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STRIP & REBIND: Why Publicists Love the Word "No"

Cassie Ammerman | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Book Reviews, Publicists, Publicity, Writing, Book Publishing, Blogs, Authors, Book Publicity, Biography, Books, Book Publicists, Newspapers, Books News
Cassie Ammerman

There is a word that publicists love almost as much as "yes." And it's "no." Seems counterintuitive, right? But it's true. There is little I love more than a solid "no."

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Threatened Voices Charts Bloggers Under Attack Around The World

Huffington Post | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

Read More: Blogs, Blogosphere, Bloggers-in-Danger, Bloggers, Internet Censorship, China Censorship, Censorship, Civil Rights, Blogging, Chinese Censorship, Bloggers in Danger, Threatened Voices, World News

Blogging from a fancy office in Soho, it is easy to forget how dangerous it can be for bloggers around the world to do their work. But just last month...

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The Cause Conference Circuit

Shira Lazar | Posted 11.02.2009 | Impact

Read More: Cameron Sinclair, Blogs, CBS News, Philanthropy, Social Change, Architecture for Humanity, Shira Lazar, Impact News
Shira Lazar

I recently moderated a great panel, Online Locally, Act Globally, at the Blogworld Expo in Las Vegas. The panel reiterated how one individual can use social media to create massive social change.

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25 Bloggers You Wish You Were Reading

Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Bloggers, Roy Sekoff, Matt Drudge, Josh Marshall, Arianna Huffington, Danny Shea, Robert Quigley, Mediaite, Ryan Tate, Hot Air, Gawker Media, Top Blogger List, Key Bloggers, Kanye West, Top Bloggers List, The Huffington Post, Need to Know Bloggers, Scott Lamb, Nick Denton, Joe Coscarelli, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Influential Bloggers, Michelle Malkin, Top 25 Bloggers, John Cook, Tom Scocca, Copyranter, The Hidden Hand, Mark Copyranter, Amanda Dobbins, AllahPundit, Rihanna, Emily Gould, 25 Most Underrated Bloggers, Abram Sauer, Natasha Vargas-Cooper, Fred Mwangaguhunga, Jack Shepherd, Best Bloggers List, Media Take Out, Top Bloggers, Gawker, Part 1, Peggy Wang, Best Bloggers, Allah Pundit, 25 Need to Know Bloggers, Buzzfeed, Media News
Rachel Sklar

Remember when the web used to be about following links to someone's cool blogspot site? Now it's all about the world of ultra-ultra-niche or the secret gems that the big sites troll daily for their unique takes.

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New On The NYR Blog

The New York Review of Books | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Censorship, Political Prisoners, Blogs, Afghani Elections, New York Review of Books, Karzai, Iran, Middle East, New York Review, Tehran, Afghanistan Election, Afghanistan, New York Review Blog, Books, Books News

The New York Review blog has two new posts up today, from Haleh Esfandiari, who writes about her tenure in Evin Prison in Tehran, and Ahmed Rashid, wh...

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What People Were Packing at BlogWorld Expo '09 (Technology, You Dirty Buggers!)

Jennifer Kushell | Posted 10.28.2009 | Technology

Read More: Gizmo, Blogs, Gadgets, Technology, Las Vegas, Cnn, Blogging, Podcast, Technology News
Jennifer Kushell

With all the funky new technology available these days, what is the one thing that the online blogging elite refuse to leave home without?

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Subject: Our Marketing Plan

The New Yorker | Ellis Weiner | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Interns, The New Yorker, Book Marketing, Book Publishing, Twitter, Shouts and Murmurs, Humor, Online Marketing, Publishing, New Yorker, Marketing, Book Promotion, Internet, Authors, Books, Promotion Department, Blogging, Google, Book Blogs, Blogs, Books News

If you already have a blog, make sure you spray-feed your URL in niblets open-face to the skein. We like Reddit bites (they're better than Delicious),...

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Technorati Releases "State Of The Blogosphere" Report

Technorati | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Blogophere, Professional Bloggers, Twitter, Micro-Blogging, Bloggers, Technology, Arianna Huffington, State of the Blogosphere, Technorati, Media News

Welcome to Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2009 report. Since 2004, our annual study has followed the growth and trends in the blogosphere. For ...

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The End of the Affair in Hollywood

Candy Spelling | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Blogs, Myspace, Twitter, Los Angeles Times, Facebook, Hollywood Reporter, Publicists, Celebrities, Miley Cyrus, Courtney Love, Spencer Pratt, Kirstie Alley, Demi Moore, Entertainment News
Candy Spelling

Big stars are going public on Facebook and Twitter with complaints about other stars. Guys, that's a real no-no. That's why you have publicists and agents and managers and all those other handlers.

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Do Book Bloggers Make a Difference?

Beth Kephart | Posted 10.14.2009 | Books

Read More: Authors, Blogs, Bloggers, Book Bloggers, Books, Book Blogs, FTC Guidelines, Ftc, Blogging, Books News
Beth Kephart

Let's stop asking if book bloggers can make a difference. Let's start figuring out how they can operate -- with integrity and commitment, without fear of being fined -- in the coming era of new FTC guidelines.

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New York Review: The Blog (Preview)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.14.2009 | Books

Read More: Nobel, Supreme Court, Dworkin, Books, Jonathan Raban, Nyr, Italy, New York Review of Books, Blogs, Garry Wills, Blog, New York Review, Book Reviews, Hillary Clinton, Town Hall Meetings, Reading, Blogging, China, Healthcare, Books News

The New York Review of Books, our content partner, Is teasing its new site by giving us a peek at their brand new blog section today. As usual it is f...

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Yoani Sanchez, HuffPost Blogger In Cuba, Not Allowed To Accept Columbia Award

AP | ANNE-MARIE GARCIA | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Blogs, US-Cuba Relations, Bloggers, Yoani-Sanchez, Generation Y Cuba, Yoani Sanchez, US-Cuba Policy, Generation Y, Cuba, Bloggers in Danger, Yoani Sanchez Cuban Blogger, Blog Cuba Yoani Sanchez EspañOl, World News

HAVANA A Cuban blogger who has become an international sensation for offering frank criticism of her country's communist system said she was denied go...

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Dear Publishing Colleagues

Amy Hertz | Posted 10.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Twitter, Harpercollins, Books, Arianna, Book Blogs, Facebook, Arianna Huffington, Blogs, Authors, Social Media, Miller, Publishers, Bob, Editors, Harperstudio, Books News
Amy Hertz

I know many of you are looking at this Books section and wondering what the heck is going on and how the hell you are going to make any noise for your books.

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Five Things That Annoy Me About Your Blog

Jessica Olien | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Absurd Book Deals, Opinion, Lolcats, Bloggers, Blogs, Reporting, Technology, Journalism, Media News
Jessica Olien

LOLcatz has already been made into a book and it's likely that your bad idea makes it look like Animal Farm.

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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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FTC: Bloggers Must Disclose Payments For Reviews -- Or Pay Big

AP | DEBORAH YAO and EMILY FREDRIX | Posted 10.05.2009 | Technology

Read More: Ftc, FTC Bloggers, FTC Blogger Fine, FTC Payments, FTC Disclosure, Bloggers, Blogs, Blogger, Social Media, Federal Trade Commission, Blogger Review, Blogger Disclosure, Ftc Guidelines Bloggers, Blogger Must Report Review Payments, Ftc Bloggers Disclose Payments, Technology News

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday took steps to make product information and online reviews more accurate for consumers, regulating blogging for ...

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Washington Post Looking for "America's Next Great Pundit" -- Could It Be You?

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogosphere, Op-Ed Page, Newspapers, Washpost, Bloggers, Writing, Msm, Pundit Contest, Newspaper, Opinion, Froomkin, Media, Journalism, Prize, Blogs, Mainstream Media, Politics, Contest, Wapo, Chris Weigant, Blog, Essay, Newspaper Industry, Post, Washington Post, America's Next Great Pundit, Editorial, Op-Ed, Huffington Post, Pundit, Dan Froomkin, Media News
Chris Weigant

Newspapers seem to be clinging to blandness as a viable business model in an exciting new world of opinions available to their potential customers -- to their detriment. And then they wonder why they're failing.

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Media Drops the F-Bomb Into Its Headlines

Danny Groner | Posted 09.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Television, Newspapers, Video, Language, Entertainment, Ernie Anastos, Tv, Online Video, Snl, Saturday Night Live, F-Bomb, Media, Obscenity, Jenny Slate, Media News
Danny Groner

By the looks of it, the "F-Bomb" has been lurking for some time now, but it took the Slate incident on SNL to help propel it further. Call me old-fashioned, but what ever happened to the old, reliable, and charged F-Word?

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Our Blog Lives: Boring Microblogs Just Work, Home, Lunch, Sleep

mashable.com | Posted 09.21.2009 | Technology

Read More: Blogs, Microblogging, Twitter, Microblog, Tweets, Technology News

Are our everyday lives really so mundane? Does it all boil down to working, getting home, satisfying the most basic needs such as eating and sleeping,...

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The Pentagon Gives Us a Teachable, New Media Moment

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 09.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Web, Pentagon, New Media, New York Times, Online Media, Bloggers, Blogs, Newspapers, Afghanistan, Reporters, Iraq, Media News
Jarvis Coffin

The Pentagon plans to issue new restrictions that will make a serious attempt to restrict access to social networking sites.

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Behemoth Blogs Taking Over The Web

The Atlantic | Posted 09.11.2009 | 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 09.11.2009 | 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
Diane Francis

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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Kill The Messenger

Richard Zombeck | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Google, Skank, Blogs, Liskula Cohen Lawsuit, Banks, Blogger, Rosemary Port, Anonymous, Comments, Media News
Richard Zombeck

Rosemary Port is suing Google for $15 million for outing her to a model she called a "skank" on her blog. But when you publicly lie, slander, or spread rumors about someone, you give up your right to privacy.

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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
Raymond Leon Roker

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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Murdoch Pay-For-Content Strategy A Dud

Diane Francis | Posted 09.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Iranian Uprising, Newspapers, Iran, Death of Newspapers, Fox, Digital Television, Media, Wall Street Journal, Journalism, The Times of London, Blogs, Television, Internet, Online, New York Times, Citizen Journalism, New Media, Media News
Diane Francis

Murdoch and others are the King Canutes of the business world, trying to hold back the tides.

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