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Aaron Goldfarb

He blogs about his career and the publishing industry at aarongoldfarb.com and previously did work for Seth Godin's publishing venture The Domino Project.

Alay

According to The Jakarta Post, a high school student from East Java initiated the trend and shot to fame after her writings were discussed in forums and blogs not because they were great, but they were in "code".

Barry Eisler

Eisler also writes about politics and language on his blog "Heart of the Matter", and at the blogs CHUD, Firedoglake, The Huffington Post, MichaelMoore.com, The Smirking Chimp, and Truthout.

Blogads

Blogads provides advertising to many high-traffic blogs, including Daily Kos, Perez Hilton, Cute Overload, Wonkette, Dlisted, Go Fug Yourself, Atrios, Talking Points Memo, Americablog, Crooks and Liars, Firedoglake, Political Wire, and Outside the Beltway.

Business marketing

Specific trade shows, analysts, publications, blogs and retail/wholesale outlets tend to be fairly common to each industry/product area.

CampusJ

CampusJ's staff of student reporters covered the Jewish news on thirty or more campuses, including American University, George Washington University, McGill, Northwestern, Rutgers and Washington University, by reporting for campus-specific school homepages (blogs).

Collaborative blog

Open Invite collaborative blogs succeed on the basis that the community acts to weed out trolls, spammers and other troublemakers.

Consumers Union

In March 2005, CU campaign PrescriptionforChange.org released "Drugs I Need", an animated short with a song from the Austin Lounge Lizards, that was featured by The New York Times, JibJab, BoingBoing, and hundreds of blogs.

Conversation threading

They are usually more useful on popular blogs with large amounts of traffic; they are often used when the author of the blog has no subject matter to post on or when there is a lull in posting.

David Grellier

The Valerie collective described as "responsible for some of the very best original electronic music now coming out of France", was created as a way to foster musical talent, by providing opportunities for collaboration among artists, also connecting them through blogs and other internet channels.

Durjoy Datta

His columns have also appeared in popular blogs like Miss Malini and That's So Gloss.

Egloos

However, Egloos users have complained about the fairness of the censoring process, as site administrators have been able to censor content based upon a request from anyone reading the blogs.

Empire Avenue

Social networks supported by Empire Avenue currently include Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Instagram, Wordpress hosted blogs and the player's own blog and RSS feeds.

Fox Nation

The site features news articles, video clips, and links to editorial blogs by noted conservative political commentators like Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer, as well as liberal political commentators, like Susan Estrich.

Howard Newby

In January 2010 blogging platform WordPress.com suspended a number of blogs which it hosted after claims by the director of legal services at the University of Liverpool, Kevan Ryan, that some posts on them defamed Sir Howard.

Isaac Bitton

Bitton was the subject of news stories and blogs when he challenged the kosher status of a restaurant he was supervising for the Jewish agency, the Orthodox Union (OU).

Janette Barber

She made the video blogs while getting her hair and makeup done by Helene Macaulay in preparation for going on-air for the television show The View.

John D. Hawks

The John Hawks Weblog is a widely read and referenced science blogs as measured by Technorati's ranking.

Lise Lyng Falkenberg

Since 2005, Falkenberg has worked with British rock band Slade, especially their drummer Don Powell and this has led to a string of Slade-related blogs on the internet as well as many articles and interviews in magazines and papers.

Litblog

Bookslut, Laila Lalami, The Literary Saloon, and Maud Newton are some of the oldest well-known active literary blogs.

Moby Lives, one of the oldest literary blogs, was recently defunct, but has returned on the Melville House website.

Matt Dellinger

He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and blogs for public radio’s TransportationNation.org.

Mediaite

It is the flagship blog of Abrams Media, a ring of blogs run by ABC legal analyst Dan Abrams and also featuring Gossip Cop, Geekosystem, Styleite, Sports Grid, The Mary Sue, The Jane Dough (formerly known as Mogulite), and The Braiser.

Mingle Media TV Network

Mingle Media TV Network publishes their content through its web syndication network, including iTunes, Blip.TV, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, DailyMotion, Roku, Boxee and via the Stickam.com mobile app.

Motorcycle lane

On 24 April 2013, a video of the poor conditions of the Federal Highway was uploaded to Facebook and went viral throughout blogs and other Facebook pages, including the Ministry of Work's own Facebook page.

Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers

Naked Conversations: How Blogs Are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers (ISBN 978-0-471-74719-2), is a book written by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, published in 2006 by John Wiley & Sons.

Network effect

Google AdSense places ads on many small sites, such as blogs, using Google technology to determine which ads are relevant to which blogs.

Onward State

Pitted against Onward State were seasoned blogs from UC Berkeley, Vassar, Wesleyan, Columbia, Georgetown, Middlebury, Yale, and an Ivy League conglomerate.

Participatory media

In the words of David Sifry, the founder of Technorati, a search engine for blogs, one-to-many “lectures” (i.e., from media companies to their audiences) are transformed into “conversations” among “the people formerly known as the audience”.

Playlistify

While building the service it grew into a more advanced site, giving user the possibility to share their playlists as well by embedding them on their own blogs, sites and social networks or sharing the playlist page through the Bitly-powered urlshortener Pli.st.

Preved

The picture, a modified version of John Lurie's watercolor Bear Surprise, whose popularity was stoked by emails and blogs, features a man and a woman having sex in the clearing of a forest, being surprised by a bear calling "Surprise!" with its paws raised.

QT's Diary

On the Internet, the simulation stock market website BlogShares, which deals in trade on Internet sites, listed QT's Diary as one of the most valued blogs.

RealClimate

In 2006, Nature compiled a list of the 50 most popular blogs written by scientists, as measured by Technorati.

Reverse cowgirl

Susannah Breslin, whose blog named The Reverse Cowgirl was identified by Time.com as one of the 25 best blogs in 2008

Ryan Cartwright

To prepare for the role, Cartwright consulted with people who worked with people with autism, watched documentaries, read blogs created by people with autism, and books from authors with autism Temple Grandin and Daniel Tammet.

Selfridges

Since 2002, the windows have been photographed by London photographer Andrew Meredith and published in magazines such as Vogue, Dwell, Icon, Frame Magazine, Creative Review, Hungarian Stylus Magazine, Design Week, Harper's Bazaar, New York Times, WGSN and much more including world wide press, journals, blogs and published books all over the world.

Team Me

In the following months, the bands songs "Fool" and "Weathervanes and Chemicals" started to get spread around on blogs all across the world, and the band kept playing shows in Norway, including summerfestivals as Øyafestivalen, Pstereo and Volumfestivalen in Norway the summer of 2010.

The Diabetes Duo: Captain Glucose and Meter Boy

Captain Glucose and Meter Boy: The Diabetes Duo are internationally known and have been featured on many professional sites and blogs including International Diabetes Federation and contributed to their World Diabetes Day project; Diabetes Hands Foundation.

The Questions We Ask at Night

It leaked onto the internet via blogs and BitTorrent in 2006, but there was such minimal online success, the band took no further action.

Theybf.com

While making her earnings as a hostess at Olive Garden she decided to make her hobby of reading blogs into a career.

Thomas Register

ThomasNet has expanded to provide not only product and company information,but also Online catalogs, computer-aided design (CAD) drawings, news, press releases and blogs.

Timothy Garon

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Marijuana Policy Project posted blogs on the internet addressing Garon's story.

Valladares

Despite this the extended family retains a close association and continues to share a family identity through blogs, networking sites such as Facebook and traditional means of communication.

Web Business Management System

Blog - ability to post blogs and syndicate via RSS feeds

Weblogs.com

Dave Winer, who had originally promised to get the blogs back up and running within a two-week period, was able to restore them much faster thanks to help from Rogers Cadenhead.

Will Leitch

Leitch was criticized by Pulitzer-Prize winning author Buzz Bissinger on an April 2008 episode of Costas Now for the lack of quality writing on sports blogs.

Windows Live Spaces

On September 27, 2010, Microsoft announced that it would discontinue Windows Live Spaces, and in partnership with Automattic, a free opt-in migration of user blogs to WordPress.com will be offered to Windows Live Spaces users.


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