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  • December 2007

    • IBM Launches Social Mapping Biz Tool

      MIT Technology Review  |  Dec 29, 07 7:39 PM CST

      IBM Launches Social Mapping Biz Tool

      (Newser) - IBM has released a software tool named 'Atlas' that aims to track and analyze statistical relationships among individuals in a corporate setting, MIT Technology Review reports. Employees are given the opportunity to partake in business-adapted online practices—blogging, social grouping, bookmarking, organizing projects—and Atlas creates a "social graph" of the relationships formed among participants. More »

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      business  • social networking  • IBM  • blogging  • statistics  • corporate

    • Blogging Catches On as Marketing Tool

      New York Times  |  Dec 27, 07 4:18 PM CST

      Blogging Catches On as Marketing Tool

      (Newser) - Blogging is finding a niche as a marketing tool for small business owners, who like its low cost and potentially high returns. Only 5% of small business have blogs, the New York Times reports, and while many more could benefit from them, a company has to be sure of the blog’s purpose and match the content to its business model. More »

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      blog  • blogging  • small businesses

    • NCAA Puts Limits on Live Blog Coverage

      Techdirt  |  Dec 20, 07 5:15 PM CST

      NCAA Puts Limits on Live Blog Coverage

      (Newser) - The NCAA has set new rules for live-blogging of sporting events, limiting the amount of times a blogger can post new information during a game in an effort to fight a perceived simulacrum of re-broadcasting, Techdirt reports. The new rules are a compromise after an incident in June when a live blogger was ejected from a college baseball game. More »

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      NCAA  • media  • blog  • blogging  • college sports

    • Pioneer Blog Site Popular in Russia Sold

      Reuters  |  Dec 3, 07 3:03 PM CST

      Pioneer Blog Site Popular in Russia Sold

      (Newser) - A free blog site that pioneered personal web publishing among Russia’s intellectuals has been sold to a pair of entrepreneurs who promise to add cash and expand it globally, Reuters reports. Six Apart said it sold LiveJournal, which claims 14.3 million blog accounts and 20 million visitors a month—in the US, largely among teenage girls—to SUP. Terms were not disclosed. More »

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      Facebook  • MySpace  • blogging  • LiveJournal

  • November 2007
  • July 2007

    • Best of the Blogosphere: 10 to Read

      PC World  |  Jul 7, 07 6:44 AM CDT

      Best of the Blogosphere: 10 to Read

      (Newser) - PC World chooses the best blogs in 10 categories: Technology News:  Slashdot (slashdot.org) Specialty Tech Site: John Battele's Searchblog (battellemedia.com) Company Watcher: Microsoft Watch (microsoft-watch.com) Corporate Blog: The Official Google Blog (googleblog.blogspot.com) Politics and Business: Policybeta (blog.cdt.org) More »

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      list  • technology  • media  • blog  • blogger  • blogging  • blogosphere

    • Corporate Blog Makes Trouble for Google

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Jul 5, 07 3:56 PM CDT

      Corporate Blog Makes Trouble for Google

      (Newser) - In case anyone missed the first apology, Google is still sorry for an employee's post on a corporate blog. Her reaction to Michael Moore's "Sicko"—a suggestion that health-care companies buy Google ads to offset his accusations and burnish their reputations—has outraged bloggers and prompted two separate apologies, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. More »

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      Google  • movie  • blog  • blogging  • Michael Moore  • Sicko

  • June 2007

    • Fatbloggers Unite, Shed Pounds Online

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 15, 07 4:00 PM CDT

      Fatbloggers Unite, Shed Pounds Online

      (Newser) - The tech sector is buzzing with pudgy geeks dropping weight through the web, the LA Times reports.  Jason McCabe Calacanis, the web vet  who started it all, turned his business-oriented site into a dietary forum, promising to lose 27 lbs. and urging other techies to chronicle their own diet dramas. Dozens soon weighed in, posting their gains and losses. More »

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      blogging  • weight loss

    • NCAA Ejects Louisville Blogger

      Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.)  |  Jun 12, 07 4:22 AM CDT

      NCAA Ejects Louisville Blogger

      (Newser) - The NCAA ejected a reporter for Louisville's Courier-Journal for blogging during the fifth inning of Louisville's semifinal romp over Oklahoma State, 20-2. The association forbids live Internet updates of games from those in attendance. The newspaper, citing First Amendment rights, is considering legal action. More »

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      NCAA basketball  • NCAA  • blogging  • First Amendment  • Louisville

  • May 2007
  • April 2007

    • Threats Force Women Out of Blogosphere

      Washington Post  |  Apr 30, 07 10:54 AM CDT

      Threats Force Women Out of Blogosphere

      (Newser) - Violent, sexualized threats against female bloggers are forcing some of them out of the online community, reports the Washington Post . The problem, highlighted by the harassment that caused Kathy Sierra to suspend her popular technology blog, is frustrating at best; at worst, it causes women to fear for their safety and abandon the medium. More »

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      Internet  • women  • blog  • blogging  • discrimination  • blogosphere  • sexual harassment

    • Micro-Bloggers Go Big With Very Little

      Financial Times (UK)  |  Apr 10, 07 12:30 PM CDT

      Micro-Bloggers Go Big With Very Little

      (Newser) - Short, random and mundane musings fired from around the globe are blowing up big in an Internet phenomenon called micro-blogging. Social networking is reduced to photos and single sentences—or less—that the Financial Times notes is to the blogosphere what reality tv is to cable: compelling and mind-numbing at the same time. More »

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      Internet  • social networking  • blog  • blogging  • blogosphere  • Twittervision

    • 225 Days Later, Blogger Walks

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Apr 4, 07 8:28 AM CDT

      225 Days Later, Blogger Walks

      (Newser) - Joshua Wolf, the blogger who set a record for time served by an American journalist for withholding information, was freed from a federal prison yesterday after 224 days. Wolf was released after he posted footage of a 2005 anarchist protest on his Web site and gave a copy to reporters, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. More »

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      Internet  • California  • prison  • blog  • news  • blogging  • journalist

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