Blogs

Taking the Blogosphere Seriously?

Jerry Johnson of Jerry's Juice Bar fame, and a friend, colleague, client and golf partner has put up a blog called "Taking The Blogosphere Seriously ." He's got some trenchant things to say about both the Serious and Not Serious sides of the Blogosphere.  Give it a read and add your comments....

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Blogging Goodwill Fashion

Every once in a while we like to point out how non-profits and charitable causes can harness the Internet to better achieve their goals, and this post highlights the successful efforts of Goodwill of Greater Washington using a blog — about fashion.

True, Goodwill is about community development projects like job training for lower income folk and sales from used and thrift clothing helps fund such programs,...

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Simple Question does Wonders for NPR Blog

On Tuesday of this week (December 18, 2007) NPR's new morning show The Bryant Park Project did a segment on the local perception of Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul, and his large and ardent Internet posse came up.  Like many others Bennett Roth of the Houston Chronicle guesses that Ron Paul supporters "are a little bit younger,...

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Tumblelogs Vs. Blogs

I became aware of the term tumblelog around a year ago and have been running across examples of tumblelogs with greater and greater frequency lately. According to Wikipedia, a tumblelog “is a variation of a blog, that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging....

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LA Blogger Heads to MSM

I read today that an editor for the blog LAist, Tony Pierce, accepted a position running about 25 blogs over at the LA Times. I thought it was interesting to see such a huge paper, with such a mixed record in the online world, making a blogger an important part of the paper's team. ...

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