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Kevin Rose Talks Good Tea
Remember Kevin Roses cold, you know, the one with the Twitter account? It managed to attract 801 followers, and did just 7 updates. Astonishing. Thats why Im the least surprised to read that Kevin now has a Twitter account to publish tea drinking links. Already 336 followers, and that after just 1 t …
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Turnkey Blog Solution for Parents
$50 a year to document your kids every millimeter of progress? If you want to join the already flooded niche of mommy and daddy bloggers, Web hosting company McKremie.com wants to introduce you to Kizzog. Kizzogs are a semi-custom personal blog targeted to parents who want to blog but dont have the …
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Non-Paying Advertisers and Customers: How Dare They?
Most blogs rely on ads to make money, in one way or another. If you really want to rake in, direct sales is usually the key, but most are settling for Adsense or similar ad networks. There is no doubt that you need to find a way that works for you, but chances are, direct sales is your best bet, if …
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Non Paying Advertisers and Customers: How Dare They?
Most blogs rely on ads to make money, in one way or another. If you really want to rake in, direct sales is usually the key, but most are settling for Adsense or similar ad networks. There is no doubt that you need to find a way that works for you, but chances are, direct sales is your best bet, if …
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Artiklz Conversation Search Engine launches beta
Artiklz is a new search engine designed specifically to index the information, opinion and comments contained in blogs, social media and bookmarking sites. Launched on Wednesday as a public beta, the service describes itself as a conversational search engine, and works by aggregating discussions …
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WordPress News: One Million WordPress 2.7 Downloads Coming, Matt Mullenweg Resolutions, bbPress Rel …
WordPress 2.7 downloads now passing 970,000. Want to predict when it will hit one million? Matt Mullenweg asks for input on his New Years resolutions. Tips for optimizing WordPress Plugins to accommodate new AJAX abilities in WordPress 2.7. Two new versions of bbPress released. WordCamp Las Vegas is …
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How Much of Yourself Do You Reveal When Blogging?
The more I immerse myself into the blogosphere, the more of myself I feel slipping away. By day, Im conservative and private. By night, I speak my mind and share personal details of my life. Is blogging my reawakening? Or is it stripping away something I can never take back? So heres my question to …
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Are You Finding the Cloud Around the Silver Lining?
For something that is meant to be a fun pursuit, reading blogs can be bloomin depressing sometimes! I dont know about you but I much prefer to read positive, uplifting blogs, and follow fun, bubbly people on Twitter. Much of the time though I am clicking links through to negative, spiteful, snarky, …
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Internet Finally Slams the Newspaper in the US
For the first time, the internet is a stronger source of national and international news in the US than the newspaper. This according to a study from the Pew Research Center, with a summary published online containing a lot more information for the number crunching media enthusiast. According to the …
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WordCamps 2009
The year is off to a great start for WordPress fans with WordCamp Las Vegas, WordCamp Indonesia 2009 in Jakarta, Indonesia, a snow-filled skiing and photography WordCamp Whistler, two WordCampED educational WordCamp events in Worcester, Massachusetts and Vancouver, BC, Canada, WordCamp Jena in Germa …
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Model Sues Google to Reveal Bloggers Identity
Being called a skank or an old hag is never easy to swallow. Trust me, I would know. Model Liskula Cohen, who has represented Giorgio Armani and Versace products, is so pissed off that an anonymous blogger defamed her, that shes suing Google to reveal the writers identity. According to the New York …
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Nambu: The iPhone App For Friendfeed Fanatics
Nambu, a company based out in San Fransico has developed an iPhone app that connects users to a host of services, including FriendFeed. While I was not too impressed with their Twitter feature (as Twittelator and Tweetie have spoiled me), I was excited by the ability to post upon FriendFeed (as Frie …
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LiveJournal Restructuring: Not As Bad As Reported?
LiveJournal finally published a press release regarding the restructuring of the company, which is fancy words for cutting parts of the workforce. Previous reports might or might not be a bit extreme, it is really hard to tell because the press release really doesnt tell us much. LiveJournal Inc.s h …
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33 Twitter Accounts Hacked - Obama, Fox News, Britney Spears Affected
33 Twitter accounts were hacked on Monday, mostly celeb ones it seems. According to the Twitter blog the hackers managed to use an internal admin tool to get into the account, and the team is considering this a serious security breach. This comes just after the phishing scam this weekend, which was …
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Gina Trapani Steps Down at Lifehacker, Adam Pash New Lead Editor
Popular blog Lifehacker, a part of the Gawker Media blog network, is seeing some changes come January 16. Lead editor Gina Trapani is stepping down, and Adam Pash will take her place. After a wild and woolly four years at the helm, Im stepping down from the site lead position to work on Some New Stu …
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LiveJournal Cuts Workforce, Doomed?
Bad news for 20 employees at LiveJournal, they just got sacked, leaving only 8 left to run the now Russian social network. Vallyewag broke the story, and found this LiveJournal blog that tells of no severance package and a total lack of advance warnings. Ouch. I bet Six Apart is happy it sold the se …
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5 Lesser-Known Benefits to Creative Commons
Bloggers use, and dont use, Creative Commons Licenses for a variety of reasons. Some feel that it is a great way to give back to the community, others use CC licensing as a form of promotion, encouraging their content to be used with attribution, and others feel that it is a way to promote copyright …
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Movable Type Monday: Custom Header, jQuery, ImageMagick, and More
Happy Monday, folks! First off, Im sorry there was no Movable Type Monday last week. Seemed like most of the community had taken off for the holidays, so I decided to hold what I had for an extra week. But now its a new year and theres lots of new stuff to talk about. Plugins Custom Header Byrne Re …
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Twitter in Phishing Scam
Twitter is being used in a phishing scam to obtain your login credentials, using a fake login site under different domain to try and trick you to fill in your username and password. They are using direct messages to do this, and supposedly uses tricked accounts to widen their scam. Read the Twitter …
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Teen launches ScotBlog social network
Scott Campbell, a 13-year-old entrepreneur, has launched a new Scottish blog-centric social network called ScotBlog.net. Aimed at anyone living in Scotland or with Scottish ancestry, it has many of the same features found in other social networking sites such as the ability to create profiles, add f …
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