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Blog design has always evolved. Last year many sites embraced the "magazine" layout, a big shift from the traditional read ten posts down the page layout that was typical of blogs for a long time. In 2009 ...
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Mail.com media has acquired Nikki Finke's Hollywood news blog Deadline Hollywood for an undisclosed sum. Under the deal, Finke retains editorial control, and the site will add new writers.
Mail.com may not be as well known as a ...
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The latest version of popular blogging CMS WordPress has been released.
WordPress 2.8 offers a range of enhancements and bug fixes, although is not as big an upgrade as WordPress 2.7 was (which some would argue should have ...
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Sugar Inc, the company behind a range of blogs including the popular celeb site PopSugar has raised $16 million Series C in a round funded by Sequoia.
Along withe funding, Sugar announced that it had acquired video shopping ...
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In our blogging 101 series, I've spoken regularly about the need to continually review what you're writing to best find things that work. Einstein said that the definition of Insanity is doing the same thing over and ...
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Business Insider, the Henry Blodget founded multi-channel blog previously known as Silicon Alley Insider has raised a third round believed to be around $5 million.
According to Paid Content, the new investors were Allen & Company LLC, Marc ...
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Glenn Greenwald at Salon has an excellent article up on "The Myth of the Parasitic Bloggers." We normally wouldn't lead a post with a direct link and a reading recommendation, but if you're interested in the current ...
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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is preparing to launch new guidelines that will legally force disclosure on blog posts that involve "compensation" to the blogger writing it.
The guidelines, coming primarily in response to paid posting, are ...
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To say the the American armed forces use of social media and blogging has been schizophrenic is at least a bit of an understatement. While the Generals are encourage to take up the blogging ...
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Women only blog advertising network BlogHer has raised $7 million Series C in a round that included existing investors Venrock and Peacock Equity, and new investor Azure Capital.
In an interview with Kara Swisher at AllThingsD, BlogHer CEO ...
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Amazon has opened the door to its Kindle Blog Publishing Program to everyone.
The program, previously limited to a small number of blogs, formats and sells subscriptions to blogs to Kindle users. Blogs can't be offered for free, ...
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New service Blogs.mu, from Incsub, the company behind Melbourne based EduBlogs, has launched today and is offering a DIY free blog network service.
Users sign up for a Blogs.mu account, and are given full access to WordPress MU, ...
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If there is one thing you can say about the US military it is that while they may be conflicted about soldiers using social media the military as a whole are more than willing ...
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Gawker Media has always been an interesting sales proposition in terms of breadth. While there are solid, safe titles like Lifehacker and Gizmodo, there's the gossip sites and even the lite porn site Fleshbot. So how do ...
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If you hadn't noticed today, The Inquisitr is running a campaign for the Jeopardy iPhone application (a screenshot above for future reference.) It involves the use of a background ad along with a traditional banner placement.
Background advertising ...
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Valleywag Editor Owen Thomas is leaving the Gawker Media empire for greener pastures at NBC, according naturally to Valleywag.
Thomas joined Valleywag in 2007 from Business 2.0, and oversaw the demise of the site from a multi-person dedicated ...
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Twitter updating plugin for WordPress WordTwithas recently released a new version with a range of extra features including a short URL service.
The short URL service allows users to use their own URL when updating Twitter, for example ...
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The other day Duncan wrote about how a group of ex-Seattle Post-Intelligencer journalists have banded together and created a new Seattle oriented news site called Seattle Post Globe. While the story in of itself ...
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Big Indian based blog network Instablogs is coping it in every direction like many in the blog industry at the moment, but the test of any network is how they react to it.
Instablogs Ankit Maheshwari posts on ...
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Celebrity blogging company Buzz Media has cut 20% of its workforce.
The cuts amount to around 15 employees, leaving a total of 75, and come only weeks after the company (previously known as Buzznet) raised a round of ...
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Perez Hilton has a secret: he no longer writes any of the content on PerezHilton.com
According to GossipSauce "He’s got not one but THREE writers he’s hired (including a new one who loves to use the word “Fehk”) ...
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The US Federal Trade Commission and several States are investigating blogs that promote Acai Berry as a miracle weight loss solution.
The 80 or so blogs, including beckysweightloss.com present themselves as legitimate blogs from customer who have lost ...
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