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What is a blog?
The art of journaling has experienced a resurgence in popularity with web logs, affectionately
known as blogs.
Over half a million people participate in the blog phenomenon.
Every 40 seconds a new blogger enters the fold with the composition of their first entry.
Blog themes include personal diaries, current event observations, and technology insights.
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08/14/03
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Ciol
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Yahoo!, the global Internet communication and media company which provides services to consumers and businesses worldwide, is considering blogging, as a possible service to its wide customer base in the near future.
In India for the official inauguaration of the Yahoo Software Development Center in Bangalore, Phu Hoang, Senior VP, Business Unit Engineering said that blogging was a "pretty cool thing" and that Yahoo! Inc would be considering an initiative for providing the service.
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08/05/03
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Sci/Tech
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Alex admits bloggers are whores for attention. "You're putting it [out] there [online] so you can have attention," he says, "so you can have somebody say, 'Look at me, here's my stuff. Look at it, you're reading it. Therefore I'm important.'"
This is where the story turns sour. ...
This is where Johanna decides to fool around with the friend while Alex is at work. Ripped with guilt, she decides to publish an anonymous blog, seeking advice on how to break the news to him.
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06/26/03
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australia.internet.com
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I'm writing this in the wake of ClickZ's first Weblog Business Strategies Conference, which I chaired. The purpose of the conference, as the first one ever to address the business aspects of Weblogs (a.k.a. blogs), was to find out how corporations can benefit from the best of what blogs are all about.
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As true as those comments may be, we newsletter publishers have a lot to learn from the blogosphere:
- Blogs are authentic, a bit like reality TV. Bloggers blog because they have something to say and knowledge to share. They have a reason to say what they say. Blogs are informed by freedom of speech. It's the truth, their truth, and nothing but unbiased, loudly voiced truth. Nothing's held back. Is your newsletter that authentic? How much are you holding back?
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06/17/03
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USC Annenberg
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So Phillips has the media industry's attention, and a recent story in PR Week shows that media flacks are trying to cash in on his cachet. But can he cash in? IWantMedia is still a side business and promotional platform for him, as Phillips continues to do corporate writing as his main source of income. IWantMedia revenues come from site and newsletter advertising, as well as licensing his content to other sites -- along with a surprising amount from being an Amazon affiliate for books.
Though he has entertained buyout offers from media companies, he told me "the offers could have been better" -- and some of those making offers aren't in business anymore, he noted wryly.
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06/05/03
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The Indian Express
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One of the greatest mysteries of the Iraq war has been solved. No, not weapons of mass destruction. Salam Pax. He’s real. The hip and irreverent Iraqi, whose poignant online tirades skewered Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush in equal measure, rivetted thousands of internet users before and during the war.
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06/01/03
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PressofAtlanticCity
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This articles reviews two GeekPhilospher picks!
Luckily for us, there are people like Barbie Hocking, owner of GeekPhilosopher, who are willing to share what they have found on the Net. "I read your article," Hocking wrote in e-mail, "and saw that you will be highlighting some of the Web's top journals next week."
Hocking's site touches on all things geeky, but the blog links are what we are specifically looking for, and there are many. In her e-mail, Hocking recommended several other blogs and journals, two of which stand out as unique and wonderful.
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06/01/03
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ZDNet UK
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Blogs, pithy online accounts written by professional journalists and ordinary Netizens with a bone to pick, have become increasingly popular forums for news junkies looking for an unfiltered, grassroots account of current events.
Their popularity took off during the war in Iraq. The Pew Research Center in the United States recently reported that four percent of American Internet users visited Web blog sites for some form of coverage on the war in Iraq.
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05/26/03
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PressofAtlanticCity
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There is no way of knowing how many worthwhile journals are kept on the Web. Each of you reading this column has a different taste in writing style and subject matter. Like message boards, journals run the gamut - from current events to historical digs, music, art and poetry. You name it, and someone somewhere on the Web is talking about it.
Indeed, so many people are talking it up on the Web that search engines like Google have had problems with what's known as "noise to relevancy" in search returns.
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05/25/03
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The New York Times
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Photo blogs are the colorful offspring of blogs, or Web logs, written diaries posted and updated regularly on the Internet. For a half-dozen years people have been posting text blogs to rant and to ponder the events of the day and the dust beneath their feet. Then, sometime in 2000, people started posting photographs to go with the text. The photo blog was born. Now photo blogs often are posted with no text at all. And there are thousands of them.
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05/19/03
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Wired News
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A couple of webloggers are raising money for an unfortunate teenager humiliated worldwide after a private video of his energetic lightsaber moves was leaked to the Net.
Webloggers Andy Baio and Jish Mukerji launched a fundraiser Friday for the young man they call the "Star Wars Kid," whose home video has been downloaded millions of times and watched by people all over the world.
The video shows a lone, overweight teenager fighting a mock battle with a broomstick lightsaber. In the two-minute video, the teenager twirls the broomstick ever more energetically while generating his own lightsaber sound effects. The video, which is obviously not for public consumption, is amusing and excruciating.
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05/16/03
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Wired News
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Commercial websites believe scoring high placements in search-engine results is so crucial for generating traffic that many are willing to pay top dollar to sponsor keywords or hire "positioning" consultants to secure a good ranking.
Then there are bloggers. With no deliberate effort, many dedicated weblog publishers are finding their blogs rank high on search results for topics that, oftentimes, they claim to know practically nothing about.
Bloggers attribute prominent placement to the frequency with which they publish new material and the fact that other sites often link to their blogs. These are two factors most search engines take into account when determining rankings.
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05/15/03
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The New York Times
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Mr. Walker has raised dull blogging to an art form by meticulously chronicling mundane events in his life: checking e-mail, turning his head to the right, walking past the ironing board, and thinking about making some food. His minimalist musings have attracted something of a cult following, with his blog (www.wibsite.com/wiblog/dull/) counting about 85,000 page views a month. Seldom has dullness generated such keen interest.
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Mr. Walker's deadpan reports are delivered with the economy of haiku, quietly celebrating the humdrum. One recent entry, "Making a Small Noise," reads in its entirety: "The room was quiet so I tapped the arm of my chair. It wasn't a particularly interesting noise, so I stopped after about 4 taps and sat in silence."
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05/12/03
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SFGate.com
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The Internet changed not just the speed but the way in which the United States fought, experienced and responded to war.
People learned details of the war direct from the battlefield, where soldiers and journalists blogged away with first-person narratives. In Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. military used network computing power to drop precision-targeted bombs. And around the world, a newly energized peace movement used e-mail lists to mobilize demonstrations at lightning speed.
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05/09/03
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The Register
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Google has strived in vain to maintain the quality of its search results in the face of a blizzard of links generated by a small number of sources. (Google searches 3,083,324,652 pages as of 4PM PT today. Assuming there are one million bloggers, and generously assuming they have a hundred pages each, that amounts to 0.032 per cent of web content indexed by Google. Recent research by Pew put the number of blog readers as opposed to writers, as "statistically insignificant").
However, through dense and incestuous linking, results from blogs can drown out other sources.
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05/9/03
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c/net NEWS.COM
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For those who have not closely followed the story, Salam Pax is the handle of a Baghdad blogger whose daily updates from Iraq's capital turned him into something of a cult Internet figure. Months' worth of Salam's dispatches, variously marked by mordant humor and detailed insight, make for a fascinating chronicle of how ordinary people dealt with the most extraordinary of circumstances.
Then, just as the bombing began in mid-March, Salam stopped posting. The speculation ran the gamut of possibilities, always circling around to the likelihood that his dead body was lying crushed under a pile of rubble.
Happily, the worst he suffered was a power outage that temporarily cut off his connection to the Internet. Now that he's back to chronicling life in Iraq, I've again bookmarked his blog as part of my must-read Web sites in the a.m.
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05/7/03
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USC Annenberg
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It's not exactly up there with "Free Mumia," but the virtual world of Weblogs has been ablaze with anger at the Hartford Courant for killing travel editor Denis Horgan's personal Weblog.
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Now, the longtime columnist is talking to a lawyer about legal action, and hopes that the threat of a lawsuit will get the paper to back off and allow him to blog again. "I think I'm going to win this," he told me. "Hopefully, cooler heads will prevail, and the law will prevail. I have no demands. I want no apologies. I just want to be left alone, so I can come into my family room and type away at my keyboard every night."
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05/02/03
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BBC News
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And some of these people are now getting into trouble with their governments, especially if they live in countries which do not respect the basic right to freedom of expression.
Lui Di, a Chinese psychology student who posted regularly to bulletin boards and chat rooms, was arrested in November 2002 for criticising the government's restrictions on net use.
She is still being held.
And last month the Iranian police detained Sina Motallebi, a prominent blogger, marking a significant and worrying shift in what had previously been a tolerant approach to the large number of Iranian blogs.
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04/29/03
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Washington Post
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It seems this morning that bloggers have taken over the world.
Or at least the 2004 presidential campaign.
Or at least the not-so-invisible primary leading up to the campaign.
The pundits are blogging. The journalists are blogging. And now the candidates are blogging.
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04/26/03
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seattlepi.com
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From actor Jeff Bridges to humorist Dave Barry to notable actor/singer/transvestite RuPaul, more celebrities are adding blogs to their Web sites, and those interested in what these celebrities have to say are checking these sites regularly.
"It's part of my routine media consumption experience," said Johnson, a business adviser in Dublin, Calif. He reads daily the blogs from Moby and William Gibson, author of "Neuromancer."
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04/24/03
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EDITOR & PUBLISHER
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Horgan said he then decided to set up his own Web page, where he has commented on everything from baseball to the Iraqi information minister to same-sex unions. "It kept me happy and gave me a chance to keep doing things that I wanted to do," Horgan told E&P Online. "I do it on my own time, from my own house. I'm not competing with the Courant. I'm not looking for advertisers. In fact, it costs me money to do this."
But Toolan sees it differently. "Denis Horgan's entire professional profile is a result of his attachment to the Hartford Courant, yet he has unilaterally created for himself a parallel journalistic universe where he'll do commentary on the institutions that the paper has to cover without any editing oversight by the Courant," Toolan said. "That makes the paper vulnerable."
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04/23/03
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CNET News
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Six Apart, which sells popular Weblog tool Movable Type, is launching a new hosting service to compete with Google's blogging unit. As we’re always looking to build our individual programs around particular themes, we are asking that current submissions have something to do with the theme of Freedom."
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04/09/03
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Washington Post
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The war in Iraq put blogs in the public spotlight, but it also has given the blogosphere its first real scandal -- a scandal that is provoking a new debate among bloggers about what ethics, if any, apply to their medium.
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04/09/03
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Minnesota Star Tribune
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I am a warblogger.
If that sounds like the confession of an addiction, it is. For since the war in Iraq began, I have been compulsively reading -- and writing -- warblogs, which is short for war weblogs, which simply means Web pages that link to the latest and best coverage of the war from anywhere in the world, often with personal commentary.
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04/23/03
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CNET News
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Six Apart, which sells popular Weblog tool Movable Type, is launching a new hosting service to compete with Google's blogging unit. As we’re always looking to build our individual programs around particular themes, we are asking that current submissions have something to do with the theme of Freedom."
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03/28/03
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Washington Post
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The public's hunger for information and opinion about the Iraq war has fueled an explosion of "war blogs" on the Internet -- online platforms for all sorts of personal musing about the war, from diaries from soldiers at the front to sounding boards for pro- and antiwar opinion.
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Geek Philosopher: Highlights of War Blogs: Barbie Hocking compiles the GeekPhilosopher Web site, which covers various topics, including this special section on war blogs.
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03/17/03
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MSNBC
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Kevin Barbieux, 41, a mild-mannered veteran of the streets, slides into his seat and pecks out the address to his Web site.
Five months ago, Barbieux, started a Web log about his life. His goals for the ''blog'' were modest. Mainly, he wanted to show people a different side to homelessness.
But a strange thing happened. Barbieux's site, TheHomelessGuy.net, took off. What started as a few dozen hits a day grew to a few hundred a day, then a few thousand. At last count, more than 195,000 people from around the world have visited, and the number continues to grow
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03/10/03
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CNN.com
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"Just like the Internet was 10 years ago, blogging is popular with an underground culture that is doing it for the love and passion," said Tony Perkins, who edited the recently folded Red Herring technology magazine and last month launched a business blog called Always On Network.
"Now there are people like me coming along and trying to figure out how to package it," Perkins said. "It's time to take it to the next level."
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03/06/03
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Guardian Unlimited
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As highlighted by no less an authority than a recent episode of Grange Hill, a blogger who documents his personal life in enough detail to be remotely interesting is a stalker's dream come true. And modern stalkers don't have to be human - spam harvesters already make it suicidal to put your full email address online, and who knows how sophisticated their profiling will get in the future?
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03/03/03
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MSNBC
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Marketers at Dr Pepper see the movement as the perfect launch point for a “grass roots” campaign for a new “milk-based product with an attitude,” Raging Cow. The first step is an in-house blog (ragingcow.com); it tells the fictional backstory of the drink, which rolls out in April in flavors like Chocolate Insanity and Pina Colada Chaos.
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03/03/03
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ComputerWorld
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If I were remaking The Graduate today, with Dustin Hoffman's character as an IT professional who was looking to advance his career, the one word of advice I would give him would be: weblogs.
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03/03/03
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ZDNet
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The announcements stake out new territory for Google, piquing curiosity about what appears to be a new direction for the company, and raising some concerns as well.
"They've always said, 'We'll be only focused on search.' How does (the Pyra purchase) have anything to do with search? It doesn't," said Danny Sullivan, publisher of industry newsletter SearchEngineWatch.com.
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02/20/03
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webpro news
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Pyra was a smart buy for a number of reasons, but page views is certainly there at the top of the list. Blogger.com claims 50-60,000 page views a day, from 30,000 unique viewers. Blogspot.com (a Pyra subsidiary), where anyone can host a personal blog for free, is home to "over 100,000 blogs, [and] serves more than 60,000 unique visitors per day..."
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02/10/03
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shift.com
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Philosopher Pick blogger is hired to blog about the making of the movie "I Love Your Work".
The blogger selected to cover the filmmaking is Helen Jane Yeager, a twenty-seven-year-old serially under-employed graphic designer and writer from San Francisco. Before being hand-picked by Cyan Pictures, Helen Jane (in perfect Horatio Alger style) was making ends meet by "slinging weenies" at a cart in front of the Levi's Store in San Francisco's Union Square.
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01/31/03
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c/net news.com
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Web logs (commonly known as "blogs"), message boards and other online forums are becoming increasingly important vehicles for developers to attract customers--and development talent--well before an application even enters the beta stage.
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01/30/03
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The Detroit Free Press
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A blog is a personal publishing system that lets anyone -- in minutes -- have a global audience. You go to a Web site, log on, type your message and click "Post." Like that, you're a publisher.
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08/02
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BBC
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"The web is providing a way for women in Iran to talk freely about taboo subjects such as sex and boyfriends.
Over the past few months there has been a big jump in the number of Persian weblogs which are providing an insight into a closed society."
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08/02
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PRSA
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Publicists have long sought means for reaching highly targeted audiences, including media reps, in order to drive buzz about their clients. With the kind of traffic and targeting that any of the aforementioned sites generate, topic-specific blogs can fit the bill.
So, now the question is how to land your clients in the right blog at the right time in order to reap the benefits of their highly receptive audience.
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09/07/00
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rebecca's pocket
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Required reading for blogging history buffs
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