of 120 days of inventory...we’re learning that even information that may change can be better than no information at all."

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Local Jersey blog makes computerized calls

Got a phone call from our local blog, Baristanet, last week. It was a computer on the other end, doing a survey.

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Blogs Shift Mideast Dialogue

Middle Eastern bloggers tackling everything from human rights to Islam are making it harder for governments to keep their monopoly on the media. By the Associated Press.

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Corporate Blogging ROI: Now We're Talking!

So, shall we talk Corporate Blogging ROI? Let's quantify Blogging ROI...

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Ann Handley: Help Wanted: Blogger to Earn Easy Money, Adoring Fans, Hot Chicks

The Wall Street Journal deconstructed the job of "Blogger" in its "Paygrade" section yesterday, under Blogging for Web Sites. The Journal got some things right... Other things are oddly exclusionary, suggest ridiculous readership and revenue goals, and seem completely out of touch with much of the blogosphere.

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Bloggers can make money, but most keep day jobs

Bloggers can make money, but most keep day jobs — The rise of 'contextual advertising' has created a 21st-century version of royalties. — BOSTON - A penny for your thoughts? Kevin Vahey has done a good deal better, turning a personal gripe into $1,000 a year of supplemental income.

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Consumers Have Allies on the Web

Consumer advocacy takes on renewed power as it moves into a new form, the blog. (Subscription required)

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Lewis Green: Where's the Beef in Blogging?

What are the measurable and hard values associated with blogging for those of us who are self-employed? What is the value to the corporation and to small and medium-sized businesses?

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Blog Traffic Grows, and It’s Mostly Male

Slightly more men than women read online newspapers, and that trend is more pronounced on newspaper blogs. (Subscription required)

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Some Bling for Your Blog

18 JAN 2007 from the New York Times | Read the full story»

According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, about 12 million Americans now maintain a blog. Widgets are elements, often in the left or right columns of a blog, that enhance its usefulness or aesthetic appeal. (Subscription required)

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Senate: Write Away, Bloggers

Republicans force changes in language calling for greater reporting requirements for grassroots groups and political bloggers.

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Can blogs make science cool?

Some scientists and educators are using blogs as a tool to communicate their findings and research. They're hoping, among other things, to get people excited about science. Janet Babin reports.

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Too Casual To Sit on Press Row?

11 JAN 2007 from the Washington Post | Read the full story»

When the trial of Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice opens next week, scores of journalists are expected to throng the federal courtroom in Washington, far too many for the 100 seats set aside for the media. But for the first time in a federal court, two of these seats will be reserved for bloggers.

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Blog wields power in restaurant world

Ben Leventhal and Lockhart Steele are a pair of bloggers fighting a guerrilla war against the city's publicists.

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Not-so-secret shopper

Paul McEnany discovers a hot mess at a department store, and documents quite a lot of it with his cellphone camera. Here's the thing: 156 million Americans use high-speed cellphone networks that allow them to take pictures like this and post them immediately to a blog where, naturally, they can spread.

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Placeblogger: Get Your Local Fix

The local rag is great for news of street potholes and who's on the police blotter. But a new blog aggregator aims to help you find local blogs to get your neighborhood news.

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Happy New Year

We wish you a new year filled with prosperity and growth, both personal and professional.

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Myths and Facts About Blog Advertising

[D]ollar for dollar, and click for click, there is no more cost-effective or potent medium than blogs for your ads. In fact, you can often reach an influential and devoted niche audience of thousands for as little as $10 a week. So why are advertisers so wary?

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Happy Holidays!

We're observing the Christmas holiday today and will return to posting tomorrow, Boxing day. We wish you a day filled with joy and peace.

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Bloggers Shrink the Planet

The international Global Voices summit brings together political refugees, human rights advocates and people just determined to save the world -- or a part of it. What they have in common is a deep certainty that the internet can do more than just sell us stuff. Quinn Norton reports from New Delhi.

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What We Should Learn From Sony's Fake Blog Fiasco

18 DEC 2006 from AdAge | Read the full story»

Sony and agency Zipatoni have come under fire for one of their marketing tactics for the Sony PSP. Sony has added its name to a growing list of flogs [fake blogs] including McDonald's, WalMart and Lonely Girl 15, that are being called out by consumers. (Free subscription required)

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He's Blogging

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Blogging 'set to peak next year'

The blogging phenomenon is set to peak in 2007, according to technology predictions by analysts Gartner.

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Women Bloggers: Changing their Worlds, Changing the World

Women are the power consumers and connectors of the Internet, and yet, their influence has mostly been invisible to the mainstream media and industry pundits. The BlogHer web community was created to offer a centralized location for women bloggers, creating one voice out of many whispers. Click here to visit the site. Click here to read the manifesto.

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In the Blogosphere, an Evolving Movement Brings Life to a Lost Era of Jazz

Armed with stacks of vinyl, high-speed Internet and a shared conviction, a far-flung contingent of musicians and aficionados is bringing lost jazz back using the Web'’s electronic airwaves. (Subscription required!)

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Huffington Post Will Add Original Reporting to Its Blog

The Huffington Post is preparing to venture into original reporting, with plans to cover Congress and, already, the 2008 presidential campaign. (Subscription required!)

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A Blogger Who’s a Court-Approved Journalist

A judge dismissed charges against a New Brunswick blogger after he was arrested while reporting at a protest. (Subscription required!)

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Choosing Who Can See What's on Your Blog

22 NOV 2006 from the Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»

A big problem with blogs is privacy. While some people -- especially MySpace fans -- don't mind posting personal news, photos and videos for anyone to read, many of us hesitate to leave details about our personal lives online. (Subscription required!)

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Happy Thanksgiving

We hope that you all have a day rich with community and contentment. The wire service will resume tomorrow.

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Bringing Blogs to Big Business

Automattic and KnowNow hook up to deliver hosted WordPress blogs to the enterprise set. With Six Apart offering a similar service, the age of the corporate blog is dawning.

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How to write a blog post

Simple language with no useless jargon,
Not too long,
Focusing on something that people have previously taken for granted...

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Blog Entrepreneur Leaves AOL

Jason Calacanis, the outspoken blogger who ran AOL’s Netscape division, resigned after the firing of AOL’s chief Jonathan Miller. (Subscription required!)

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Oh Marketers, Your Motives Are Showing (and you shine).

08 NOV 2006 from CK's Blog | Read the full story»

I asked you one question. A BIG one: What is the single greatest point of value you receive from blogging? I sought the single, the uber, the most rewarding, robust and important point of value you receive from embracing these tools and investing your time.

Hat tip: Church of the Customer Blog

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Yepic Allows Bloggers to Sell Premium Content

There are many ways for bloggers to monetize content. Bloggers can make money by offering advertising on their site, or they can use their blog as a launch pad for their career. Now, a new service, Yepic, enables bloggers to earn money by selling their content directly to readers.

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Advertisements Revisited

"Ready. Fire! Aim." is one of Tom’s favorite mantras. In that spirit, we've been experimenting with advertising here at the TP Wire Service. We've also considered and researched it for our parent site, tompeters.com. The results have underwhelmed us. We're removing the ads from the TP Wire Service RSS feeds today and will be removing the ads from the TP Wire Service home page in the near future. Tompeters.com will remain ad-free. We welcome your thoughts on the subject. Here's to "Relentless Experimentation!"

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What Does It Mean to Be a "Good Blogger?"

Read other blogs and leave comments on them; good bloggers are a part of the community of blogs... The lesson is that building a community or increasing traffic to your blog means being out there in the greater community.

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Blogosphere sees healthy growth

100,000 new blogs are started each day and the number of blogs responding to political issues is also on the rise.

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Exit-Poll Secrecy Measures Aim to Plug Leaks to Blogs

07 NOV 2006 from the Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»

Two-by-two, polling specialists from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News and the Associated Press will go into rooms in New York and Washington shortly before noon Tuesday. Their cellphones and BlackBerrys will be confiscated; proctors will monitor the doors; and for the next five hours, these experts will pore over exit-poll data from across the country. If all goes well, only when they emerge from their cloisters will the legions of ravenous political bloggers have any chance of getting their hands on the earliest indication of which party will end up controlling Congress.

Hat tip: BusinessWeek's Blogspotting

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Under Fire, Soldiers Kill Blogs

Hundreds of active-duty personnel have been weighing in on the Iraq war with personal posts on topics from basic training to military strategy. Now the brass is taking notice -- and they don't like what they see. By Xeni Jardin.

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BBC Wants US Bloggers

Even if you don't live in the US you still know about the mid-term elections next week. The BBC are looking for bloggers to help them do their job and cover the developments and election races as it happens. They are looking to develop a group of 'citizen reporters' and are also interested in participants from outside the US...

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Legal guide for bloggers covering US Election Day

Lauren Gelman at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society says, "Lots of bloggers are planning to cover the 2006 general elections on November 7. But what are the legal issues that you need to understand?"

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Students, officials locking horns over blogs

School boards across the country already have blocked sites such as MySpace and Facebook on school computers. But school districts now are reaching into students' home computers, severely punishing and even expelling students for what they write on those sites from home.

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How to Launch a Career With Your Blog

How your blog can get you the career of your dreams--if you are willing to work at it.

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Six Apart preps blogging service for newbies

Six Apart aspires to extend its broad presence in the blogging services and software market with a new offering for consumers that want an easy-to-use yet feature-rich blog publishing service.

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Think before you blog

Blogging represents a "weapon of mass destruction" that threatens to jeopardise the future of thousands of young career hopefuls.

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IBM Blogs

It's not a new thing as IBM has been blogging for ages, but they are now making available access to their internal blogs. Check out the A to Z list of IBM bloggers...

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Mack Collier: Ignore 'em or Embrace 'em? How to Handle Negative Blog Comments

If your blog accepts comments, then you have four alternatives when you receive a negative comment on your blog...

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11 tips for managing a good blog entry

12 OCT 2006 from Vincent Maher | Read the full story»

Making the transition from traditional journalism to blogging is quite difficult because there is much more to blogging than meets the eye. Unlike print media, the process only gets going once the blog post is published - a blogger is more like a community managter than a writer, in the greater scheme of things.

Hat tip: Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog

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To Blog or Not to Blog: Report from the Front

Knowledge@Wharton asked several faculty members and technology experts to comment on the appeal and usefulness -- or lack thereof -- of blogs.

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All Blogs Are Not Created Equal

Although there are currently an estimated 56 million regularly updated blogs, not all blogs are created equal. A new survey released by PR firm Edelman and the blog search engine Technorati revealed which blogs are the most "influential."

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Blog records Britons' daily lives

Thousands of people are contributing to a National Trust "blog", recording a day in the life of Britain.

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The Culture Of Blogs

I'll be the first to admit that it is the marketers who are morphing the purpose of blogs into something quite different... a persuasive marketing tool. However, most marketers, who are working in this emerging industry, realize that a strong value proposition of blogs/social media is their ability to support and encourage open conversations. Most marketers are careful, if not passionate, about respecting the values of the established culture.

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55 Million Blogs, and Now a Service to Track Them

The Edelman public relations firm is sponsoring development of Technorati sites to monitor blogs written in French, German, Italian, Korean and Chinese. (Subscription required!)

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Goin' Social: Hard Because It's Simple

Riddle me this readers: When it comes to social media, why are so many companies having such a hard time getting it right...?

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Woman wins payout for slurs on blog

Florida jury awards a woman $11.3m (£6m) after being called a crook on an internet talkboard.

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Adobe Adds Blogging To Web Authoring Tool

Contribute 4 makes it easier to publish to your blog.

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Jitsuroku Oni-yome Nikki

"Blogs are even more popular in Japan than in the U.S.," reports Yukari Iwatini Kane in The Wall Street Journal (10/5/06), and are "increasingly providing the inspiration, and in many cases the verbatim content, for books, television shows and other old-media products."

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Business 2.0 Journos To Be Forced To Blog

At the M2 conference earlier this week, Josh Quittner of Business 2.0 told the audience that he has asked his team to all create personal blogs.

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Thai crown princess launches royal blog

In a country where the royal family rarely communicates directly with the public, Thai Crown Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn could be considered a trailblazer. The 51-year-old princess launched on Saturday the country's first royal blog, which she says is aimed at persuading her fellow citizens to embrace English.

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China boasts 7.7 million active bloggers

How many Chinese bloggers are there? Estimates offered by industry analysts vary widely, ranging from several million to more than 30 million, or roughly one-quarter of all Chinese Internet users. Now, the government-backed China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) has weighed in with its own estimate, putting the number of active bloggers at 7.7 million.

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Using Technology: Blogs About Business Travel Begin to Feel the Power

Hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of business travelers who write blogs have learned that their Web journals are more than online platforms to blow off steam. (Subscription required!)

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Teachers speak out of turn

Perhaps because they are so raw and unscripted, teacher blogs are finding an audience.

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Debbie Weil: The 3 Biggest Challenges for CEO Bloggers

The three biggest challenges for CEO bloggers are discipline, passion (about an expertise) and writing ability...

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Young Catholic Blogger Makes Waves

Rocco Palmo, a 23-year-old Philadelphian, has made a name for himself with his insider's blog on the Catholic Church. It has become a must-read for many Catholics -- even some inside the Vatican.

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David Carr: A Comeback Overshadowed by a Blog

The New Republic’s suspension of an editor for his conduct online is a cautionary tale about the mainstream media’s engagement with the Web. (Subscription required!)

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9/11: Birth of the Blog

The biggest shift in the media landscape post-9/11 was the explosion of blogs and online citizen journalists. By Robert Andrews.

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What Good Blogs Are For

I think great blogs should do a few simple things: serve as a medium for individuals to speak in their own voice. They should start conversations. They should realize the promise of the technology.

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Labor Day

"Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country." [U.S. Dept. of Labor]

There will be no postings today at TP Wire Service in observance of the holiday. Have a wonderful day.

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No Day at the Beach

31 AUG 2006 from the Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»

In the height of summer-holiday season, bloggers face the inevitable question: to blog on break or put the blog on a break? Fearing a decline in readership, some writers opt not to take vacations. (Subscription required!)

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Blogs as history

Dave Taylor wonders whether bloggers should keep updating their old posts as stories change. His concern: that Web-searchers will come across old blog posts that proved to be incorrect and take them as gospel.

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Is There Value In A-List Bloggers?

Do the posts of many A-List bloggers get read because everyone else is reading them? Does that mean they're worth reading, then?

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Panda Blogs About Life

Blogs! They're everywhere. Pundits have them, teenagers have them and even major news organizations have them. And now, Animal's have them too. A week-old Chinese Giant Panda has started her own Web-log. It's called "Baby Panda Home" and, in kid-friendly prose, describes Panda life at a Chinese breeding center. (Audio)

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Blogging for Dollars

01 SEP 2006 from Business 2.0/CNN Money | Read the full story»

It's not just a hobby -- some small sites are making big money. Here's how to turn your passion into an online empire.

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The WashingtonPost.com Takes On Federated Media

It was inevitable. A major media company with its own ad salesforce looking for more online ad inventory takes a crack at creating its own vetted blogging network.

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Why Bloggers Can't Win White House

14 AUG 2006 from AdAge.com | Read the full story»

After years of hype and "moral" victories, the netroots movement can claim an actual win after pushing Ned Lamont to the top in Connecticut's Democratic primary. But experienced campaign managers aren't going to be dumping their entire war chests into blogs and YouTube just yet. (Free subscription required!)

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Microsoft blogging software available in beta

Windows Live Writer designed for easy use, compatibility with other blogging services.

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A blogger shines when news media get it wrong

He's tangled with CBS over the authenticity of documents about President Bush's National Guard service. This time around, he's uncovered doctored war photos distributed by Reuters, forcing the news service to retract them.

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When will blog growth top out?

One natural question about [blog] growth is: When does it stop, or at least flatten? "There are only so many human beings in the world!" Sifry writes. "It has to slow down." Perhaps not just yet.

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Professor Wins Suit Against Blog Site

A Chinese journalism professor has won a lawsuit against a blog hosting site that refused to remove remarks criticizing him by one of its users, state media said Friday....

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Thought Made Visible: Growing Common Ground With Customers

Ghost writers can't write blogs for you. They can't cover the unique range of topics that might pop into your head and they can't present it, no matter how much they study up on you, as authentically as, well,... as only you can.

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In the Midst of War, Bloggers Are Talking Across the Front Line

28 JUL 2006 from the Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»

Bloggers from Lebanon and Israel -- some on the scene, others around the world -- are providing live updates of their experiences, commenting on each other's writing and sometimes linking to blogs across the border.

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Five things about blogs that no one ever needs to say again

Steven "Everything Bad is Good for You" Johnson has had it with fake controversy articles about blogging that attack straw-men like "blogs will displace mainstream media" or "blogs are all about cats and angst." He's put together an excellent list of five things that aren't controversial about blogs...

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The Derivative Myth

Has the level of self-regard in the blogosphere really reached such dizzying heights that it can’t acknowledge the work that traditional media does on behalf of the rest of us?

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Blogger Jailed After Defying Court Orders

A freelance journalist and blogger had been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury and turn over video he took at an anticapitalist protest in San Francisco. (Subscription required!)

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Welcome to BlogHer '06

Yesterday I endured a long (but pleasant) JetBlue flight from New York to San Jose so that I could attend BlogHer '06. In its second year, the conference's mission is to create an opportunity for all kinds of women bloggers...

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one percent. one percent? one percent!

A trend in recent advertising is to let consumers create the ads. This has worked splendidly sometimes (BSSP, Converse) and has failed miserably others (Chevy Tahoe). This idea has been used in other mediums, like the internet, with about the same results. Consumer generated content for websites is a great idea, it brings traffic to your site, and they do all the content creating for you. The only problem is that it's difficult to get users to actually add content.

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PR For Bloggers

PR Man Steve Rubel exposes the Underground Blogosphere, which he describes as the system of back-channel e-mails bloggers send to each other to try to get more link love from their fellow bloggers. As he defines it:

The Underground Blogosphere is an intricate web of hundreds of thousands of emails that bloggers send to each other every day. In essence, they are "pitching" their latest posts in hopes of getting a link.

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Vulnerability: Why journalists should blog

Vulnerability. It's a good thing. It's what people need to establish healthy relationships, and it's why journalists (among others) should blog. This thought occurred to me when I was talking to Technorati's David Sifry six weeks ago. He said...

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Another Sacred Cow Debunked: You Don't Have to Write All Your Posts

20 JUL 2006 from Six Apart | Read the full story»

One of the most commonly asserted "truths" about corporate blogging, especially by senior executives like CEOs, is that you have to write all your posts all by yourself! We're always on the lookout for blog dogma that we can help dispel, and the best tips can help make your blogging efforts easier.

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Pew report on bloggers

Pew Internet has a new report on a national survey of bloggers. It's the usual great stuff from Pew.

Eight percent of internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. Thirty-nine percent of internet users, or about 57 million American adults, read blogs - a significant increase since the fall of 2005.

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Lessons in Corporate Blogging

18 JUL 2006 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»

What your company can learn about keeping an online journal from the likes of Dell, Microsoft, and Apple.

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Interview of W. James Au AKA Hamlet Au

If you thought that writing a blog makes a hip, voguish and captivating guy/gal of you, wake up! That coveted role belongs to embedded journalists. W. James Au AKA Hamlet Au (the in-world journalist formerly known as "Hamlet Linden") is one of them. Actually he's THE one. He travels the Second Life world as an avatar wearing a pristine white suit and interviewing residents about their everyday life, business, passions inside the game.

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MarketingSherpa's Top 10 Best Blogs & Best Podcast of 2006: Readers' Choice Award Results

27 JUN 2006 from Marketing Sherpa | Read the full story»

The results are in -- here's your guide, including handy hotlinks, to MarketingSherpa readers' favorite marketing-related blogs and podcasts of 2006. Our hearty congratulations to all the winners -- with thousands of votes tallied, this was hard-fought race indeed! Note: Curious about how we picked the winners? Scroll down to the bottom for the 'Behind the Scenes Story' on Sherpa's Awards.

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Women and Everything Blogging: Aliza Sherman Rizdahl's Take

She was blogging before ... the term "blog" was invented, so the new book by Aliza Sherman Rizdahl, The Everything Blogging Book, is certainly worth a look.  Aliza's long history with the Internet and writing led her full speed ahead into the art and science of blogging.  I quickly interviewed her a few weeks before the birth of her baby, Noa Grace, but waited to post until I knew the book was ready for purchase.

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Ten Questions with David Sifry

Here is an interview with David Sifry, the founder and CEO of Technorati. In this interview he explains what Technorati does as well as the practices of good blogging.

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Business Blogging Still Bogged Down

Is Big Biz Ready To Blog?

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Sun CEO sees competitive advantage in blogging

26 JUN 2006 from USAToday | Read the full story»

In an interview, Schwartz says the payback for allowing free expression is that customers value authenticity and integrity and that one day it will prove to be a competitive advantage. He announced in his June 2 post that customers now may write unedited product reviews, blemishes and all, directly to Sun's website.

Hat tip: Ben McConnell at Church of the Customer

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A - Z of Professional Blogging

27 JUN 2006 from ProBlogger | Read the full story»

Following is my A to Z of Professional blogging including blogging tools, platforms, services and ways of making money from blogging (in fact whether you blog for money or not much of what follows should help you improve your blogging).

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The blogosphere is not "credible"

My point: The blogosphere by itself has no credibility. Individual bloggers build their own credibility. I trust Tim Porter, just to pick one. But his credibility doesn't fall one bit if 10,000 other bloggers make fools of themselves.

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Happy 4th of July!

We're taking the day off in celebration of Independence Day here in the U.S. We hope everyone has an opportunity to relish freedom today. Enjoy!

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Vox: Smart Move for Six Apart

A little about SixApart's Vox, how it breaks down barriers to blogging, and how it allows for different levels of conversation.

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David Carr: A Blog Mogul Turns Bearish on Blogs

The founder of Gawker Media recently put 2 of his 15 sites on the block, reorganized others and laid off several people.(Subscription required!)

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Product Placement For Blogs

PayPerPost.com links up bloggers with advertisers who want to promote their product or service. If you're a blogger you basically choose from the list of advertisers products and how they want their product mentioned, and hey presto you get paid for it. Like it or not, it's happening - this is just a transparent service.

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Ann Handley: What's the Biggest Lie About Blogging? (Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog)

Ann Handley: What's the Biggest Lie About Blogging? — It's been 3 months since this blog launched. And the learning curve - as for any new venture - has been steep as Kilimanjaro. — Which was surprising.... For some reason, I was under the ridiculous impression that launching a blog...

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New website: The Blog Reader

The Blog Reader is a new website that profiles bloggers. Justin Gerald was kind enough to profile me, and Treehugger's movie-star-handsome Graham Hill. Link

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BloggerCon Boosts the Blog Boom

The web's biggest bloggers gather to bat around bright ideas for expanding their ranks. Kathleen Craig reports from San Francisco.

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Why The Guardian Chief Lives In Fantasy: Blogs Are The New Portals

Alan Rusbridger, the publisher of the Guardian Newspaper thinks blogs offer no challenge to his swanky newspaper. We offer to disagree.

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'Sick blogs' help afflicted share news, seek comfort

14 JUN 2006 from The San Francisco Chronicle | Read the full story»

"The Internet is a support group available 24 hours, at your convenience, from all parts of the world. You can stay up late at night and find that one other person in the whole world who has the same exact rare form of cancer as you -- and imagine how moving that feels when you find that person."

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Advertising : JWT Puts a 'Roadblock' on Huffington Post

JWT, the oldest advertising agency in the U.S., wants to show that it is modern enough to compete in the nontraditional category that has obsessed the advertising industry. (Subscription required!)

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As Om and Scoble depart, how does a company value a blogger?

It's only Tuesday, and already this week two big-time bloggers are picking up from their full-time jobs to position their abilities--and their brands--in startups. What do these career moves by Robert Scoble and Om Malik tell us? It's a bit...

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Consumer-Product Blogs Spark a Web Empire

Combining an interest in consumer products with blogging has been profitable for this former product designer.

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A Boot Camp for Blogosphere Pundits

As liberal bloggers hold a weekend convention in Las Vegas, the commentator has a bit of trouble talking his way into a training session for would-be pundits. But he won't allow himself to be logged off. (Audio)

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Why Blog Post Frequency Does Not Matter Anymore

06 JUN 2006 from MarketingProfs | Read the full story»

Daily posts are a legacy of a Web 1.0 mindset and early Web 2.0 days (meaning 12 months ago!). The pressure around posting frequency will ultimately become a significant barrier to the maturity of blogging. Here are 10 reasons why.

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Agency connects bloggers & press

Scoopt, the world's first commercial citizen journalism photography agency (see our recent article for more), just launched ScooptWords to help bloggers find a commercial market for their writing.

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How to get traffic for your blog

Be timeless... write posts that will be readable in a year.

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New service to sell blogs to print media

Media: A new service selling bloggers' posts to newspapers and magazines is being launched by Scoopt.

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Workblogging Blog: A Treasure Trove of Anonymous Blogs

James Richards' blog is a great source for delving into the world of employee blogs.

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Blogs - the Hill's version of talk radio

More federal lawmakers are turning to blogs, podcasts, virtual town hall meetings and electronic newsletters to connect with...

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Blogs now have a world of influence

16 MAY 2006 from USAToday | Read the full story»

In fact, a study done for Jupiter Research says that blogs have a "disproportionately large influence" on society. The reason? It's not how many people read a blog, it's who reads it.

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Blog search engine to track postings about AP stories

The Associated Press announced two agreements Tuesday, one that will tie its news stories to the rapidly growing world of blogs...

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How Women Blog

The where/how women blog question is similar to where/how women shop. It can be influenced by a lot of different things. If a successful female entrepreneur is going through a particularly hard period of parenting, for example, those types of blogs will get her attention for a while. If she's struggling with a sales issue, she'll more likely be participating in that blog realm until she's found or derived the answer she needs.

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Executives Not Quite Hot to Blog

Blogosphere, smogosphere.

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Does Your Small Business Need a Blog?

15 MAY 2006 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»

It seems as if everyone has one, and experts say they're a great marketing tool. But is the time commitment worth it?

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The ABC's of Beginning Your Blog

18 MAY 2006 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»

Once you determine blogging makes sense for your small business, here's how to get started.

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Dealing with comment threads at blogs

Comments at blogs are tricky. Dunstan at 1976design.com points out that blog comments move "in a linear hoppity-skip way that makes a consistent flow of discussion almost impossible to maintain." So he came up with a system that lets people mark which comment they’re replying to so poeple can follow disparate threads of conversation.

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Small Biz 101: Digg is Your Marketing Secret Weapon

In today’s article, I’m going to share a great tip for increasing the amount of readers on your blog.

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The Metrics on Blogs

Top blogger Steve Rubel encourages companies to engage the blogosphere but warns that hard metrics are still a work in progress.

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Strategic Commenting: No blog is an island

29 APR 2006 from The Right Conversation | Read the full story»

If you view your blog as part of a public conversation, rather than a mere publication, then an easy way to attract more interest and interaction becomes obvious. I call it "strategic commenting."

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David Carr: Building a Brand With a Blog

The Huffington Post is booming, fueled by rapid-fire news postings and over 700 bloggers, most of whom you have never heard of.

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Levy: Dear Diary—And Everyone Else, Too

This so-called retro-blog had something much more interesting—each day visited the past, via an entry drawn from the author's real-life girlhood journals. Zits and all.

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Blog-sharing "commons" goes live

Blog: Lost in the ocean of blogs that is the blogosphere? Web logging pioneer Dave Winer on Monday launched a project called Share Your...

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After Press Dinner, the Blogosphere Is Alive With the Sound of Colbert Chatter

An address by Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert at the White House correspondents' dinner has become one of the most hotly debated topics in the politically charged blogosphere. (Subscription required!)

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Southwest Airlines Blog (Josh Hallett/hyku | blog)

Southwest Airlines Blog — Southwest Airlines has launched a corporate blog called Nuts About Southwest at http://blogsouthwest.com.

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At Los Angeles Times, a Columnist Who Used a False Web Name Loses His Blog

The incident has underscored the difficulties that can arise when a newspaper gives free rein to staff writers on the Web. (Subscription required!)

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The 120 Day Wonder: How to Evangelize a Blog

I know a fair amount about evangelism and a little bit about blogging, so I've combined the two in order to provide some insights into the evangelism of a blog.

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Park and write

Homeless, living in a car, and blogging it all.

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Blog Elitism

13 APR 2006 from the brand builder blog | Read the full story»

Blogging isn't about status or titles. Blogging is about sharing ideas. It doesn't matter if you're a ten-year-old kid in Sarajevo, a retired contractor in New Delhi, a mystery shopper in Toronto, or the founder of Google. Great ideas, observations and insights can come from anywhere, at any time.

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Ignore bloggers at your peril, say researchers

Technology: Online pundits influence businesses and opinion, according to report by research company.

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Bloggers Are Trendsetters

A new report from Jupiter Research suggests that although bloggers may all a bunch of weirdos, freaks and research analysts - they're also rather influential too.

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Can Bloggers Make Money? - Blogs have a lot of buzz ... (Wall Street Journal)

Can Bloggers Make Money? — Blogs have a lot of buzz, but there's still considerable debate about whether that can translate into profits. — While many blogs remain little more than amateur diaries, several bloggers have tried to parlay their online ramblings into branded businesses. (Subscription required!)

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Blogs 'essential' to a good career (Boston Globe)

Blogs 'essential' to a good career — Blogging is good for your career. A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field. — Ben Day blogged his way into a career as a high-earning software consultant while maintaining the freedom to schedule frequent jam sessions and performances as a keyboard player.

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The Blogswana Project

07 APR 2006 from Blogswana | Read the full story»

Brian Schartz and I [Curt Hopkins] are embarking on a new project, under the auspices of the Committee to Protect Bloggers. It’s called Blogswana and it is a project to increase HIV/AIDS education in the African country of Botswana through blogging.

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Business bites the blogging bullet

10 APR 2006 from BBC News | Read the full story»

For the average business trying to protect and enhance its reputation, the prospect of having its actions scrutinised by an army of online commentators can feel like a threat.

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Welcome to Thursday Thirteen

"The Girl Next Door" proves that, contrary to popular belief, not every blogger is a cynic. She has started a community whose...

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The First 100 Days: Observations of a Nouveau Blogger

I've been a blogger for a whopping 100 days, and it's been a delightful and educational experience. Some readers... asked me share my observations about my blogging experience, so here goes... 5. An expert who blogs is more interesting than a blogger who experts.

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Elderbloggers Stake Their Claim

11 APR 2006 from The New York Times | Read the full story»

With a breadth of experience and perspective, older bloggers are staking out a place in the blogosphere — a medium overwhelmingly dominated by the young. (Subscription required!)

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Bloggers Join the Mainstream

A new syndication service attempts to join blogging to the established media, a marriage that many predicted would never happen. Whether it's an ultimately successful marriage remains to be seen.

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Blogosphere suffers spam explosion

Technology may have made spam in e-mail manageable, but it is not quite there yet when it comes to blogs.

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TV goes to blogs: Shows add extra information as treat for fans

Official websites for television programs long have offered episode information, cast biographies and photo galleries, but the newest must-have accessory is a blog.

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The Inside View

03 APR 2006 from The Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»

Corporate America has joined the blogosphere. Product marketers, software engineers and even a few top executives of major companies have started sharing their thoughts and advice in online journals known as blogs. But, as you'd expect, their offerings are far different from the political vitriol of the best-known bloggers or the stream-of-consciousness musings of teenage girls. (Subscription required!)

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The top blogs, in the beginning

Blog: At the dawn of the new century, long before the general public had ever heard of "Web logs," Beebo.org was using its own metalog...

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The Blooker awards, for books arising from blogs

Publishing-on-demand site Lulu.com has created the "Blooker Prize" to recognize a burgeoning trend in which blogs are being turned into books.

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ELECTIONS COMMISSION GIVES BLOGGERS FREE REIGN

28 MAR 2006 from AdAge.com | Read the full story»

In a move that will almost certainly boost political ad spending on the Internet, the Federal Election Commission gave political blogging more freedom while tightening controls for paid advertising. (Free subscription required!)

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How to get started creating your blog

Ready to join the blogging revolution? Creating a personal website or a blog has never been easier. Here are a few tips on how ...

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Blogger up for non-fiction award

An anonymous blog by a woman in Iraq is nominated for a non-fiction prize worth £30,000.

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Blogs: threat or menace? (Scott Rosenberg/Scott Rosenberg's ...)

Blogs: threat or menace? — I attended a very strange panel talk tonight at the Berkeley CyberSalon on the topic of elitism in media and blogging. Veteran New York Times tech reporter John Markoff was on the panel, along with Steve Gillmor; two of the founders of BlogHer...

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Questions for Markos Moulitsas Zúniga: Kos Célèbre

The face behind the liberal blog Daily Kos talks about his first book, what's wrong with the Democrats and why the Army is the best thing that ever happened to him. (Subscription required!)

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Link by Link: A Guest Blogger, and an Unwritten Law

A dispute at The Huffington Post raises the question of what really is a blog. (Subscription required!)

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How big business barged in on the bloggers

Media: Companies once saw them as a nuisance. Now they are trying to get the bloggers onside.

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Your Blog Topic - Ted Demopoulos

So, you're starting a business blog. What are you going to blog about? Obviously this depends on your blog's goals, your business, and your target audience. You do NOT need to blog on your industry, your products, or even anything...

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On the Web, Much Advice, and Some Even Rings True

Given the surly, half-baked reporting on many Internet blogs, which travel blogs can you trust? (Subscription required!)

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AOL's Blog King

After selling his Weblog network for millions, Jason Calacanis speaks up for rebel journalism.

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Met blogging rules spark anger

Police bloggers express concern over new guidelines for officers in the Met Police who write online diaries.

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Blogging book prize hots up

A prostitute's diary and a guide to UK cafes are vying for the first literary award for bloggers turned bookwriters.

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Wal-Mart Enlists Bloggers in P.R. Campaign

Wal-Mart is looking beyond the mainstream media and working directly with bloggers. But the strategy raises concerns about what bloggers should disclose to readers. (Subscription required!)

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Six Apart takes blogs to work

Whether businesses are ready for them or not, tools for blogging are getting quite serious about the business customer.

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Benetton blogs

Wanna see a global corporation with some guts? Take a look at Benetton's new blog. It's a great example of marketing by not marketing.

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Chinese Set Up Lawmaker Blogs

Only eight of 5,000 delegates to China's National People's Congress are approved to post comments on government-sponsored web logs. China is trying to boost public interest in the parliament by using the medium popular with young people.

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Chinese Bloggers Grapple With the Profit Motive

The runaway success in China of a blog by Xu Jinglei, an actress and filmmaker, has sparked a debate about the economic value of blogs and who should profit from them. (Subscription required!)

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Manifesto for "blogjects" -- objects that blog

The USC's Julian Bleecker has just published an astonishingly awesome paper called "A Manifesto for Networked Objects — Cohabiting with Pigeons, Arphids and Aibos in the Internet of Things," subtitled, "Why Things Matter." It's a paper about the coming wave of "blogjects" -- objects that blog -- which is to say, manufactured goods that emit a steady stream of information about their world and what they make of it, and take action to change it.

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how hard is it for a company to start a conversation?

GM has made great strides with its Fast Lane blog. It's fantastic that someone as senior as Lutz posts cool content. However, in the age of the transparent organization, there are additional steps that need to be taken to demostrate that the company really wants input from the consumer. Responding to comments is a no brainer.

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From Blogger to Published Author, for $30 and Up

BookSmart software from Blurb downloads and reformats the contents of a Web log into a book. (Subscription required!)

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Blog Epitaphs? Get Me Rewrite! (Jason Fry/Wall Street Journal)

Blog Epitaphs? Get Me Rewrite! — Rumors of Blogs' Demise Are Exaggerated, — But a Lot Less Obsession Would Be Healthy — Maybe you've heard: Blogs are a vanishing fad — this year's digital Pet Rock. Or a business bubble about to pop. Or a sucker's bet for new-media fame seekers.

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The Inside Story on Company Blogs

14 FEB 2006 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»

Corporate America may fear critical comments in public blogs, but it isn't ignoring the medium's potential for improving internal communication.

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Got Favorites?

21 Feb 2006 from technorati.com | Read the full story»

The number of blogs doubles every five months. As I'm writing this, Technorati is tracking 28.4 million blogs. That's a whole lot of voices. Here at Technorati, we want to make the world of weblogs accessible, searchable, and fun for everyone to explore. Today we're taking another step in that direction with a brand new feature: Technorati Favorites.

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Tech pundits getting naked: a worrisome trend

20 Feb 2006 from valleywag.com | Read the full story»

Robert Scoble and Shel Israel bared it all at the Naked Conversations book launch. But they're not the first tech pundits to strip down. Lockergnome's Chris Pirillo runs a lovely little side business called "Rent My Chest," writing messages on his torso for $20 a pop.

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How to Suck Up to a Blogger

Blogging has flipped traditional PR on its head. It used to be that ink begat buzz. Life was simple then: you sucked up to the Wall Street Journal, one of its reporters wrote about your product, and the buzz began. ... Nowadays buzz begets ink.

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On Private Web Site, Wal-Mart Chief Talks Tough

The blog reveals managers' concerns about Wal-Mart, from sagging stock prices to retirement benefits to how it treats its workers. (Subscription required!)

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A New Way to Tame Chaos of Flames

Loads of people post comments on blogs without running one of their own. Now services like coComment let serial opinion slingers round up their stray rants. By Joanna Glasner.

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Blogs to Riches

20 FEB 2006 from New York Magazine | Read the full story»

By all appearances, the blog boom is the most democratized revolution in media ever. Starting a blog is ridiculously cheap; indeed, blogging software and hosting can be had for free online... Blogging, therefore, should be the purest meritocracy there is. It doesn’t matter if you’re a nobody from the sticks or a well-connected Harvard grad. If you launch a witty blog in a sexy niche, if you’re good at scrounging for news nuggets, and if you’re dedicated enough to post around the clock—well, there’s nothing separating you from the big successful bloggers, right?...In theory, sure. But if you talk to many of today’s bloggers, they’ll complain that the game seems fixed.

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Linkology

20 FEB 2006 from New York Magazine | Read the full story»

There are upwards of 27 million blogs in the world. To discover how they relate to one another, we’ve taken the most-linked-to 50 and mapped their connections.

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EDELMAN HIRES TOP ADVERTISING BLOGGER

16 FEB 2006 from AdAge.com | Read the full story»

Steve Rubel, by some counts the No. 1 advertising blogger, is going mainstream with a move to PR giant Edelman. (Free subscription required!)

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Blogosphere changes shape

Here's what I think is happening, if my understanding of the stats is correct (which it probably isn't): As more people blog, the sites that we all read in common remain the MSM. Links to the MSM thus increase in almost a straight line as the overall size of the blogosphere increases. But as blogging spreads, interests get more diverse, so there are fewer blogs that we all read...

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How to Almost Live on Blogging

It's easier than ever to earn money blogging. But it's not a recipe for quitting your day job, says the author of a new book on keyword advertising. Wired News interview by Joanna Glasner.

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Blogs reshaping content management tools

Blogs and editable Web pages called wikis are gaining popularity with enterprise users, introducing to these organizations a new level of content contribution and participation. ECM (enterprise content management) apps, which over the past few years have been gathering a variety of collaboration tools under their wing, are still figuring out what to with these easy to use and highly accessible newcomers.

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Blogging: A Blight or a Boon to Marriage?

Commentator Julie Zickefoose and her husband Bill both maintain their own Web blogs. She knows that their obsessive quests to keep those blogs interesting are changing their relationship, but she hasn't figured out how, yet. (Audio)

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Blog Buzz on High-Tech Start-Ups Causes Some Static

09 FEB 2006 from The Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»

The avalanche of blogging about FON, much of it from people now tied to the four-month-old company, highlights the rising influence of blogs in shaping opinions about tech start-ups, particularly in Silicon Valley. It also reveals the possible conflicts of interest such complicated relationships can dredge up.

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WSJ on FON, disclosure, and my friends

The interesting question Rebecca raises is whether "influential" (her word, not mine) people on the Web can advise a company and still be honest in their blogging. The subtext is: Bloggers need a code of ethics, just as journalists do... She failed to find any cases of bloggers not disclosing their business relationships, however, making the article pretty thin.

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Students' Drinking Reported in Blogs

EAST GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) -- Fifteen to 20 students at East Grand Rapids High School face possible disciplinary action by the school after parents reported seeing Internet photos of them drinking alcohol at parties....

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Amazon Turns a New Page

With Amazon.com Connect, authors blog to their readers.

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Fact-based ethics for bloggers

Coming up with a "code of ethics" for bloggers makes about as much sense as coming up with a code of ethics for people who say things. The diversity of blogs makes a code of ethics not even a pipe dream but a pipe nightmare. But...

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Congress catching on to the value of blogs

It's starting slowly, but a group of senators and representatives are now blogging, and some observers expect the number to grow as elections near.

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What's Holding Back Corporate Blogging?

23 JAN 2006 from BlogRevolt.com | Read the full story»

Why did the much-predicted 2005 stampede by corporate America into the blogosphere fail to materialize?... What are the factors or conditions that will drive mainstream American firms to truly embrace external public blogging -- whether for marketing, product development or other purposes?

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Mining the Blogosphere

There's a whole new world of consumer opinion emerging on the internet. It's called the "blogosphere" and it is ripe for opportunity for your brands. By Chris Hoyt, president, Hoyt & Company.

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Davos to invited bloggers: we approve before it's published

The World Economic Forum is opening up a collective blog for its upcoming annual meeting in Davos (starts on the 25th of January). Every participant will be ask to "blog" - quotation marks necessary, because, according to the Forumblog guidelines, no one will be allowed to post: "Bloggers' posts need to be manually published by one of our editors."

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On Business, and Blogging on the Road

An Internet search for full-time business travelers who write Web logs produces astonishingly low numbers. But that appears to be changing. (Subscription required!)

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Announcing the Fortune 500 Business Blog Index

29 DEC 2005 from The Long Tail | Read the full story»

In collaboration with Socialtext, we've created a wiki that tracks which of the Fortune 500 is blogging. We found that only... 4% of the F500 are doing so.

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18 Lessons I’ve Learnt about Blogging

20 DEC 2005 from ProBlogger | Read the full story»

One of the temptations of starting a blog is to spend more time trying to emulate other bloggers than establishing your own voice and style. While there are a lot of lessons to be learned from other blogs there is a lot to be said for developing a strong blogging identity of your own.

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Books of The Times | 'Dog Days': A Blogger Creates a Blogger for a Trip Back to 2004

Ana Marie Cox, better known as Wonkette, tries a novel, set in the world she knows. (Subscription required!)

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Happy New Year

Wishing you a prosperous and fulfilling New Year, the TP Wire Service will resume its postings tomorrow.

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Bloggers' New Year's Resolutions

Blogs search site Technorati is collecting New Year's resolutions from all over the world. And these can make a fun read. Bloggers are vowing to lose weight, volunteer more, and... to eat more peas.

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Promotion, self-promotion and [insert ad here]

20 DEC 2005 from Seth's Blog | Read the full story»

If you ask someone about MTV in the 1980s, they might mention Adam Curry or Toni Basil or Robert Palmer, but odds are what they're visualizing are the promo ads.

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Vlogger (noun): Blogger With Video Camera

16 DEC 2005 from The Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»

A few years ago, anyone with a new concept in video content would have faced huge hurdles obtaining mass distribution. They would have had to spend millions to develop a new network and even then might not have sold it to satellite and cable operators, whose channel lineups are getting saturated. Today, essentially all someone... needs to make a so-called video Web log, or vlog, is a digital camera that can capture moving images and high-speed Internet access. (Subscription required!)

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What If Copyright Law Were Strongly Enforced in the Blogosphere?

15 DEC 2005 from Concurring Opinions | Read the full story»

Suppose the mainstream media, fed up with the buzz bloggers keep getting and with bloggers criticizing their stories, decided to exact revenge. They initiate a vigorous copyright enforcement strategy, launching a barrage of lawsuits against bloggers as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has done to music file sharers. What would happen?

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Happy Holidays

Wishing you a joyous holiday season, the TP Wire Service will resume its postings tomorrow.

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One in Five Blogs Is Spam (Brian Morrissey/Adweek)

One in Five Blogs Is Spam — While 80,000 blogs may be created every day, about one in five is spam, according to new research. — Umbria Communications, a Boulder, Colo.-based consumer-generated media monitor, found that 2.7 million out of 20.3 million blogs are spam, or splogs as they are sometimes known.

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Creator of World Wide Web starts blog

World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee has started a blog just in time for the 15th anniversary of his invention. In his first ...

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What Are the Blogs Saying About Me?

Blogs offer insight into what readers are thinking, but they can be a rough place for fragile egos. (Subscription required!)

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Do Blogs Need Structure?

New Structured Blogging initiative aims to standardize descriptions of blog info.

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empirical evidence of blogger power

The paper has a good explanation of how bloggers become influential and has some interesting data to show why Jeff Jarvis caused Dell problems. The paper concludes that through his efforts and power of a blogger, he has now become THE source for information on Dell's Customer Service...

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Found in translation

Weblogs: Bloggers from all over the world stepped out of the shadows to meet each other at a unique conference in London this weekend, writes Jane Perrone.

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Tech Blogs Produce New Elite to Help Track The Industry's Issues

07 DEC 2005 from The Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»

The reality is that while there are now as many tech blogs as stars in the sky, only a tiny fraction of them matter. And those that do aren't part of some proletarian information revolution, but instead have become the tech world's new elite. (Subscription required!)

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Le Chic Shall Inherit Les Blogs

A Parisian catwalk model and Unix programmer named Anina drags the fashion industry into the world of blogs and moblogs. By Robert Andrews.

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What bloggers think about your business

The blogosphere is a vast, unruly, and totally tantalizing mother lode of unvarnished consumer opinion on every product and service in the capitalist universe. But to know what the masses are saying about your product, you would have to dig through 350,000 daily postings on a staggering 20 million blogs worldwide.

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Blog-gregation: Standing Out in the Blogosphere

Mark Cuban says consumers follow the path of least resistance. So they'll adopt your clunky technology, but they won't go digging deep into brandless blogs. Enter aggregation.

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Bloggers Creating Networks

The days of the lone blogger may be numbered. The nation's most popular Internet writers are starting to organize themselves into networks to maximize readers and advertising dollars. The evolution of blogs mirrors the way TV and radio grew. (Audio)

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Does Your Company Belong in the Blogosphere?

Bloggers have damaged a number of companies, but it's time to think of the blog as your friend. Skillful blogging can boost your company's credibility and help it connect with customers. From Harvard Management Communication Letter

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Blogs Finally Get Business Savvy

A flurry of big deals in recent weeks provides many new ways for weblogs to turn a profit.

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Bloggers to the rescue in wake of Kashmir quake

Online mercy mission, begun with SMS in Islamabad, keeps relief efforts flowing where armies are weak or slow.

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Blogging With a Wooden Tongue

The generic language of officialdom infiltrates the blogosphere. Commentary by Momus.

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Reading The Press Only Through Blogs

Chris Anderson, editor of Wired Mag, writes about how, with the exception of the Sunday New York Times, he reads the press through the editorial of blogs. He monitors which press articles are being written about by bloggers and this helps his judgement on what to click through to and read in the...

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Some Students Find Themselves In Principal's Office Over Blogs

26 NOV 2005 from The Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»

Schools around the country have wrestled with how to deal with students' online writings, and the debate has spilled from classrooms to courtrooms. So far, there is little legal consensus on the circumstances in which schools are authorized to punish students for their blogging...

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Blogs get business savvy

It can't be said anymore that blogging isn't a business. The problem now may be that blogging has too many business models to choose from.

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Happy Thanksgiving

Have a wonderful holiday. The wire service will resume tomorrow.

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What the In-Crowd Knows

16 NOV 2005 from The Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»

No self-respecting industry these days is without a must-read blog. Although they vary wildly on fine points like accuracy, they are now so widely read that it's assumed anybody in the business is up to speed on the latest postings. For outsiders, they are also a window into the inner workings, preoccupations and gossip of fields ranging from real estate to mergers and acquisitions.

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They got it backwards

14 NOV 2005 from BuzzMachine.com | Read the full story»

Time Inc. announced that Andrew Sullivan is moving his blog to Time.com. Good for Andrew. But they got it backwards. They should have left Sullivan right where we was and sold advertising there. That would have extended their reach to a new audience...

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ClickZ: Afraid of Commitment? Try a Pop-up Blog

Afraid of Commitment? Try a Pop-up Blog — In a bid to lower the barrier to entry that keep many corporations from beginning to blog, marketing services firm ElectricArtists has come up with an option for the commitment-phobic — the "pop-up" blog.

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All the news that's fit to blog

CNET News.com's Charles Cooper asks what it kind of wake-up call old media needs before it gets a clue.

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Senior bloggers defy stereotypes

Web logs, more often the domain of alienated adolescents and middle-aged pundits, are gaining a foothold as a new leisure-time option for senior citizens.

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Bloggers in the Corner Office

CEOs show interest in blogs, but not many are doing it yet.

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BLOG OPERATORS PICKY ABOUT WHAT ADS THEY'LL ACCEPT

09 NOV 2005 from AdAge.com | Read the full story»

Bloggers are surprisingly picky about the ads they will accept, according to panelists taking part in the Ad:Tech "Blogvertising Opportunities," session at the New York Hilton. (Free subscription required!)

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French Police Fear That Blogs Have Helped Incite Rioting

The banners and bullhorns of protest are being replaced in volatile French neighborhoods by cellphone messages and Skyblog. (Subscription required!)

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Blogs and Business

A new survey looks at the interaction of blogs and businesses, and how the two groups view each other's work.

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If You Want to Lead, Blog

Throughout the recently held BLOGGING ENTERPRISE conference, Jonathan’s blog was mentioned as a benchmark blog for c-level execs. And whattaya know … in the November issue of Harvard Business Review (HBR), Jonathan has written a must-read article for any business wrestling with the idea of starting a company blog.

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US youths use internet to create

A large swathe of young Americans use the web to create and share content as well as use other people's content for their own creations, says a report.

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Senior citizen bloggers defy stereotypes

Forget shuffleboard, needlepoint, and bingo. Web logs, usually considered the domain of alienated adolescents and home for screeds ...

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Outspoken Chinese blog 'blocked'

A popular Chinese blog has been blocked by the Chinese authorities, according to Reporters Without Borders.

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Punk Publishing

When I met writers/journos Alex Tanner and Mike Butcher for a cup of tea in London on Wednesday this week, I sat there with a little wonder. These guys were talking to me (I think) as some sort of peer. They were talking to Piers the publisher. These guys with writing skills, training, experience...

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Attack of the Blogs

14 NOV 2005 from Forbes | Read the full story»

Blogs started a few years ago as a simple way for people to keep online diaries. Suddenly they are the ultimate vehicle for brand-bashing, personal attacks, political extremism and smear campaigns.

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Bloggers Up In Arms Over Forbes Article

Forbes courageously (or idiotically, depending on where you stand) just published an article (article here, password here) that pretty much ruins everyone's prolonged honeymoon with the blogosphere... What were they thinking? That bloggers don't read magazines? The mob is already up in arms and the torches are burning...

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School orders students to remove blogs

A Roman Catholic high school has ordered its students to remove their online diaries from the Internet, citing a threat from cyberpredators.

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Interview With Max Goldman, Corporate Blogger

Max Goldman was hired with a primary objective to develop a blog to help promote the enterprise software company Success Factors. IF thought we'd ask him about the joys and pains of being a corporate blogger.

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How Plamegate Hurts the Net

The probe into the Bush administration's alleged outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame sends freedom of speech back to the Stone Age. The internet will be the last to recover. Commentary by Jennifer Granick.

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It's come to this: Mom-and-Pop blogs

Those ubiquitous blogs; they're cheap, direct, and can reach users wherever they may be. So naturally, blogs are now becoming a tool for small companies that might not have big marketing budgets. Patrick Hirsch reports. (Audio)

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Will Pajamas Media Wake Up Blogs?

High-profile political bloggers create a portal highlighting the day's hottest content. But some in the blogosphere question the business model. By David Cohn.

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Weblog Globalization

Of course it had to happen. Once Weblogs became a profitable busines, it was only natural for people to try to expand these Weblogs into new markets -- and new languages. The first major blog to do this was Engadget,...

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WHAT BLOGS COST AMERICAN BUSINESS

24 OCT 2005 from AdAge.com | Read the full story»

Blog this: U.S. workers in 2005 will waste the equivalent of 551,000 years reading blogs. About 35 million workers -- one in four people in the labor force -- visit blogs and on average spend 3.5 hours, or 9%, of the work week engaged with them, according to Advertising Age’s analysis. (Free subscription required!)

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No Longer Safe for Work: Blogs

Attempting to keep employees from leaking proprietary information, companies are blocking access to weblogs, along with porn, peer-to-peer and warez sites. Or, maybe they're just boosting worker productivity. By Christopher Null.

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Big Media, Little Blogosphere

24 OCT 2005 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»

There aren't yet enough quality pages to satisfy advertisers' hunger for a blog presence.

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Cliff Notes From the Blog World

Memeorandum doesn't just cut through the clutter to highlight the buzz in the blogosphere, it's changing how some people interact with the web. By Ryan Singel.

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State of the Blogosphere, October 2005 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth

17 OCT 2005 from Sifry's Alerts | Read the full story»

Technorati is now tracking 19.6 Million weblogs, and the total number of weblogs tracked continues to double about every 5 months. This trend has been consistent for at least the last 36 months. In other words, the blogosphere has doubled at least 5 times in the last 3 years. Another way of looking at it is that the blogosphere is now over 30 times as big as it was 3 years ago.

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Blogs of a Different Color

At the BlogOn Conference, David Weinberger discussed the direction blogs are taking in the corporate world and the media.

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Blogging 101: Web logs go to school

17 OCT 2005 from CNET News.com | Read the full story»

As a middle-school teacher, Clarence Fisher is used to spending some time each evening grading papers and reviewing lesson plans. But this year he's got an additional after-school task: updating his students' blogs.

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What Would Jesus Blog?

A gathering of Christian bloggers looks at keeping televangelists honest and changing stereotypes of evangelical Christians from angry and close-minded to intelligent and civilized.

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Corporate Blogging takes Off

Businesses are plugging away at it.

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Google's Blogger service now accessible in China

Long inaccessible from within China without the use of a proxy server, Google's free Web log service, Blogger, can now be accessed directly by Internet users in Beijing. In addition, Chinese Internet users can now access cached Web pages on Google's search engine.

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Why bloggers blog: Firm offers some answers

The number one reason people begin blogging is to establish themselves as a visible authority in their field, according to a study by public relations firm Edelman. Blogger Survey 2005 lists the above reason as the mindset of 33.8 percent of respondents. A close second, 'to create a record of my thoughts,' is why 31.5 percent of bloggers blog. Less than five percent, meanwhile, blog to generate revenue. The survey also presents findings about other blogging-related issues, such as how often people blog (the number one answer was every few days), how bloggers correct factual errors in previous posts (striking...

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Blooker rewards books

Blogs that become books are getting their own literary prize called the Blooker.

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Yahoo adds blogs to its news section

Yahoo's online news search tool on Monday added blogs as a supplement to professional media offerings.

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Weblog Watch

What if someone slipped an advert in your diary?

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Two bloggers jailed for making racist remarks online

07 OCT 2005 from Channel NewsAsia | Read the full story»

For the first time, two Singaporeans have been sentenced to jail for posting racist remarks online... The judge added the right of one to propagate an opinion on the Internet is not and cannot be an unfettered right.

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The Voice of the Customer

On May 2, 2005, Business Week sent a message to corporate America it could not ignore: a cover story entitled: "Blogs Will Change Your Business." Although the magazine focused primarily on the perils and prospects of using blogs as marketing vehicles, the message on the cover could not have been more far-reaching. "Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out...

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Knit-wits weave their way onto the Web

Tucked away in a corner of the Internet like wool mittens in August, knitters have been quietly spinning yarns in cyberspace...

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Young blog their way to a publishing revolution

Technology: Poll shows a third of 14 to 21-year-olds now have their own online content.

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Opening Arguments, Endlessly

Several influential blogs seem to be run by lawyers, who constitute considerably less than 1 percent of the population. (Subscription required!)

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It's a Blog Blog Blog Blog World

Technorati's Dave Sifry is presenting the latest stats on blogs at the Web 2.0 conference. Some interesting nuggets: The number of blogs is still doubling every five months, as it has for the past 36 months...

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Delaware Supreme Court Declines to Unmask a Blogger

The court ruled that if an elected official claims he has been defamed by an anonymous blogger, he cannot use a lawsuit to unmask the writer. (Subscription required!)

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On the Candidates' Blogs, Writing Right and Wrong

As a former Catholic school boy from the Bronx, surely Fernando Ferrer knows that falsehoods can trip you up. (Subscription required!)

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Why blog?

Don't dismiss bloggers too quickly, says Alan Connor.

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Shoppers use blogs for bargains

A survey suggests that blogs are starting to become trusted sources of information for shoppers.

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In Good Company

Even as more and more companies are jumping on the blogwagon, very few get it right. These company blogs give customers, partners, and recruits an authentic peek inside.

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Three Signs Your Blog May Attract Buyers

Does your Web log have what it takes to draw bids from prospective buyers?

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Blog activism handbook released

A handbook offering advice for "bloggers and cyber-dissidents" is released by Reporters Without Borders.

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Can Bloggers Strike It Rich?

Blog network pioneers keep their finances close to the chest, but salary information for scribes behind hit sites like Gizmodo, Fleshbot and Gawker is starting to trickle out. Time to quit your day job and blog for a living? Commentary by Adam Penenberg.

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Technorati Blog Finder Beta Launches

So, while all our infrastructure work progresses and backend search and infrastructure engineers are busy upgrading and scaling the service, Technorati's front-end designers and developers cooked up a fun new feature: Technorati Blog Finder. Blog Finder helps answer the question, "How can you find authoritative blogs on a subject?"

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Hackoff.com - The Blook - Has Arrived

Tom Evslin has launched his newest project – hackoff.com. It’'s a blook (an online book distributed as a blog).

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Blogging For One

A new study finds that blogs are more likely to deal with personal matters than politics or current events, and nearly 50% of bloggers see the activity as a form of therapy.

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Vloggers get political in Norway

A video blogger in Norway is aiming to energise a new generation of voters ahead of Monday's elections.

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A Journalist and Blogger Tries Teaching

Jeff Jarvis, a well-known blogger, has been named director of the new-media program and associate professor at the City University of New York. (Subscription required!)

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North Pole or Bust

Intrepid explorers attempt an unassisted summertime crossing of the Arctic Ocean, complete with podcasts and a blog. By Jeff Howe of Wired magazine.

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Interview With Henry Copeland Of Blogads

Blogads is one of the leading advertising networks for blogs. They've helped launch successful campaigns for brands big and small including Audi and Neighborhoodies. The team at our sister site IF caught up with founder Henry Copeland to get some better insight into how brands can leverage this medium more effectively.

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Online, Feisty Critics

There are hundreds of bloggers vying for the loyalty of an audience for whom no scrap of celebrity gossip or runway news seems too insignificant. (Subscription required!)

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New Search Engines Help Users Find Blogs

A handful of upstarts are vying to offer blog-tracking services.

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Her Hometown Destroyed, a Traveler Turns to a Blog

A seasoned business traveler from New Orleans hopes to be able to return home soon. (Subscription required!)

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Weblogs Inc., pay rates revealed by disgruntled potential recruit

26 AUG 2005 from The Blog Herald | Read the full story»

According to the contract, writers for Slashfood are paid $500 USD per month and are expected to write "125 monthly blog posts, along with monitoring of comments, responding to readers in comments, and deleting offensive comments. Posts under the goal of 125 will be pro-rated at $4.00 per post".

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Interview With Ed Cotton Of Influx Insights

24 AUG 2005 from IF | Read the full story»

Ed Cotton runs one of the most inspiring marketing blogs on the web, Influx Insights. They win a lot of readers with their fresh approach where they analyze current media stories to discuss consumer trends and marketing themes at a macro level.

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Retailers hope shoppers buy blogs as the place to go

The online retail industry is now part of the blog boom. Retailers are creating blogs a term derived from Web logs, or online ...

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Locked-out CBC production staff podcasting and blogging

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has locked out 5500 workers -- producers, on-air personalities, engineers, etc... Locked-out CBC producers plan to create shows and serve them as podcasts over the Web.

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Blog Traffic Rises

Two new studies report rapid traffic growth in the Blogosphere. comScore estimates that about 30% of US Internet users visited blogs in the first quarter. Nielsen//NetRatings says the top 50 blog sites, including blog hosts, draw about 20% of active Internet users.

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Business Blogging for Beginners