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Blogging at Work

The debate over employee blogs has reached new heights ever since a blogger who works for a blog company has been reprimanded for blogging about employees blogging. (Try saying that three times quickly.) The New York Times today ...READ»

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All Blogs Are Not Created Equal

Although there are currently an estimated 56 million regularly updated blogs, not all blogs are created equal. A new survey released by PR firm Edelman and the blog search engine Technorati revealed which blogs are the most ...READ»

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Blogging Is Dead, Long Live Journalism

Technorati's regular "State of the Blogosphere" analysis of the business is just out, and among the stats is the incredible fact that bloggers are being paid more than ever. Is it time to rethink the definition of blogging? ...READ»

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Finding the A-List Bloggers

Traditional search is broken. It simply does not work for blogs. READ»

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Avoiding the Fail Whale

[video_twistage 1]Speaking? * Paul Buchheit, Founder of Friendfeed and one of the the creators of Gmail. * Dorion Carroll, VP of engineering at Technorati * Nat Brown: CTO of iLike, a music community service that had ...READ»

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Corporate Social Media - Intermec Reviewed

Monitoring the huge trend in corporate social media, executives around the world are testing new ways of sharing information and trying to discard some old school stumbling blocks. Many corporate decision makers are left looking at ...READ»

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How to Predict a Start-up's Success? Quantify its Buzz

Anyone trying to wade through a site like TechCrunch, hoping for a bird's eye view of start-up activity, has probably left unsatisfied. There's simply too much unsorted information. YouNoodle aims to change that, and it just ...READ»

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Another 10tag for Technorati: 10dreams

Now that Steve Rubel and Jeff Jarvis have started something, I think it might be fun to play along and start a couple of Top 10 tags of our own for Technorati. It really demonstrates to me the power of social networks when I see ...READ»

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The Upside of Long Restroom Lines

Yet another dispatch from the first annual Bathroom Blogfest I’m standing in line at the upstairs restroom during the break at Pop!Tech, the Davos-like conference held every year at the Opera House in Camden, Maine. Pop!Tech’s ...READ»

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The State of the Blogosphere

Technorati has released its 2008 State of the Blogosphere report and it's an interesting read, particularly if you're not yet convinced of the place that blogging has in the corporate world (read it here).  Blogs are becoming a ...READ»

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Top 5: Up-and-Coming Blogs for Social Entrepreneurs

Along with sustainability and green living, social entrepreneurship is quite a hot topic. One way people can recognize their own potential for social entrepreneurship is by reading and following the works of those who are at the forefront of the movement. Social entrepreneurship is a grassroots effort that has picked up steam with the help of blogs and bloggers all over the world. By using their resources – the Internet and various social media platforms – they’re spreading the word in a way that stays true to their convictions, and still getting the message across to millions. These leaders are smart, successful, and have a great deal of insight into the constantly changing world around them. In this week’s top five, we’re exploring…READ»

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Today's Good Citizen Award: Starbucks

Another In Stall-ment of the first annual Bathroom Blogfest.. It’s early morning, and I’m running late for a meeting with a Big Deal Designer downtown. I’ve had too much coffee, with predictable results. The last thing I ...READ»

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Is the Original Blogging Dead?

In the tech world, where tools and gadgets are way cool one day and so 2004 the next, is blogging really dead? According to Paul Boutin, who ironically writes for the Sillicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag, blogging is out and being ...READ»

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In Today's Papers

Reading and ripping: 'Blogosphere' spurs government oversight "Amateur investigators use Web to uncover pork" How Disney made broccoli cool "Research has helped the Disney Channel target the children's market and transform its ...READ»

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A Flipping Startup

Introducing Street Flips: a web, entertainment, and athletic training start-up. A rock startup. Booming onto the web, TV screens and 3D theaters near you, Street Flips is an innovative company offering up a new sport in ...READ»

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Most Innovative Companies - Media

Sponsored by by Anya ...READ»

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Citizen Media: The High School Years

A yearbook portrait of the citizen-journalist upstarts trying to rule the media school. READ»

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The Princesses and the Pee: A Customer Experience Fable

"Would you want your wife to pee in this place?” Several years ago, the noted retail anthropologist Paco Underhill brought down the house at a Fast Company event when he posed that question. It was, he said, the one he most ...READ»

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Posh Porta-potty

Another tinkle in this week's Bathroom Blogfest.: I’m heading to New York from Boston by bus. Yes, it’s true: I lead a very glam life. But this is a very special bus. It’s the LimoLiner, a sort of ritzy rig, with big leather ...READ»

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Bloggers Influence And Shape Opinion

October 15th is a day recognized around the world as Blog Action Day.  An annual nonprofit event, this year's 2008 theme is Poverty.  The event's goal is to unite the world's bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, by posting ...READ»

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25 Ways to Promote and Market Your Blog

A blog might be the most powerful tool in your marketing toolbox, but it needs to be promoted as well. Here are 25 proven methods to driving more qualified leads to your blog.READ»

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Ridiculously Easy Group Forming

Tantek Celik is a software development lead at Microsoft Corp. Joi Ito founded Neoteny, a venture capital firm focused on personal communication technologies. Pete Kaminski iniated the Social Software Alliance and serves as CTO for ...READ»

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In Search of A-List Bloggers

"Traditional search is broken. It simply does not work for blogs," cautions Fast Company Networking Resource Center Columnists David Teten and Scott Allen, authors of "The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals ...READ»

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5 Steps To The Conversational Economy

It's no secret that the web is moving to a conversation platform. That's one of the major check boxes for all "Web 2.0" apps online. You can have a 2.0 look (big fonts, clean simple design, and gradient color buttons), but to truly ...READ»

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User Generated Content Gets Kudos

On Sunday, after first hearing about Time magazine's person of the year, I thought about blogging about it. Seeing the cover, with it's iMac image with a YouTube controller, reminded me of the early '80s when the personal computer ...READ»