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Slate - 12:28 Chris Cillizza, co-moderator and Washingtonpost.com blogger extraordinaire , explains how we can watch people’s feedback in a little box on the MySpace page. It’s a real-time BS-meter! CNN, are you taking notes? 12:29 Edwards enters in jeans, a

The Department of Defense heads to KU in search of military bloggers
University Daily Kansan - It has an edge you can t find in a newspaper.” Ward Carroll, military blogger If we re investing money in the way we communicate, what s going to be a better use of taxpayer dollars? Holt

WebProNews - The popular blogging platform drew a sizable investment from The New York Times Company, which expanded its minority stake in WordPress parent Automattic. Now we know why Matt Mullenweg could be so generous with the added storage at WordPress . His

Human vs. Machine, Person vs. Processor: 100 Percent Brain-Powered
PRWeb - However, the Jatalla support blog, hosted by WordPress, indicates that more complex features will arrive when formal launch takes place. Nonetheless, visitors find the simplicity of the site refreshing, particularly the absence of advertisements and

Amiga Demo Podcast [H.264]
Podcasting News - Sorry for the delays in getting this one out, there have been some connectivity issues recently and my WordPress install got hacked, just to compound things. A nice old demo, that has visuals and music very reminiscent of the day. Most of the effects

Open source business model reaching tipping point
ZDNet Blogs - Automattic , publisher of the open source blogging platform WordPress (which we use for ZDNet blogs) raised $29.5 million in a Series B Round with funding, True Ventures, Polaris Ventures, Radar Ventures and the New York Times. Greenplum , a developers

Latest News
dBusinessNews.com - Its theme is Bringing Physical Community to Social Networks. For the particulars on how to sign up, visit http://recruitingroadshow.wordpress.com/. It is very important that we bring this show on the road so that we can learn what is

Election Reform
OpEdNews.com - Or, go to the show’s own website: www.TheMonitor.wordpress.com CO-HOSTS: Mark Bebawi, and Pokey Anderson Pokey Anderson: Listen Up! Today on KPFT: Judy Bertelsen on California election integrity developments KPFT - Pacifica

What is ‘trackback’?
Brattleboro Reformer - 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

From the introduction:
ZDNet Blogs - These excerpts don t include footnotes and most illustrations have been dropped as simply too hard to insert correctly. (The wordpress html editor as used here enables a limited html subset and is implemented to force frustrations like the

WordPress.com to offer 3GB of storage space
TechWhack News - Automattic Inc. has announced their plans to boost the storage space made available to the bloggers on their WordPress blog-hosting site. The service currently provides 50MB of storage space. This has now been increased to 3GB. The company said that

The Invasion Blog That Could Have Been
BusinessWeek - Dave imo would have used WordPress on his own site (not a hosted service like Blogger). His graphics would come from the net and not look custom-made. Further, the colors wouldn’t match. Notice how the amber-gold beer is on a burnt-brown background

News.com.au - If, tommorrow I wake up & hear that C-M blogger Keith Narracott of TJF had passed away, I would fell soorrow & sympathy for his Family, friends & loved ones. Why? Its called empathy, champ, its the way human emotion is imprinted on our psyche. Its

Blog Participation and Reader Agreement
Sun-Journal - We do not endorse or guarantee the accuracy of any posting, regardless of whether the posting comes from a blogger or from a reader of the site. Responsibility for what is posted on our blogs lies

Iraq’s flag redesign erases one of the last symbols of Hussein regime
Christian Science Monitor - The conservative blogger and occasional Wall Street Journal columnist, Omar Fadhil, on the blog Iraq the Model , writes that the past two flags were not sufficiently representative .] “The old flag was not an Iraqi flag. It was the flag of the

TriVallyCentral - and will help to increase awareness about global warming. A panel discussion will follow the 90-minute film, which will be shown for free. In addition to the website www.WeGreenWestport.org, there is also a new blog at www.WeGreenWestport.wordpress

Top 10 US Social-Network, Blog, Web Brand Rankings Issued for Dec.
MarketingVOX - WordPress maintained the No. 2 rank it first achieved in Oct., growing 202 percent from the year-earlier period. In December it accounted for 13.4 million visitors, up from November’s 12.0 million - and up from 4.4 million a year earlier. (See this

Find lost friends using the Internet
USA Today - Take advantage of this by starting a blog. Blogger.com , LiveJournal.com and WordPress.com are free blogging services. You’ll be up and going in minutes. Use your friend’s full name and any nicknames in postings. You might also list the last

Latest News
dBusinessNews.com - Its theme is Bringing Physical Community to Social Networks. For the particulars on how to sign up, visit http://recruitingroadshow.wordpress.com/. It is very important that we bring this show on the road so that we can learn what is

Wired - Bloggers with spare server capacity tag an entry “adoptablog” or “adoptachineseblog” so Chinese people looking for a foreign host can find one through Technorati or del.icio.us . My own cat-and-mouse game with the government is never-ending. Soon after

Discovery Communications Is a Real TreeHugger
Multichannel Online - It has served more than 50 million pages, has a vast archive of 13,500 posts and is among the most recognized and linked-to green sites, as calculated by Google and Technorati , according to Discovery officials. TreeHugger.com strengthens Discovery

A Web Troll’s Toll on the Clinton Campaign
Wall Street Journal - Technorati, which follows blogging trends, now tracks 40,000 English-language politics blogs. “The ability of trolls to gain attention, to secure an audience, if ever briefly, is much greater than before,” says Derek Gordon, a former vice president

Buy Amazon - Kindle is the iPod of books
BusinessWeek - The technorati don’t get the kindle. The technorati didn’t get the iPod, therefore the Kindle is going to be as successful as the iPod? I doubt it. I think Kindle will be a flop just like all other ebook readers for the simple reason that it doesn’t

Softpedia - In this sense, HTML Purifier library offers plugins for a series of content management system like Phorum, MODx, Drupal, WordPress and CodeIgniter. The execution times in case of HTML code filtering with HTML Purifier could have high values in

Amiga Demo Podcast [H.264]
Podcasting News - Sorry for the delays in getting this one out, there have been some connectivity issues recently and my WordPress install got hacked, just to compound things. A nice old demo, that has visuals and music very reminiscent of the day. Most of the effects

Walking Every Street in Berkeley
Berkeley Daily Planet - walking somewhere that you would normally drive, by taking a different walking route from your normal routine, or by hopping on the bus or BART and getting off in a new neighborhood. Jennifer English s blog is at http://walkingberkeley.wordpress

Writers are winning over the public
MediaChannel.org - There s an image war raging during the WGA strike, and the writers seem to be winning. Public sympathy sides with the scribes, as a study, released Wednesday, indicates. And during the past few weeks, mainstream media outlets have devoted

Want Your Own Blog? It’s Easy. It’s Free.
Wall Street Journal - Want to join the blogging bandwagon? It’s easy and free to hitch a ride. Creating a blog, or online journal, requires only basic tech savvy. To get started, log onto a hosting site such as Blogger.com or Wordpress.com and select the option to open a

Online Data Depositories Go Beyond Mere Storage
InternetNews.com - With a quick login and a few clicks, users can post a file to a blog tethered to LiveJournal, TypePad, Blogger or WordPress. Want to edit that business strategy presentation you stored last week? You don t have to download it, edit it and then

Orlando Sentinel - This neighborhood blogger endeavor is grounded in the spirit of building a sense of community and giving voice to the people in Central Florida. These blogs are written by your neighbors — folks who want to better the communities in which they live

Professor Rafael Robb Pleads Guilty to Voluntary Manslaughter in the
FOX News - In January, walking his dog before his arrest, the professor told me he was an innocent man. Looked me right in the eye and said, “No I did not. I did not kill her.” Today, Rafael Robb told a judge something else. He admitted to bashing his wife

ZDNet Blogs - Technorati rolled out its latest effort to fine tune its blog search service today, with a renewed focus on the blogger community and new ways to discover content, according to company CEO Richard Jalichandra. We are going back to service the

Category: Facebook
ZDNet Blogs - Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk offers some reading suggestions for this holiday season, when techies should be taking a respite from their digital labors. It is holiday time, and, in my tech naivete, I am assuming that the hard-working, soft-partying

How do you cover the back-and-forth over a story that hasn’t come out?
CBS News - Today, thanks to the drastically reduced barriers to entry that the internet has provided, blogs have taken their place there are 100 million of them at the moment, according to Technorati, and that number is growing. Thanks to blogs, no matter

Confessions of a Dissident
Wired - Bloggers with spare server capacity tag an entry “adoptablog” or “adoptachineseblog” so Chinese people looking for a foreign host can find one through Technorati or del.icio.us . My own cat-and-mouse game with the government is never-ending. Soon after

Weblogs Help Companies Communicate
The Ledger - According to Technorati.com there are 75,000 new blogs created every day and MySpace is adding 200,000-plus users each day. At that rate, how long will it be before everybody is publishing online? Also note that each of these stats has consistently

Some Bloggers Want To Form A Bloggers Labor Union
The Moderate Voice - With pages focused on everything from bird watching to celebrity footwear, more than 120,000 blogs are created every day and more than 58,000 new posts are made each hour, according to data from Technorati, which tracks more than 94 million blogs

You do not need any permission to link to any of the pages on this
PRWeb - As of August 2006, Technorati.com (a search engine that specializes in weblogs) indexed 50.2 million weblogs in its database, and there are estimates that 80,000 new weblogs are created every day (approximately one per second!). Of these millions of

Timeline: The Life of the Blog
NPR News - 2002: The launch of Technorati , one of the first blog search engines, making it possible for people to track blog conversations on a continuous basis. 2003: The creation of Audioblogger, which allowed users to record a voicemail over their phone and

Mitt Romney s Obama Osama Political Stumble
The Moderate Voice - Just read memeorandum or this link to Technorati and you ll see how this has become a big issue. And, of course, Romney s campaign has had to put a band aid on this quickly. TPM Cafe: This obviously invited the question: Was it appropriate for Mitt

Da Vinci and hard math
BusinessWeek - Naturally, The current top books section of Technorati includes two versions of The Da Vinci code. But sandwiched between them is a 530-page math tome, The Pi-Calculus . Bruce Silver has a laugh about it. I guess it shows how a niche book, even a $75

Daily Telegraph - For breaking news, changing views and trading floor chatter, check out Ben Bland’s Market Forces. After a much-needed break over the quiet Christmas and New Year period, the Market Forces blog is back in business. If you’ve got any questions

StrategyLab Open: Stock Genius in Action
Forbes - Contestants invest their mock-portfolio as they see fit and write about the decisions behind their buying and selling in their personal blog, which is hosted by InvestorPlace Blogs. Each contestant’s portfolio is maintained and validated by

JAMIE SAMUELSEN’S BLOG: Surprised at how Wolverines beat Florida
Detroit Free Press - 1. How surprised were you that Michigan was able to send Lloyd Carr off with a victory over Florida in the Capital One Bowl? I m more surprised at how it happened. I think the late season losses to Ohio State and Wisconsin coupled with the horrid

A Web network for every niche
Baltimore Sun - They allow users to create Web-based personal profiles which they use to communicate through multiple channels - sharing pictures, videos, messages and blog posts - not to mention “friending” one another. (Friending is the official process of asking a

Beauty queen tackles body image
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Contact Nancy Amanda Redd, read her blog, get her book at a discount: www.nancyredd.com . Check out www.campaign forrealbeauty.com . This site has interactive tools for girls and parents concerned with health, self-image and photographic manipulation

Bloggers are political players
Boston Globe - On a recent snowy Thursday afternoon, John F. Bowes 3d and Susan K. Haley sat across from each other at Starbucks in Marshfield peering into their laptops. The co-editors of the Democratic blog, BelowBoston.com , alternated writing items for their

ZDNet Blogs - Technorati s new CEO, Richard Jalichandra, presided over the latest release of the blog search and aggregation service. The new Percolator pages that bubble up top content across six categories is a good addition, but David and I both are put off by

Technorati rolls out Percolator and Blogger Central
ZDNet Blogs - Technorati rolled out its latest effort to fine tune its blog search service today, with a renewed focus on the blogger community and new ways to discover content, according to company CEO Richard Jalichandra. We are going back to service the

Timeline: The Life of the Blog
NPR News - 2002: The launch of Technorati , one of the first blog search engines, making it possible for people to track blog conversations on a continuous basis. 2003: The creation of Audioblogger, which allowed users to record a voicemail over their phone and

Guest Voice: The Ron Paul Internet Dilemma
The Moderate Voice - I am not a Ron Paul fan, but I am a fan of the Internet and the powerful roles that it is playing already in the Presidential campaigns. Ron Paul has been excelling amongst the top sites on the web: Google, YouTube, Technorati, etc. You might be

WaPo Blog Network Gets First Category Sponsor: Lufthansa
MarketingVOX - The ads are standard display units, not rich media. WaPo has added several Web 2.0 features in the last several months, including displaying Technorati links to its stories and signing on bloggers to provide commentary or feeds that display on the

Technorati Announces the Appointment of Richard Jalichandra as
PR Newswire - SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ — Technorati, Inc., the leading authority on the universe of blogs and social media on the Web, announced today the appointment of Richard Jalichandra as President & Chief Executive Officer. Founder and former CEO

Online Opinion Poll
KELOLAND TV - Technorati Tags: Steve Sibson , Pat Powers , Sibby , Republicans , Republican Party , South Dakota Republican Party , Gov. Bill Janklow , Sen. John Thune , Richard Pettigrew , Peter Norbeck , South Dakota history Powered by ScribeFire .

Search tagging: What if some blogs are hogs?
BusinessWeek - Steve Rubel points out that in the new Technorati blog-finding system , he could rank as the top-rated knitting blogger if he just chose to tag himself as a knitter. He proposes a system that catalogs the blogs by the words they use. In other words

You do not need any permission to link to any of the pages on this
PRWeb - As of August 2006, Technorati.com (a search engine that specializes in weblogs) indexed 50.2 million weblogs in its database, and there are estimates that 80,000 new weblogs are created every day (approximately one per second!). Of these millions of