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St. Petersburg Times - Fridays at the AMVETS Post 67, 1825 Highland Ave., Clearwater. Cost is $7 per person. Call (727) 631-0067. Friday night fun: 5-8 p.m. every Friday at American Legion Post 119, 130 First Ave. SW, Largo. Seafood or chicken dinners will be available

UAL, AMR Post Gains; Saks Drops
Wall Street Journal - Word Count: 672 | Companies Featured in This Article: Exxon Mobil, Williams-Sonoma, Dick’s Sporting Goods, ConocoPhillips, Rowan, Continental Airlines, UAL, AMR, UST, Altria Group, Apple, Saks, VMware, Capital One Financial, Countrywide Financial

Ex-Northwest CEO gets top post at Delta
Tulsa World - Delta Air Lines Inc. named former Northwest Airlines Corp. CEO Richard Anderson as its new leader Tuesday. Anderson, a Delta board member and an executive at UnitedHealth Group Inc., will replace Gerald Grinstein as Delta’s CEO. Grinstein said

ABC/Washington Post Consumer Comfort Index tumbles to -20
Reuters - NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) - A confluence of negative factors struck a blow to the confidence of American consumers in the latest week, with a weekly survey registering its biggest decline ever. The ABC News/Washington Post Consumer Comfort Index

TIGERS VS. INDIANS: Follow the play-by-play, post your thoughts
Detroit Free Press - Dominican right-hander Fausto Carmona looks for a second straight win tonight when the Cleveland Indians visit Comerica Park for the first of three huge games with the Detroit Tigers. Cleveland enters this key series holding a 1 1/2-game advantage on

China sack coach Zhu after Asian Cup disaster
ESPN.com - After coaching for three years, and having to give up the post to someone else, it’s hard to reconcile,” Zhu was quoted by the paper as saying. Last month, former France striker Jean-Pierre Papin said he had been approached about the post, and local

Berlin considers minimum wage for post staff
MSNBC - The German government could introduce a minimum wage in postal services next year in a move set to help Deutsche Post, the former monopoly, ahead of the liberalisation of the market. The decision comes as the cabinet prepares for its mid-term retreat

Fortune Brands says Wesley leaving CEO post
Reuters - LOS ANGELES, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Fortune Brands Inc. (FO.N: Quote , Profile , Research ) said on Monday its chief executive, Norm Wesley, would step down from that role next year but continue as the company’s chairman. Bruce Carbonari, 51, Fortune

NPR News - The lasher-in-chief in this case was Salon blogger and columnist Glenn Greenwald, who revealed, based on his interview with O’Hanlon , that the trip to Iraq that sparked the piece had been coordinated by the U.S. military. Basically, Greenwald’s

Report: ‘Where I’ve Been’ Facebook app acquired for $3 million
CNET News - Inside Facebook is reporting that Where I’ve Been , a third-party application developed with the Facebook Platform APIs, has been acquired by online travel company TripAdvisor for somewhere in the ballpark of $3 million. Inside Facebook blogger

Fashion: So long, thong. Take a walk, Crocs.
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Hey, Edie Sedgwick, your girlie frocks were awfully comfortable this summer; but I do suppose men with commitment issues prefer to see some definition around the waist. Christy DeSmith is an editor and blogger for the Rake. She covers fashion and

Surge progress deniers beware
The Washington Times - “The only thing this surge will accomplish is a surge of more death and destruction.” That was the prediction of blogger and antiwar activist Arianna Huffington back in December of last year one month before the Senate unanimously confirmed Gen

Chavez: Longer presidential terms
CNN - Chavez, speaking to the National Assembly, also proposed ending the autonomy of Venezuela’s Central Bank, which would Dean intensifies across Caribbean 8 Jazz innovator Max Roach dead 9 Verdict reached in Padilla trial 10 Pedophile blogger walks

August on the Vineyard means politics
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iPhone bills land with a thump
St. Petersburg Times - It forced recipient Justine Ezarik, a Pittsburgh graphic designer and Internet blogger, to shoot a video posted on sites such as YouTube, Revver.com and Break.com. Her message “Use e-billing. Save a forest.” Ezarik became a celebrity overnight this

So, how many trees did your iPhone bill kill?
AZCentral.com - LOS ANGELES - Early adopters of Apple’s iPhone are getting their first service bills from AT&T - and some customers say they are so detailed they belong in libraries. Justine Ezarik, a Pittsburgh graphic designer and active Internet blogger, got her

NASA Blocked Climate Change Blogger from Data
Town Hall - Despite the fact that NASA tried to block him from accessing U.S. temperature data, persistent efforts by a climate change blogger forced the government to amend U.S. temperature data. Because of the blogger s efforts, NASA now recognizes 1934 as

Blog and get paid in a knowledge economy
Economic Times - Blogger hiring, though quite common in western countries and among MNCs, has yet to catch up in India in a big way. In fact, as of now there are only a handful in India which are hiring bloggers on their rolls. This is because blogging is yet to

International Herald Tribune - Technorati, which was started to monitor the blogosphere, says that 37 percent of all blog postings globally in the fourth quarter of 2006 were in Japanese, compared with 36 percent for English. Other languages, like Chinese, Spanish and Italian, have

CNET News - Chloe’s site was able to ride on the coattails of WordPress.com’s trust and authority in the eyes of Google, thus sidestepping the “Google Sandbox” and jumping to page 1 in Google for the term “neopet cheats” within two weeks of launch. Wanting to

minazione e resistenza irakena
Uruk Net - 5) Stephen Gowans, “The Unacknowledged Humanitarian Disaster,” What s Left, August 1, 2007, http://gowans.wordpress.com/2007/08/01/the-unacknowledged-hu manitarian-disaster/ (6) Stephen Gowans, “Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, and the Politics of Naming,” What

Flickr Has Shutterfly. WordPress Has TypePad. But No Competitor Comes
Washington Post - “For the most part, the Internet really has decentralized publishing. YouTube , though, gets 60 percent of all online video traffic — that’s up from 43 percent a year ago. What’s going on here?” Slate writer Nick Douglas will be online Thursday

What is ‘trackback’?
North Adams Transcript - TrackBack is a system implemented by Movable Type and later adopted by many blogging tools, including TypePad, BoastMachine, WordPress, and Nucleus, that allows you to see who has seen the original post and has written another entry concerning it

Sony Takes a Crack at Dominating Video Online
Sci-Tech Today - access to a multi-platform distribution network, with the possibility of syndication to such devices as its PSP (PlayStation Portable), and viral Web distribution through a variety of sites including MySpace, Facebook, hi5, AOL, Piczo, and WordPress

News Blog: Posts in Google
CNET News - I got to enjoy Matt Cutts live and in person on Saturday speaking to the WordPress bloggers and fans at WordCamp 2007 . Matt was in top form, witty as ever. The session was blogged by numerous folks . The sessions were all recorded, so, we hope, we

Press Release Tips and Template
PRWeb - “Your service has been outstanding for driving traffic to my website. I really enjoy your “Quick Stats” feature that allows you to check traffic data in real-time. Your customer service and support is excellent! Thank you PRWEB. ” You do not need any

Posts in Google
CNET News - I got to enjoy Matt Cutts live and in person on Saturday speaking to the WordPress bloggers and fans at WordCamp 2007 . Matt was in top form, witty as ever. The session was blogged by numerous folks . The sessions were all recorded, so, we hope, we

Don’t Stop Believing
Texas Observer - Much of Cole s visibility to ordinary Southern Baptist preachers (the bubba-pastors, he calls them) has been through his blog, baptistblog.wordpress.com, one of a handful written by reform-minded pastors that have sprung up in the past

CNET News - The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is backing Microsoft’s effort to certify Office Open XML as an international standard. The U.S. standard body said on Friday that it has voted to conditionally approve Office Open XML (OOXML

If you want more insights from Fox Soccer Report analyst Bobby McMahon
FOXSports.com - Play the Premier League Fantasy Challenge and match wits with the best managers in England. PHOTOS: Posh & Becks Posh and Becks have arrived on American shores. Take a look at what all the fuss is about. Bobby McMahon’s Blog If you

San Francisco Gate - (08-04) 04:00 PDT Chicago — The YearlyKos Convention is attracting national notoriety for how bloggers are changing the political and media landscape. But while the spotlight is shining on a few of the 1,400 online pundits convened here who draw

No School Like It
FOXSports.com - During his travels Glazer will chime in with interviews and observations from teams, blogs from different practices and sites and, as always, the lighter side of traveling the football world. In addition to football, Glazer will chronicle places he

Blog Archives
Houston Voice Online - the Blade this week. It s gays in the military, it s questions on gay marriage, it s health care questions and equal opportunity questions and all those things that are written about and discussed and debated in the Blade and the blogs

Just Ahead: The Web As A Virtual World
BusinessWeek - Google is already working to connect the 250 million users of Google Earth to make it more of a social networking space, says Peter Birch, a Google product manager. Today, enthusiasts chat and network in separate discussion boards and blogs. Tomorrow

Roseanne Barr Follows Rosie O’Donnell’s Lead And Blogs When Pissed!
Post Chronicle - Roseanne Barr has followed Rosie O’Donnell’s lead and began blogging, probably because she is pissed-off about losing the spot on “The View” to Whoopi Goldberg. Reportedly, rumors are that the producers on “The View” didn’t think she was a big enough

Kanye West Hates The Hollywood Gossip, Celebrity News Blogs
The Hollywood Gossip - We were always nice to Kanye West s fiancee, Alexis Phifer . So we can only hope that the rapper isn t including The Hollywood Gossip among the celebrity blogs he recently told Complex magazine he can t stand. Man, it really takes a strong

More blogs
Stuff - Multi-millionaire Neville Jordan and Ashburton mechanic Bruce McIlroy have tested their mettle with a race across Asia and Europe in a 85-year-old Rolls-Royce in the 2007 Peking to Paris rally. After 35 days and thousands of kilometres the Kiwis have

News Blog: Posts tagged video blogs
CNET News - “Bree” is no more. In the ’season finale’ of the Web series ” Lonelygirl15 ,” which was broadcast in a well-publicized event on Friday on the MySpaceTV platform, the cute teenage protagonist met her death at the hands of a religious cult’s sacrifice

The Buzz Blog
Northwest Herald - Group Editor Chris Krug blogs about what’s on his and readers’ minds. Click to read blog . The following are comments from the readers. In no way do they represent the view of NWHerald.com or Shaw Newspapers. ” What the heck is the dumb ad for the

Town Hall - There hasn’t been anything like this since 1925, when Jennings and Darrow clashed in Dayton, TN - in the trial that came to be called the Scopes Monkey Trial. Now, coming soon to a television screen near you - brought to you by the Fox(N) and CSPAN(Z

FanBoy’s Camp Blog
AZCentral.com - Coach Ken Whisenhunt stopped by and talked to the local reporters on the way to the field. There was a little ribbing back and forth. This is a drastic change from the Dennis Green method of media relations, which usually involved scowls and quick

News Blog: Posts tagged concentrators
CNET News - High-end solar technology isn’t just for power plants and commercial rooftops. It also works in parking lots. Soliant Energy is a start-up doing concentrating photovoltaic systems, which uses a series of mirrored tubes to magnify sunlight onto solar

If you want more insights from Fox Soccer Report analyst Bobby McMahon
FOXSports.com - We’ve got the big moves in the Prem covered. Monitor the transfer market and give your opinion on the winners and losers. Bobby McMahon’s Blog If you want more insights from Fox Soccer Report analyst Bobby McMahon check out his blog

Slap in the Facebook: It’s Time for Social Networks to Open Up
Wired News - are taking the web by storm because they make it easy to manage your personal data and keep in touch with people you know. But to get value out, you have to put something in — photos, contacts, appointments, lists of your interests and your blog

Blog: Look out for some local election shocks
New Zealand Herald - The big event for those few hardy democrats - or dowdy sadomasochists, depending on your point of view - who follow local government, is the forthcoming elections. Nominations are now open and the fate of councils, trusts and health boards throughout

A Diversity of Opinion, if Not Opinionators At the Yearly Kos Bloggers
Washington Post - How many of the women in the audience blog?” asked a panelist. Nearly three-fourths of those present raised their hands. “How many of you get harassed?” The hands stayed up. They complain of being harassed online for their views on issues such as

Blog: Lonely at 15, dead at 16
New Zealand Herald - I’ve just watched the finale in the Lonelygirl15 internet video series that started out on Youtube, gathered a massive following and then found a home and a more slick look on Myspace.com. The final episode is all floating camera work and soft-focus

News Blog: Posts by Michelle Meyers
CNET News - An NBC reporter learned the hard (and embarrassing) way that DefCon 15, a conference of underground hackers who also happen to be security experts, is not the place to go undercover with a hidden camera. George Ou, who blogs for CNET News.com’s

Blog: Little Book
New Zealand Herald - Houston, we have a problem . . . It seems I have misplaced my little book of blog. The notebook where I sneakily jot down conversations and anecdotes from unsuspecting friends. This is highly annoying for two reasons - the first is simply because all

Muscatine Journal - MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa - The Post Office in the hometown of Maj. Scott Nisely, who died in Iraq last year, will carry his name if President Bush signs a bill passed by Congress into law. U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a statement Saturday

Contest for VP’s post to be tame affair
NDTV - After the heat and dust of the presidential election, the poll to elect a new vice president on August 10 is expected to be a tame affair with UPA-Left nominee Hamid Ansari’s victory a foregone conclusion. Though Najma Heptullah of the NDA and

Post-collapse review shows some bridges rated “poor” in Tri-Cities
TriCities.com - Four bridges in Bristol Virginia are currently rated “poor” for their structural integrity, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation. The latest data on the city s 49 state-inspected spans show that bridges on Oak Street over Norfolk

Earnings roundup: Wash. Post, Interline
Boston Globe - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Post Co. reported a 13 percent drop in quarterly earnings Friday, as declining revenue from its flagship paper continued to outweigh gains in the company’s education units. Other earnings: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP

Back to school: New Pasco principals discuss principles
St. Petersburg Times - Lives in: Land O’Lakes. Previous post: principal at San Antonio Elementary. Alma mater: University of South Florida. Top priority: Building a school community that shares the enthusiasm for learning with all who enter. How to reach the hard to reach

dBusinessNews.com - Since the Healthcare 100 s launch, more than 60 different health and medical blogs have published posts weighing in on the ranking system, according to Technorati. The response has been largely enthusiastic. The mission of eDrugSearch.com is to

Trendy eyewear lets techies express their own vision
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Edgy sex symbols Elvis Costello, Johnny Depp and Bono have donned modernized versions. Now rectangular, dark-rimmed plastic glasses have become the power tool local “technorati” are using to say, “Look at me: I’m smart, sexy and ready to do business

Blogs offer instant, irreverent analysis of the sports world
Palm Beach Post - Bloggers and media analysts attribute the medium’s burgeoning popularity to its accessibility and sheer volume. (Technorati, a company that tracks a variety of Web-related topics, reports that more than 60 million blogs are created every year.) “We

Archive for: April, 2007
ZDNet.be Blogs - For example, are the Technorati tags at the end of this post the right ones to use to associate this post with other, similar posts? Earlier this week, Autonomy introduced a new product called Virage ACID (Automatic Copyright Infringement Detection

News Blog: Posts tagged New York City
CNET News - The New York-based TreeHugger, which currently occupies the #18 slot on Technorati’s ranking of the most popular blogs, claims to have raked in over 1.9 million unique visitors in June. It’s no garage operation: the blog has about a dozen staffers on

San Diego Union-Tribune - KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia A Malaysian opposition party said Tuesday it has filed a police report accusing the prime minister of allowing a seditious and racist article to run on his official Web site. Ronnie Liu, a senior member of the Democratic

Now Hiring: Blogger
Texas Observer - The fine editors here at the Observer are looking for my replacement, since, sadly, I m leaving this great position in a few weeks. Here s the listing : It s a part-time job for someone eager to post daily updates to our Web site about Texas

Cyberactivists Are a Must-See for Candidates
US News and World Report - Robert Bluey, a conservative blogger for the Heritage Foundation, notes that there isn’t anything comparable on the right. While former Sen. Fred Thompson has assembled a talented Net team for his unofficial presidential run and Ron Paul and Mitt

Carp facts
Detroit Free Press - One angling blogger suggests a campaign to change American attitudes toward carp. The logo, he suggests: Carp It’s not just for breakfast anymore. Take a cedar plank. Filet the carp, cover it with onions, lemon and herbs and grill it on

Wiggles hit by evil blogger
News.com.au - THE Wiggles have been unwittingly drawn into a US pedophile investigation after an American man photographed young girls at one of the group’s concerts and published the pictures on his website. Jack McClellan, a self-described pedophile, this week

Other Voices: Range fires
Idaho Statesman - for the Bureau of Land Management. “Dry conditions and oppressive heat are the driving forces behind this year’s active fire season in Idaho, Rose said. “Ah, but with politicians fanning the flames, who needs oppressive heat?” Boise blogger Julie

A wild ride for John Mayer
AccessAtlanta - In June at New York’s Comedy Cellar, he causes a mini-media frenzy when a blogger reports that he used the n-word numerous times. Many observers quickly point out that the offending bits were taken out of context and the brouhaha dies down. Summer