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Multitaskers, It's All
in the Bag

Blog offers old and creative new uses
for that extra paper sack

Aug 19, 07 8:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Paper bags are good for more than just school lunches and book covers. Check out Wise Bread's 25 tips, and you'll never hesitate again when the cashier says, "Paper or plastic?" Here are 10 to get you started:
  1. Ripen fruit.
  2. Make your own wrapping paper.
  3. Give
... More »

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list • blog • multitask • crafts • luminaria • wrapping paper

Blog Leaks Facebook Source Code

Concerns persist over social site's security

Aug 13, 07 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - A blog called "Facebook Secrets" posted a restricted section of the site's source code on Saturday, revealing a major security flaw in the popular social networking site. While the leak didn't  reveal any sensitive information, it does raise concerns as to whether the site's 52M users' personal data is... More »

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social networking • Internet • Facebook • Mark Zuckerberg • blog • source code • website

Fake Steve Jobs Blogger Outed

Times tracks down Forbes editor behind
popular lampoon

Aug 6, 07 6:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The New York Times has tracked down the identity of the mystery writer behind a popular satirical site posing as the personal blog of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The musings of "Fake Steve" have lampooned Silicon Valley, industry bigwigs and Jobs himself. “I’m stunned that it’s... More »

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Steve Jobs • satire • Apple • blog

Best of the Blogosphere: 10 to Read

PC World finds the funniest, most informative, and most esoteric sites

Jul 7, 07 6:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - PC World chooses the best blogs in 10 categories:
  1. Technology News:  Slashdot (slashdot.org)
  2. Specialty Tech Site: John Battele's Searchblog (battellemedia.com)
  3. Company Watcher: Microsoft Watch (microsoft-watch.com)
  4. Corporate Blog: The Official Google Blog (googleblog.blogspot.com)
  5. Politics and Business: Policybeta (blog.cdt.org)
More »

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

Corporate Blog Makes Trouble for Google

Employee's movie review draws attention to corporate communication tool

Jul 5, 07 3:56 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Google • blogging • Sicko • Michael Moore • blog • movies

News Anchor Shreds Script, Hailed as Hero

MSNBC journalist's refusal to read Hilton story wins cyber fan

Jun 30, 07 12:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bloggers, who normally revel in afflicting TV news anchors, have made one a star. MSNBC newsreader Mika Brzezinski won legions of fans in the blogosphere when she refused, despite prodding from her co-hosts, to read a news item about Paris Hilton Wednesday morning, and then shredded the script. “I... More »

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MSNBC • Paris Hilton • news • Mika Brzezinski • reporter • blog • blogger • news anchor

Drudge Reports, Candidates Cower

Salon explores the web-based underbelly of the '08 campaign

May 14, 07 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - What do a $400 haircut, a hawkish rendition of a Beach Boys tune, and a decade-old donation to Planned Parenthood have in common? They're all results of an "opposition research game" that's pitting presidential campaign teams against each other in a contest to leak dirt to blogs and news... More »

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blogosphere • Internet • presidential campaign • Drudge Report • Matt Drudge • blog • Election 2008

(Newser) - Some of the most riveting reporting about the war in Iraq is coming from the soldiers fighting it. As blogs from deployed soldiers proliferate, higher-ups are biting their nails over the ensuing transparency. Bloggers like Capt. Danjel Bout say posting provides "online therapy" and helps keep friends and the... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • War on Terror • blogosphere • military • Pentagon • Department of Defense • blog • Iraq war

Web Muckrakers Fight Corruption in China

Freelance journalists hired by citizens stay one step ahead of censors

May 2, 07 2:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new breed of journalist is evolving out of China’s censored media: the web-based hired gun. The Washington Post reports on freelance muckrakers who investigate corruption the mainstream press can't touch and post the results on their sites. They're paid—if meagerly—by the aggrieved parties. More »

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China • media • Internet • censorship • news • press • corruption • blogging • journalism • censor • blog

Users Revolt After Digg
Censors DVD Hackers

User-generated site pulls code,
loses cred, reverses course

May 2, 07 9:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Web 2.0 blogs are rushing to declare Digg dead, after a night in which the site's main page was saturated with its own obituaries. The web's most popular user-generated news site prompted a mutiny by removing posts revealing how to crack encrypted DVDs and HDs. Digg said the illegal... More »

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Internet • Web 2.0 • Digg • news • online news • Kevin Rose • blog

Threats Force Women Out of Blogosphere

Virtual sexual harassment stifles voices, raises fears of real-world hostility

Apr 30, 07 10:54 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

Micro-Bloggers
Go Big With
Very Little

Newest social networking takes web shorthand to its extreme

Apr 10, 07 12:30 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Bloggers Urge More Civility

Epidemic of nastiness has techies mulling
a Web 2.0 code of conduct

Apr 9, 07 7:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Prominent techies are calling for a code of conduct for the Web 2.0 blogosphere.  The group, which includes Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, urges that bloggers  purge their sites of anonymous comments and delete libelous or menacing ones. “If it’s a carefully constructed set of principles, it... More »

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blogosphere • Wikipedia • Web 2.0 • free speech • Jimmy Wales • Tim O'Reilly • blog

225 Days Later,
Blogger Walks

Joshua Wolf freed
after turning over protest video to feds

Apr 4, 07 8:28 AM CDT
(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,... More »

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

Web Sexism Spurs Meltdown

Salon Editor offers
mea culpa for years
of telling women to
ignore it and "man up"

Apr 2, 07 7:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Salon Editor-in-chief Joan Walsh admits that sexist web trolls are a serious problem, despite her own longtime dismissal of the issue. Her mea culpa follows the implosion of programming instructor and game developer Kathy Sierra's blog after Sierra was assaulted, on her site and others, by crude sexual insults and... More »

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Internet • feminism • women • sexism • discrimination • blog

Bloggers
Battle Over Hillary Hoax

Out-of-context audio clip used to make her look fake (not just hopelessly white)

Mar 8, 07 2:40 PM CST
(Newser) - Conservative blogs went into overdrive Tuesday when an audio clip of Hillary Clinton "putting on" a southern drawl began circulating, but the accent was more miscalculated than counterfeit. The clip was culled from a speech in Selma in which Clinton quoted a hymn written in vernacular. Conservative commentators went... More »

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Hillary Clinton • blogosphere • Internet • accent • blog

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