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blogging ’
Tumblr, the incredibly popular microblogging platform, is doing very well. The company announced that they now reach over 120 Million people every single month through their nearly 42 Million blogs and 16 Billion+ posts.
The site makes it ...
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That awkward moment when you totally relate to a joke and everyone on Tumblr knows it.
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Watch out, Yelpers.
A blogger in Taiwan was dragged into court, initially sentenced to 30 days in prison and ultimately fined about $6,900 (US) for posting a critical restaurant review on her personal blog. The woman, identified by ...
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A Staten Island woman has been stripped of her lifetime alimony payments of $850 a month after photos from her blog of the woman allegedly belly dancing at a swanky Manhattan venue were used in court by ...
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A year after announcing the that the more commonly used "website" could replace the stuffier "Web site" per their widely adopted guidelines, the Associated Press has now updated the AP Stylebook to allow "email" to replace the ...
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The bi-monthly reports on seemingly benign activities and dying early are in, and this time it's not "sitting" that kills, and men are included in the at-risk group.
Blogger? Computer programmer? Administrative assistant? Hopefully getting old isn't on ...
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Picking a clever women's magazine is kind of like selecting the classiest member of the cast of Jersey Shore.
Still, Marie Claire kind of hovered a bit above rags like Cosmo with some pieces on women's issues around ...
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A New York City mommy blogger is being sued over $45,000 worth of dental work provided in exchange for a promise to write a "puff piece" about the dentist and dental offices.
According to documents filed in Manhattan ...
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Old habits die hard with some people in the tech news game, and Weblogs Inc and Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis is going back to his roots, with a new email newsletter.
The publication, titled Launch, aims to take ...
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If there is one thing that is a constant in the tech industry it is the secretive ways of Apple's PR machine and the trigger finger of their legal department to go after anyone talking about Apple ...
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The end of days for some of the first great wave of blogging tools continues with news that Tucows intends on shutting old school third party blog roll service Blogrolling.
Founded in approx January 2002, Blogrolling offered hosted ...
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Shirley Sherrod, the USDA official fired for remarks she made that were deliberately misrepresented by Andrew Breitbart's conservative blog BigGovernment.com, plans to sue for the incident.
Sherrod made her plans known this morning at a National Association of ...
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The Associated Press, who have in the past taken a dim view toward quoting and linking to their content in the past, doesn't seem to mind quoting from other people's content, unsurprisingly enough.
In fact, the AP quoted ...
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After the uproar last week following Perez Hilton tweeting a pic of Miley Cyrus in what may or may not have been a crotch revealing pose, the drama queeniest gossip blogger has done it again. Oops!
Perez explained ...
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New media network Sugar Inc has entered the local guide market with the acquisition of the women focused FreshGuide Inc.
FreshGuide offers a city based guides covering four U.S. cities with a focus on products directed towards ...
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I first noticed this a month or so ago when I went to copy something from another blog to use as a quote. The copy went fine but when I pasted the section of text into the ...
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The recent uptick in content site acquisition continues with the acquisition of sports gossip blog The Big Lead by the Fantasy Sports Ventures for "low seven figures."
The Big Lead pitches itself as a more polite version of ...
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The market for content based websites continues to heat up with news today that Forbes has acquired new media startup True/Slant.
Launched in April 2009 by former AOL News head Lewis Dvorkin, True/Slant combines the effort of over ...
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News May 19 that an offer had been made to acquire Perezhilton.com for $20 million has raised some interesting questions about valuing blogs.
Any exit in the tens of millions for a celebrity gossip blog does show ...
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Avid Life Media, the parent company of esteemed web properties like HotorNot.com, Mancrunch and married-people dating site Ashley Madison, has put in a $20m bid for PerezHilton.com, Gawker has verified.
The company, who is said to have paid ...
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As much as I might like to give the impression of being a little on the sarcastic side with this pot the truth is the news that the Associated Press (AP) sent out on Twitter today is ...
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Bloggers have been having a bit of fun with the AP Stylebook today, after they posted a few tweets noting that they've changed "Web site" to "website" in their guidelines.
@apstylebook says:
Responding to reader input, we are changing ...
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