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The blog to book phenom, Julia and Julie, which I blogged about last August at Writer’s Edge has won top prize in the lulu.com-sponsored Blooker Prize. The Book Standard’s intriguing Blogs and Bestsellers: One and the Same? suggested: If anyone is sure to have a real blog-to-print success story, it may be […]

We are drowning in a sea of information.
It’s a growing torrent that no single person can possibly drink.
In the book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman identifies a turning point in the history of mass communication, the invention of the telegraph. Prior to the telegraph, most of the information people took in was […]

Up among the A-list top ten of international independent bloggers, there is a new name. A name that, if you are not from Italy, you may have never heard before: Beppe Grillo. Presently at position ten on the Technorati Top 100, Beppe Grillo’s blog is fast moving up the ranks and, at the speed it […]

PBS, in a news release published today, unveils a new blog called MediaShift, which will explore how new forms of digital media are dramatically changing American society and culture.
MediaShift debuts Jan. 18 at http://www.pbs.org/mediashift.

Reporters Without Borders has produced the Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber Dissidents, a 46-page eBook describing how to successfully create a blog even under government censorship scenarios, or where speaking up openly can endanger the freedom of the blogging author.
“[Blogs are regarded by many] as the vanguard of a new information revolution. Because they […]

As many of you have heard, Chinese bloggers have discovered that MSN Spaces China blocks users from putting the Chinese words for “freedom,” “human rights,” or “democracy” in the title of their blogs.
The Committee to Protect Bloggers (CPB), of which Peacefire is a member, has released a set of instructions describing how to hack MSN […]

I’ve been gone for about a year and half. I’ve had of a LOT of things going on. Moving, working, learning, etc. I’ve working on finishing my Electrical Engineering and Computer Science degrees and then I’ll be off to law school. I plan to practice Intellectual Property law. Point being, things are finally at a […]

Ever since blogs became popular China, the Communist Party has routinely threatened or shut down bloggers and website owners who write about politics in their country.
Since April 2005, when the law on non-profit website registration became effective, Chinese website owners are required to submit their real personal information when they register their websites.
Reporters Without Borders […]

BuildingBlogz.com(TM) Launched for Residential Properties
The Cluetrain Manifesto was clearly aimed at businesses, encouraging them to employ the power of the Internet to increase communication between employees and the company and their clients.
But NetImpax, LLC, the Georgetown-based Interactive communications and design agency, is showing that the same concept can be applied to other venues in society. […]

Within Google Groups you can find an amazing 20 years of Usenet archives. That’s more than 800 million messages, dating back to 1981. Google calls it “the most complete collection of Usenet articles ever assembled and a fascinating first-hand historical account.” The page listed above has links to some historic posts, such as […]

Some of my many joys of the Internet are making friends around the world and learning about different cultures. A particular focus of my activities in this area is to learn from Muslim friends in the Middle East. I met these people on Google’s Orkut social networking service, and some of them read […]

Dean over at Dean’s World
asked bloggers around the globe to link to a post from Chief Wiggles so here’s my link Dean:

RSS feeds, first the domain of news sites and blogs, are popping up everywhere in the Age of the World as Publisher. Digital warfare is rapidly shifting from search engines to feed suppliers, with an explosion of features fortelling the coming collapse and consolidation. Enjoy it while it lasts. Here’s a roundup […]

…until he called me an ankle-biter, that is. I’m gonna prove him wrong on two counts. 1) Blanket-generalizations are bad. 2) I’m going to take myself to task for having used them in the past.
I think Steven is trying to re-assert his place now that big media has been dealt a serious credibility blow. And […]

Remember a few days ago I wrote about NewsByName? But wait, there’s more — Blabble, self-described as a blog analysis and research tool. Warning: it’s still in beta 2.0, but you can sign up to test it and subscribe to a mailing list. Sample searches, supposedly covering over four million […]

A sufficient number of blogs have now been around long enough for the sandbox gang at HP to track over 20,000 URLs through the blogosphere. The memes were mentioned in more than 37,000 blogs during a period in May 2003. Don’t miss clicking on the image at the bottom of the page, which […]

Imagine a writing contest with no entry fee and no materials needed. No paper, envelope, stamps, or form to fill out. It continues for months, and each month you can submit a new entry and have an equal chance (three, actually) of winning. The prizes are books written by the authors who judge […]

I wasn’t sure whether to write about this or use it, after I staggered into Drunk Men Work Here.It appears to be a free, automated blog generator. About the only use for it I can imagine would be as a vehicle to advertise something else (rock star self-promotions, advertising your other websites). Perhaps […]

Ever since “JR” whined to me about my post on his/her Yahoo! Search Blog, I’ve felt guilty. Here’s an attempt to redeem myself and say something nice about Yahoo! You can use it as an aggregator for RSS feeds. If you need to know what that is, check out Lockergnome’s RSS Resource or […]

USAToday is reporting that for the most part nearly everyone associated with the Olympics has been barred from blogging about it.