http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles en-us http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles N/A glace@sgdnetworks.com Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:25:32 -0400 20 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11705/1/Blogs-as-dead-media/Blogs-as-dead-media.html (((I warned you that blogging was inherently unstable. It's built on an unstable platform. How hard is that to understand?))) bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11684/1/Rosie-ODonnell-takes-a-break-from-blogging-haiku/Rosie-ODonnell-takes-a-break-from-blogging-haiku.html No more haiku from Rosie?It's a sad day in the blogosphere. Rosie O'Donnell, famed for creating poems on her blog, has informed her readers that she's taking a break, even though she is veritably addicted to writing: bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11673/1/Learning-from-blogging/Learning-from-blogging.html “How can I know what I think until I see what I say?”  - E.M. ForsterThis sentiment perfectly captures the essence of how we learn through this hot technology inelegantly called blogging. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11657/1/Blog-Log-The-week-in-local-blogging/Blog-Log-The-week-in-local-blogging.html Asheville has a certain reputation regarding the type of people who flock to this fair city. Not to perpetuate stereotypes, but to outsiders (speaking in general terms, of course), the typical Ashevillean is seen as someone who grows the hair out a little longer, obsesses over treading lightly, and holds radical beliefs about the afterlife. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11638/1/Blogging-on-the-rise-in-Egypt-despite-security-risks-threats-says-report/Blogging-on-the-rise-in-Egypt-despite-security-risks-threats-says-report.html A few years ago, the word blog would have mostly likely been met with blank stares or looks of confusion. In 2004, Egypt had only 40 registered blogs, and the idea of posting thoughts on personal web pages for the public to read was virtually unheard of at the time. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11622/1/Blogging-the-news/Blogging-the-news.html The note from Lori Morse of Los Angeles explained that she was a longtime reader and she worried about the loss of features and staffers from The Times. She offered to help in any way she could. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11600/1/Tenniscom-NBC-Serve-Blogging-Pact/Tenniscom-NBC-Serve-Blogging-Pact.html Tennis.com, the Web offshoot of Tennis Magazine, has forged a deal with NBC Universal to provide live blogging commentary for all of the 2008 Olympic tennis matches that will be streamed on NBCOlympics.com. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11579/1/Is-Social-Networking-and-Blogging-Bad-for-Business/Is-Social-Networking-and-Blogging-Bad-for-Business.html Blog and social networking sites continue to rise in popularity as today’s tech-savvy professionals stay connected with friends, family and colleagues around the world. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11564/1/The-Changing-Blogosphere-and-Blogging-20/The-Changing-Blogosphere-and-Blogging-20.html Is blogging today fundamentally different to blogging five years ago? It’s a topic some smart people have been discussing recently. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11545/1/Live-blogging-from-the-Empire-State-Games/Live-blogging-from-the-Empire-State-Games.html With 26 sports and about 6,000 athletes, there's plenty of action going on at the Empire State Games. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11528/1/13-Apps-to-Turn-Your-iPhone-into-a-Blogging-Machine/13-Apps-to-Turn-Your-iPhone-into-a-Blogging-Machine.html Seeing as how Web services today are becoming more and more multi-faceted and multi-functional, particularly in the social networking and social media space, it really is open to debate what is and what is not part of a specific segment of the market. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11519/1/New-Univ-blogging-system-means-new-route-of-communication/New-Univ-blogging-system-means-new-route-of-communication.html The new system, which uses the WordPress Multi-User platform, was developed by Terence Armentano from the Center for Online and Blended Learning. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11498/1/Live-blogging-Obamas-news-conference-in-Jordan/Live-blogging-Obamas-news-conference-in-Jordan.html Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and two other senators just held a news conference in Amman, Jordan. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11486/1/Introducing-The-Worlds-Top-PR-Blogs--Now-Why-PR-People-Should-be-Blogging/Introducing-The-Worlds-Top-PR-Blogs--Now-Why-PR-People-Should-be-Blogging.html Finally, a list that classifies The World’s Top PR Blogs! Hats off to Matthew Watson for taking leverage to launch this quest. Matthew Watson, an upcoming PR star who started the blog “From PR to Eternity” while he was still a college student.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11470/1/Blogging-and-bringing-home-the-bacon/Blogging-and-bringing-home-the-bacon.html The modern woman, per the popular '70s television commercial, was once "bringing home the bacon and frying it up in a pan." Now she's also writing a blog. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11458/1/Lessons-From-One-Year-of-Blogging/Lessons-From-One-Year-of-Blogging.html One year ago I launched this blog with a notion but no clue. The notion was that I wanted to make sense of the baffling, bad but somehow occasionally powerful stuff that was emerging under the aegis “Web 2.0.” [It has lately been usefully redubbed "social media"]. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11447/1/Setting-Strategy-Blogs-can-give-small-business-Web-sites-a-personal-touch/Setting-Strategy-Blogs-can-give-small-business-Web-sites-a-personal-touch.html The Internet gives small-business owners a powerful marketing tool that is economical, efficient and never calls in sick. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11428/1/Montreal-ISV-creates-an-alternative-to-Twitter/Montreal-ISV-creates-an-alternative-to-Twitter.html Canadian Wikitravel and Certifi.ca founder Evan Prodromou has launched an open-source microblogging tool that will give users — including those in the enterprise — an alternative to industry leader Twitter. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11420/1/Blogs-can-play-important-role-in-company-culture/Blogs-can-play-important-role-in-company-culture.html Blogs may sometimes seem an overused form of communication, but they remain an important instrument in the corporate tool kit. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11399/1/WordPress-and-TypePad-Spawn-Mobile-Blogging/WordPress-and-TypePad-Spawn-Mobile-Blogging.html Forgive us while we navel-gaze for a minute, but we were particularly pleased to learn that a mobile app for WordPress will debut in the iPhone store soon. The app will work with both Wordpress.com blogs and on-premise installations of version 2.5.1 and newer. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11375/1/Can-Google-Docs-work-for-live-blogging/Can-Google-Docs-work-for-live-blogging.html Amit Agarwal from blog Digital Inspiration has a great guest post on the Official Google Docs blog today outlining how anyone can use the service as a live blogging tool. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11362/1/Why-am-I-still-blogging/Why-am-I-still-blogging.html Like many other bird bloggers, I am answering the question that Mike from 10,000 Birds has posed to us to celebrate the 3rd anniversary of I and the Bird: Why the heck am I still bird blogging? bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11343/1/Learning-From-Business-Blogging-Mistakes/Learning-From-Business-Blogging-Mistakes.html With as many right things you can do with a blog to make it successful, there are nearly as many things you can do wrong. Below are 3 common mistakes companies make with corporate blogs, why they make them and what you can do to avoid them. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11324/1/Has-FriendFeed-been-Giving-Handouts-to-the-Big-Boys-of-Blogging/Has-FriendFeed-been-Giving-Handouts-to-the-Big-Boys-of-Blogging.html It seems like, for better or worse, we just can't quite come to a decision about FriendFeed, can we?  Perhaps we're resigned to an endless back and forth about the social aggregating platform. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11298/1/Correlation-Causation-And-Blogging/Correlation-Causation-And-Blogging.html You only have to hang around the world of social science research- or policy-related blogging for a few hours before you come across someone willing to snottily inform you, or some other luckless interlocutor, that although the finding of this or that paper may appeal to you, nevertheless don't you know that Correlation Is Not Causation. Often this seems to be the only thing they know about statistics. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11277/1/Spoiler-alert-Blogging-WWE-Night-of-Champions-results/Spoiler-alert-Blogging-WWE-Night-of-Champions-results.html WATCHING World Wrestling Entertainment Night of Champions on Jack TV and the action is about to start. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11256/1/Blogging-the-Product-Safety-Bill-Conference/Blogging-the-Product-Safety-Bill-Conference.html I should probably call this entry retrospective blogging on the product safety bill conference since it took place at 4ish Wednesday and will continue after Congress returns from the July 4 recess. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11244/1/Blog-startup-lands-16M-in-funding-adding-jobs/Blog-startup-lands-16M-in-funding-adding-jobs.html With the help of Compendium Blogware, a group of race fans found the celebratory bottle of absinthe they were seeking. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11238/1/Is-Personal-Blogging-Fast-Fading/Is-Personal-Blogging-Fast-Fading.html Remember when people used to blog for fun? When you could type in a friend's clever web address and be instantly delighted with the goings-on of their daily lives? bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11215/1/A-new-internet-marketing-blog-offers-blogging-tips-on-network-marketing-and-mlm-business/A-new-internet-marketing-blog-offers-blogging-tips-on-network-marketing-and-mlm-business.html Ekobay.com is the brainchild of entrepreneur Curt Landberg who has taken an unconventional spiritual journey on his path to success. Curt says "I’m the writer who’s responsible for all the material you read at the Ekobay.com blog. Apart from managing Ekobay, a Warriors blueprint to success, I’m also currently a RSE student in Yelm, Washington. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11199/1/SEM-Blogging-from-the-Personal-Democracy-Forum--Republicans-Have-Issues-Democrats-Have-Questions/SEM-Blogging-from-the-Personal-Democracy-Forum--Republicans-Have-Issues-Democrats-Have-Questions.html The Personal Democracy Forum is a chance every year for advocacy and political groups to find out how the internet can help them connect to their audience.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11188/1/PC-Advisors-ultimate-guide-to-blogging/PC-Advisors-ultimate-guide-to-blogging.html Got something to talk about? Find the right home and best add-ons for your blog with PC Advisor. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11159/1/-Blogging-is-not-all-fun-in-Saudi-Arabia/-Blogging-is-not-all-fun-in-Saudi-Arabia.html In recent years, the act of blogging has snowballed into a hugely popular part of the internet, with statistics suggesting that there are currently over 112 million blogs, with the number fast rising. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11133/1/Journalism-isnt-blogging-and-blogging-isnt-journalism/Journalism-isnt-blogging-and-blogging-isnt-journalism.html Former BBC correspondent Misha Glenny launched a forthright attack on the corporation today for the pressures it places on its reporters, and for hiring correspondents without the appropriate knowledge of the countries in which they operate. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11108/1/AP-in-moves-to-stop-lifting-of-stories-by-bloggers/AP-in-moves-to-stop-lifting-of-stories-by-bloggers.html The Associated Press is trying to tighten up the rules about how much of its stories can be 'lifted" and used on websites. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11107/1/AP-to-meet-with-blogging-group-to-form-guidelines/AP-to-meet-with-blogging-group-to-form-guidelines.html The Associated Press, following criticism from bloggers over an AP assertion of copyright, plans to meet this week with a bloggers' group to help form guidelines under which AP news stories could be quoted online. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11077/1/Mobile-Blogging-My-Portable-Blog-Writing-Kit/Mobile-Blogging-My-Portable-Blog-Writing-Kit.html Last week I put a message on Twitter that prompted a couple of people to ask for more details: On way to sunny Reading, fighting through traffic and rain to see a client, writing blog posts on the road and trying to not feel car sick bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11076/1/Twittering-and-blogging-in-business/Twittering-and-blogging-in-business.html The KNS' Carly Harrington writes of the growing trend: When UT Federal Credit Union wanted to get the word out about a new student Web site, employees armed with cans of spray paint went to "the rock" on the University of Tennessee's fraternity row. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11063/1/Become-The-Top-Blogging-Site-Tips/Become-The-Top-Blogging-Site-Tips.html If you are blogging and you want to build a top blogging site, you are reading the right article. Do you want to be the top most blogging site? With more pictures and more traffic including revenue? Of course, everyone in this business aims to be the most famous blogging site. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11023/1/Future-of-Journalism-Blogging-twittering-and-live-video/Future-of-Journalism-Blogging-twittering-and-live-video.html Andy Carvin is senior product manager for online communities at National Public Radio in Washington. As coordinator of NPR's social media strategy, he has helped NPR programs learn how to use blogs and social networks to promote dialogue and collaboration with the general public. He is interested in the use of Twitter for disaster relief and citizen journalism. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11022/1/Six-Aparts-handy-Blog-It-service-hits-the-iPhone/Six-Aparts-handy-Blog-It-service-hits-the-iPhone.html This morning, Six Apart unveiled its newest iPhone creation, a very svelte-looking port of Blog It, which the company introduced back in April. The simple tool lets you write and cross-blog a post or status update to several services at once. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10985/1/Of-Blogging-and-Omars-Blog/Of-Blogging-and-Omars-Blog.html I have been thinking  of writing about this for some time. It has been a new phenomenon, and like everything new that happens in Kashmir or about Kashmir, becomes an area of my interest and I feel like analysing it. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10983/1/Blog-bitten-celebs/Blog-bitten-celebs.html At a time when urban India has been blog-bitten in a big way, Bollywood and television celebs too have found a great way to connect with their fans, pick up a cause or even settle ‘professional’ scores in cyberia. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10934/1/WWDC-08-The-ultimate-live-blogging-kit/WWDC-08-The-ultimate-live-blogging-kit.html I'm now en route to San Francisco to cover the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference - and, I hope, the launch of the 3G iPhone. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10933/1/Moving-my-Blogging/Moving-my-Blogging.html I am moving my blogging to this venue, which means I will likely post less on the others, which can still be accessed through my main blog at http://xianleft.blogspot.com.. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10896/1/Blog-Yourself-Healthy/Blog-Yourself-Healthy.html For reasons superficial to serious, comical to educational, it seems that blogging has become the way of the world. No matter the reason, there is no denying it – online communities have become a sure way to communicate and relate to others. Even better, blogging can be a daily way to improve your health and the health of others. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10895/1/A-blog-can-change-your-life/A-blog-can-change-your-life.html "I think blogging is for jobless people," declared a friend over lunch one day. It is totally untrue. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10894/1/Friday-Cat-Blogging---6-June-2008/Friday-Cat-Blogging---6-June-2008.html I'm back. Jetlagged, but back. Full service blogging will resume tomorrow, but in the meantime here's a special vacation edition of catblogging. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10864/1/Informal-Blogging-Event-at-DAC-Gains-Interest/Informal-Blogging-Event-at-DAC-Gains-Interest.html It’s always a pleasant surprise to find another pocket of EDA bloggers, such as Sean Murphy’s site. Unfortunately, Sean appears to belong to the old “Richard Goering is EDA” crowd. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10863/1/Why-The-NY-Times-And-Mashablecom-Were-Off-Base-On-Blogging-And-Heart-Failure/Why-The-NY-Times-And-Mashablecom-Were-Off-Base-On-Blogging-And-Heart-Failure.html OK, I'm going off-campus in this post, but I now feel as though I've joined a "privileged class" that entitles me to comment on the New York Times story questioning the connection between the stresses of prolific blogging and heart failure and subsequently, a completely distasteful post on Mashable.com about being able to see (on a map) where bloggers are "dropping dead." The NY Times piece was shoddy reporting. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10824/1/Blogging-a-Revolutionary-Film-Festival-Power-ferments/Blogging-a-Revolutionary-Film-Festival-Power-ferments.html It seems quite the contemporary trend to disregard any manifestations of a dialogue between politics and film. However, the All Power to the Imagination: 1968 and its Legacies film festival has proved that such a collection of films does not have to be a one-dimensional exhibition of left wing doctrine. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10823/1/NASA-employee-suspended-for-political-blogging/NASA-employee-suspended-for-political-blogging.html Any employee can get in trouble for personal blogging on company time, but U.S. government workers, as one NASA employee has discovered, can get into a special kind of legal trouble if they also write about politics. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10822/1/-Whole-Foods-chief-John-Mackey-returns-to-blogging/-Whole-Foods-chief-John-Mackey-returns-to-blogging.html The head of US organic retailer Whole Foods has returned to blogging after an 11-month break while his anonymoys posting of more than 1,400 entries on the web about the organic retailer over eight years were being investigated. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10786/1/Look-whos-blogging-Oliver-Marks/Look-whos-blogging-Oliver-Marks.html I was really excited to see Larry Dignan's announcement that Oliver Marks has joined the ZDNet blogging team. I've known Oliver for a few years, first meeting him while he was managing the Sony PlayStation team's collaboration extranet. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10785/1/NASA-employee-suspended-for-blogging/NASA-employee-suspended-for-blogging.html A NASA employee has been suspended for soliciting donations and writing politically partisan blog posts and sending e-mail messages while at work, violations of the Hatch Act. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10784/1/Whole-Foods-CEO-resumes-blogging-to-explain-past-brouhaha/Whole-Foods-CEO-resumes-blogging-to-explain-past-brouhaha.html Whole Foods Market Inc. who came under fire for using anonymous online posts to bash competitors, is back in the blogging saddle. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10749/1/Toronto-app-makes-live-blogging-easy/Toronto-app-makes-live-blogging-easy.html As blogging becomes more mainstream, so has the phenomenon of "live-blogging." That's where a blogger (in some cases a member of the traditional media, in other cases not) covers an ongoing event such as the space shuttle launch or a forest fire or the NBA draft, updating readers continuously as new information emerges. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10747/1/Why-Im-Not-Blogging-From-the-Email-Insider-Summit/Why-Im-Not-Blogging-From-the-Email-Insider-Summit.html OK, technically, this is a blog. And don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against blogging or those who blog. I was asked by Media Post to blog at the summit but, to quote ’70s philosopher Ram Dass, sometimes we need to “Be Here Now.”* bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10707/1/Blogging-paying-off-for-a-few/Blogging-paying-off-for-a-few.html Entrepreneur Jason Busch is the envy of most business bloggers. He's pulling in $300,000 a year from his blog, www.spendmatters.com, and affiliated content aimed at procurement and supply-chain professionals, he said. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10706/1/Shadow-cabinet-unlikely-to-raise-blogging-scandal/Shadow-cabinet-unlikely-to-raise-blogging-scandal.html The Victorian Liberal front bench is meeting for the first time since the blogging scandal was exposed. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10696/1/Blog-Log-The-week-in-local-blogging.html Where were our heads at this week? Thank goodness there were bloggers all over the area taking note of the milestones, moments and murmurings from the past week. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 24 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10654/1/QA-with-Isaac-Mao-on-tech-blogging-in-China-Censorship-and-opportunity/QA-with-Isaac-Mao-on-tech-blogging-in-China-Censorship-and-opportunity.html Isaac Mao is one of the earliest and most prominent bloggers in China. He’s been covering Chinese technology since 2002. He’s confronted censorship — even writing an open letter beseeching the Google founders to not self-censor search results in China.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10653/1/Should-stealth-marketing-be-regulated/Should-stealth-marketing-be-regulated.html Bloggers who work secretly to promote companies, brands that pose as consumers on fake blogs and people who false testimonies and reviews on rating websites such as TripAdvisor or Amazon face action under sweeping new digital consumer protection laws that come into force on Monday. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10643/1/Blogging-the-Electionpart-1/Blogging-the-Electionpart-1.html One man can only watch so many channels at one time. One, is my rule of thumb, plus I'm also web browsing and probably blogging at the same time. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10638/1/Global-Blogger-and-Blogging-Survey/Global-Blogger-and-Blogging-Survey.html How would you like the chance to win one of 10 copies of the ProBlogger Book AND get lots of interesting stats and facts about bloggers worldwide? bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10637/1/Blogging-fearlessly-from-Havana-How/Blogging-fearlessly-from-Havana-How.html One of my favorite country blogs of all time is that of Yoani Sanchez, the 32 year old blogging secretly from Havana. To write on her blog, she has to pretend to be a tourist and go to a hotel to access the Internet. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10616/1/Friday-Cat-Blogging---16-May-2008/Friday-Cat-Blogging---16-May-2008.html None of my pictures of Domino turned out well this week, so instead you get a bigger than usual picture of Inkblot in the backyard, unwinding from a hard day at the office. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10605/1/Blogging-both-night-and-day-lets-Sunnyvale-man-earn-a-living/Blogging-both-night-and-day-lets-Sunnyvale-man-earn-a-living.html Of the roughly 175,000 new blogs that are created every day, very few of them make any money. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10604/1/Avoiding-business-blogging-blunders/Avoiding-business-blogging-blunders.html Establishing a successful business presence on the web can be tricky but when you fake it, the online community is unforgivingAnd of course, what goes online stays online – blogging blunders are forever so a business should think carefully before it engages with customers on a blog, says Martin Murray (pictured), CEO of Interactive Return, a Dublin firm that helps clients with their online marketing strategy. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10599/1/Mums-hooked-on-blogging/Mums-hooked-on-blogging.html THERE is a world in which escape is more easily achieved than in a book, where frustration can be vented with little direct confrontation or comeback, and where people can share their views with those in a genuinely comparable situation. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10572/1/Live-blogging-and-video-Liverpool-Daily-Post-reveals-the-editorial-process/Live-blogging-and-video-Liverpool-Daily-Post-reveals-the-editorial-process.html The Liverpool Daily Post is today using a host of online tools to give its readers the chance to observe and offer input on the paper's editorial process. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10571/1/Blogging-a-Quake-Live-from-Chengdu/Blogging-a-Quake-Live-from-Chengdu.html Song Shi-nan, a blogger from the hipster Bullog blogging community, was blogging in Chengdu when an earthquake began swaying his apartment building and his computer screen on May 12. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10562/1/Are-you-a-healthy-blogger/Are-you-a-healthy-blogger.html Some say it’s the lure of anonymity, others cite the voyeuristic thrill of reading the blog diary of a stranger's life. But Dr Helgo Schomer (registered psychologist and UCT academic) believes blogging may have far more sinister implications. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10561/1/-Blogging-creates-high-rankings-fast/-Blogging-creates-high-rankings-fast.html Blogging can help firms achieve high organic search results within a short period of time, it has been suggested. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10535/1/Guest-blogging-at-ScribeFire-about-blogging/Guest-blogging-at-ScribeFire-about-blogging.html If you like reading my various blogging articles here, you will want to be sure to subscribe to the ScribeFire blog, where I am guest blogging articles on all aspects of blogging, including promoting & marketing your blog.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10533/1/-Blogging-Advice--What-Every-New-Blogger-Needs-To-Know/-Blogging-Advice--What-Every-New-Blogger-Needs-To-Know.html Blogging advice tailored for newcomers can be hard to find. With new terms and tools appearing daily, it can be confusing for new bloggers to know where to start. To learn the basics of blogging such as how to set up a blog and make money from it, keep reading; it's easier than you think. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10491/1/blogging-takes-all-day-blogging-takes-no-time-at-all/blogging-takes-all-day-blogging-takes-no-time-at-all.html I've posted a few times before about turning processes into content but wanted to try to pull it all together in a new way - combining it with the presentations I give that talk about unsustainable models of audience engagement and participation -  in advance of the keynote presentation I'm giving at (G)local 2.0 in Skopje on Thursday morning. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10490/1/More-Dell-blogging/More-Dell-blogging.html Dell has started another blog with execs and employees talking about personal technology. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10454/1/State-softball-live-blogging-starts-Wednesday/State-softball-live-blogging-starts-Wednesday.html Hello softball fans, just a quick programming note for this week’s state softball tournaments. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10452/1/We-Lost-A-Blogging-Giant-Today-Duncan-Riley-Leaves-TechCrunch/We-Lost-A-Blogging-Giant-Today-Duncan-Riley-Leaves-TechCrunch.html Today was Duncan Riley’s last day at TechCrunch, and he will be greatly missed. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10391/1/Jerry-YangStop-Blogging/Jerry-YangStop-Blogging.html I would rather he make Yahoo Finance better. Maybe integrate a few things…seeing it’s 2008. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10390/1/BLOGGING-IT-OUT-WITH-DANIEL-NEGREANU/BLOGGING-IT-OUT-WITH-DANIEL-NEGREANU.html Over the years I've played many tournaments with Daniel Negraneu and I'm never happy to see him at my table. He has my respect both as a player and an ambassador of the game.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10348/1/Chief-Blogging-Officer-Title-Catching-On-With-Corporations/Chief-Blogging-Officer-Title-Catching-On-With-Corporations.html To blog or not to blog? It’s a question marketers are still grappling with years after the first wave of corporate blogging flooded the Web. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10347/1/Mahathir-starts-his-own-blog/Mahathir-starts-his-own-blog.html Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is now a blogger.He is blogging through his website www.chedet.com, which is named after the pseudonym he used when he wrote articles for the newspapers. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10308/1/Research-says-blogging-still-booming/Research-says-blogging-still-booming.html A team of American researchers have surveyed 17,000 web users from around the world and have found that blogging is booming. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10305/1/Adversarial-blogging-the-Brew-Blog-and-co/Adversarial-blogging-the-Brew-Blog-and-co.html I recently came across another example of meta-marketing -- the phenomenon of PR becoming the actual story. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10303/1/Smart-blogging-can-fetch-you-good-money/Smart-blogging-can-fetch-you-good-money.html Blogging was just a casual fad for Ramesh Venkitesh, 29, till a $110 cheque landed in his mail box one morning. His blog primarily offers links to other interesting web sites and blogs around the world. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10235/1/-Dont-see-blogging-as-a-threat-but-a-help-to-Press/-Dont-see-blogging-as-a-threat-but-a-help-to-Press.html "Suggest to an old-school journalist that Weblogs have anything to do with journalism and you'll be met with howls of derision." – J.D. Lasica, Blogs And Journalism Need Each Other. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10199/1/-Blogging-hi-tech-approach-to-next-polls-by-young-voters-candidates/-Blogging-hi-tech-approach-to-next-polls-by-young-voters-candidates.html No political observer in Kuwait has ever imagined that organized moves by young bloggers on their electronic spaces could be so effective that they contribute to the application of the five-constituency system. They used blogs and facebooks to spur and raise the public opinion and to enchant some political forces. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10198/1/Blogging-bounty/Blogging-bounty.html What started as a form of self-therapy has brought in more enriching rewards for a mother of two. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10139/1/Campus-tabloids-blogging-on-college-campuses-problems/Campus-tabloids-blogging-on-college-campuses-problems.html Imagine yourself walking to class on a rather miserable day: it's raining, the bottoms of your pants are wet, and you're tired because you decided that doing anything but your homework was the right option for you last night (and you did that until 1:30 a.m). bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10137/1/Blogging-the-CP-National-Convention/Blogging-the-CP-National-Convention.html I’v been at the convention for 5 hours now, and already too much has happened to possibly include in this post, at least not without boring the masses. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10136/1/Blogging-offers-a-face-for-corporations/Blogging-offers-a-face-for-corporations.html Blogging is one of the best ways to engage with consumers on their level, according to speakers at a Social Networking and Media for Business conference hosted by mad.co.uk today (24 April). bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10128/1/Blogging-Fashion-Where-to-look-online/Blogging-Fashion-Where-to-look-online.html If you are anything like me, then reading my column every two weeks probably does not satisfy your fashion news appetite. I am a little embarrassed to say I probably spend just about as much time on a few select fashion blogs as I do Facebook. But just in case you were interested, here are a few of my favorite sites to learn more about the latest trends, new fashion tips and best faux pas. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10126/1/Profy-debuts-sleek-powerful-new-social-blogging-platform/Profy-debuts-sleek-powerful-new-social-blogging-platform.html One of the biggest gripes of bloggers everywhere is that the web-based platforms they write on are either buggy, unintuitive, or just plain difficult to use.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10109/1/Blogging-in-your-dreams-Time-to-unplug/Blogging-in-your-dreams-Time-to-unplug.html Sharon Sarmiento knew it was time to unplug when she realised she was blogging in her dreams and hearing imaginary instant messages. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10105/1/Asias-blogging-boom/Asias-blogging-boom.html When Dilbert predicted that everyone will be a reporter in the future, he was not wide off the mark. That was in 1997 when Scot Adam’s The Dilbert Future came out. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10103/1/7-ways-to-get-fame-and-fortune-from-blogging/7-ways-to-get-fame-and-fortune-from-blogging.html 1. Update regularly. Readers are a very fickle lot. If you keep them waiting for days at a time, you will lose your audience. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10003/1/Doctor-Who-blogging-Voyage-of-the-Damned/Doctor-Who-blogging-Voyage-of-the-Damned.html On the Titanic. Good fun. No, wait: What? Fun? Holy crap, but this is a depressing episode. Jesus. Dead bodies floating in open space, a “nuclear storm” drive that’s gonna wipe out life on Earth? Characters dying senselessly... sure, some die nobly, saving others, but some just die senselessly. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10001/1/Now-Uncensored-Blogging-from-Pirate-Bay/Now-Uncensored-Blogging-from-Pirate-Bay.html Known for being a bit of a rebel (an online one at that) the Pirate Bay has added one more feather to its cap in the form of "Baywords", an uncensored blogging service that uses Wordpress as blogging engine. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9926/1/Corporate-blogging-and-why-CEOs-dont-get-it/Corporate-blogging-and-why-CEOs-dont-get-it.html Quick, tell me the names of five Indian CEOs who blog? I'll wait. No, really. I’ll wait. Take your time. Give up? I’m not surprised. Don’t be too hard on yourself. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9925/1/The-Pirate-Bay-rolls-out-anonymous-blogging-service/The-Pirate-Bay-rolls-out-anonymous-blogging-service.html Torrent aggregator The Pirate Bay has announced a new blogging service that promises writers that they can post almost anything they want.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9924/1/Feministe-Feedback-Blogging-About-Your-Personal-Life/Feministe-Feedback-Blogging-About-Your-Personal-Life.html I have a feminist blog that I update pretty regularly, and of course people close to me end up in it from time to time. Anyway, I made a post about an argument my friend and I had, and she ended up reading it. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9871/1/-Live-blogging-the-Clinton-Obama-debate-in-Philadelphia/-Live-blogging-the-Clinton-Obama-debate-in-Philadelphia.html Democratic rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama debated this evening in Philadelphia and we followed things as they happened. The moderators were ABC News' Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. The event was broadcast by ABC-TV. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9869/1/LIVE-BLOGGING-AND-SETTING-THE-SCENE/LIVE-BLOGGING-AND-SETTING-THE-SCENE.html I'll be live blogging the debate from on site here in the city of Brotherly Love, while Mark and Chuck will be doing so from DC. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9868/1/Six-Apart-launches-cross-blogging-Facebook-app/Six-Apart-launches-cross-blogging-Facebook-app.html Six Apart Ltd., which hosts the popular Movable Type and TypePad blogging tools, today unveiled a tool it said allows Facebook users to post to multiple blogs or microblogs across the Web from within the social network. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9805/1/Pat-Dempsey-announces-the-addition-of-blogging-to-his-website/Pat-Dempsey-announces-the-addition-of-blogging-to-his-website.html Former RE/MAX World Long Drive Senior Champion Pat Dempsey announced that he has now added blogging to his website. “ I’m looking forward to sharing my journey through golf, long drive, and fitness. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9804/1/Mobile-Blogging-and-Social-Networking---Why-Youll-Be-Doing-It-Before-Long/Mobile-Blogging-and-Social-Networking---Why-Youll-Be-Doing-It-Before-Long.html Two parallel industries have seen significant growth in the past few years. The first is the mobile phone industry with particular growth in the area of mobile broadband. The second is the online world of blogging and social networking. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9803/1/Six-Apart-brings-blogging-application-to-Facebook/Six-Apart-brings-blogging-application-to-Facebook.html Movable Type and TypePad developer Six Apart on Wednesday will introduce a new blogging tool for users of Facebook social networking site. The free application, dubbed Blog It, will allow people to post to their blogs directly from within the Facebook interface. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9750/1/Blogging-from-the-Luxury-Summit-Robert-Frank-Keynote-Speech/Blogging-from-the-Luxury-Summit-Robert-Frank-Keynote-Speech.html Greetings from the Luxury Summit at the Four Seasons in Westlake Village, California. Last night, I attended the opening dinner. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9749/1/-On-feminist-blogging-community-and-privilege/-On-feminist-blogging-community-and-privilege.html All of us at Feministing have been following the heated discussion happening in the feminist blogosphere right now about issues of race and privilege. (We're not going to summarize, but here is some suggested reading. ) bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9748/1/How-to-win-at-Blogging-Idol/How-to-win-at-Blogging-Idol.html I had to chuckle after opening the Life section of today’s Statesman Journal and reading Capi Lynn’s Forward This column. In case you missed it, Capi’s about to become an official blogger. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9697/1/Masters-Final-Round-real-time-blogging----Pt-25/Masters-Final-Round-real-time-blogging----Pt-25.html This is the shot–the approach on 17–that will decide how difficult 18 will be for Immelman… bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9695/1/Weekend-Malibu-Blogging/Weekend-Malibu-Blogging.html Did you miss me? Or did the miracle of pre-scheduled posting fool you into thinking that I was here all weekend? bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9692/1/Masters-Final-Round-real-time-blogging----Pt-23/Masters-Final-Round-real-time-blogging----Pt-23.html Is Treveor Immelman bad for golf?His complete domination from start to finish of the 2008 Masters has proven to be one of the most forgetable, utterly dull Masters in recent memory (unless, of course, you are Immelman or one of his family or friends). bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9638/1/Blogging-Can-Be-A-Killer-Occupation/Blogging-Can-Be-A-Killer-Occupation.html They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece - not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9637/1/Blogging-Iran-Politics-and-Poetry/Blogging-Iran-Politics-and-Poetry.html Blogging is big in Iran. We already knew that from Technorati statistics on the prevalence of Farsi language blogs on the Web. But now comes a fascinating insight into what all those bloggers are blogging about. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9636/1/Is-writers-blog-causing-writers-block/Is-writers-blog-causing-writers-block.html Blogging can help writers, or waste their time. Some blogs are fun, writes Jane Sullivan. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9589/1/Conquering-Fear-of-Blogging/Conquering-Fear-of-Blogging.html Three different friends over the last two days have told me about their fear of creating, a fear of blogging. They each had their own demons to wrestle: perfectionism, failure, self-consciousness. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9587/1/Corporate-blogging-remains-in-its-infancy-in-RP/Corporate-blogging-remains-in-its-infancy-in-RP.html Corporate blogging is still in the early stages in the Philippines, a search engine marketing expert and a local company has said. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9524/1/Planning-Board-Blogging/Planning-Board-Blogging.html The Montgomery County Planning Board has started a blog so that residents can keep up with deliberations on housing issues and provide feedback. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9523/1/Blogging-meets-literary-analysis-why-people-read-blogs/Blogging-meets-literary-analysis-why-people-read-blogs.html The rise of blogging clearly represents a significant social phenomenon, but studying it poses a challenge in part because defining a blog is not a simple thing. There have been a number of attempts to do so at the technical level, where the presence of material organized by time stamp or the existence of RSS feeds have been suggested as defining features. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9455/1/Does-blogging-kill-Or-is-that-just-a-killer-story/Does-blogging-kill-Or-is-that-just-a-killer-story.html Larry Dignan at ZDNet.com fires a salvo at NYT writer Matt Richtel's front-pager on how too much blogging can be fatal. Richtel used a trio of examples — two deaths and a heart attack — along with anecdotes of bloggers who pass out on their keyboards, dump protein packets into their coffee, and face deadline pressure so extreme that it amounts to a sort of "torture." bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9452/1/Does-Blogging-Kill/Does-Blogging-Kill.html "Relax, chill, and maybe blog" -- that's the headline of the latest blog entry on GigaOm founder and senior writer Om Malik's blog. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9445/1/Blogging-As-Fast-As-We-Can/Blogging-As-Fast-As-We-Can.html Three well-known tech bloggers have had heart attacks since December, and a story in the New York Times suggests that the high stress of blogging may be a cause. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9408/1/The-Dangers-of-Anonymous-Blogging/The-Dangers-of-Anonymous-Blogging.html BusinessWeek reports on anonymous blogging gone bad in a recent article Busting a Rogue Blogger. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9406/1/Do-parents-reveal-too-much-when-blogging/Do-parents-reveal-too-much-when-blogging.html There's a self-proclaimed "Mean Mommy" who recently blogged about feeling sorry for herself when she had to clean up her sick children's constant vomiting. Another mom writes about her second thoughts of having children in the first place. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9384/1/Soccer-blogging-haven-for-hooligans/Soccer-blogging-haven-for-hooligans.html Soccer is the world's most popular sport, bringing in a fan base spanning from around the globe. With the popularity of blogging on the rise, online material for fans is more accessible than ever. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9382/1/Blogging-a-way-of-expression-for-Yankees-fans/Blogging-a-way-of-expression-for-Yankees-fans.html Back in the day, passionate fans went to sports bars to commiserate about what ailed their team. That still works, but fans no longer have to leave their office or living room to debate the merits of new manager Joe Girardi or Joba Chamberlain's remaining in the bullpen. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9341/1/Blogging-in-Malaysia-ranks-among-highest-in-the-world/Blogging-in-Malaysia-ranks-among-highest-in-the-world.html MALAYSIA has about 500,000 active bloggers, ranking the country among the highest in the world after Indonesia and the European Union, Utusan Malaysia reported. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9340/1/Welcome-to-family-blogging/Welcome-to-family-blogging.html I dropped in on four of my daughters, two who live north of here and two who live in California. I saw six of my grandchildren at their cutest, participated in their far-flung Easter egg hunts and watched three of them playing on the Slip-and-Slide in their sunny California desert backyard while it was snowing in my backyard. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9339/1/-Blogging-from-the-Afghan-front/-Blogging-from-the-Afghan-front.html BBC Scotland's Cameron Buttle is in Afghanistan with cameraman Alan Harcus reporting on how Scots in 52 Brigade are coping with operations in Helmand Province. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9289/1/The-blogging-Oscars/The-blogging-Oscars.html To be honest, when I first heard that the SA Blog Awards had a ceremony, I wanted to go mainly to see what bloggers look like. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9283/1/Chefs-let-the-words-flow-in-blogs/Chefs-let-the-words-flow-in-blogs.html Who knew restaurant plates and saucers are sold like hot dogs and buns, in mismatching quantities? And who would ever expect chefs to be as proficient with a keyboard as they are with a knife? bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9242/1/Indianapolis-Social-Network-Group-hosts-first-ever-Blogging-Unconference/Indianapolis-Social-Network-Group-hosts-first-ever-Blogging-Unconference.html Presented by Smaller Indiana, sponsored by Compendium Blogware and hosted at the IUPUI School of Informatics, BlogIN 2008, a Blogging "Unconference", will be held Saturday, April 26 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9241/1/Blogging-for-Uncle-Sam/Blogging-for-Uncle-Sam.html IT HAS BEEN revealed that a US etc Special Operations Command report suggested "clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers " to help the US gain the upper hand in its assorted wars. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9239/1/Khir-turns-to-blogging/Khir-turns-to-blogging.html PETALING JAYA: Former Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo has joined the blogger fraternity and can be reached at www.drkhir.blogspot.com bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9208/1/True-devotion-blogging-about-the-Orioles/True-devotion-blogging-about-the-Orioles.html Blogging about the Orioles isn't for the faint of heart.The team, which opens the 2008 season tomorrow, used to have about 30 blogs focused on it, according to baseballblogs.org. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9207/1/-People-Go-From-Just-Wasting-Time-Online-to-Blogging-for-Extra-Cash/-People-Go-From-Just-Wasting-Time-Online-to-Blogging-for-Extra-Cash.html People today spend so much time online just being entertained. Some of them are realizing they can make an extra part-time of full-time income just doing what they love to do. Here are 4 great reasons to create a blog from MyMarketingCoach, LLC bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9206/1/Blogging-wields-power-againsort-of/Blogging-wields-power-againsort-of.html Remember the story I wrote last year in this blog about a lifestyle columnist who was forced to resign from her job by bloggers who were outraged by her insensitive comments on overseas Filipino workers? That issue demonstrated how blogging has emerged as a new and powerful medium where ordinary folks can air their opinions and grievances—regardless if they’re legitimate or not. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9154/1/-Blogging-Boosts-TV-Scholarship/-Blogging-Boosts-TV-Scholarship.html Canadian Women in Communications (CWC) and the Banff World Television Festival (BANFF) are offering the CWC/Banff World Television Festival Scholarship for the third consecutive year. The scholarship enables one CWC member to attend the 2008 Banff World Television Festival and "be where great television is born." bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9151/1/Blogging-has-its-rewards/Blogging-has-its-rewards.html Will Okun, who grew up in Carrboro, has spent nine years at Westside Alternative High School in Chicago teaching English and photography. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9150/1/PaidContent-vs-TechCrunch-Two-Visions-of-Bloggings-Future/PaidContent-vs-TechCrunch-Two-Visions-of-Bloggings-Future.html Michael Arrington and Rafat Ali are both forceful, sharp-tongued, quick-tempered and plugged in, and both have built successful technology blogging ventures. So it’s no surprise that there is more than a little sparring between them. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9074/1/Sharp-to-launch-blogging-phone-in-Japan/Sharp-to-launch-blogging-phone-in-Japan.html Japanese bloggers have a new tool with which to update their sites with the launch of a new Sharp phone that packs a small QWERTY keyboard. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9072/1/Spring-Arbor-finance-students-are-blogging-about-New-York-trip/Spring-Arbor-finance-students-are-blogging-about-New-York-trip.html As you read this, a group of students from Spring Arbor University should be somewhere between stops at the Federal Reserve Bank and the New York Stock Exchange. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9000/1/Blogging-opportunity-available-for-Malaysian-political-writers/Blogging-opportunity-available-for-Malaysian-political-writers.html Political blogs have the potential to reach millions of people and change perceptions. However, many journalists are unfamiliar with this relatively new medium and how to get started. To that end, the 2008 CyberActivist Clinic, to be held on April 5 and 6 in Bangsur, will teach blogging skills to Malaysian writers with a passion for political issues. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8999/1/Open-Thread-Does-Your-Company-Have-a-Blogging-Policy/Open-Thread-Does-Your-Company-Have-a-Blogging-Policy.html A recent story on news.com identifies the need for awareness by employees of what is acceptable in a public facing personal blog. On the Patent Troll Tracker blog (now hidden from public view), the author just recently identified himself as a Cisco employee. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8997/1/The-inside-story-on-blogs-and-how-they-work/The-inside-story-on-blogs-and-how-they-work.html This is a modified version of post on Morse's own blog at http://talkingtech.net. A blog is short for Web log, a kind of online journal. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8995/1/Blogging-grievances/Blogging-grievances.html The name alone oozes suspense: “Evolution of Security,” and the tagline adds a special thrilling kick: “Terrorists Evolve. Threats Evolve. Security Must Stay Ahead. You Play A Part.” bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8994/1/Corporate-employee-blogs-Lawsuits-waiting-to-happen/Corporate-employee-blogs-Lawsuits-waiting-to-happen.html A recent libel lawsuit filed against Cisco Systems over one of its employees' personal blogs could spur companies, many of which have encouraged workers to share their writings publicly, to reconsider how much latitude to give them. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8966/1/Blogging-from-the-front-line/Blogging-from-the-front-line.html YESTERDAY we told you about an American soldier by the name of Andrew Olmsted who had a friend put his "final post" on his blog after he was killed in Iraq bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8965/1/Blogging-in-Africa/Blogging-in-Africa.html Sokari Ekine has written a great piece on blogging in Africa for MediaShift, a PBS Column. The article covers the continent right from the infancy of blogging in Africa till the present. Issues such as race, communities, business, technology and social movements have been addressed. Below is anExpedia.comexcerpt on the historical progression of the African blogosphere. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8964/1/Light-Blogging-from-This-Contributor/Light-Blogging-from-This-Contributor.html I'm taking a break from the blog for about a week. It's time for a little recharge, some local enjoyment of one my true passions in life and the chance to see some Olympic athletes before this summer, plus a getaway with my wife. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8963/1/Yemen-blocks-Maktoob-blogging-platform/Yemen-blocks-Maktoob-blogging-platform.html Maktoobblog.com, one of the most popular Arab blogging platform, has been recently blocked in Yemen cutting off Yemeni Internet users from the more than 46960 blogs the service hosts. According to MaktoobBlog, there are currently 1226 Yemeni blogs hosted by the service. All of them disappeared from the Yemeni Internet. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8864/1/Perez-Hilton-The-quotQueenquot-Of-Blogging-Big/Perez-Hilton-The-quotQueenquot-Of-Blogging-Big.html When it comes to the big business of celebrity gossip, a Hilton is cashing in, and I'm not talking Paris. I'm talking PEREZ, the self-dubbed 'Queen of Media.' Born Mario Lavandeira, Hilton named his persona after the ultimate celebrity who's famous for simply being famous, and created one of THE most successful celebrity gossip blogs. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8863/1/Blogging-from-India-1--Hyderabad-Great-advances-great-challenges/Blogging-from-India-1--Hyderabad-Great-advances-great-challenges.html As I arrived at the Begumpet airport here, part of a two-person delegation of the Communist Party USA, we were greeted by a delegation of bank workers and members of their union.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8861/1/-Cisco-Sued-Because-of-Employee-Blogging/-Cisco-Sued-Because-of-Employee-Blogging.html Don’t mess with lawyers, and especially don’t poke fun at them for bad behavior or allege that they may have committed improprieties with a court. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8860/1/Blogging-for-bucks/Blogging-for-bucks.html WHO HASN'T dreamed of making a few bucks on the side with their blog?You might just be writing about your love of "Lost" or tips on cruising down the mommy highway, but if you get enough people dropping by your virtual back fence, someone might want to pay to hang out by you. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8858/1/Act-Party-in-on-the-blogging-game/Act-Party-in-on-the-blogging-game.html Actis getting in on the blogging game following the return of Sir Roger Douglas to the party. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8760/1/Blogging-Exploring-the-Smokies-virtually/Blogging-Exploring-the-Smokies-virtually.html This weekend we take a look at what people are saying and photographing on GoSmokies.knoxnews.com. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8758/1/Today-quotBlogging-Lessons-in-Democracyquot/Today-quotBlogging-Lessons-in-Democracyquot.html Why do we blog?" asked Fouad Al-Farhan in December, 2007 on his website about Saudi Arabia. The answers from the bloggers apparently did not please the authorities. He was arrested and has been behind bars ever since. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8757/1/Blogging-Butler/Blogging-Butler.html It’s hard to believe but Tennessee can match its deepest tournament run in school history with a win today against Butler. The Vols have never made it past the Sweet 16, their destination if they win today. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8754/1/Photography-and-Blogging/Photography-and-Blogging.html One might compare the art of photography to the act of pointing. It must be true that some of us point to more interesting facts, bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8752/1/Blogging-Against-Secularism-Weekend-Draws-to-a-Close/Blogging-Against-Secularism-Weekend-Draws-to-a-Close.html With the end of Easter Weekend, as far as I know the BATS are finished with their concerted effort to trash America's Christian heritage, the right of Christians to exercise their faith in the public square, and bash the non-existent theocracy in America. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8701/1/YeahReader-A-Feed-Reader-and-Blogging-Client-in-One/YeahReader-A-Feed-Reader-and-Blogging-Client-in-One.html If you're looking for an RSS reader to help you stay on top of the headlines from your favorite blogs, you have several richly featured feed readers to choose from. Most of them only retrieve your feeds, while others filter them according to your preferences. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8700/1/Blogging-to-attract-recruits-to-the-Israeli-security-service/Blogging-to-attract-recruits-to-the-Israeli-security-service.html While other employers are shutting blogs down and firing staff who attempt to write about their working environment, it seems one of the very professions you'd expect to be locked down tighter than a nuclear power reactor is embracing the power of the humble weblog. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8699/1/Is-It-Time-for-a-Blogging-Union/Is-It-Time-for-a-Blogging-Union.html Blogging is now big business. Mike Arrington reminded us of that with a rant this morning. According to Arrington, about $25 million of VC money went into the coffers of top-tier blogs and blog networks last year, $8.5 million the year before. And maybe I'm reading him wrong, but I detected a bit of distaste when he talked about blog writers starting to think they're worth more than the $5 per post standard apparently set by pioneering blog networks like Weblogs, Inc.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8698/1/So-You-Want-to-Be-a-Blogging-Star/So-You-Want-to-Be-a-Blogging-Star.html MARK CUBAN, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has a full plate. Besides his basketball team, the busy billionaire also owns part of a media company, and serves as chairman of the TV channel HDNet. He recently competed for five weeks on “Dancing With the Stars” on ABC. How on earth does he find time to blog? bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8655/1/-Food-blogging-is-to-literature-as-the-quiche-is-to-fine-cuisine/-Food-blogging-is-to-literature-as-the-quiche-is-to-fine-cuisine.html Looks like Gordon Fucking Ramsay (that's me) started another trend: the celebrity chef blog. Unfortunately -- and predictably -- all (except for mine) fall short of the goal: to be even remotely readable. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8654/1/Blogging---or-Why-jbken-Wont-Be-on-cranfordtalkorg/Blogging---or-Why-jbken-Wont-Be-on-cranfordtalkorg.html In cyberspace the opinion page is the blog. Whether it's on a topic, a region, or just gossip you have the plugged-in world to choose from and can even talk back. Newspapers might try to encourage feedback by giving out email addresses or phone numbers of columnists (has anyone ever not gotten an answering machine?) but with blogs both the opinion and the responses shape what becomes a conversation. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8653/1/Activists-worry-about-blogging-freedom/Activists-worry-about-blogging-freedom.html As long as Internet users refrain from marketing alcohol through e-commerce, they can freely discuss alcohol-related subjects in Blogs without infringing regulations on alcohol advertising, officials in charge of enforcing the Tobacco and Alcohol Tax Law clarified yesterday. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8652/1/Blogging-the-Capitol/Blogging-the-Capitol.html Do you ever wonder if government really works for you? If so, you’re not alone. According to the web site Government is Good, “only 29% of Americans trust the government to do what is right always or most of the time. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8651/1/Live-Blogging-the-Goldman-Sachs-Earnings-Call/Live-Blogging-the-Goldman-Sachs-Earnings-Call.html Heading into Goldman Sachs Group’s earnings call, shares are up 12.5% after the company posted results that exceeded expectations, but nonetheless represent the first quarterly decline in earnings from the year-earlier period in the last 10 quarters. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8607/1/10-ways-to-drive-new-business-with-blogging/10-ways-to-drive-new-business-with-blogging.html Blogging is not simply a tool for computer whizz kids, it is an effective business tool that is used by an increasing numbers of corporate’s to drive new business. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8606/1/The-corporate-blogs-dying-off/The-corporate-blogs-dying-off.html  When it comes to corporate blogs, the stream of consciousness has slowed to a trickle. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8605/1/Blogging-in-Sanskrit-binds-Indian-students-overseas/Blogging-in-Sanskrit-binds-Indian-students-overseas.html Pune: Guess what's keeping together our high-tech gizmo Indian students at various US universities, pursuing higher studies? It's an online Sanskrit magazine. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8604/1/Live-blogging-from-the-Seven-Seas-Mariner/Live-blogging-from-the-Seven-Seas-Mariner.html USA TODAY cruise editor Gene Sloan is blogging live this week from the Regent Seven Seas Mariner. Go to the comment box below to leave Gene a question about the ship. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8603/1/An-Apology-for-Cheap-Shot-Blogging/An-Apology-for-Cheap-Shot-Blogging.html It's easy for bloggers to write first and think later, and I'm no exception.Last Friday, I did a quick post about a National Research Council report on the ten big questions facing 21st century planetary science. Many of the questions are very fundamental -- how micro-scale material properties translate into planetary properties, how the Earth's core actually works. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8537/1/Nine-Lords-ABlogging/Nine-Lords-ABlogging.html On Monday the British House of Lords starts blogging. The Times reports that Lord Soley, Lord Norton, Lord Tyler, Lord Lipsey, Lord Dholakia, Baroness D’Souza, Lord Teverson, Baroness Young of Hornsey and Baroness Murphy — collectively to be known as Lords of the Blog — will begin a 6-month experiment aimed at raising public awareness of the role and business of the House of Lords. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8536/1/on-blogging/on-blogging.html This post is dedicated to all the socio-bloggers who have mused about quitting lately, as it seems like there are a few. Becoming Dr. Warner seems to be closed down, Radio Free Newport is considering quitting, as is New Soc Prof… and many others have talked about quitting in comments. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8535/1/Blogging-the-Quran-Sura-18-The-Cave-verses-60-82/Blogging-the-Quran-Sura-18-The-Cave-verses-60-82.html Sura 18’s importance in Muslim piety, noted last week, is affirmed in numerous ahadith. In one, a man was reciting the sura when “a cloud came down and spread over that man, and it kept on coming closer and closer to him till his horse started jumping (as if afraid of something). When it was morning, the man came to the Prophet, and told him of that experience. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8534/1/Blogging-Death-of-a-political-site-early-sex-may-prevent-Juvies-and-that-basketball-game/Blogging-Death-of-a-political-site-early-sex-may-prevent-Juvies-and-that-basketball-game.html A big blogging topic this weekend is the demise of the popular Tennessee political site VolunteerVoters, which was run by WKRN-TV in Nashville. The site was a daily stop for political junkies following Tennessee politics. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8481/1/Basketball-on-the-minds-of-folks-blogging-in-Flint-about-Flint-and-around-Flint/Basketball-on-the-minds-of-folks-blogging-in-Flint-about-Flint-and-around-Flint.html Over on Dave's Journal, where the tagline is "Sports and Politics and Silliness ... oh my," the question is "Am I in Canada?" Flint (and Beecher) get a mention in passing as Dave says it's awkward to write about a game in which it is Trojans vs Trojans. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8480/1/On-blogs-and-Web-sites-Iraq-war-is-fought-on-the-Internet/On-blogs-and-Web-sites-Iraq-war-is-fought-on-the-Internet.html The black-shrouded Web site opens with a soldier's silhouette and the pounding rhythm of Nine Inch Nails: ``Into the fire you can send us,'' the words go. ``From the fire we return.'' bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8479/1/Patent-Attorneys-Sue-Cisco-and-Blogging-In-House-Lawyer-for-Defamation/Patent-Attorneys-Sue-Cisco-and-Blogging-In-House-Lawyer-for-Defamation.html The moral of this story is blogger beware, at least when it comes to blogging anonymously about litigation involving your employer. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8406/1/-Blogging-Berlin-Kosovo-Erasmus-and-poetry/-Blogging-Berlin-Kosovo-Erasmus-and-poetry.html Existential crises in Berlin, self-critical French and new nation states - the best of our babelblogs this fortnight bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8405/1/Blogging-SXSW-Alina-Simone/Blogging-SXSW-Alina-Simone.html Ukrainian-born singer/songwriter Alina Simone [ tickets ] caught my attention back in thefall 2007 when her first full-length album, "Placelessness," hit shelves.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8404/1/Blogging-your-way-to-the-rich-and-popular-table/Blogging-your-way-to-the-rich-and-popular-table.html In the space of a year and a half, I have managed to further the independence movement of a small African country. Am I staging a die-in in Red Square? No, I’m doing something that actually achieves results: blogging. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8403/1/Blogging-about-videos-Vampire-Weekend-and-Flight-of-the-Conchords/Blogging-about-videos-Vampire-Weekend-and-Flight-of-the-Conchords.html Vampire Weekend continued what has been an impressive few months, from a top 20 Billboard debut for their critically-loved album to this, a stint on Saturday Night Live. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8402/1/Blogging-from-Bremen-Bumpy-start-to-an-optimistic-trip-for-Rangers/Blogging-from-Bremen-Bumpy-start-to-an-optimistic-trip-for-Rangers.html WHEN Ally McCoist predicted a turbulent experience in the second leg of their Uefa Cup round of 16 tie against Werder Bremen, he didn't expect it to begin before they even set foot on German soil. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8401/1/Africa-Blogging-Roundup/Africa-Blogging-Roundup.html Kenyan Pundit reports on Kenyan Women's March for piece as part of the International Women's Day celebrations last Saturday. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8339/1/Alice-blogging-with-new-lungs/Alice-blogging-with-new-lungs.html Perky survivor of risky 7-hour transplant opAlice Vosloo has a lot in common with other 24-year-olds: she is a Grey’s Anatomy fan, reads avidly and is regularly online and connected. The difference is that she is recovering from a seven-hour double lung transplant operation just over a month ago. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8338/1/5-Existential-Blogging-Tips/5-Existential-Blogging-Tips.html Most of us want to turn a buck with our web sites. Even if your motivation for producing the site isn’t monetary, profitability is an undeniable yardstick for success. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8337/1/Running-into-more-folks-blogging-about-Flint-Michigan/Running-into-more-folks-blogging-about-Flint-Michigan.html Hey, thanks for the tips to a few more Flint-related blogs. Some will make the permanent page and some, well, let's just say we'll keep an eye on them. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8335/1/Conference-on-blogging-to-take-place-in-Jordan/Conference-on-blogging-to-take-place-in-Jordan.html CasualPR, a public relations firm that focuses on online journalism in the Middle East, will hold a conference on blogging in Amman, Jordan on April 19. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8334/1/-CHRIS-WILSON-Blogging-along-the-cyber-highway/-CHRIS-WILSON-Blogging-along-the-cyber-highway.html I’ve been giddyish — like a little kid ever since I got my very own news blog. That’s right, just go to monroenews.wordpress.com and you’ll see some local news, as much as I can fit into an already busy schedule of mine, that is. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8254/1/First-The-Blog-Then-The-Voice-New-Ways-For-Media-Cos-To-Engage-Consumers/First-The-Blog-Then-The-Voice-New-Ways-For-Media-Cos-To-Engage-Consumers.html IMAGINE HEARING VOICES FOR EVERY written blog on the Internet. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8253/1/Venn-and-the-Art-of-Internet-Blogging/Venn-and-the-Art-of-Internet-Blogging.html Some people say she’s genius, that she’s got something really special. "Maybe a gene?" asks Stephen Dubner, one of the authors of the bestseller, "Freakonomics." Most of her readers ponder how it is Jessica Hagy visually links ideas together in Venn diagrams, and other types of charts, in such a clever way. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8251/1/Blogging-as-the-new-therapy-Study-looks-at-weblogs-as-coping-mechanism/Blogging-as-the-new-therapy-Study-looks-at-weblogs-as-coping-mechanism.html Blogging - some equate it as nothing more than letting the entire Internet into your journal.But weblogs seemed to become a point of fascination with psychologists as well, with a new study published in the Cyberpsychology & Behavior journal. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8249/1/Chefs-blogs----even-sharper-than-their-knives/Chefs-blogs----even-sharper-than-their-knives.html Foodies have been doing it for years. But now some pretty big names are logging on to the bandwagon. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8247/1/Morning-Buzz-Cuban-on-bloggings-fine-points/Morning-Buzz-Cuban-on-bloggings-fine-points.html Mark Cuban, champion of new media, might not be such a fan when it comes to critics of his team. The Dallas Mavericks' owner, and author of the popular blogmaverick.com, revoked the locker-room access of a Dallas Morning News writer whose primary purpose is to blog for the paper's Web site. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8154/1/7-Tools-For-Blogging-On-Your-Phone/7-Tools-For-Blogging-On-Your-Phone.html Sure, “moblogging” and “microblogging” is all the rage, but sometimes you get a great idea for a regular blog post while you’re out-and-about, you just have to put it on your regular blog as opposed to on some place special like Twitter. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8153/1/Live-Blogging-the-Blackstone-Conference-Call/Live-Blogging-the-Blackstone-Conference-Call.html Today Blackstone Group announced a fourth-quarter loss. Deal Journal is following the call:11:05: The call starts. Tanya, our coordinator, kicks it off. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8152/1/Blogging-from-the-Cheney-bash-Three-hours-early/Blogging-from-the-Cheney-bash-Three-hours-early.html The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionVice President Dick Cheney shows up here at the Atlanta Hilton somewhere in the six o’clock hour, just in time for rush hour. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8150/1/Cheney-blogging-That-primary-race-for-ag-commissioner-is-already-over/Cheney-blogging-That-primary-race-for-ag-commissioner-is-already-over.html The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionDinner’s finally underway. Many lobbyists, plus a full turnout by state elected officials. Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle is in sight, and House Speaker Glenn Richardson just passed by. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8149/1/Blogging-gag-looms-civil-servants/Blogging-gag-looms-civil-servants.html Civil servants are to get new guidelines on blogging and social networking sites as Whitehall comes to terms with the latest trends on the internet, it has been confirmed. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8060/1/The-blogs-of-war/The-blogs-of-war.html Riding through the streets of Mosul, Iraq's second- largest city, in a United States military armoured vehicle, Colby Buzzell, a soldier in the Stryker Brigade Combat Team, turned to see a man dressed in black emerge from nowhere and point an AK-47 at him. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8059/1/Blogging-Software-Developer-Mullenweg-to-Address-Major-Internet-Conference-as-US-Switches-from-TV-to-Internet-for-News/Blogging-Software-Developer-Mullenweg-to-Address-Major-Internet-Conference-as-US-Switches-from-TV.html Matthew Mullenweg will be speaking at the Elite Retreat Internet marketing conference (http://www.EliteRetreat.info) this coming April 3 and 4 in San Francisco. Matthew Mullenweg is co-creator of WordPress, blogging software which is used by millions of users worldwide.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8057/1/Blogging-makes-you-feel-better/Blogging-makes-you-feel-better.html BOFFINS from Melbourne's Swinburne University of Technology reckon blogging makes people feel better. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8055/1/The-problem-with-blogging/The-problem-with-blogging.html Just this morning I got a text telling me to check out some blog with juicy gossip about the so called “Gucci Gang” curiously enough I logged on and read all the gossip and juicy details. Whether or not the stories were true I didn’t really care to find out nor do I care to be involved. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8038/1/Why-short-is-tweet-for-the-blogging-community/Why-short-is-tweet-for-the-blogging-community.html When I first used the microblogging platform Twitter - which enables users to publish 140-character-long messages via the web and mobile phones - I thought it was silly. Or rather, the uses to which it was being put were silly: people announcing that they'd just woken up or what they'd had for breakfast. I couldn't have cared less. But then I should confess that when I first used blogs and podcasts, I didn't fully comprehend their impact either. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8037/1/Blogging-from-the-County-Commission-Meeting/Blogging-from-the-County-Commission-Meeting.html You've got folks complaining about speed bumps, with a final counterpoint argument from Commissioner Steve Bauer. North Kitsap sounds like it's adopting some of the political rivalry personalities of North Mason. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8036/1/Live-blogging-the-Oscars-telecast/Live-blogging-the-Oscars-telecast.html Look at Jon Stewart, clutching that statue like it might have the power to fill 3.666-repeating hours with funny filler. Will anything during the actual ceremony compare with the scene on the red carpet when Gary Busey attacked Jennifer Garner? Let's find out. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8035/1/Blogging-the-Oscars-The-Carpetbagger-Reports/Blogging-the-Oscars-The-Carpetbagger-Reports.html NEW YORK E&P was too lazy to blog the Academy Awards ceremony this year -- we'll just say it moved along well and Jon Stewart was okay but not zingy -- so we will take the easy way out and just quote a few nuggets from David Carr at his Carpetbagger blog at www.nytimes.com bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8034/1/A-big-wow-on-quotThe-Wirequot-Watching-but-not-blogging-the-Oscars-Pointless-hackery/A-big-wow-on-quotThe-Wirequot-Watching-but-not-blogging-the-Oscars-Pointless-hackery.html As you're probably well aware by now, we've been deconstructing "The Wire" over at TGTV this season. No doubt the normal deluge of comments will hit an all-time high after tonight's episode. If you've already seen it On Demand, you can head on over.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8022/1/New-Social-Networking-Community-Caters-to-Blogging-Enthusiasts/New-Social-Networking-Community-Caters-to-Blogging-Enthusiasts.html The use of the internet has changed dramatically in recent years, allowing "surfers" to do more than just read pages of content, they now have the ability to interact, socialize and even create their own presence with just a few clicks of the mouse. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8019/1/Blogging-Can-Make-You-Number-One/Blogging-Can-Make-You-Number-One.html If you Google Zbigniew Brzezinski, chances are you'll find the one you're looking for. But finding a particular John Miller or Mary Jones can be problematic. But journalist Clive Thompson says that, because of the ranking system that Google uses, blogging is a good way for the generically named to rise to the top of any searches. Steve Mirsky reports from the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships Future of Science Journalism Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7954/1/Southeastern-communications-students-blogging-with-Nolacom/Southeastern-communications-students-blogging-with-Nolacom.html Southeastern Louisiana University communication students are getting hands-on - and on line - experience in today's world of multi-media journalism through a new agreement with the New Orleans Web site Nola.com. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7953/1/Non-Blogging/Non-Blogging.html I'm having a hard time lately deciding what not to blog about. For example: Should I not blog about the Obama plagiarism non-scandal, surely the silliest campaign kerfuffle since — well, since the beginning of the month at least? So far I've managed to not blog about this very successfully. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7952/1/Blogging-Castro-Goodbye/Blogging-Castro-Goodbye.html When the 81-year-old Fidel Castro announced Tuesday that he would hand over the presidency of Cuba's communist party to his brother Raul, one of the longest dictatorships in history creaked toward a close. Writing a coda to that 50-year era is a small but growing crop of bloggers, a new element in the relatively closed country. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7951/1/Blogging-about-plastics/Blogging-about-plastics.html Enthusiastic blogging on all things plastics can be read at Plastics News and Plastics News China. Blog entries range from the light hearted - excerpt from a story about a woman struggling to survive one day without plastics - to the more serious - how to avoid getting stung in an unregulated Chinese market. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7950/1/Business-Blogging-Rules-And-Best-Practices/Business-Blogging-Rules-And-Best-Practices.html I believe in blogging. I have to, I'm a blogger. But blogging can also be a useful tool for small and midsize companies -- if you do things right and avoid the potential minefields. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7886/1/Blogs-Without-the-Links/Blogs-Without-the-Links.html By their very nature, the world’s 80 million blogs — give or take a few million — seem to defy easy categorization and evaluation. Sites like Technorati and Bloglines claim to track the most popular blogs, but popularity is just one way to find blogs worth reading. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7884/1/Blogging-Tool-for-Mac-OS-X-Updated/Blogging-Tool-for-Mac-OS-X-Updated.html Red Sweater Software has released an update to MarsEdit, a blog editing tool for Mac OS X. The new 2.1.2 release, posted Feb. 13, includes several enhancements to tagging posts, previewing content, and managing blog entry drafts. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7881/1/How-Blogs-Are-Changing-The-Recruiting-Landscape/How-Blogs-Are-Changing-The-Recruiting-Landscape.html Corporate recruitrs have long surfed the Web to vet potential hires, but now they're also surfing blogs to unearth job candidates, expanding their talent pool and gaining insights they say they can't get from resumes and interviews. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7879/1/Live-blogging-the-Wisconsin-Primary/Live-blogging-the-Wisconsin-Primary.html Today it's battleground Badger State, as Wisconsin voters take to the polls to vote in their state's primary, dolling out 74 Democratic and 40 Republican delegates. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7877/1/Blogging-Castro-Goodbye/Blogging-Castro-Goodbye.html When the 81-year-old Fidel Castro announced Tuesday that he would hand over the presidency of Cuba's communist party to his brother Raul, one of the longest dictatorships in history creaked toward a close. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7760/1/Blogging-the-Obvious/Blogging-the-Obvious.html WordPress is a great open source blogging platform for managing content, but customizing the look and feel requires a decent amount of effort plus a bit of skill. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7758/1/Australia-Knocks-Proposed-Olympic-Blogging-Gag/Australia-Knocks-Proposed-Olympic-Blogging-Gag.html Sydney, Australia (AHN) - Australian athletes attending this year's Olympics in Beijing will be allowed to make political comments in their blogs. That decision contradicts a British decision to forbid speech that might offend their Chinese hosts. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7756/1/Blogging-can-be-useful-as-a-low-cost-public-relations-and-marketing-tool/Blogging-can-be-useful-as-a-low-cost-public-relations-and-marketing-tool.html Looking for a cheap and innovative way to build your small business brand? Blogging is increasingly used by larger companies, but a recent American Express survey found that only 5% of businesses with fewer than 100 employees have blogs. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7755/1/IOC-approves-blogging-athletes-for-Beijing---with-strict-rules/IOC-approves-blogging-athletes-for-Beijing---with-strict-rules.html The International Olympic Commitee (IOC) has announced that athletes will be allowed to blog this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing - but what will they actually be able to say? bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7696/1/Blogging-by-SMS-new-rage-in-cool-India/Blogging-by-SMS-new-rage-in-cool-India.html At 21, Ludhiana management student Harjinder Singh already has a mega project in hand, albeit in a micro medium. His 160-character blog posts, punched out on his Nokia handset, instantaneously reach 57,659 Sikhs across India — all at the cost of a single SMS. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7694/1/CEO-blogging-hots-up/CEO-blogging-hots-up.html NEW DELHI: Last month Waitrose managing director Mark Price, nicknamed the ‘chubby grocer’, launched a blog on the retailer’s website in which he shares his experiences on a healthier eating regime and tracks his efforts to lose weight -- as well as arguing for the introduction of tea trolleys to airport immigration halls. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7693/1/Whos-blogging-Virtually-everyone/Whos-blogging-Virtually-everyone.html Dispatches from a quick tour of the travel blogosphere: At worldhum.com, there's wonder at whether North Korea's Ryugyong Hotel is the worst building in history. There's also talk of Robert Redford making a movie based on Bill Bryson's book "A Walk in the Woods," bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7692/1/Ask-an-Expert-Blog-or-get-bogged-down/Ask-an-Expert-Blog-or-get-bogged-down.html Q: Steve – It seems that blogging is here to stay, wouldn't you say? I have been told that it makes sense for a small business to blog, but I don't really get what it would do for my business. Do you? bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7691/1/IOC-says-yes-to-Olympic-blogging/IOC-says-yes-to-Olympic-blogging.html The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is for the first time allowing athletes to write internet journals or blogs at this year's Beijing Olympics. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7567/1/Blogging-the-Bombers-Jorge-Posada-believes-Roger-Clemens-story/Blogging-the-Bombers-Jorge-Posada-believes-Roger-Clemens-story.html Jorge Posada and Mariano Rivera made their first appearances at Legends Field Friday, each discussing Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens’ situation for the first time since the hearing in Washington earlier in the week. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7566/1/Coming-to-Grips-Online-With-Shooting/Coming-to-Grips-Online-With-Shooting.html Here is a sampling of notable online commentary today about the mass shooting at Northern Illinois University, its aftermath and its implications, from as close in as the DeKalb, Ill., campus and as far afield as Finland: bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7564/1/Wow-blogging-is-fun--OK-maybe-not/Wow-blogging-is-fun--OK-maybe-not.html Recently, I went on the Internet and made a shocking discovery. I found a blog. Actually, I found lots of blogs. In fact, I found so many blogs, that I ignored my family for at least two days. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7563/1/Friday-Cat-Blogging---15-February-2008/Friday-Cat-Blogging---15-February-2008.html I have newfound respect for Steven Spielberg. Last week I got the bright idea of creating a cat video, and as soon as the thought entered my head I walked upstairs and found Inkblot plucking treats out of the air from Marian's outstretched hand. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7562/1/Let-the-blogging-begin-IOC-says-athletes-can-blog-at-Olympics-but-follow-rules/Let-the-blogging-begin-IOC-says-athletes-can-blog-at-Olympics-but-follow-rules.html GENEVA - Let the blogging begin.The IOC has given athletes the right to blog at the Beijing Games this summer, a first for the Olympics, as long as they follow a set of rules on content. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7462/1/Five-Donts-of-Classroom-Blogging/Five-Donts-of-Classroom-Blogging.html NO ONE NEEDS TO SELL BROCK DUBBELS on the use of blogging as a part of curriculum. Dubbels, an engineering teacher at Washburn High School in Minneapolis has seen firsthand that his students perform better when they know their peers will be reviewing their work as opposed to merely having to face the judgment of their teacher. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7460/1/Blogging-for-a-freer-Afghanistan/Blogging-for-a-freer-Afghanistan.html Nasim Fekrat in Kabul has been a very active blogger for years. He has an English blog, a Dari/Farsi one, and a photo blog. He has also contributed to several citizen media projects such as Afghan Press and Afghan Penlog. He talks with us about challenges and achievements in Afghanistan's media and new projects. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7459/1/CNN-Fires-Ranting-Liberal-Producer-for-Blogging/CNN-Fires-Ranting-Liberal-Producer-for-Blogging.html CNN has fired producer Chez Pazienza after the network brass realized he had been blogging at his own left-wing site and several others over a period of years: bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7458/1/The-Blogging-Czar-of-Moscow/The-Blogging-Czar-of-Moscow.html Andrew Paulson has a knack for spinning chance encounters with the rich and famous into business opportunities. In the late '80s the New Haven native carved out a career as a fashion photographer after rubbing elbows with designers and models at parties in Paris. In 1993, Paulson was invited to Moscow for a shindig put on by Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, where he met the editor of a local business magazine. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7456/1/CNN-Producer-Says-He-Was-Fired-for-Blogging/CNN-Producer-Says-He-Was-Fired-for-Blogging.html Should journalists be permitted to maintain personal — and highly opinionated — blogs on their own time? Chez Pazienza, a senior producer for CNN’s “American Morning,” says the network fired him on Tuesday on the grounds that he violated its standards for journalists through his blog, Deus Ex Malcontent. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7341/1/B2B-Blogging-Using-Thought-Leadership-To-Drive-Positioning--Sales/B2B-Blogging-Using-Thought-Leadership-To-Drive-Positioning--Sales.html The B2B world is wrestling with how to effectively harness "word of blog" marketing—let alone the glittery new world of social media marketing. How can we use social media sites to create that viral buzz that sends awareness and sales soaring? We see what occasionally happens in the consumer market, and we want some of that. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7339/1/Berman-Morrow-among-growing-group-of-blogging-athletes/Berman-Morrow-among-growing-group-of-blogging-athletes.html Four months into the women's basketball season, Erica Morrow is probably used to answering questions about meeting freshman expectations and creeping into the top 25 poll. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7338/1/Blogging-from-my-basement-UW-Indiana-coverage/Blogging-from-my-basement-UW-Indiana-coverage.html Hello again from the palacial Heller estate. I can't be in Bloomington, but here's the next best thing: I was permitted to be at home tonight and give you updates and analysis as I watch the Wisconsin-Indiana game on the Big Ten Network. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7336/1/Good-Things-Come-to-Those-Who-Blog/Good-Things-Come-to-Those-Who-Blog.html General Motors'(GM - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) vice chairman Bob Lutz does it. Boeing's(BA - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) vice president of marketing, Randy Tinseth, does it. And Carl Icahn is reportedly going to do it. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7334/1/Live-blogging-the-Clemens-hearing/Live-blogging-the-Clemens-hearing.html Hello. Your correspondent is jammed into a seat in a House of Representatives office building that the people at Air Tran would envy. A line of onlookers hoping to get a glimpse of today's witness, star pitcher Roger Clemens, runs down the corridor. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7218/1/Swift-does-mobile-blogging-for-the-LEGO-generation/Swift-does-mobile-blogging-for-the-LEGO-generation.html I'm a fan of having all the tools to blog in one simple editor, but if you're more the piece-work type (hence the LEGO reference) then check out Swift, a new blogging tool created by the folks at Proteus. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7216/1/Blogging-bosses-take-a-risk-but-can-reap-rewards/Blogging-bosses-take-a-risk-but-can-reap-rewards.html Angry customers swarmed Burt's Bees last fall as soon as the all-natural cosmetics maker announced plans to sell itself. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7215/1/Winners-of-Nunavut-blogging-awards-announced/Winners-of-Nunavut-blogging-awards-announced.html NUNAVUT - The votes have been cast and the winners of the inaugural Nunies have been announced. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7213/1/Strikers-Not-Writing-But-Still-Blogging/Strikers-Not-Writing-But-Still-Blogging.html Even when they’re on strike, Writers Guild of America members are still writers at heart. Perhaps for that reason, several television screenwriters and show-runners have been busy blogging about the situation. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7212/1/Review-Microsoft-Live-Writer-blogging-software/Review-Microsoft-Live-Writer-blogging-software.html Blogging is a fun way to share news and opinions but creating blogs using the standard web-based editors can be frustrating. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7098/1/Blogging-the-Virtual-Government/Blogging-the-Virtual-Government.html Not long from now, we will make laws, set policies, write regulations and create programs by first "playing" the likely consequences in synthetic worlds, says Anne Laurent, longtime observer of federal management and creator, just this year, of a new blog, “The Agile Mind.” bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7097/1/Blogging-Five-Strategies-Used-By-Prolific-Writers/Blogging-Five-Strategies-Used-By-Prolific-Writers.html My first blog post to a website occured in 1996 - and from that "conversational diary" came several websites. But prior to that fateful September, CompuServe was popular with hundreds of thousands of members. U.S. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7095/1/Barrier-free-blogging/Barrier-free-blogging.html The work of provocative freelance bloggers probably should come with a disclaimer that you get what you pay for. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7094/1/Pipes-Mashup-Turns-Google-Maps-into-a-Blogging-Tool/Pipes-Mashup-Turns-Google-Maps-into-a-Blogging-Tool.html You might think of Google Maps as, well, maps — a way to find business location and get directions. But that's really just the tip of the iceberg, Google's mapping interface supports all sorts of other goodness — like the ability to create your own maps and share them. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7093/1/Hi-Dad-Cant-talk-right-now-Im-blogging-about-you/Hi-Dad-Cant-talk-right-now-Im-blogging-about-you.html Americans have enjoyed certain inalienable rights ever since the Declaration of Independence. Chief among these is the right to have a political system that is ineffably more glamorous than ours. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7043/1/Niche-bloggers-7-income-streams-for-your-blog/Niche-bloggers-7-income-streams-for-your-blog.html A blog used to be just a simple way to publish content on the web. It is still one of the most important benefits of a blog, but back when blogging began almost nobody realized the real potential of blogs - especially in generating income streams. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7042/1/Motorola-unveils-network-that-carries-video-blogging/Motorola-unveils-network-that-carries-video-blogging.html Video blogging soon could reach the next generation in the Chicago area. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7041/1/Blogging-Being-super-happy-is-overrated/Blogging-Being-super-happy-is-overrated.html Can You be too Happy? That's a question posed by Knoxville blogger Dr. Helen. She points to a study that says maybe yes. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7040/1/Clicks-and-politics-the-impact-of-the-partisan-blog/Clicks-and-politics-the-impact-of-the-partisan-blog.html When Matt Drudge broke the Monica Lewinsky story, some political theorists heralded the coming of a new age: e-democracy. Exhibit A was the thunderclap that hit the political world in 1998 after Drudge's blog revealed that Newsweek had spiked a story about sex between a White House intern and a president. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7039/1/Live-blogging-the-Grammys-red-carpet/Live-blogging-the-Grammys-red-carpet.html (Alternate post title: Leah and Annie cook it in Carroll Gardens!) Hi everyone -- we're here with assorted snacks and a great attitude (for now) about tonight's live-blogging marathon. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6983/1/Blogging-on-the-fly/Blogging-on-the-fly.html It may be a little late to the game, but business travel is now the subject of a variety of blogs. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6981/1/Do-political-blogs-have-any-sway/Do-political-blogs-have-any-sway.html Blogger Guido Fawkes has claimed the internet's first ministerial scalp with the resignation of Peter Hain. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6980/1/Blogging-can-influence-change-in-public-services/Blogging-can-influence-change-in-public-services.html Blogging can help tell the real story of life in the public sector and contribute to the debate about the future of services, according to Tom Reynolds, the London ambulance technician behind the Random Acts of Reality blog. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6977/1/In-Egypt-high-risk-blogging/In-Egypt-high-risk-blogging.html It was not the most comforting of e-mails: "May God honor my sword by slaying Wael Abbas." bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6975/1/Tanzania-Blogging-the-Opening-of-a-Bed-Net-Factory/Tanzania-Blogging-the-Opening-of-a-Bed-Net-Factory.html Sharing power with a coffee urn, Kenyan blogger Bankelele reports from Arusha on the opening of factory in Arusha which will have a significant effect on the health of many Africans. His next entry will be posted tomorrow. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6900/1/Blogging-CPAC-The-Nutso-Independent-Candidate-Arrives/Blogging-CPAC-The-Nutso-Independent-Candidate-Arrives.html CPAC 2008 CHAPTER FIVE: The Daniel Imperato Factor at CPACAt CPAC last year, I couldn’t seem to evade GOP candidate John Cox. This year, he’s been replaced by independent candidate Daniel Imperato. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6897/1/Yes-We-Can-blogging/Yes-We-Can-blogging.html Apropos of nothing much, but some light relief: Back in 1990 I led a small United Nations Development Program mission to the Philippines. One of our meetings was with the Secretary of Trade and Industry. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6896/1/Pan-Mac-team-gets-blogging/Pan-Mac-team-gets-blogging.html Pan Macmillan has launched a blog where it will discuss the issues surrounding publishing the digital world. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6895/1/Would-Carl-Icahn-blog-on-BloggingStocks/Would-Carl-Icahn-blog-on-BloggingStocks.html I'm blogging. You're probably blogging. It's the "in" thing to do. And now, news surfaced this week that billionaire investor Carl Icahn may begin blogging on his corporate website, The Icahn Report. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6893/1/Blogging-from-Cuba/Blogging-from-Cuba.html David Adams, the St. Petersburg Times' Latin American correspondent, writes a fascinating story about Cubans blogging on the island. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6819/1/Alphabeat-Engage-Fans-with-Voice-Blogging/Alphabeat-Engage-Fans-with-Voice-Blogging.html LONDON, 4th February 2008 -- As Alphabeat bring their infectious blend of feel-good pop to UK audiences with their first ever national tour, fans can keep up with the band’s activities while they are on the road via a regular tour blog posted on ThisIsAlphabeat.com. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6818/1/Bloggers-Welcome-To-Use-Blogging-Tools-on-Finditt/Bloggers-Welcome-To-Use-Blogging-Tools-on-Finditt.html Blogging allows you to express yourself about a myriad of topics, such as politics, gossip and sports. It is a way to put your personal thoughts onto a 21st-century medium and be able to share your writings and opinions to the world. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6816/1/Post-SuperDuper-Tuesday-Blogging/Post-SuperDuper-Tuesday-Blogging.html For fear that Ilan will come to my home and close the laptop really hard on my fingers I will limit my political blogging to once a week - but there's no way I'm not writing something about last night. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6815/1/Blogging-from-my-basement-quotLivequot-UW-Iowa-coverage/Blogging-from-my-basement-quotLivequot-UW-Iowa-coverage.html OK, so for those who are not in the know, it is snowing like crazy here in Milwaukee (if it rains cats and dogs, what does snow do?). Because of this, I was granted permission to work from home tonight. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6813/1/Indian-women-obsessive-to-regional-blogging/Indian-women-obsessive-to-regional-blogging.html AHMEDABAD: Indian homemakers’ obsession is not limited to Hindi sops. They are wielding the mouse as efficiently as a TV’s remote. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6711/1/Social-Media-Google-Twitter-Mashup-Online-Video-and-More-on-Super-Tuesday/Social-Media-Google-Twitter-Mashup-Online-Video-and-More-on-Super-Tuesday.html 11:02 am Pacific TimeI’ll be live-blogging the Super Tuesday election day here in the U.S. and will be highlighting all the efforts online to cover the day’s events and results. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6709/1/Buckets-unions-and-not-blogging/Buckets-unions-and-not-blogging.html We were trying to slip on the bloggin’ this week – we can quit if we want to, we really can -- but today had plenty of coal for the firebox. (Seriously, we can quit.) bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6706/1/Live-Blogging-the-Republican-Contests/Live-Blogging-the-Republican-Contests.html 9:07 p.m. Pacific| What’s Next Well, Mr. Huckabee is in that zone, that Southern, friendly zone where he does well in this spate of primaries.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6705/1/For-Your-Blogging-Consideration/For-Your-Blogging-Consideration.html The delicious irony of having my blog nominated for the Seattle Metroblogs Blarch Badness on Super Duper Ooper Tuesday is not lost on me so I am humbly asking for your consideration in voting at Seattle Metroblogs for my Seattle PI reader blog Digital Joystick. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6703/1/Blogging-Super-Tuesday----Return-Here-for-Updates-All-Day/Blogging-Super-Tuesday----Return-Here-for-Updates-All-Day.html NEW YORK The big day -- the Super day -- has finally arrived, and we're not talking about the Super Bowl (which should delight certain people in New England this week). bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6615/1/Doctor-Who-blogging-Fear-Her/Doctor-Who-blogging-Fear-Her.html (intro to my Who blogging, please read before commenting / previous: Episode 10: “Love & Monsters”) bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6613/1/Blogging-the-Bowl/Blogging-the-Bowl.html There was pandemonium in Hoboken last night as the Giants beat the Patriots, 17-14, in the Super Bowl. Hoboken's own Eli Manning was the Super Bowl MVP; fellow Hoboken resident Kawika Mitchell had three tackles and a big sack in the second quarter. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6611/1/Blogging-for-votes/Blogging-for-votes.html In an age where people are increasingly turning to the Internet for information, voters are getting the opportunity to interact with their political candidates using online forums. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6609/1/Brazil-Blogging-helps-the-police-to-mobilize-and-protest/Brazil-Blogging-helps-the-police-to-mobilize-and-protest.html Lieutenant Melquisedec Nascimento, a blogger since April 2007, reports [pt] that his house was visited by four officials from the Police Internal Affairs Department, a special force that investigates crimes committed by police officers. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6607/1/Serious-blogging-directs-healthy-journalism/Serious-blogging-directs-healthy-journalism.html With ever increasing Internet users, web logging or blogging as popularly known, has now transformed into a serious business and probably moving towards the best form of web journalism. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6566/1/Blogging-dieter-pushes-through-despite-setbacks/Blogging-dieter-pushes-through-despite-setbacks.html Claudia Vercellotti, 38, of Toledo, Ohio, makes light of her size, but it weighs heavily on her heart. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6564/1/Let-the-blogging-begin/Let-the-blogging-begin.html The football guys and girls have to do football things, so the office trio of Alex Delanian, Jeremy Cothran and Lisa Kennelly will accompany you here on the Giants blog. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6563/1/Giants-Stun-Pats-Blogging-The-Bowl/Giants-Stun-Pats-Blogging-The-Bowl.html 6:04PM - FOX officially begins their broadcast of the big game with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, nearly twelve hours after beginning their coverage on Sunday morning. Buck is the Tom Brady of announcing, which means I respect him, but hate seeing him succeed. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6562/1/Blogging-in-the-classroom/Blogging-in-the-classroom.html The Internet is everywhere. From the classroom to our personal lives, the Web is the thing of the future and will continuously grow. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6560/1/Blogging-Team-Resigns-to-Launch-More-Inclusive-Relevant-Site/Blogging-Team-Resigns-to-Launch-More-Inclusive-Relevant-Site.html In reaction to a narrowing focus and dwindling support for quality writing tackling the big issues relating to adoption, more than one-third of the remaining blogging staff of Adoptionblogs dot com resigned last week and today launched the realized vision of a totally new concept in online adoption communities: Adoption Under One Roof: covering adoption from every angle, every view, for everyone, at ouradopt.com. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6475/1/Blogging-The-Deal/Blogging-The-Deal.html A roundup of who's saying what on some well-read business and technology blogs. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6473/1/Friday-Kennedy-Blogging/Friday-Kennedy-Blogging.html Like Scott Lemieux, I'm glad that Teddy Kennedy decided to endorse Barack Obama, but find this disturbing if true: bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6472/1/Blogging-Enid-pastor-to-leave-Baptist-board/Blogging-Enid-pastor-to-leave-Baptist-board.html The Rev. Wade Burleson of Enid has resigned as a trustee of the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board, ending a years-long controversy over his blog and his right to publicly disagree with fellow trustees. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6470/1/Friday-music-blogging-Black-Mountain/Friday-music-blogging-Black-Mountain.html I got hooked on Black Mountain years ago after their eponymous first album. Three years later, they're finally out with another: In the Future. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6469/1/Blogging-While-Brown/Blogging-While-Brown.html Someone forwarded me a link to a blog called Electronic Village which is tabulating rankings for black blogs. Somehow I qualify, even though it's the MoJo Blog (a 'problematic' they address). bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6433/1/Seven-myths-about-making-money-from-a-blog/Seven-myths-about-making-money-from-a-blog.html More and more business people are realizing that a blog can be a viable marketing tool in building readership, attracting traffic and prospects to their websites. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6432/1/The-Debate-Few-Sparks-Clinton-and-Obama-Nearly-Hug/The-Debate-Few-Sparks-Clinton-and-Obama-Nearly-Hug.html NEW YORK  We be blogged the debate tonight, below, Obama vs. Clinton, adding at the top. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6430/1/Chris-Smith-gets-blogging/Chris-Smith-gets-blogging.html Here's my first entry for my blog on BikeRadar. I'm going to be updating it regularly with pictures, videos and a few words with what's been going on. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6429/1/Fashion-Week-starts-today-with-FD-blogging-it-all/Fashion-Week-starts-today-with-FD-blogging-it-all.html By JASON SHEELER and DAVID NINH / The Dallas Morning Newsjsheeler@dallasnews.com, dninh@dallasnews.com bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6427/1/Blogging-real-estate-agent-sued-for-25-million/Blogging-real-estate-agent-sued-for-25-million.html Good morning. This one is worth noting: "Developer Tibor Hollo has filed a $25 million defamation lawsuit against a Miami real estate agent who blogged that the octogenarian went bankrupt in the 1980s and is headed for a fall with the upheaval in the condo market." bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6329/1/Blogging-Hoboken-Wednesday-Jan-30/Blogging-Hoboken-Wednesday-Jan-30.html Blogging Hoboken is our semi-regular look at what your friends and neighbors are writing about. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6328/1/LIVE-blogging-from-the-Kansas-State-game-from-the-comfort-of-my-own-home/LIVE-blogging-from-the-Kansas-State-game-from-the-comfort-of-my-own-home.html This is the first time both teams have been ranked while facing each other since 1958. Time to shut Michael Beasley's mouth. Feel free to comment as I go. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6327/1/Live-Blogging-the-GOP-Debate-Huck-and-Ron-Paul-Kick-Ass/Live-Blogging-the-GOP-Debate-Huck-and-Ron-Paul-Kick-Ass.html After several minutes -- or was it hours, the room faded to black -- of discussing some quote Romney made months ago, Ron Paul takes charge. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6326/1/Blogging-from-DEMO/Blogging-from-DEMO.html Just coming off Day 1 of the DEMO 2008 Conference in Palm Desert, Calif. and I’ve been struck by how many of the new products launching here are Mac-friendly. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6325/1/Live-blogging-the-Republican-debate/Live-blogging-the-Republican-debate.html The four remaining Republican presidential candidates debated tonight at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6261/1/WordPress-Launches-Prologue-Twitter-esque-Blogging-for-Groups/WordPress-Launches-Prologue-Twitter-esque-Blogging-for-Groups.html The savvy software savants at Automattic -- creators of the open-source WordPress blogging platform -- have launched a new group blogging tool called Prologue. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6259/1/From-Blogging-the-Buckeyes-Happy-Henton/From-Blogging-the-Buckeyes-Happy-Henton.html OK, no sooner do I say I have no news to report, then I get a delayed call back and now I have news: bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6258/1/Blogging-More-Than-Idle-Chatter/Blogging-More-Than-Idle-Chatter.html With 100 million blogs now online, you may feel as though the last thing your website or the world needs is another one. But if you don't have a blog, you might want to reconsider. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6256/1/Forget-Blogging-Forums-Are-the-Way-to-Get-the-Word-Out/Forget-Blogging-Forums-Are-the-Way-to-Get-the-Word-Out.html Three of the most popular Seattle music forums, NW Hardcore Board, Massline and 206Proof, have surpassed MySpace, blogs, email and even artists' own Web sites as premier resources where fans, promoters, and artists alike can interact and converse, and artists can promote shows. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6255/1/Florida-Primary-McCain-Wins-Rudy-Will-Quit----As-Clinton-and-Obama-Duel-Over-Delegates/Florida-Primary-McCain-Wins-Rudy-Will-Quit----As-Clinton-and-Obama-Duel-Over-Delegates.html NEW YORK Exit polls and the first returns suggest a tight race in the crucial Florida primary between Mitt Romney and John McCain -- while Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have their own duel going. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6140/1/Highway-blogging-legality-debated/Highway-blogging-legality-debated.html An increasingly popular type of political demonstration in Asheville has raised new questions about where the right to free speech ends and police power to protect motorists’ safety begins. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6138/1/-JoeMenzers-blog/-JoeMenzers-blog.html I admit have been negligent in blogging lately - like since last spring. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6136/1/Seesmic-Makes-Video-Blogging-Fun-and-Easy/Seesmic-Makes-Video-Blogging-Fun-and-Easy.html There's no shortage of video-sharing sites on the Web, but most of them eventually turn into dumping grounds for all sorts of video, from dancing cats to short clips from TV shows. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6135/1/Blogging-with-the-Commishes/Blogging-with-the-Commishes.html We're trying something new tonight. I'm blogging from the county commissioners' meeting. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6133/1/Blogging-v-Traditional-Peer-Review-Round-2/Blogging-v-Traditional-Peer-Review-Round-2.html Last week’s Chronicle report on an experiment in blog-based peer review has inspired comments hither and yon. (The 12-second version of the Chronicle story: Noah Wardrip-Fruin, who teaches communication at the U. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6055/1/Torchwood-blogging-Out-of-Time/Torchwood-blogging-Out-of-Time.html (before commenting, please read the intro to my Doctor Who blogging; the same caveats apply to Torchwood / previous: Episode 9: “Random Shoes”) bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6054/1/Armenia-Political-Blogging-Intensifies/Armenia-Political-Blogging-Intensifies.html The past week was eventful, and while the traditional media in Armenia were pondering their adequate response so as to avoid “unnecessary complications”, the Armenian Internet community were discussing the comings and goings of the current political scene at full speed. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6053/1/Web-20-series-1---blogging---does-your-business-need-a-blog/Web-20-series-1---blogging---does-your-business-need-a-blog.html Last week I vowed to tackle the Web 2.0 tools one at a time in a series of posts. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6052/1/Live-Blogging-The-Screen-Actors-Guild-Awards/Live-Blogging-The-Screen-Actors-Guild-Awards.html 10:04: OK, that's it for me. I haven't even eaten yet. Don't forget to head on over to Moviefone for complete coverage of the awards (and if you missed the show, TNT is going to repeat it at 11). bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6051/1/Highway-blogging-legality-debated/Highway-blogging-legality-debated.html An increasingly popular type of political demonstration in Asheville has raised new questions about where the right to free speech ends and police power to protect motorists’ safety begins. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5948/1/Dropping-The-F-Bomb-Blogging-with-Naughty-Words/Dropping-The-F-Bomb-Blogging-with-Naughty-Words.html This guest post on using swearing on your blog was written by Justin Dupre from Blogosis. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5946/1/Friday-music-blogging-The-Avett-Brothers/Friday-music-blogging-The-Avett-Brothers.html Last week I mentioned Southern rock as one of the things I'd spurned in my youthful rejection of my native culture, only to rediscover and appreciate it as an adult.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5944/1/Live-blogging-the-Xena-Convention-Friday/Live-blogging-the-Xena-Convention-Friday.html Burbank, CA is the unofficial headquarters of the Lesbian Nation this weekend -- and the site of the official 13th Annual Xena: Warrior Princess Convention, which begins at 12:20 PM Pacific Time this afternoon. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5943/1/Torchwood-not-blogging-Season-2-debuts/Torchwood-not-blogging-Season-2-debuts.html I’m not gonna get into the kind of depth I usually do -- I’ll do that in a couple of weeks, after I finish up blogging Season 1. So no spoilers here. But I gotta tell ya: I had a sneak peek at “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang” -- yes, that’s the title of the Season 2 premiere -- and this is what we’ve been waiting for with Torchwood. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5942/1/Friday-Cat-Blogging---25-January-2008/Friday-Cat-Blogging---25-January-2008.html These pictures were taken a couple of days ago during sunnier times. Today is duck weather, not cat weather. But I like these pictures. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5828/1/John-Mayer-Done-Blogging-For-Now/John-Mayer-Done-Blogging-For-Now.html Johhny boy must have just returned from a hard trip of partying at Sundance, because he just posted "DONE & DUSTED & SELF-CONSCIOUS & BACK TO WORK" on his website. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5826/1/Florida-Live-Blogging/Florida-Live-Blogging.html Tonight’s debate in Florida is Rudy Guiliani’s last stand is and, perhaps, almost as important for Mike Huckabee who has not been able to capitalize on his success in Iowa, in part because of position changes. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5825/1/Blogging-about-Ursuline-Academy-teachers-sex-case-may-spell-trouble-for-grand-juror/Blogging-about-Ursuline-Academy-teachers-sex-case-may-spell-trouble-for-grand-juror.html A grand juror who last month helped indict a teacher accused of having sex with a student is now under investigation for posting comments about the case on a blog, according to court records. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5823/1/Live-Blogging-the-GOP-Debate-in-Fla/Live-Blogging-the-GOP-Debate-in-Fla.html 11:11 p.m. | Wrapup This debate crystallized some substantive differences among the Republican candidates, on the issue of the economy, the new stimulus package that Congress will take up, and of course, on their anticipated opponent, Senator Clinton. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5822/1/-Live-blogging-the-Republican-debate-in-Florida/-Live-blogging-the-Republican-debate-in-Florida.html Readers, start your engines. We'll use this post to live-blog tonight's Republican debate at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. Florida Republicans vote Tuesday. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5713/1/Blogging-talk-is-So-Right-Now/Blogging-talk-is-So-Right-Now.html Hear a piece of music, and it's pretty easy to categorise it according to a decade. Read something, and your biggest clue as to the date will be the vocabulary that the author uses. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5712/1/Live-Blogging-quotAmerican-Idolquot/Live-Blogging-quotAmerican-Idolquot.html Welcome, welcome! I'm back on my own tonight, but Kim said she had fun yesterday and wants to join in the live-blogging action again in the near future. Hot! bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5711/1/Aussie-Bloggers-site-launches-to-support-local-blogging-community/Aussie-Bloggers-site-launches-to-support-local-blogging-community.html A new community website has been launched this week to provide a meeting place for Australian bloggers. The Aussie Bloggers sites features a group blog as well as user forums. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5709/1/-Blogging-for-a-good-cause/-Blogging-for-a-good-cause.html We've read mommy blogs and celebrity gossip blogs and author blogs and the blogs of people we hated in high school. All have their charms, but we're excited about Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit CEO and President Lorna G. Utley's blog. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5707/1/Automattic-Blogging-for-millions/Automattic-Blogging-for-millions.html Over the years, I've used a variety of blogging platforms. So far, my favorite is WordPress, which is the mastermind of Automattic. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5597/1/Women-blogging-for-change-at-Dunbar-Village/Women-blogging-for-change-at-Dunbar-Village.html A year ago, Citoya Greenwood would not have had the kind of day she had last Friday: morning face time with West Palm Beach's chief of police, then a luncheon with the bigwigs at the local NAACP. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5596/1/Amateur-Blogs-and-Blogging-for-Profit/Amateur-Blogs-and-Blogging-for-Profit.html Most bloggers use amateur blogs as opposed to professionals, though I am not sure what a ‘professional’ blog is. If you are blogging for profit, whether as an amateur or professional, then you are best advised to run your blog from your own website. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5595/1/Live-Blogging-quotAmerican-Idolquot/Live-Blogging-quotAmerican-Idolquot.html Cristina, here. Kim, here. All accounted for. Our mood right now? Excited, reflective, and totally bummed about Heath Ledger. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5593/1/Blogging-for-Dollars/Blogging-for-Dollars.html It's been a little over a year since John Chow decided to make money by blogging about making money blogging. Since then, the 42-year-old Richmond, British Columbia, entrepreneur has watched his income from John Chow dot Com increase more than 50 fold--from $353 a month to an annual run rate of $300,000. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5592/1/Revenge-of-the-Nerds-Blogging-Comes-of-Age/Revenge-of-the-Nerds-Blogging-Comes-of-Age.html Like many things in this world--Bill Gates, the Internet, Sandra Bullock's character in Love Potion #9--blogs started out humble and nerdy. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5471/1/Aborted-Notes-Against-Blogging/Aborted-Notes-Against-Blogging.html Let me share with you what irks me the most about blogs: the myth that they have generated about their transformatory social powers. Not to mention the enormous self-love the medium displays, and the cruelly splintered identities it encourages... bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5470/1/Live-blogging-a-fiery-Democratic-debate/Live-blogging-a-fiery-Democratic-debate.html The three leading Democratic presidential contenders -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, former senator John Edwards and Sen. Barack Obama -- debated this evening in Myrtle Beach, S.C. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5469/1/Women-blogging-for-change-at-Dunbar-Village/Women-blogging-for-change-at-Dunbar-Village.html A year ago, Citoya Greenwood would not have had the kind of day she had last Friday: morning face time with West Palm Beach's chief of police, then a luncheon with the bigwigs at the local NAACP. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5467/1/10-Commandments-Of-Business-Blogging/10-Commandments-Of-Business-Blogging.html As far as I know, there are no rules for blogging. But you're blogging for your business, you may want to consider these ten tips: bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5465/1/NC-Science-Blogging-2008-Science-journalism/NC-Science-Blogging-2008-Science-journalism.html Over the past weekend my colleague, Dr. Gitlin, and I attended the 2008 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference at the Sigma Xi headquarters in the heart of Research Triangle Park. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5337/1/Brothers-Reconnect-Using-Video-Blogging/Brothers-Reconnect-Using-Video-Blogging.html When brothers John and Hank Green realized their relationship had become nothing more than a series of text messages and e-mails, they decided to do something about it: They began posting video blogs for each other on YouTube. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5336/1/Blogging-the-Quran-Sura-12-Joseph/Blogging-the-Quran-Sura-12-Joseph.html Sura 12, “Joseph,” is another late Meccan sura. It was revealed, says Maududi, “when the Quraish” — the pagan Arabs of Mecca, and the tribe of which Muhammad was a member – “were considering the question of killing or exiling or imprisoning him.” bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5335/1/Israeli-Democracy---There-Goes-Blogging/Israeli-Democracy---There-Goes-Blogging.html A fellow blogger has reportedly been questioned by the GSS about his blogging activities. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5333/1/Mac-Blogging-Tool-ecto-3-Beta/Mac-Blogging-Tool-ecto-3-Beta.html Recently MacApper had an open call for new blog contributers which got me thinking, what’s the current state of some of the best Mac blogging tools? In today’s world of online web apps, many rely on the hosted UI of blogging platforms such as Wordpress and Blogger, but on the Mac we are proud of the high quality, low cost, offline desktop tools at our disposal. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5332/1/Its-All-About-Blogging/Its-All-About-Blogging.html Just a quick note today...  For now, anyway! bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5186/1/Dustin-Luther-the-father-of-real-estate-blogging-in-Seattle-has-a-new-quotdoquot-and-a-new-blog/Dustin-Luther-the-father-of-real-estate-blogging-in-Seattle-has-a-new-quotdoquot-and-a-new-blo.html Dustin Luther, one of the fathers of real estate blogging, has a new "do" and a new blog. I saw Dustin for the first time since last summer's Inman News Real Estate Connect in San Francisco. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5185/1/When-Blogging-goes-Bad/When-Blogging-goes-Bad.html One of my close friends has just gotten into deep trouble at work. The reason? His MySpace blog, in which he shared information that was a LITTLE too personal, and a LITTLE too not-happy-with-work. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5184/1/-Blogging-on-Daily-Press-site/-Blogging-on-Daily-Press-site.html Today, we will start a registration system for online reader comments. Since we launched the reader comments feature June 27, 2007, we’ve had more than 2,500 postings on a variety of subjects dealing with the stories themselves, and related comments, opinions and assorted feedback. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5183/1/Meet-us-at-the-2008-North-Carolina-Science-Blogging-Conference/Meet-us-at-the-2008-North-Carolina-Science-Blogging-Conference.html If you read the other parts of this site (and why wouldn't you?) you'd know that Opposable Thumbs had its big event with CES last week, and this week the Infinite Loop crew have been painting San Francisco red at MWSF. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5182/1/Feminist-blogging-with-Jessica-Valenti/Feminist-blogging-with-Jessica-Valenti.html Feminism isn't dead. It just isn't very cool anymore, according to Jessica Valenti. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5057/1/Live-Blogging-the-Dem-Debate-Get-Out-Before-Matthews-Returns/Live-Blogging-the-Dem-Debate-Get-Out-Before-Matthews-Returns.html The home stretch.Williams asks Clinton about comments she made before the NH primary where she said that al Queda attacked England after a new president took power. Was she playing the fear card with a none-too-subtle rip on Obama? No, Clinton said. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5055/1/ScreenSteps-Live-software-tutorial-blogging-site-launched/ScreenSteps-Live-software-tutorial-blogging-site-launched.html [prMac.com] The creation of visual software training and documentation has always been a laborious and time consuming process. This is the prime reason that such little quality software documentation is available. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5054/1/Live-Blogging-the-Dem-Debate-Latinos-finally/Live-Blogging-the-Dem-Debate-Latinos-finally.html This is a Black-Brown debate -- its co-sponsored by the 100 Black Men of America, the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, IMPACTO, the Nevada Democratic Party and the College of Southern Nevad -- but there's been next to nothing about Latinos until 7:34 p.m., as Clinton notes. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5052/1/Steve-Jobs-Keynote-live-blogging-and-on-Video/Steve-Jobs-Keynote-live-blogging-and-on-Video.html Steve Jobs will present his highly anticipated keynote speech at the MacWorld Expo 2008 today at 9am PST. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5051/1/Live-Blogging-the-Democrats-in-Nevada/Live-Blogging-the-Democrats-in-Nevada.html Wrapup The Democrats pulled themselves back from the brink tonight. Or they can only hope they did. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4926/1/Collaboration-through-blogging/quotCollaboration-through-bloggingquot.html It is safe to say that blogs are not going anywhere. Some Internet tracking services claim the number of blogs on the Web have risen into the hundreds of millions. Now, more than a decade old, this online form of communication continues to elude definition. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4924/1/Blogging-lawyer-silenced-as-judge-expands-gag-order-in-Liberty-City-7-case/Blogging-lawyer-silenced-as-judge-expands-gag-order-in-Liberty-City-7-case.html A prominent South Florida criminal defense lawyer who writes online commentary about federal court cases can no longer opine on the so-called Liberty City 7 terror case because the judge has expanded a sweeping gag order. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4922/1/On-Gizmodos-douchery-and-blogging/On-Gizmodos-douchery-and-blogging.html I didn’t want to weigh in on this because I know all the parties involved, I used to run Gizmodo, and I understand the impetus behind this prank. This is a nasty hack performed by punchy, hungover kids that, as we see, got the CE world’s attention. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4921/1/Analysis-Blogging-and-CES/Analysis-Blogging-and-CES.html As the Consumer Electronics Show comes to an end, one take-away is the rapid change in how the general public found out about what was going on in Vegas. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4920/1/Profy-attempts-a-more-social-and-utilitarian-blogging-platform/Profy-attempts-a-more-social-and-utilitarian-blogging-platform.html I'm always eager to get my hands on new publishing tools. We've got our own in-house blogging tool at CNET, but on the side I like to stay well versed in various other platforms both big and small. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4826/1/5-Questions-with-Blogging-The-Boys/5-Questions-with-Blogging-The-Boys.html Finishing off what is turning out to be 'Cowboys Day' here at Big Blue View, here is this week's 5 Questions with DHalprin from Blogging The Boys.My answers to his questions should be posted over there on Friday. Here is my Q&A with him. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4824/1/SC-Republican-Debate-Live-Blogging/SC-Republican-Debate-Live-Blogging.html Here are my quick-and-dirty notes about the debate.EconomyMitt Romney - we’re heading into a recession but that American jobs don’t have to be lost. During his leadership Massachusetts created jobs month after month. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4822/1/Sporting-News-Blogging-Its-Way-Into-The-New-Age/Sporting-News-Blogging-Its-Way-Into-The-New-Age.html I have not been to the Sporting News web site in at least six years. And I haven't read the publication since July 31, 2000. I know that because I just looked up the date that they put together a tremendous issue on athletes and the charities they support. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4819/1/Despondent-Limey-quits-blogging/Despondent-Limey-quits-blogging.html One of Bermuda's best-known bloggers has decided to stop writing because he believes criticism from white people no longer carries any weight with the PLP.Briton Phil Wells, who runs the Limey in Bermuda website, announced that he cannot continue because "there is no room for well-meaning criticism or thoughtful debate in Bermudian politics today." bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4818/1/Live-Blogging-the-GOP-Debate/Live-Blogging-the-GOP-Debate.html Wrapping It Up This debate was a bit of a hard slog, mostly a repetition of talking points with a few sharp elbows thrown in.Mr. Romney and Mr. Giuliani didn’t do themselves any favors tonight, at least not in South Carolina, which they both seem to be ceding. They’ve got other fish to fry, Mr. Romney in Michigan, Mr. Giuliani in Florida. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4743/1/Blogging-and-the-Culture-of-Innovation/Blogging-and-the-Culture-of-Innovation.html It happens every once in a while, even at the best of companies. If you blog on company time, you've probably run into it too: the marketing freakout. This happens when someone from old school marketing comes across your blogs, sees all of the off the cuff commentary, technical experiments, and controversial positions and has a brain meltdown. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4742/1/NH-Live-Blogging-Obama-supporters-ride-emotional-rollercoaster/NH-Live-Blogging-Obama-supporters-ride-emotional-rollercoaster.html Supporters of presidential hopeful Barack Obama who gathered in a school gymnasium to celebrate on Tuesday what they believed would be victory in the New Hampshire Democratic primary experienced a rollercoaster ride of conflicting emotions.Many arrived with memories of a rousing victory speech Obama delivered after he defeated Sen. Hillary Clinton at Iowa’s caucuses last week to make him the frontrunner in the race for the Democratic nomination to succeed U.S. President George W. Bush. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4741/1/Sports-editor-joins-world-of-blogging/Sports-editor-joins-world-of-blogging.html The Hattiesburg American sports department is stepping up its blogging efforts to bring you the latest sports news and behind-the-scenes information. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4740/1/Social-Blogging-Platform-Profy-Launches-in-Alpha/Social-Blogging-Platform-Profy-Launches-in-Alpha.html Today, we get a new blogging platform from Russian/San Francisco startup Profy. Does the world need another blogging platform? Maybe not. But, hey, give the Russians a chance. The more competition, the better. If you want to try it out yourself, we have 100 invites available here (enter “Techcrunch” in the description field). bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4739/1/Blogging-Lessons-Learned/Blogging-Lessons-Learned.html Oct. 30, 2006, was the day my personal light bulb went on. On that day, my book, The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law, was ranked No. 47,369 on Amazon.com at the instant the Wall Street Journal Law Blog published an online book review. Within 36 hours, the book catapulted to Amazon ranking No. 434. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4668/1/Webinar-to-Focus-on-Corporate-Blogging/Webinar-to-Focus-on-Corporate-Blogging.html Compendium Blogware, a company that simplifies blogging with user-friendly tools geared specifically towards organizations, announces its first webinar. The online event takes place on Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. EST. Details and registration are available at: http://www.compendiumblogware.com/webinar. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4666/1/Blogging-the-Quran/Blogging-the-Quran.html For all its importance to Muslims, the Qur'an has not been methodically explained to a wide non-Muslim audience. Considering the cherry picking done by non-Muslims and Muslims alike, an objective public reading doesn't sound like a bad idea. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4665/1/Six-Time-Saving-Alternative-Blogging-Tools/Six-Time-Saving-Alternative-Blogging-Tools.html Many a web worker is a blogger, and if you spend much time blogging, you know that it can take a fair amount of time to write on a daily basis. Lately, I’ve been working with several applications featuring tools that can save bloggers time and help manage posts intelligently when they’re in draft form. Most of these are offbeat applications, but I’ve found them useful. I’ll round several of them up here. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4663/1/Clinton-Chasing-Youth-Vote-We-Should-Have-a-Government-Blogging-Team/Clinton-Chasing-Youth-Vote-We-Should-Have-a-Government-Blogging-Team.html Hillary Clinton continued her belated chase after the youth vote in her closing campaign rally in New Hampshire Monday night ripping a page out of rival Barack Obama's policy book by promising more government transparency, and an embrace of the internet. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4661/1/NH-Live-Blogging-Obama-supporters-holding-their-breath/NH-Live-Blogging-Obama-supporters-holding-their-breath.html Hundreds of supporters of Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama, who jammed into a school auditorium for his victory party, were holding their breath on Tuesday as initial results showed his rival Sen. Hillary Clinton a few votes ahead. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4567/1/Is-the-blogging-craze-coming-to-an-end/Is-the-blogging-craze-coming-to-an-end.html Many users from years back may have started out with an online journal - which at the time was referred to as an online journal, but nowadays is referred to as a "blog". Blog is the shortened definition of "web log". bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4566/1/How-Blogs-Are-Changing-the-Recruiting-Landscape/How-Blogs-Are-Changing-the-Recruiting-Landscape.html Corporate recruiters have long surfed the Web to vet potential hires, but now they're also surfing blogs to unearth job candidates, expanding their talent pool and gaining insights they say they can't get from resumes and interviews. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4565/1/Blogging-for-Dollars/Blogging-for-Dollars.html No matter what your hobbies or interests are -- whether you're a thrill seeker who enjoys mountain climbing, skydiving or skateboarding; a car lover whose passion is 1950s or '60s Chevrolets; or your craft is knitting and sewing, you can cash in on it by creating your own blog and selling ad space around it.When they first came on the scene, blogs were simply Web pages people would go to when they wanted to read about things they were interested in, or share their opinions. Today, they've transformed from self-indulgent hobbies to flourishing revenue streams. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4564/1/Uganda-New-Craze-for-Blogging/Uganda-New-Craze-for-Blogging.html IN the Ibo saying popularised by Chinua Achebe's Thing's Fall Apart, when men learnt to shoot without missing, Eneke the bird learnt to fly without perching. Following the controversial swearing in of President Mwai Kibaki and violence in neighbouring Kenya, there has been a media ban on live broadcasts. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4563/1/Blogging-from-beyond-the-grave/Blogging-from-beyond-the-grave.html Major Andrew Olmsted was, besides those other things soldiers are, also a blogger - whose output included a blog at the Denver Rocky Mountain News and on his own site.The past tense, though, is now necessary: Olmsted will blog no more. As the RMN notes:    Major Andrew Olmsted, who posted a blog since May 2007, was killed in Iraq on Jan. 3, 2008. Olmsted, who had been based at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, began blogging after his unit was sent to Iraq with the mission of helping train the Iraqi Army. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4451/1/CES-2008-Live-Blogging-The-Sony-Press-Conference/CES-2008-Live-Blogging-The-Sony-Press-Conference.html Uh oh, looks like we might not be able to get in—Sony can't find out invite.Okay, we're in, thanks to Yolanda-Hunt Boes and Jenny Mehlow — two uber awesome Sony PR folk. Thanks guys!There's techno/ dance music playing. It's kind of like what they play in Banana Republic to get you to impulse buy. Hmmmm...5 minutes until Sony induced ecstasy. Oh joy of joys. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4450/1/Torchwood-blogging-They-Keep-Killing-Suzie/Torchwood-blogging-They-Keep-Killing-Suzie.html (before commenting, please read the intro to my Doctor Who blogging; the same caveats apply to Torchwood / previous: Episode 7: “Greeks Bearing Gifts”)Holy crap, ‘Torchwood’ is returning to the BBC for its second season on January 16, and to BBC America on January 26 (and I expect to be able to watch those new episodes shortly after they air in England), and here I haven’t even finished up Season 1 yet. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4448/1/Hes-blogging-his-way-to-an-improved-self/Hes-blogging-his-way-to-an-improved-self.html Ryan Costello Jr. wants his friends to know how often he brushes his teeth.Actually, that's just a means to an end. His goal is to get rid of his bad habits and maintain good ones, and he's using positive peer pressure to keep him on track. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4446/1/CES-2008-Blogging-at-the-Bloghaus/CES-2008-Blogging-at-the-Bloghaus.html Now this is fun. Rob, Sierra, and I have headed over to the Bloghaus, which is sort of a bloggers retreat sponsored by Seagate and Podtech. Maybe I should just say, it is Robert Scoble’s playground. Because in many ways it is. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4445/1/-Saudi-Imprisoned-without-Charges-For-Blogging/-Saudi-Imprisoned-without-Charges-For-Blogging.html Fouad Ahmad Alfarhan is a Saudi Arabian business manager, educated in the United States, who has run afoul of the government of his country for producing a blog in which he has called for things like freedom of speech and due process in the Saudi justice system. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4323/1/Glogster-brings-glitter-graphic-blogging-to-the-masses/Glogster-brings-glitter-graphic-blogging-to-the-masses.html Glogster is a new publishing tool that's been making the rounds over the last week. The service is focused on letting people create "posters" of various bits of premade and user-generated content using a Flash editor. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4321/1/Brain-Blogging-Twenty-Fourth-Edition/Brain-Blogging-Twenty-Fourth-Edition.html Welcome to the twenty-fourth edition of Brain Blogging — a semi-monthly blog carnival that aims to review posts “related to the brain and mind that go beyond the basic sciences into a more human and multidimensional perspective.” bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4320/1/-Blogging-boosts-search-engine-score/-Blogging-boosts-search-engine-score.html Blogs are an effective tool for boosting search engine ranking and engaging an audience, an expert has commented.Tino Triste, social media optimisation consultant at Manchester-based search engine optimisation (SEO) firm Just Search, made his comments to Netimperative. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4318/1/The-queer-blogging-community/The-queer-blogging-community.html Firstly, I'm going to go completely against what I claimed in today's Just Out article on local queer bloggers and make this a fairly personal post. Firstly, hey, I'm in it, and I guess that's personal enough. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4316/1/Iowa-Live-Blogging-Ron-Paul-defeats-Republican-national-front-runner-in-Iowa/Iowa-Live-Blogging-Ron-Paul-defeats-Republican-national-front-runner-in-Iowa.html the soft-spoken Texan who has opposed the Iraq war and a ban on same-sex marriages — had something to cheer about in losing the opening round in the race for the U.S. presidency. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4207/1/Blogging-from-Fort-Worth---Final/Blogging-from-Fort-Worth---Final.html The Fort Worth blog has its final entry with some final thoughts from Monday's game and a few last photos, as well as a few pictures of the former Texas School Book Depository and the grassy knoll. Yes, that grassy knoll. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4202/1/Live-From-Des-Moines-Its-Caucus-Night/Live-From-Des-Moines-Its-Caucus-Night.html Goodnight Iowa!  As we shut down for the evening, we’re contemplating the magnitude of Mr. Obama’s win here as well as the challenges for the Clinton campaign. Mr. Edwards is somewhere in the middle. He’s got bragging rights over Mrs. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4201/1/Behind-the-Iowa-Caucus-Results-Continuous-Updates----How-Huckabee-and-Obama-Won-Easily/Behind-the-Iowa-Caucus-Results-Continuous-Updates----How-Huckabee-and-Obama-Won-Easily.html NEW YORK We'll be offering results and commentary on the Iowa caucus results all night, with material from numerous TV and Web outlets. We will update from the top, blog style. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4197/1/Blogging-for-a-Greener-World/Blogging-for-a-Greener-World.html Rising sea levels causing islanders to flee their ancestral homes, majestic glaciers disappearing forever from our landscape and wildfires destroying one of the planet's most beautiful regions are the topics that haunt Cornwall resident and Carbon-Based blogger Brian Thomas.Mr. Thomas, the new Cornwall Association president, has a longstanding passion for the environment. With a background in professional writing, he seems like a natural candidate to author a blog that collects news about ecological change. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4195/1/State-Wide-NAWBO-Blogging-Party-to-Give-Florida-Women-Business-Owners-Chance-to-Launch-Their-Own-New-Media-Outlet/State-Wide-NAWBO-Blogging-Party-to-Give-Florida-Women-Business-Owners-Chance-to-Launch-Their-Own-New.html Blog, blog, everywhere a blog – but what is it and where is ours?Knowing that fear of technology was a potential hurdle but wanting to take advantage of a new, fast and a free way to communicate with and among members, the Miami Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners decided to combine two passions: education and having fun. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4128/1/-Dead-Woman-Blogging/-Dead-Woman-Blogging.html Theresa Duncan committed suicide in July.But on New Year's Eve, five months after her death, she updated her blog.January's Vanity Fair had already trumpeted "The New York Art World's Bizarre Double Suicide" in a cover story this month. (One week after Theresa's suicide, Jeremy Blake, her partner of 12 years, removed his clothes and walked into the ocean at New York's Rockaway Beach.) bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4127/1/The-Mets-Pointless-Fashion-Exhibit-about-Blogging/The-Mets-Pointless-Fashion-Exhibit-about-Blogging.html Over the holiday break PSFK made a trip up to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, then down to the basement of the building where the museum sequesters its fashion gallery. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4126/1/Blogging-chefs/Blogging-chefs.html I don't know about you, but I need a non-food food column. I'm writing this during the height of the holiday season, which today featured a workplace holiday potluck of staggering caloric proportions. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4125/1/Blogging-as-a-marketing-tool/Blogging-as-a-marketing-tool.html HERE’S an interesting New York Times article that takes a look at blogging as a “low-cost, high return marketing tool.” bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4123/1/Blogging-under-21/Blogging-under-21.html Brookline native Max Pearl, an 18-year-old student at Hampshire College in Amherst, has a blog called "Under 21 in Boston" (under21inboston.typepad.com). While the project is still young, the website's goal is provide a resource, including an interactive calendar and listings of venues for the "elusive, inaccessible places" - that often lack a solid Internet presence - where events for all ages take place. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4012/1/Saudi-Blogger-Fouah-al-Farhan-Arrested-for-Blogging/Saudi-Blogger-Fouah-al-Farhan-Arrested-for-Blogging.html Although I can’t read a word of his blog, Fouah al-Farhan has been taken into custody by the Saudi government for posting some remarks critical of the government. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4011/1/Denton-to-pay-bloggers-based-on-traffic/Denton-to-pay-bloggers-based-on-traffic.html Gawker Media dark overlord Nick Denton (pictured) has launched a new pay system for all Gawker Media blogs, after testing it at four of his leading sites. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4010/1/7-Blogging-Lessons-Learned-From-a-Best-Selling-Author/7-Blogging-Lessons-Learned-From-a-Best-Selling-Author.html Everything you’ll learn about blogging or running a successful website, you’ll learn from someone else: either by reading how-to articles, observing the mistakes and successes of others, or by observing your readers and how they react to your blog. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4008/1/Blogging-for-Profit-and-Traffic/Blogging-for-Profit-and-Traffic.html Blogging for profit involves specific knowledge of how to make money online, although if you are only blogging for traffic then you are guaranteed that if you link your website to your blog. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4006/1/Best-blog-posts-07/Best-blog-posts-07.html I hereby announce “Best Blog Posts of 2007”, an anthology of writing from Australian independent blogs over the past year, which will begin appearing at On Line Opinion from today, January 2, 2008. The selection and republication of the blog posts in this series is a collaboration between On Line Opinion and Club Troppo. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3987/1/5-Blogging-Predictions-for-2008/5-Blogging-Predictions-for-2008.html With a new year comes the opportunity to reflect on what’s gone by, and to look to the future.  It’s especially interesting to look at the world of blogging, trying to predict the next big thing, and identify trends that we can exploit to grow our blogs. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3985/1/Caucasus-2007-Blog-Review/Caucasus-2007-Blog-Review.html With 2008 less than a day away at time of writing, it seems only appropriate to take a look back at the blogging highlights in the Caucasus for 2007. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3983/1/-Monday-Monty-Blogging-Multi-dog-edition/-Monday-Monty-Blogging-Multi-dog-edition.html Monty was very happy to be home after spending a week in the country (Woodstock muddiness above), especially since he got to play with his bestest friend Phoebe the Pug. Check out their reunion after the jump. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3909/1/Iowa-Grows-Crop-of-Political-Blogs/Iowa-Grows-Crop-of-Political-Blogs.html Iowa, like other Midwestern states, is getting wired.Last year, Verizon Wireless spent nearly $42 million to improve its digital network in the Hawkeye State. Other companies, big and small, have also invested in wiring the state for online access, and free wireless connections have become a norm at local coffee-shops. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3908/1/Blogging-from-Fort-Worth/Blogging-from-Fort-Worth.html For those of you who are crestfallen because you couldn't make it out to Fort Worth for the Bell Helicopters Armed Force Bowl, the Bear Insider's Ted Lee will be keeping a blog of things he sees (or thinks he sees) during the next couple of days. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3907/1/Book-Review-The-Bookaholics-Guide-to-Book-Blogs/Book-Review-The-Bookaholics-Guide-to-Book-Blogs.html Anyone who believes print is dead need look no further then the internet to see it supports a dynamic community of avid readers who aren’t timid about blogging their opinions. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3905/1/Blogging-the-Quran-Sura-9-Repentance-verses-81-129/Blogging-the-Quran-Sura-9-Repentance-verses-81-129.html Verse 81-89 of Sura 9, “Repentance,” excoriate Muslims who refused to accompany Muhammad on his expedition to Tabuk, where he had hoped to fight the Byzantines in the year 631. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3903/1/High-hopes-but-small-launch-budget-Use-Blogs/High-hopes-but-small-launch-budget-Use-Blogs.html Web 2.0 formats can be a Godsend to those with a strong product or service offering, but not enough juice to lubricate the passage to market. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3786/1/-Get-RSS-and-Post-Ratings-widget-on-your-Blog/-Get-RSS-and-Post-Ratings-widget-on-your-Blog.html No matter how hard you struggle to write a good quality and well versed post, the end decision lies in the hands of your readers to judge exactly how well the post really is. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3784/1/Best-Blogging-Tips-2007-in-Review/Best-Blogging-Tips-2007-in-Review.html At the end of the year many A-list bloggers are reviewing the year and publishing lists of their best blog posts. This is a great way for you to learn about blogging without wasting a lot of time searching for good info. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3782/1/Too-many-toys---and-blogging-about-it/Too-many-toys---and-blogging-about-it.html Every year we bombard our children with toys, candy, new cloths and trinkets and keep them busy with as many activities, attractions, events and nights out as we can. For me - it was a mini-helicopter XMas. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3781/1/The-problem-with-recognition-in-blogging/The-problem-with-recognition-in-blogging.html Everyone likes being recognized for their hard work. In fact (this is a note to all you bosses out there) the two most effective ways to recognize the hard work of one of your employees are 1) public recognition, praise them in front of a lot of people at once, and/or 2) give them money. I don’t know why this is true, but it is. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3779/1/In-Which-We-Blog-About-Lynn-Yaegers-Imaginary-Blogging-About-the-Mets-Blog-Driven-Show/In-Which-We-Blog-About-Lynn-Yaegers-Imaginary-Blogging-About-the-Mets-Blog-Driven-Show.html Yesterday, we told you about "blog.mode: addressing fashion," the new blog-focused exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which marks the institution's first foray into the blogosphere (and they must be serious if they set the entire exhibition title in lowercase--how bloggy!). bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3654/1/Live-Blogging-The-Finale-Part-I-Six-Songs-That-Will-Move-A-Nation-Closer--To-Its-Cell-Phones/Live-Blogging-The-Finale-Part-I-Six-Songs-That-Will-Move-A-Nation-Closer--To-Its-Cell-Phones.html Are you all ready for the pageantry of the American Idol finale, and its anything-can-happen aura? The live performances! The special guests! The possibly very crummy coronation song, sung by one winner and one person to whom it'll be utterly meaningless! bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3652/1/Wonkish-trade-blogging/Wonkish-trade-blogging.html Trying to make sense of the huge volume of manufactured imports from the third world.This figure looks at different US industries.* On the horizontal axis is the fraction of the work force that aren’t production workers — a ratio widely used as a proxy for skill intensity. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3651/1/Tone-Review-Blogging/Tone-Review-Blogging.html Originally I posted these on the Tone website, but I am convinced no-one reads the forums there, so I am now posting them on geekzone, where I am sure I will get many more page hits Wink bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3650/1/-Can-SMBs-Benefit-from-Blogging/-Can-SMBs-Benefit-from-Blogging.html For a business of any size, the value proposition of blogging can be pretty squishy. Though marketing is the reason cited by most businesses for blogging, actual sales generated from such activity may not be all that great. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3649/1/When-Harold-Met-Blogging-Museum-Enters-Blogosphere-via-Costume-Institute-Show/When-Harold-Met-Blogging-Museum-Enters-Blogosphere-via-Costume-Institute-Show.html Curator Harold Koda has helped the Metropolitan Museum of Art dip its 137-year-old toe into the blogosphere. Last week saw the opening of "blog.mode: addressing fashion," an exhibition that presents 40 pieces from the Met's Costume Institute and then invites visitors to post comments about them--at a terminal at the exhibition's "blogbar" or from anywhere. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3515/1/Bloggings-a-Low-Cost-High-Return-Marketing-Tool/Bloggings-a-Low-Cost-High-Return-Marketing-Tool.html TO its true believers at small businesses, it is a low-cost, high-return tool that can handle marketing and public relations, raise the company profile and build the brand. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3513/1/Blog-Your-Passion-for-Profit/Blog-Your-Passion-for-Profit.html What starts as casual blogging could turn into much more. Zach Brooks is proof. His blog, discussing cheap lunches around Manhattan, earned him $1,000 this month. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3511/1/BLOG-stands-for-Better-Listings-On-Google/BLOG-stands-for-Better-Listings-On-Google.html What are Blogs? A Blog (also known as weblog) is essentially software or an online service that allows you to quickly post your thoughts and interact with people etc. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3509/1/Mobile-Tip---Farcast-Moblogger---mobile-blogging-made-easy/Mobile-Tip---Farcast-Moblogger---mobile-blogging-made-easy.html Upload photos, videos, audio, unlimited text and location instantly from your mobile to your favourite online destinations. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3507/1/Blogging-for-Business-More-Companies-Using-Online-Conversations-to-Entice-Customers/Blogging-for-Business-More-Companies-Using-Online-Conversations-to-Entice-Customers.html On the Web, jewelry store owner Shanu Singh Guliani talks about work: "When is the last time you celebrated an employee's big sale?"Mark Adams talks wine -- addressing the fictitious "Corked off in Charlotte." And Clyde Owens waxes on all things Webkinz: "Get yours now while supplies are great!" bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3379/1/Casual-Blogging-Not-Just-Lunch-Money-Now/Casual-Blogging-Not-Just-Lunch-Money-Now.html Zach Brooks pocketed $1,000 this month blogging about the cheap lunches he discovers around midtown Manhattan ($10 or less, preferably greasy, and if he's lucky, served from a truck). bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3378/1/Mary-Kramer-Everybodys-blogging-now-and-so-am-I/Mary-Kramer-Everybodys-blogging-now-and-so-am-I.html At last count, Technorati, a search engine that tracks blogs on the Internet, reported it was tracking 112 million blogs.On Jan. 7, they'll track at least one more.Yes, though ink runs through my aging veins, I think it's time to start my own blog. My publisher's journal will debut on Jan. 7 on crainsdetroit.com. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3376/1/Boys-Post-Videos-Girls-Love-Blogging/Boys-Post-Videos-Girls-Love-Blogging.html Another study conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project reveals new interesting things about the way the Internet and its brand new software tools impact teenagers’ lives. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3375/1/Blogging-on-Christmas-Eve/Blogging-on-Christmas-Eve.html Carmen G. Nakpil’s Legends and Adventures, and the first-ever village museum initiated by the B’laan tribe (Marian Roces and Marlene Po behind them) began Christmas 2007 on a key of substance served with elegance. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3374/1/Live-Blogging-Tips/Live-Blogging-Tips.html For anyone that reads Online Marketing Blog from time to time knows we do a bit of conference blogging. In fact, during 2007 OMB covered 14 conferences involving nearly 100 blog posts, over 1500 photos and 20 videos. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3247/1/Blogging-the-Quran-Sura-9-Repentance-verses-50-80/Blogging-the-Quran-Sura-9-Repentance-verses-50-80.html Verses 50-80 of Sura 9, “Repentance,” excoriate the Hypocrites — those who claim to be Muslims but aren’t really believers. In fact, they grieve at the Muslims’ good fortune and rejoice when they suffer (v. 50). But Allah tells the Muslims to ask them, “Can you expect for us (any fate) other than one of two glorious things?” (v. 52). The two things are martyrdom or victory, according to Ibn Abbas, Mujahid, Qatadah, and others. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3245/1/Blogging-for-business/Blogging-for-business.html On the Web, jewelry store owner Shanu Singh Guliani talks about work: "When is the last time you celebrated an employee's big sale?"Mark Adams talks wine -- addressing the fictitious "Corked off in Charlotte." And Clyde Owens waxes on all things Webkinz: "Get yours now while supplies are great!" bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3243/1/Christmas-blogging-is-here/Christmas-blogging-is-here.html We're doing a seasonally themed blog roundup today in honor of Christmas and the holiday season. And it ranges from the syrupy to the slightly demented. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3241/1/Blog-Blug-To-the-Writer-Doris-Lessing-Its-Whatever/Blog-Blug-To-the-Writer-Doris-Lessing-Its-Whatever.html Doris Lessing will never be confused with the Internet’s exhibitionist personality Tila Tequila, but winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in October helped Ms. Lessing’s status on MySpace. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3240/1/Blogging-To-The-Bank-20-Review--Review-Of-Rob-Benwell-Blogging-To-The-Bank-20/Blogging-To-The-Bank-20-Review--Review-Of-Rob-Benwell-Blogging-To-The-Bank-20.html Blogging To The Bank 2.0 is the newest version of Rob Benwell popular blogging ebook Blogging To The Bank.Blogging To The Bank 2.0 is updated with new blogging techniques and advanced SEO techniques to get your blogs to the top of the search engines. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3094/1/Who-Is-The-New-Owner-of-Blogging-Fingers/Who-Is-The-New-Owner-of-Blogging-Fingers.html So, the mystery remains, “Who Bought Blogging Fingers?” I subscribe to Google Alerts for my own name and it seems that there is a little bit of a buzz in the blogosphere about Blogging Fingers and who the new owner is. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3092/1/Blogging-gardeners-plant-ideas-for-creating-a-winter-wonderland/Blogging-gardeners-plant-ideas-for-creating-a-winter-wonderland.html Emily Dickinson wrote memorably about a "certain slant of light" on winter afternoons that oppresses, "like the Heft/ Of Cathedral Tunes." There is a feeling in the poem of a deep chill, a darkness coming. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3091/1/First-Increase-Blog-Traffic-Second-Make-Money-Blogging/First-Increase-Blog-Traffic-Second-Make-Money-Blogging.html You see them scattered all over the net. Ghost blogs. You can't browse the net without running across one where it was obviously abandoned by it's creator. You know this because the last update was longer than a year ago. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3090/1/10-years-of-Blogging/10-years-of-Blogging.html The fact that ‘blogging’ racked up its tenth anniversary this week was pretty amazing, but the real surprise must be how far the concept has reached. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3088/1/A-few-kinks-many-comments-at-Met-fashionblog-show/A-few-kinks-many-comments-at-Met-fashionblog-show.html The generational cyberspace gap was apparent right from the start in the opening hours of the new fashion/blogging exhibition Tuesday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2962/1/The-Times-Planet-Blog-vs-Thought-Leader-the-Zuma-effect/The-Times-Planet-Blog-vs-Thought-Leader-the-Zuma-effect.html In my limited and decidedly inexpert experience of blogging, it’s clear that controversial news events contribute to the performance of certain blogs. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2960/1/Blogging-about-videos-Christmas-No-1-edition/Blogging-about-videos-Christmas-No-1-edition.html Because you're probably not tired of Christmas music yetI guess with Christmas being a few days away, I should tap into that ever-fertile strain of holiday songs for this week’s collection of videos. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2959/1/Blogging-on-the-Go/Blogging-on-the-Go.html Have you ever seen something funny happen, or heard an interesting comment that you wished you could blog right away, but didn't have a computer nearby? A new trend spotted by Trend Central's Intelligence Group could soon change that dilemma. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2957/1/NCAA-Goes-Medieval-On-Live-Blogging/NCAA-Goes-Medieval-On-Live-Blogging.html Fearing the practice of live blogging has the potential to draw fans away from actually watching or listening to the broadcast version of the game, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) isn't just dictating whether live blogging can or cannot be performed during sporting events, but also how often. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2956/1/-NCAA-Puts-Severe-Limits-On-Sport-Event-Blogging/-NCAA-Puts-Severe-Limits-On-Sport-Event-Blogging.html "You would think that the NCAA would be thrilled to have reporters live blogging events in order to generate more interest and keep passionate fans talking about NCAA sports. Not so. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2818/1/Movable-Type-41-Goes-Beyond-Blogging/Movable-Type-41-Goes-Beyond-Blogging.html There are now three different versions of the Movable Type Publishing Platform: Commercial, Open Source and Personal. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2817/1/Live-blogging-the-Security-Council/Live-blogging-the-Security-Council.html The lounge outside the U.N. Security Council chamber is bustling with cameramen and beefy security personnel. The Council is scheduled to hold a closed door meeting on Kosovo this afternoon, and top Serbian and Kosovar diplomats are in town to plead their case. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2815/1/BLOGGING-LIVE-FORM-BAINBRIDGE-CITY-HALL-Signing-off/BLOGGING-LIVE-FORM-BAINBRIDGE-CITY-HALL-Signing-off.html The Bainbridge Island City Council, then, passes a $54.2 million budget tonight, but punts on a capital plan under next year. With two of seven council members gone, it would have taken four of the five present to pass it, and the vote was 3 to 2 to defer it. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2813/1/Japan-Leads-World-In-Mobile-Blogging/Japan-Leads-World-In-Mobile-Blogging.html An interesting article from Japan Market News explores the country’s love for blogging - mobile blogging in particular.  According to the Technorati 2007 “State of the Blogsphere” report, Japanese is the #1 blogging language in the world, accounting for 37% of all blog posts, narrowly edging out English at 36%. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2812/1/Light-blogging-until-2008-unless-the-Falcons-offer-me-their-GM-job/Light-blogging-until-2008-unless-the-Falcons-offer-me-their-GM-job.html Due a heavy column schedule and other holiday efforts this week, plus a vacation week to finish up 2007, I’m forecasting very few new blog items on this site until Jan. 2. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2639/1/Happy-10th-blog-anniversary----maybe/Happy-10th-blog-anniversary----maybe.html If you're a fan of blogs -- whether you fancy Perez Hilton and Boing Boing, or your tastes run more towards Daily Kos and Instapundit -- you should be celebrating: Monday marks the 10th anniversary of the "weblog." Er, maybe. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2638/1/Happy-Birthday-Blogs/Happy-Birthday-Blogs.html Ten years ago today, a now-legendary Web writer named John Barger began posting interesting links on his site—you know, links to stories and articles on the Web that he'd found noteworthy for some reason. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2636/1/Too-Much-Reasoning-Not-Enough-Blogging/Too-Much-Reasoning-Not-Enough-Blogging.html There's a new blog on the block, but I don't know whether to celebrate it or lament the fact that it took so long for the head of the U.S. Internet Industry Association to lay claim to his piece of the blogosphere. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2635/1/Blogging-celebrates-its-tenth-birthday/Blogging-celebrates-its-tenth-birthday.html Happy blog-a-versary! Today is the tenth anniversary of the coining of the term that makes some of us giddy and others recoil in horror: blogging. If you subscribe to the view that says the term was coined by Jorn Barger on December 17, 1997, today's the day. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2633/1/Blogging-turns-ten-years-old/Blogging-turns-ten-years-old.html Today is a special day that all users on the Internet should celebrate, even those with MySpace and FaceBook pages.  Sure, there were online journals and message boards way before 1997 but a term was coined in 1997 that probably changed the world forever. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2502/1/Blogging-the-Quran-Sura-9-Repentance-verses-30-49/Blogging-the-Quran-Sura-9-Repentance-verses-30-49.html No Jews have ever been found who match the Qur’an’s description of them, in v. 30 of sura 9, as proclaiming that Ezra is the Son of God. Ibn Juzayy explains that only a small group of Jews actually said this, but “it is ascribed to all of them because they followed those who said it.” bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2501/1/Blogging-Through-Europe-Part-8-Ukraine/Blogging-Through-Europe-Part-8-Ukraine.html Although he didn’t have a very good game here against Benetton (15 points aside), Jeter deserves a lot of credit for the excellent season he’s having so far. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2499/1/Blogging-cross-country-and-a-billboard-blast-from-the-past/Blogging-cross-country-and-a-billboard-blast-from-the-past.html We've got everything today in our blog roundup from a girl journalist in Kansas to a billboard blast from the past. In between, enjoy a sunrise, some YouTube videos and a strange tale from Dr. Helen. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2498/1/Old-hands-at-blogging/Old-hands-at-blogging.html Filmstars are doing it, stay-at-home moms are discovering its joys, jetsetting CEOs are logging in to network, and of course, the young are earning a tidy bit from it. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2497/1/Sunday-Analogy-Blogging/Sunday-Analogy-Blogging.html Via Andrew, Jonathan Franzen on the kindle: "Yes, in theory, words are words. But literature isn't data. The difference between Shakespeare on a BlackBerry and Shakespeare in the Arden Edition is like the difference between vows taken in a shoe store and vows taken in cathedral." bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2401/1/Google-Adding-Blogs-to-Universal-Search/Google-Adding-Blogs-to-Universal-Search.html eWeek reports that Google is going to add blogs to its Universal Search alongside images, news, books, maps and videso. Google has been running Google Blogsearch as a seperate search engine. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2399/1/Murder-she-blogged/Murder-she-blogged.html What drives parts of our community to head for MySpace pages or blogs of those we know have died?  Whether a person has died by their own hands or the hands of another, this morbid curiosity creates situations where people leave messages of love or hate on these net spaces. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2398/1/Photo-Blogging-the-Next-President/Photo-Blogging-the-Next-President.html A group of freelance photographers has joined forces to cover the presidential candidates as they stump in Iowa.They rented a house in Des Moines, cover events together when they can, and every day post a single picture on their blog, the Stumping Grounds. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2396/1/Blogging-and-Cartooning-Meet-quotSid-in-the-Cityquot/Blogging-and-Cartooning-Meet-quotSid-in-the-Cityquot.html Here's the full transcript of the interview from today's Jersey Blogs Q&A on the cover of the Today section of The Star-Ledger.His name is Sid. He's married. He's bald. He's outspoken.And he's a blogger, of sorts. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2395/1/Friday-Cat-Blogging---14-December-2007/Friday-Cat-Blogging---14-December-2007.html The days are numbered for my beloved old Nikon Coolpix digital camera with the rotating middle. Soon, catblogging will be brighter, sharper, more colorful, better focused, and more image stabilized. Soon. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2261/1/Overhyped-but-blogs-are-here-to-stay/Overhyped-but-blogs-are-here-to-stay.html Blogs have never completely lived up to their early hype. They haven't made many bloggers rich, or ushered in a new era of "citizen journalism", or wrested control of political debates from the mainstream media. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2259/1/Democrats-Waltz-Through-Iowa-Debate/Democrats-Waltz-Through-Iowa-Debate.html It was a different group of candidates who took center stage in Iowa today but the final debate before the Iowa caucuses didn't yield much difference in terms of results. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2258/1/-Live-Blogging-the-Iowa-Democratic-Debate/-Live-Blogging-the-Iowa-Democratic-Debate.html Welcome to Stumper's second live-blogging experience. (The first? Yesterday.) For the next few hours, I'll be providing as-frequent-as-possible updates on the ongoing Des Moines Register Democratic Presidential Debate in Iowa, the final Democratic face-off before the Jan. 3 caucuses. Posts are in chronological order from oldest to newest (with the exception of my wrap-up, which is up top). bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2257/1/Live-blogging-the-Democratic-debate-in-Des-Moines/Live-blogging-the-Democratic-debate-in-Des-Moines.html We have live-blogged this afternoon's Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines, which was sponsored by our Gannett colleagues at The Des Moines Register and the folks at Iowa Public Television. (Jill live-blogged yesterday's Republican session here.) bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2256/1/Blog-Council-aims-to-help-corporates-understand-blogging/Blog-Council-aims-to-help-corporates-understand-blogging.html Corporates generally forbid employees from blogging on the company's behalf and that could be for any number of reasons such as; employee opinions reflecting badly on the company, accidentally giving away sensitive information, avoiding nasty comments from dissatisfied customers or maybe large companies just do not understant the blogosphere. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2131/1/Seattle-blogging-pioneer-Anita-Rowland-dies/Seattle-blogging-pioneer-Anita-Rowland-dies.html Anita Marie Rowland, a cornerstone of Seattle's early blogging community and a pioneering personal Weblogger, died Monday after a long battle with cancer. She was 51. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2130/1/Live-Blogging-the-Republican-Debate/Live-Blogging-the-Republican-Debate.html I’m live blogging today’s Republican presidential debate from Iowa. One of the first questions asked was who is paying too much in taxes: the wealthy, the middle class or the poor?The responses:Alan Keys: non-answerJohn McCain: “I don’t know exactly who’s paying the most of the burden.” bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2128/1/The-Future-of-Despotism-Blogging-the-Iranian-Presidency/The-Future-of-Despotism-Blogging-the-Iranian-Presidency.html While some in the U.S. may feel that a lack of governmental transparency here has led to significant shortfalls in recent policy decisions, those in Iran are getting the chance to chime in on policy while simultaneously learning a little bit about the mind of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2127/1/Live-blogging-the-Republican-debate/Live-blogging-the-Republican-debate.html We are going to use this post to live-blog the 90-minute Des Moines Register debate at 2 p.m. ET. It's the last Republican debate before the Jan. 3 caucuses in a race that's too close to call. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2126/1/Blogging-In-China/Blogging-In-China.html (CBS) I'm Barry Petersen and this Letter from Asia comes from Beijing. Blogging is perhaps the internet's freest form of self-expression. But in this communist country, the government wants self-expression to follow the party line, so it is ideology versus technology. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2003/1/Blogger--7-Things-You-Can-Do-to-Write-a-Blog-That-Readers-Will-Read--getting-readers/Blogger--7-Things-You-Can-Do-to-Write-a-Blog-That-Readers-Will-Read--getting-readers.html "....If you have read a successful blog, you will see the power that a truly humorous writer has over hi..........Blogger, getting readers, Google Blogger, learn to blog....."When you first start script you blog, it will be a work in progress.After all, your primary goal, no matter what you decide to pen about, is to tow in new readers. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2001/1/blog--The-Unique-Art-Of-Blogging--blogger/blog--The-Unique-Art-Of-Blogging--blogger.html "....This is only normal since technically, personal opinions stemming from stored knowledge can be comp..........blog, blogger, writing, content, articles....."Again, satisfied allow would need a partner to become a minion amongst the sites visited by most people, and design and presentation is one that racks in visitors to religiously follow after them.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1999/1/blog--Why-You-Can-Trust-Blog-Sites-Today--blogger/blog--Why-You-Can-Trust-Blog-Sites-Today--blogger.html "....Blog entries are also made as reference points by most people who surf the web, and providing consi..........blog, blogger, writing, content, articles....."Bloggers repeatedly narrate factual events rather than bookish type of posts. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1998/1/seo--Why-Blogging-and-SEO-Work-Well-Together--blog/seo--Why-Blogging-and-SEO-Work-Well-Together--blog.html "....Initially established as a way to publish computer log files, the original pioneers of blogging beg..........seo,blog,blogging,marketing,local marketing,search engines,....."Blogging is becoming one of the most popular ways to market a company, brand, personality or product on the Web. According to Technorati, there are over 60 million blogs on the Web, with over 100,000 being created every day. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1996/1/Google-Blogger--7-Cool-Things-Most-Bloggers-Dont-Know-About-Google-Blogger--Blogger/Google-Blogger--7-Cool-Things-Most-Bloggers-Dont-Know-About-Google-Blogger--Blogger.html "....In addition though, Blogger makes it so you can receive as much traffic as you are capable of gener..........Google Blogger, Blogger, blogging, blog....."Google Blogger is one of the easiest and most good blogging solutions currently available on the Internet. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1839/1/7-Questions-About-Professional-Blogging/7-Questions-About-Professional-Blogging.html The expert panel consisted of SEOMoz's Rand Fishkin, Marketing Pilgrim's Andy Beal, TopRankResults' Lee Odden, and WebProNews Managing Editor Mike McDonald. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1837/1/Blogging-For-Fun-And-Profit/Blogging-For-Fun-And-Profit.html Affiliate Business Review Blog.com recommends hosting your own blog:Did you know that the blogging phenomena is producing fantastic results and great financial gains for bloggers on-line? Some savvy affiliate program bloggers are earning incomes in excess of $3,000 per month. And you can certainly cash in on some of the profit if you have the motivation to do so. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1835/1/The-Anonymous-Blogging-guide-is-now-available-in-French/The-Anonymous-Blogging-guide-is-now-available-in-French.html The Anonymous Blogging with Wordpress and Tor guide is now available in French thanks to this translation by the Tunisian blogger Malek Khadhraoui, and we are busy making translations into other languages. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1834/1/Blogging-from-the-corporate-kitchen/Blogging-from-the-corporate-kitchen.html I know many people say blogging went mainstream when people like me got into it; but there's no denying that it is now truly ubiquitous: I received a release last week announcing that the chefs of the Red Lobster had started a blog. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1833/1/Blog-Nobel-laureate-misses-the-point/Blog-Nobel-laureate-misses-the-point.html The great British writer Doris Lessing has given her obligatory Nobel lecture after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. And a lecture it certainly was. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1728/1/Poker-Blog-Community-Pokerwonkscom-Well-Received-by-Readers-and-Bloggers-Alike/Poker-Blog-Community-Pokerwonkscom-Well-Received-by-Readers-and-Bloggers-Alike.html The poker blogging community has embraced a new home, http://www.pokerwonks.com Launched by Dimat Online, Inc in November 2007, Pokerwonks focuses on poker blogs. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1727/1/Corporate-Bloggers-Share-Insights-with-New-Blog-Council/Corporate-Bloggers-Share-Insights-with-New-Blog-Council.html Corporations have long realized blogs can be an effective vehicle for marketing and customer outreach, but they're also fraught with legal and PR risks. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1726/1/Blogging-the-Quran-Sura-9-Repentance-verse-29-Part-2/Blogging-the-Quran-Sura-9-Repentance-verse-29-Part-2.html Verse 29 of chapter 9 of the Qur’an, as we saw last week, mandates that the Muslims fight against the Jews and Christians “until they pay the jizya [poll tax] with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1725/1/Live-Blogging-Univision-Republican-Debate/Live-Blogging-Univision-Republican-Debate.html All candidates said that there was no risk in coming to the Univision debate.Finally, the English only question. McCain said that English should be the official language and that all who come here should learn English and he will help them. Ron Paul said that bashing bilingualism is wrong but the official language should be English. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1723/1/New-corporate-quotBlog-Councilquot-misses-the-point-of-blogging/New-corporate-quotBlog-Councilquot-misses-the-point-of-blogging.html A coalition of large corporations have formed the Blog Council, a private community that aims to provide a venue for major companies to communicate with each other about their strategies and policies regarding blogging and social media. Founding members come from a diverse assortment of companies, including Cisco, Microsoft, Nokia, Dell, and Coca-Cola. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1583/1/What-is-the-Universal-Blogging-Language/What-is-the-Universal-Blogging-Language.html Judging by the sheer number of posts, it's Japanese.Frequent blogging —often by commuters on mobile phones— has the Japanese the most prolific posters in the world. More blog posts were made in Japanese than English during the past three years, according to Technorati data cited in a Washington Post article. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1581/1/5-Questions-With-Blogging-The-Boys/5-Questions-With-Blogging-The-Boys.html I exchanged questions with Dave Halprin of SB Nation's Cowboys blog (Blogging The Boys) to get more information on Dallas.  My answers to his questions can be found here, and his answers can be found below.  Thanks again to Dave for answering my questions. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1579/1/NBA-Players-Dislike-Live-Blogging-Innovation-During-Games/NBA-Players-Dislike-Live-Blogging-Innovation-During-Games.html Starting on Monday the NBA is moving forward on its initiative to modernize it's product. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1577/1/Friday-Cat-Blogging---7-December-2007/Friday-Cat-Blogging---7-December-2007.html So you all remember the faux sheepskin pod that we bought for Domino earlier this year, don't you? Well, in typical feline fashion Domino was inseparable from her pod for about three months and then abandoned it completely. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1575/1/Corporations-form-group-to-create-blogging-best-practices/Corporations-form-group-to-create-blogging-best-practices.html Executives from 12 large companies, including The Coca-Cola Co., Wells Fargo & Co., Kaiser Permanente, General Motors Corp. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1420/1/Jadu-Brings-Blogging-to-Jadu-17-CMS/Jadu-Brings-Blogging-to-Jadu-17-CMS.html UK-based Jadu is positioning its latest release, Jadu Blogs for Jadu 1.7 CMS, as something, if not bigger than blog platforms like WordPress and Movable Type, then in a league all its own. A league we foolishly didn’t even consider. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1419/1/Q--A-Blogging-Emory-Anonymously/Q--A-Blogging-Emory-Anonymously.html The secretive writer of “Pop! Goes Emory,” a gossipy blog about the University, reveals his identity (well, not really) and explains why pizza is a metaphor for life. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1418/1/Blogging-at-Society-for-New-Communications-Research-Part-One/Blogging-at-Society-for-New-Communications-Research-Part-One.html Today I went to the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) awards meeting today and blogged several sessions. However, they did not have wi-fi until later so I am posting this later. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1417/1/Blogging-the-Bar-and-more/Blogging-the-Bar-and-more.html When it comes to who is serving your favorite drink, the odds are increasing that they have a blog where their favorite how to's; sharing some thoughts about that customer last night can be read or just sharing some personal thoughts can be found. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1416/1/Cisco-Microsoft-join-to-hammer-out-corporate-guidelines-for-blogging/Cisco-Microsoft-join-to-hammer-out-corporate-guidelines-for-blogging.html Just when you thought the blogosphere was safe from marketing spiel and a place where you could get real people voicing real - even if you don't agree with them - opinions, a gaggle of "global brands" - Cisco and Microsoft among them - has launched a so-called Blog Council. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1253/1/Jadu-launches-free-blog-content-management/Jadu-launches-free-blog-content-management.html Organisations using Jadu’s web content management system (CMS) will get a free enhancement to enable blogging on their websites and Intranets, as part of the company’s ongoing upgrade programme. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1251/1/Diablo-Cody--From-stripper-to-screenwriter/Diablo-Cody--From-stripper-to-screenwriter.html Former stripper Diablo Cody finds a checkered past inspires great writing.Acouple of years ago, Diablo Cody called her parents in suburban Chicago to tell them she was getting her first book published. That was the good news. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1249/1/MyVouchercodes-launches-blogging-competition/MyVouchercodes-launches-blogging-competition.html Bloggers who write about discount site MyVouchercodes could win themselves a holiday or £3000.MyVouchercodes stores e-mail discount and voucher codes that can be used to get money off certain products in high street stores such as John Lewis, PC World and Boots, or off postage costs for online sites. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1247/1/Hosting-Service-for-Website-Blogging-Debuts-for-Explorers-and-Adventurers/Hosting-Service-for-Website-Blogging-Debuts-for-Explorers-and-Adventurers.html New social blogging community for explorers and adventure enthusiasts, MyExpedition.net, has debuted with its blog hosting web site, offered completely free to join and requiring no prerequisites to qualify for membership. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1246/1/Marketing-Coach-Teaches-Entrepreneurs-Blogging-for-Business-Success/Marketing-Coach-Teaches-Entrepreneurs-Blogging-for-Business-Success.html Marketing is a central component to successfully building and establishing a business. This is particularly true when it comes to a coaching business, as this industry is relatively new and unknown to many consumers. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1087/1/Blogging-for-Lodging---Are-You-Blogging-Yet---Part-2/Blogging-for-Lodging---Are-You-Blogging-Yet---Part-2.html Part two of blogging for lodging looks at top tips for making your blog successful- promoting your blog- methods of tracking your blog’s ROI- provides examples of Lodging Industry Blogs and answers FAQS about Blogging. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1086/1/Live-blogging-the-NPR-Democratic-debate/Live-blogging-the-NPR-Democratic-debate.html We live-blogged the Democratic presidential debate that was broadcast this afternoon on National Public Radio (and webcast at NPR.org). It started just after 2 p.m. ET and lasted just under two hours. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1084/1/Exchange-Rate-Blogging/Exchange-Rate-Blogging.html Is the dollar undervalued? Evidence from the Apple Store's MacBook pricing policies. The cheapest configuration available in the US will run you $1,099. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1083/1/Blogging-NPRs-Democratic-Debate/Blogging-NPRs-Democratic-Debate.html This was a low-key debate and a good one. It felt much more intimate, just hearing it through the headset rather than watching a big splashy production on television. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1082/1/South-Africa-Avusa-Fires-Journalist-for-Blogging/South-Africa-Avusa-Fires-Journalist-for-Blogging.html The firing of Sowetan sub-editor Llewellyn Kriel yesterday, Thursday, 29 November 2007, by Avusa (formerly Johncom) is a huge talking point in the media community and has been picked up by Arthur Goldstuck's Amablogoblogo, where he has highlighted how the case illustrates the conflict of new and old media. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/926/1/Online-Only-Blogging-erodes-meaning-of-information/Online-Only-Blogging-erodes-meaning-of-information.html Although they have existed in several forms for many years, 2004 was a breakthrough year for the blog.If accepted language is the hallmark of legitimate culture, being named Merriam-Webster's "Word of the Year" in 2004 signified the blog's stature in the modern world. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/925/1/Monday-Reformation-Blogging/Monday-Reformation-Blogging.html I read the first two sentences of this Mark Steyn post and had a sinking feeling that he was writing something sensible and important about the Muslim world:Lisa, your second post is really the answer to your first one. What if we've already had the reformation of Islam and jihadism is it?Fortunately, he turned out not to be going in the direction I feared at all. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/924/1/Blogging-Webcasts-from-the-Bali-Climate-Change-Conference/Blogging-Webcasts-from-the-Bali-Climate-Change-Conference.html With ten thousand people descending on Bali in hopes of hacking out a negotiating framework to combat climate change, you might guess that a few of them brought laptops. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/922/1/Love-in-the-time-of-blogging-Pinoy-style/Love-in-the-time-of-blogging-Pinoy-style.html What if you get a famous British writer, say, Neil Gaiman, to help you propose to your girlfriend during a book-signing event. Wouldn't that be cool?A Filipino blogger tried and succeeded.The story begins with Jason Drilon, a Filipino writer for a local advertising agency who had been blogging for close to five years. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/921/1/Russian-media-firm-SUP-buys-US-blogging-company-LiveJournal/Russian-media-firm-SUP-buys-US-blogging-company-LiveJournal.html Moscow-based SUP announced Monday it has bought blog-hosting firm LiveJournal as part of a plan to cultivate an international community of people that author such online diaries. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/780/1/Blogging-for-Lodging---Are-You-Blogging-Yet-Part-1/Blogging-for-Lodging---Are-You-Blogging-Yet-Part-1.html Blogs are the hottest growing medium of communication for businesses and individuals. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/779/1/See-whos-blogging-now/See-whos-blogging-now.html "Carnegie Mellon University says it now has more than 1.5 million books scanned onto an online library. The library so far has books published in 20 languages . . ." bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/778/1/-Climate-change-Blogging-from-the-Bali-summit/-Climate-change-Blogging-from-the-Bali-summit.html For the first time in its history, the United Nations Climate Change Conference will be documented on Internet blogs — and the woman who paved the way hails from Boulder. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/777/1/Tis-the-Season-to-be-Bloggy-24-Blogging-Days-Gives-Holiday-Business-a-Boost/Tis-the-Season-to-be-Bloggy-24-Blogging-Days-Gives-Holiday-Business-a-Boost.html Online business owners who would like to attract more visitors to their websites during the holidays and beyond are invited to participate in 24 Blogging Days 'til Christmas. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/776/1/But-what-will-become-of-Frank-LiveJournals-mascot-goat/But-what-will-become-of-Frank-LiveJournals-mascot-goat.html Six Apart is selling its LiveJournal blogging platform to Russian media company SUP.The two companies declined to disclose the financial terms. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/664/1/State-meetings-oppose-blogging-alcohol/State-meetings-oppose-blogging-alcohol.html From wire reportsBaptists across the nation dealt with issues ranging from blogging to alcohol at recent state convention meetings.Georgia Baptists approved a controversial resolution against blogging during their annual meeting Nov. 12-13. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/662/1/Friday-music-blogging-Alice-Smith/Friday-music-blogging-Alice-Smith.html Alice Smith is a gorgeous new singer out of Brooklyn, doing a variant of R&B that somehow manages to sound both idiosyncratic and traditionalist, modern and timeless. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/661/1/Response-To-Blogging-With-The-iPhone/Response-To-Blogging-With-The-iPhone.html Tanner Godzari, one of our bloggers, recently found out that blogging exclusively on the iPhone was no easy task (as evedent in his previous post).  Some serious flaws in the notes app made it annoying to write his posts. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/659/1/Extra-Mandate-Blogging/Extra-Mandate-Blogging.html I should say with further regard to the health care mandates issue that this is pretty much exclusively a disagreement about tactics. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/658/1/South-Africa-Avusa-Fires-Journalist-for-Blogging/South-Africa-Avusa-Fires-Journalist-for-Blogging.html The firing of Sowetan sub-editor Llewellyn Kriel yesterday, Thursday, 29 November 2007, by Avusa (formerly Johncom) is a huge talking point in the media community and has been picked up by Arthur Goldstuck's Amablogoblogo, where he has highlighted how the case illustrates the conflict of new and old media. His insights make for thought-provoking reading. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/513/1/TV-crew-in-Belize-blogging-about-rainforest-plight/TV-crew-in-Belize-blogging-about-rainforest-plight.html Blogging this week from a Central American rainforest, a Northeast Valley television crew, says photographing jaguars in the wild is "amazing." bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/510/1/Blogging-about-videos-The-Killers-sleigh-us/Blogging-about-videos-The-Killers-sleigh-us.html We leap from the Killers to OneRepublic to Kate Nash with this week's collection of songs. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/509/1/New-Startup-Announces-Enterprise-Bookmarking-and-Blogging-Tool/New-Startup-Announces-Enterprise-Bookmarking-and-Blogging-Tool.html samuelbressi productions, today announced the release of TagManage 2007, a social bookmarking and blogging application developed specifically for small- and medium-sized businesses. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/506/1/US-Rep-talks-to-local-leaders-about-blogging/US-Rep-talks-to-local-leaders-about-blogging.html A group of local leaders and bloggers, including U.S. Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C., met Thursday night to discuss how blogging affects politics. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/505/1/Healthcare-Mandate-Blogging/Healthcare-Mandate-Blogging.html I'm in total agreement with Kevin Drum's criticisms of John Edwards' now-more-detailed individual mandate plan. And I should say that I don't think this is a problem with Edwards as such. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/362/1/Police-called-when-blogging-dispute-turns-nasty/Police-called-when-blogging-dispute-turns-nasty.html The Internet is serious business. A Village woman’s nasty blog posting was met with real life threats that led to Village Police sending out a metro-wide notice regarding a potentially dangerous person. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/360/1/Live-Blogging-the-GOP-CNNYoutube-Debate/Live-Blogging-the-GOP-CNNYoutube-Debate.html Tonight's GOP debate is hosted by CNN and YouTube, airing at 8pm EST. Like this summer's Democratic debate, viewers have submitted questions via YouTube to be presented to the candidates. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/358/1/How-to-Get-Rich-by-Blogging/How-to-Get-Rich-by-Blogging.html Alex Iskold writes on Read/WriteWeb that there’s no money in the long tail of the blogosphere. What he means is: if you’re trying to make decent money by selling advertising on your niche blog (i.e., your blog that caters to the needs of a few in the long tail) you’re going to have a hard time of it. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/356/1/Blogging-a-way-to-talk-back/Blogging-a-way-to-talk-back.html Livejournals have seen better days, and Xangas are slowly dying. Society never really cared what the emo eighth-grader wrote about in his e-journal, but these days blogs are far from dead. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/355/1/Live-blogging-the-GOP-CNNYouTube-debate/Live-blogging-the-GOP-CNNYouTube-debate.html Here's our live-blog of tonight's CNN/YouTube debate.The moderator: Anderson CooperThe players: Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, California Rep. Duncan Hunter, Arizona Sen. John McCain, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo and former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/246/1/Live-Blogging-the-GOP-Theyre-Ready-For-Their-Snowman/Live-Blogging-the-GOP-Theyre-Ready-For-Their-Snowman.html CNN and You Tube will host the Republican candidates debate tomorrow night in St. Petersburg, Fla. We'll be live blogging the action at On Call, so don't forget to check in for the latest news and analysis. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/245/1/CEO-of-WordPress-Blog-Tool-on-the-Future-of-Blogging-in-Big-Business/CEO-of-WordPress-Blog-Tool-on-the-Future-of-Blogging-in-Big-Business.html Even if you have never heard of Toni Schneider, odds are he's helped to enrich the way you use a Yahoo e-mail account or read your favorite blog. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/244/1/With-growth-of-blogging-on-campus-Stanford-gets-caught-up-in-Web-20/With-growth-of-blogging-on-campus-Stanford-gets-caught-up-in-Web-20.html The Internet search engine Technorati.com currently tracks more than 112 million blogs, while Stanford’s new blog directory lists just 60 to 70 of them—from the student-driven Unofficial Stanford Blog to that of Law School Professor Larry Lessig, who was blogging long before it was a blip on the world’s collective computer screen. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/242/1/South-Africa-The-Politics-of-Blogging/South-Africa-The-Politics-of-Blogging.html Derek AbdinorAny marketeer, public relationista, brander or eventer worth their little black books fantasise about running a successful US presidential campaign. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/240/1/Garry-Trudeau-Discusses-His-Doonesbury-Comic-About-Blogging/Garry-Trudeau-Discusses-His-Doonesbury-Comic-About-Blogging.html What were Garry Trudeau's thoughts when he created a "Doonesbury" comic that took a humorous look at newspaper political blogging?"I wasn't picking on anyone or any blog in particular," replied Trudeau, when contacted by E&P. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/168/1/Blogging-Aint-Easy/Blogging-Aint-Easy.html Scott Adams is going to cut down on blogging because, while he’s been tremendously successful at gaining readership, he finds he’s actually losing money:I hoped that people who loved the blog would spill over to people who read Dilbert, and make my flagship product stronger. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/167/1/To-blog-or-not-to-blog/To-blog-or-not-to-blog.html Call me old-fashioned, if you will, but I still like to pick up a newspaper and read the news, the views and any reports on today's world. The attraction of the internet is there, for sure, but it's just not the same as picking up a broadsheet -- even a tabloid. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/166/1/Wordpress-plug-in-brings-blogging-to-iPhone/Wordpress-plug-in-brings-blogging-to-iPhone.html Blogging from an iPhone? You'd need to be pretty ninja typing on the on-screen keyboard, but I guess there's a market for it. If you're salivating at the prospect, you'll be wanting a new Wordpress plug-in called WPhone, which lets you blog from Apple's handset. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/165/1/New-BlogHer-Study-Reveals-Word-of-Mouth-Power-of-Womens-Blogging-Network/New-BlogHer-Study-Reveals-Word-of-Mouth-Power-of-Womens-Blogging-Network.html BlogHer, Inc. (www.blogher.com), one of the top women's online networks and the Web's number-one guide to blogs by women, today announced the results of a recent survey of blog readers across North America. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/77/1/Start-a-Blog/Start-a-Blog.html Want to Get Your Message Out? Start a BlogWhat would you think if I told you about a guaranteed method to reach 100% of your target audience? Beyond that, what would you think if I told you that you could develop a base of prospects who would look forward to hearing from you? You can do this, and more, by starting a blog. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/75/1/Blogging-for-Business/Blogging-for-Business.html Blogging For Business - Great reasons for every business to publish a blogAuthor: John JantschIf Howard Dean’s failed political campaign accomplished anything, I would say that it brought to the mainstream the use of something called a weblog or “blog” as it known in cyberspace. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/72/1/What-is-Blogging/What-is-Blogging.html What Is Blogging?Blogs have been around for many years but have recently become somewhat a new ‘craze’. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/70/1/Understanding-Blogs/Understanding-Blogs.html What are Blogs?Having heard the term previously but not having paid much attention most are just to afraid to show their ignorance and ask the question, what is a blog? Lets face it; the term blog does not conjure pleasant images. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/68/1/Blogging-for-Dollars/Blogging-for-Dollars.html Blogging for DollarsBlogging for dollars might sound like the latest game show or some new drinking game, but it's the latest craze to hit the Internet. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10617/1/Blogging-evolving-as-mode-of-expression/Blogging-evolving-as-mode-of-expression.html For many Web-savvy Shakespeares, the phrase “dear diary” has been replaced with “dear online community.” bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10257/1/Neglect-the-real-problem-with-Google-Blogger-service/Neglect-the-real-problem-with-Google-Blogger-service.html I've been using Blogger since 2004. As a basic blogging platform, it works. But when I read yet another account of spammers taking over the service, it made my blood boil. The problem isn't just that Google has failed to put all of the security and anti-spam pieces together. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9453/1/The-New-Way-to-Get-Great-PR-Blogging/The-New-Way-to-Get-Great-PR-Blogging.html A year ago, Timothy Ferriss was a relative unknown. If the serial entrepreneur was known at all, it was likely for being the only Princeton University guest lecturer who has also been a Chinese kickboxing champion. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9383/1/-Blogging-for-Uptown/Blogging-for-Uptown.html There's an orange cone near the tennis courts at Clarendon Park marking a sinkhole big enough to swallow a small Labrador. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9286/1/Blogging-the-Classics-at-The-Sunday-Times-Oxford-Literary-Festival/Blogging-the-Classics-at-The-Sunday-Times-Oxford-Literary-Festival.html I’d half-expected this debate on Monday March 31st to be a blood-spattered fight, with bloggers Lynne Hatwell and Mark Thwaite – of dovegreyreader:typepad.com and ReadySteadyBook.com – jeering mercilessly at the dead-tree professors of English Literature, John Carey and John Mullan. Wrong. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8482/1/They-blog-therefore-they-are--better-CEOs/They-blog-therefore-they-are--better-CEOs.html Jonathan Schwartz, the chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems Inc., does it. So does Robert Lutz, vice-chairman of General Motors Corp. J.W. “Bill” Marriott Jr., CEO of Marriott International Inc., and Michael Critelli, executive chairman of Pitney Bowes Inc., also do it. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8478/1/Unleash-the-Blogging-Beast/Unleash-the-Blogging-Beast.html I'm typing this from the party WXPN is hosting with Paste magazine, Stereogum, and the usual gaggle of energy drinks and technology concerns. I'm enjoying the music of Lightspeed Champion at the moment, not to mention coveting the opportunity to add several free T-shirts to my closet -- I'm only 10 or 15 away from completing the world's largest and dingiest quilt! bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8020/1/Duff-Quick-tips-for-better-blogging-grain-of-salt-not-included/Duff-Quick-tips-for-better-blogging-grain-of-salt-not-included.html Blogging is more of an art than a science, but good strategy can still give you a leg up. Once you've mastered the basics, these tips will help you bump your traffic and keep your sanity. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7761/1/Unbearable-Whiteness-of-Blogging/Unbearable-Whiteness-of-Blogging.html The Unfogged gang has three posts in as many days about a wildly popular new blog about which I was previously unaware called Stuff White People Like. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500