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You may remember former NYC Police Commissioner and Giuliani BFF Bernard Kerik for his national prominence after the attacks of September 11th.
Once a candidate to head the 9/11-inspired Department of Homeland Security, Kerik is now in hot ...
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While everyone on the web seems to have been captivated by BalloonBoy and the story's love affair with cable news there has been another potential story waiting in the wings that could send BalloonBoy and family back ...
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The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has gone into bat on the side of bloggers, calling for the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to withdraw its new rules forcing disclosure of financial relationships on blogs.
The IAB says ...
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Did you see the badly photoshopped Ralph Lauren ad making the rounds on the internet last week?
If you missed it, the model in the ad had been clearly edited- so much so that her pelvis appeared smaller ...
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Unless you happened to be a very popular blog network like I Can Has Cheezeburger the chances of making a living strictly from running Google AdSense is next to impossible. However the idea that earning a $1.30 ...
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See that line in the sand? The one that was drawn yesterday by the FTC and their new <gag> guidelines </gag> about bloggers having to disclose any and all interactions with advertisers, book ...
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As we covered earlier, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has decided to crack down on "blogger endorsements" through a new set of rules that requires bloggers to disclose any freebie or financial relationship with the topic ...
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While the tech blogosphere likes to think of itself as the center of the blogging world it is really just another player in the much larger world of blogs. As a way to share ...
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A post on New York Times blog Motherlode has divided readers with a controversial post about a failed adoption.
Anita Tedaldi, mother to five girls and wife to a deployed soldier, adopted a South American boy who'd been ...
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It is interesting that during all the hoopla surrounding the memo the brass of the Washington post sent to their troops about the use of Twitter and other social media services the US military ...
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And reminds us all know that the internet is here to stay, as soon as we stop buffering.
[Via Mashable]
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Excellent Wordpress social voting plugin Sociable has been acquired by Startups.com for an undisclosed sum from developer Joast de Valk.
According to a report at The Next Web, de Valk will remain on board for the mean time ...
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Rosemary Port, 29, is the party-girl behind the curtain of now-defunct, legally plagued blog Skanks in NYC.
Port, an unemployed nightclub promoter, is none too pleased with the forcible unmasking and is said to be exploring legal action ...
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Just in case you missed this one the background is the following: - an anonymous blogger running a blog on Google’s Blogger.com called “Skanks of NYC” posts a picture of model Liskula ...
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And she's not gonna take that lying down.
Liskula Cohen, a NYC party girl who dabbled in modeling before her face was disfigured in a 2007 attack with a broken bottle, won a ruling to reveal the identity ...
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Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton has decided that one big blog isn't enough with the launch of CocoPerez, a new fashioned focused blog.
CocoPerez offers a tamer version of PerezHilton.com, with little (or no) drawings on images, and some ...
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In response to the negative publicity surrounding "mommy bloggers" and kick backs, a group of mommy bloggers have banded together to launch an honesty seal program.
Led by Liz Gumbinner, Blog With Integrity has signed up nearly 300 ...
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US President Barack Obama, having seemingly ignored much of the grassroots online activists that helped elect him last year, now wants something from them and he's been on the phone to get it.
According to a report at ...
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Despite tough economic times and a drop in venture capital funding in web companies, blog networks and their derivatives have received strong funding in 2009 and investment in the sector would appear to be accelerating.
Funding for blog ...
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SB Nation, the sports blog network founded in 2003 by DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas has raised $8 million in a round led by Comcast Interactive Capital (CIC) that also included earlier investor Accel Partners.
SB Nation has over ...
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Perez Hilton has revealed his site's traffic numbers for June 2008 and they are staggering.
First, here's a quote from the earlier post over at PerezHilton.com:
Last week, was our busiest week ever on the site!
And, the month of ...
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Quark Expeditions is offering a deal of a lifetime: one lucky blogger (and partner) will receive a free $20,000 cruise to Antarctica in February next year in exchange for blogging the experience. The deal includes airfares to ...
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