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Facebook Founder
Unmasked on Twitter

Exec looks to Twitter as model for facebook changes

Mar 8, 09 7:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Facebook founder and tech wiz Mark Zuckerberg has been secretly keeping an account on rival Twitter, VentureBeat reports. Zuckerberg has had a private site on Twitter at @zuck since last May, but recently opened a Twitter account at finkd that allows users to follow him publicly. Maybe Zuckerberg has taken... More »

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social networking • Facebook • Mark Zuckerberg • blogging • Twitter • Bill Maher Grid

ANALYSIS

Search Could Be Twitter's Path to the Big Bucks

Site could offer real-time brand info to firms

Mar 2, 09 4:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Twitter is huge, and while it remains relatively unconcerned with how to monetize its prominent position in the online zeitgeist, a few ideas have popped up, Advertising Age reports. One is search: The micro-blogging site is considering charging firms for detailed metrics on who is saying what about their brand.... More »

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Internet • advertising • marketing • blogging • database • search • Twitter

Google's Twitter Attracts 27K Followers—in 2 Days

First tweet spells 'I'm feeling lucky' in binary

Feb 27, 09 3:35 PM CST
(Newser) - Google’s Twitter feed has attracted a staggering number of readers in the two days since it launched, proving that the micro-blogging service is already a fixture of internet culture, cNet reports. Google’s feed already has 27,176 followers—not as popular as Barack Obama, whose Twitter has 333,... More »

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Google • Internet • blogging • search • Twitter • readership • Bill Maher Grid

GLOSSIES

 Stop Asking 
 About Money: 
 Twitter's Aim 
 Is Higher 

Site seeks to change world, not make cash

Feb 9, 09 11:14 AM CST
(Newser) - At Twitter headquarters, the focus isn’t on how to turn the phenomenon into a moneymaking enterprise: it’s on changing the world, Will Leitch writes in New York magazine. “It’s another step toward the democratization of information,” said CEO Evan Williams. “I’ve come to... More »

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social networking • Internet • blogging • website • Twitter • tweet

OPINION

LiveJournal on Life Support After Job Cuts

Russian company realizes it bought high on weirdo site

Jan 6, 09 1:47 PM CST
(Newser) - That sound you’re hearing is the social networking bubble officially bursting. Sup, the Russian Internet company that owns LiveJournal, has laid off 12 of the site’s 28 employees, without severance, sources tell ValleyWag's Owen Thomas. All of LiveJournal’s product managers and engineers are departing, leaving a skeleton... More »

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social networking • blogging • LiveJournal

Media Woes Spread at the Speed of Twitter

Site posts updates on industry firings and
(less often) hirings

Dec 15, 08 11:47 AM CST
(Newser) - The rapid shrinking of the media industry is generating enough news to have a Twitter feed all to itself. The "Themediaisdying" feed, started by a PR firm employee, covers hirings, layoffs, and circulation changes in 140 characters or less, the New York Times reports. More »

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social networking • media • blogging • Twitter • newspaper industry

 Twitter Turns Up the Volume 

More people, businesses are getting in on micro-blogging

Oct 27, 08 10:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Twitter, a micro-blogging service where users post what they’re up to in 140 characters or less, once thought the province of the self-absorbed, has been growing drastically as friends, businesses, and even services like fire departments find ways to make “tweeting” work for them, the Wall Street Journal... More »

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social networking • Internet • blogging • Twitter

ANALYSIS

 No, Blogging Isn't Dead 

Tools like Twitter complement, rather than replace, traditional blogging, argues blogger

Oct 23, 08 8:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - A recent Wired magazine article argued that blogging is out, that mainstream media have taken the practice over, and one-time bloggers have moved on to social networking tools like Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr. Not so, responds Allyson Kapin on Fast Company. Witness the 175,000 new blogs created daily and... More »

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social networking • blogosphere • Facebook • blogging • Flickr • Twitter

 Brit Jumps Onto 
 Twitter Bandwagon 

Pop star promises to take fans where no paparazzi can with new site, micro-blog

Oct 20, 08 11:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - The blogosphere is, ahem, atwitter over Britney Spears’ new Web site and micro-blogging account. The pop star promises to provide fans the inside scoop via britneyspears.com and Twitter, a social-networking site allows users to post constant updates. “I’d like to welcome Britney Spears to our world,”... More »

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social networking • blogosphere • Britney Spears • blogging • Twitter

 Twitter Tries to Get Real, 
 Trades In CEO

Micro-blogging pioneer with plenty of buzz but no revenue swaps execs

Oct 17, 08 6:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Twitter has shunted CEO Jack Dorsey into the chairman's role and given his job to current chairman and co-founder Evan Williams, CNET reports. The micro-blogging site has grown fast since launching last year and has been surrounded by plenty of buzz—but while managers say things are right on track,... More »

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technology • social networking • Web 2.0 • blogging • business models • Twitter

ANALYSIS

Service Cuts Make AOL
Even More Useless

Blogging, page-hosting features latest to go as parent Time Warner looks for answers

Oct 1, 08 5:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - AOL is cutting two more of its website’s offerings, a blog creator and a data hosting service, Peter Kafka notes on Silicon Alley Insider. Users of AOL Journals, which hosts blogs, will be migrated to an equivalent host. Users of AOL Hometown, which mainly store photos—and, Kafka sniffs,... More »

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Internet • AOL • blogging • restructuring • data storage • web services

Pay-It-Forward Movement Finds Niche on Web

Small but growing number of sites
highlight good deeds

Sep 19, 08 6:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Internet is home to a small but growing trend that would seem anathema to hard-headed bloggers and pithy posters who regularly lay waste to others online: niceness. In Philadelphia, New York, and elsewhere, the Inquirer finds, civic-minded netizens are setting up sites that extol, and even enable, random acts... More »

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Internet • blogging • website • hero • good samaritan • kindness

 New Rite: Baby Blogging 

Many of Totspot's 15,000 users still in diapers

Sep 11, 08 12:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Soon after entering the world, babies are forging online identities compliments of eager parents, the New York Times reports. "It does feel a little funny to personalize it in his voice," says a blogging mommy who “friends” other babies on behalf of her son. For many... More »

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children • blogging • new parents • infants • child-rearing • Totspot

 Blogger Arrested in GN'R Leak

27-year-old reportedly admitted to posting 9 songs

Aug 28, 08 10:16 AM CDT
(AP) - FBI agents arrested a blogger suspected of posting songs from the unreleased Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy on his website; the 27-year-old appeared in court yesterday, where bail was set at $10,000. Kevin Cogill, who reportedly admitted to streaming nine songs on his website in June, was charged... More »

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copyright law • blogging • arrest • Guns N' Roses • Internet crime • Axl Rose • Chinese Democracy

(Newser) - In three short years, Mario Armando Lavandeira—you may know him better as Perez Hilton—has transformed himself from shy recluse to celebrity gossip maven, with his website generating millions in revenue and page views. With TV specials, his own fashion line, a tell-all book due next year, and, soon,... More »

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fashion • blogging • celebrity • gossip • Warner Music • Perez Hilton • Wired

 Cancer Patients
 Bare All in Blogs

Researchers and psychologists think connection, and release, are beneficial

Aug 20, 08 4:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cancer patients, once reticent, are increasingly explicit in sharing the details of their ordeals in blogs—and finding it therapeutic. Researchers at Ohio State looked at 50 blogs and found they helped patients cope, the Boston Globe reports. Not only do they make it easier to  keep friends and family... More »

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cancer • Internet • Web 2.0 • blogging • patient • support networks

New Site Lets Microbloggers Post Short Videos

'12 Seconds' aims to do for video what Twitter did for sentences: shorten

Jul 24, 08 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sick of spreading your message by text alone on sites such as Twitter, but not ready to actually talk to your friends face to face? Worry not: a new site, “12 Seconds,” allows you to post video updates from home or on your mobile device, Mashable reports. The... More »

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social networking • blogging • digital camera • web video • mobile devices • Twitter

 FBI Drops in on GN'R Leaker 

Feds looking into blogger's posting of material from long-awaited Chinese Democracy

Jun 26, 08 11:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Kevin Skwerl leaked nine new tracks from long-awaited Guns N’ Roses album Chinese Democracy last week, he expected some fallout.  A visit from two “Mulder and Scully” types courtesy of the FBI was not quite what he had in mind, reports Rolling Stone.  “It‘s... More »

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music industry • music downloads • blogging • Guns N' Roses • Axl Rose • Chinese Democracy

 Blogger Keeps Quake in Focus 

Chinese graphic novelist tells stories from the disaster zone

Jun 21, 08 8:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Chinese graphic novelist determined to keep the aftermath of last month's earthquake on the front burner is using her new blog to get the message out, and fellow citizen journalists on the other side of the world are catching on. "We love you, Coco Wang," a blogger... More »

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China • Beijing • blogging • blog • artist • blogger • graphic novel • blogs • China earthquake • blog posts • Coco Wang • Earthquake Strips

 The 7 Types of Blog Posts 

Be upset, buy something, or prove just how dump people are

Jun 4, 08 1:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - As vast as the Internet is, every blog post can be summed up into pretty much one of seven basic types, explains Lore Sjoberg in Wired:
  • Be upset! "Terrible things are happening in one of the following: the world, the web, or a TV show you really
... More »

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Internet • blogging • blogs • blog posts

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