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Warning: Please Don't Re-Tweet This -- Could Trigger Global Server Reflux

Gerald Sindell | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Twittering, Perfect Blog, Perfect Joke, Twitter, Retweeting, Blogging, Perfect Storm, Internet Crash, Media News

So what if someone writes the perfect blog post someday? Could the Web take the stress? One, two, three billion repeats of the same post, rolling out in just a few days time.

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Do Relationships Need Lies to Survive?

Bella DePaulo | Posted 10.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Reassurance, Singled Out, Little Lies, Hurt Feelings, Lies, Relationships, Best Friends, Writing, Singles, Serious Lies, Compassion, Death, Loyalty, Deception, Media News, Love, Betrayal, Blogging, Living News

I draw a big line between little lies and big ones. Serious lies -- the big time betrayals of trust -- are probably never good for relationships of any kind. Little lies are often a different matter entirely.

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Blogger Reads A Book A Day

The New York Times | PETER APPLEBOME | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Book a Day, Nina Sankovitch, Books, Book Blogs, Reading, Blogging, Books News

In a time-deprived world, where book reading is increasingly squeezed off the page, it is hard to know what's most striking about Ms. Sankovitch's que...

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My Friend Christina and the Downfall of Newspapers

James Boyce | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media

Read More: New Media, Downfall of Newspapers, The Washington Times, Bloggers, Talking Points Memo, Traditional News Reporting, Blogging, Online Journalism, Inside DC, Media News

So now, here's a real journalist, with real credentials, who had the audacity to go into the real Iowa last year, now writing for a real ... online news site.

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New FTC Blogging Regulations: Forcing Transparency on a Culture of Full Disclosure

Ian Paul | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Federal Trade Commission, Blogging, Ftc, Ftc Regulations, Media News

The Federal Trade Commission has come up with a set of strange new regulations to protect consumers from potentially misleading information in the blogosphere and social networks.

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FTC to Social Media Marketers and Bloggers: Y'all Play Fair Now!

Andy Sernovitz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Sernovitz, Ftc, Sponsored Posts, Social Media, Wom, Disclosure, Ethics, Social Media Policies, Word of Mouth, Blogging, FTC Social Media Regulations, Media News

"I'm a free-speaking blogger" doesn't give you a free pass from consumer protection laws. If you get compensation, you're a business now. You don't get a free pass just because it's social media.

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Daniel Suelo: Blogger Has Gone 9 Years Without Spending Money

treehugger.com | Brian Merchant | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Library, Cave, Green News, Spending, Bloggers, Sustainability, Daniel Suelo, Green Living, Blogging, Carbon Footprint, Eco-Stunt, Green News

Daniel Suelo wasn't poor, a victim of bad luck, mentally ill, or even uneducated. He just decided that he wanted to have nothing to do with money. So ...

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Bound and Gagged: Publishers Remain Silent

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Blogs, Book Publishing, Gagged, Publishing Industry, Books, Publishers, Blogging, Books News

There's a chill in the U.S. publishing industry when it comes to blogging. As we've been tracking down talented book-industry people to blog for th...

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Separating the Journalism Baby from the Newspaper Bathwater

Rob Kall | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Death of Newspapers, Newspapers, Investigative Journalism, Media, Citizen Journalism, Blogging, Journalism, Bailout Newspapers, Bailout Journalism Industry, Media News

If the US government invests directly in journalists, so that their writings and reports can be freely used by any media organization or site, that investment will yield big results.

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Facebook Friendships and Social Influence: Guest Blog

Giles Slade | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media

Read More: James Fowler, J.D. Salinger, Harvard University, Social Networks, Pulp Fiction, The Killers, The Beatles, Good Will Hunting, Love Actually, Facebook, Nicholas Christakis, Blogging, William Shakespeare, Connected, Media News

We followed 1,700 interconnected college students on Facebook. Their profiles listed favorite bands, movies, and authors. But we wondered how their tastes might spread.

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New Media and Social Change: How Nonprofits Are Using Web-Based Technologies to Reach Their Goals

Josh Nelson | Posted 11.28.2009 | Technology

Read More: Reddit, Yahoo Buzz, Social News, Technology News, Twitter, Technology, Facebook, Facebook Applications, Stumbleupon, Yahoo, Digg, Social Media, Social Networking, New Media, Blogger Outreach, Blogging, Google, Technology News

The Hatcher Group set out to examine how a group of nonprofits working on state-level advocacy issues are using new media technologies to promote their agendas.

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Say Something Nice

Libby Mitchell | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Dooce, Chickenliver, Civility, Heather Armstrong, Bloggers, Blogging, Living News

Please, bloggers, just because you can say something, just because it makes you feel a part of an online "family or "clique" doesn't mean you should say it.

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The Internet and the Ignorant

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Internet, Rush Limbaugh, Death Panels, Health Care, Blogging, Bloggers, Politics News

If readers are intent on being deceived by one kind of magician or another I'd suggest they put their faith in the imaginary lottery folks or the cash-strapped Nigerians. They harm only the gullible.

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Balanced Life -- Embrace The Update, Or, Why Is It So Hard To Turn On The TV?

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Patience, Technology, Blogging, Happiness, Gretchen Rubin, Living News

Novelty and challenge bring happiness, true, but they also bring frustration, anxiety, and sometimes a bit of cursing.

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Behemoth Blogs Taking Over The Web

The Atlantic | Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology

Read More: Blogs, Mass Media, Blogger, Professional Bloggers, Clay Shirky, Atlantic, Blog, Blogging, Technology News

Almost everyone weighing in agreed that blogging has become more corporate, more ossified, and increasingly indistinguishable from the mainstream medi...

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Losing the News: A Great Book

Diane Francis | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Blogs, Politics, Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, New Media, Death of Newspapers, Democracy, Media, News, Blogging, Journalism, Citizen Journalists, Broadcast TV, Alex Jones, Business News

Alex Jones writes that the implosion of the business model for traditional media is creating a vacuum in the type of news gathering, analysis or revelatory investigation which is in the public interest.

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Six Pixels of Clarity

Hugh McGuire | Posted 11.08.2009 | Books

Read More: Podcasting, Social Media, Digital Media, Mitch Joel, Review, Sales, Books, Twist Image, Digital, Marketing, Blogging, Books News

Mitchell Joel's Six Pixels of Separation is written as the story of a business owner and entrepreneur, and not as a pundit.

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Glenn Greenwald Has Said Kind Things About The Armed Forces, As It Turns Out

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Idiots, Torture, Glenn Greenwald, Bloggers, Joe Klein, Blogging, Media News

Time's Joe Klein levelled a significant and ugly charge: that he had "never seen [Greenwald] write a positive sentence about the US military." But Greenwald has.

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Joe Klein Is Now Warblogging With Critics, Forever

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Joe Klein, Idiots, Blogging, Bloggers, Torture, Glenn Greenwald, Media News

Klein is upset about all the mean things being said about him on the Internet, and the litigation of his hurt feelings is somehow considered news by Time, for reasons passing understanding.

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Generation-Y Bloggers: How To Improve Your Writing Overnight

Diane Tucker | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Blackberry, The New Yorker, Vlog, The Elements of Style, Obama Blackberry Addiction, HuffPo Liveblog Series, Liveblogging, Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging, Diane Tucker, Text Messaging, Arianna Huffington, William Strunk Jr, E. B. White, Arianna Book, Blogging, Generation Y, How to Blog, Twitter, Careers, Huffpost Books, Books, Technology, Facebook, Iphone, Tucker Carlson, Dancing With the Stars, Media News

The Elements of Style is a masterpiece on the art of writing well, and it's a surprisingly quick read. Seriously, this rhetoric rulebook is so slim, it'll fit in the pocket of your hoodie.

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In Defense of FREE: Why I Don't Care That Arianna Doesn't Pay Me

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 09.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Blogosphere, Freelance Writers, Writers, Celebrities Talk Politics, Journalism, Blogging, Bloggers, Arianna Huffington, Media News

When you really look at the traffic the average site generates, you see the Web is actually a big lonely place. And without real traffic, you're just preaching in an echo chamber.

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GM Creates 'The Lab' Blog to Test Transportation Concepts

Dave Pinter | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Open Source, Design, Auto Industry, Blogging, Crowdsourcing, Green Cars, General Motors, Gm, Hybrid Cars, GM Cars, Cars, Future of General Motors, General Motors News, Business News

The theme of the 'Bare Necessity' is, as GM Designer Therese Tant writes, a back-to basics approach, less is more, less cost, less complexity = efficiency.

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Nasim Fekrat, Afghanistan's Biggest Blogger, Hopes To Show Country's Softer Side

Foreign Policy | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan's Blogger, Blogger, Afghanistan, Blog, Helmand, Farsi, Blogging, War Wire, World News

Although he passionately hopes to bring Afghan art, culture, and music -- life, really -- to readers around the world with his blog, Fekrat certainly ...

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Something More to That "Bloggers in Pajamas" Myth?

Anne Hill | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Dreams, Pajamas, Firedoglake, Blogging, Bloggers, Sleep, Health Care Reform, Media News

I think the secret fear of those who disparage bloggers is not that they are slovenly or erratic, but that they are tapping into realms of consciousness deeper than the rational mind has access to.

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Gawking at the Washington Post

Hugh McGuire | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Britannica, Wikipedia, Blogs, Newspapers, Content, Gawker, Ian Shapira, Bloggers, Anne Loehr, Hamilton Nolan, Death of Newspapers, Media, Washington-Post, News, Blogging, Media News

The problem with Gawker blogging about a Washington Post story isn't bloggers "stealing" stories. The problem is measuring the value of content.

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