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"Special ReportBeyond BlogsThe June 2008 issue of Business Week is so good that I would almost subscribe to it. The irony here, is that it is the online features, including a slideshow and podcast, and the convenience of all the links, that really make this issue a standout....

How to voice concerns on your blog without getting arrested

A Singaporean blogger was recently arrested for his blog entry. He wrote how a certain person he saw in a public place doing something so idle and meaningless, and then he started to link race and this person's...

Arkansas SID Has The Best Damn Sports Blog Period!

Athens, GA (May 22, 2008) - Like any vertical market (sports, technology, petroleum, etc), there are a lot of blogs. Some are good, some are bad, and some are just plain bad. Occasionally you will find one that stands head and shoulders above the rest, and not for reasons you...

Jailed blogger begins hunger strike

Jailed blogger, Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK) has started on a hunger strike today. His wife is now very worried for his health as he is known to have kidney problems.Earlier this morning RPK who preferred being...

Malaysian Blogger detained

Prominent Malaysian blogger, Raja Petra Kamarudin @ RPK aka Pete, the editor of Malaysia Today, was today detained in custody by the Malaysian authorities after he refused to post bail of RM5,000-00 that was...

Blog Shocker: Selling Sex on a Blog Site

Selling sex on a blog site like this example has to constitiute a serious breach of blog decency. This is not exactly blogging. I worry that this form of "blogging" and the ease in which a blog can be set up will...

An Introduction to Blogging

Bloggers, get your phones and call. It would make your posts more interesting. At least, email."It seems to me to be a basic point. Haber's post on my blog would have been more interesting if he actually got me to talk about my reporting. I might have even inadvertently...

Suppression Already Exposed By Inconvenient ‘Expelled’

OPINIONBen Stein’s movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed has made its case even before its first public showing.By ALEXANDER "The movie, which opens this week, is about science clashing with teachers...

5 bad blogging habits YOU SHOULD AVOID

(1) Announcing a blog hiatusWhy the hell for? I don't see the point. Announcing a blog hiatus is unnecessary. If you cannot blog because you are about to enter a jungle and there isn't any internet access, so be...

Post Mortem Posts - Is Yours Ready

Online relationships can be fleeting, or they can be long standing. Sometimes they can just end abruptly, without a word of explanation, without reason and without a word of farewell.Those of us who post...

Death by Blogging, a new Diagnosis

Death by Blogging, a new Diagnosis"SAN FRANCISCO — 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...

"Following Facts, instead of stopping short out of Fear"

Robert Niles nails it in his recent OJR piece on how to keep your journalism job. Niles is exactly right when he says that readers want reporters who follow the "...facts where they lead, instead of stopping short out of fear that someone doesn't like that." As one who has a...

The ultimate guide to find the best biking tour of Italy

Doing a biking tour of Italy is probably the safest way to visit Italy. You can travel with your family or in small groups. All you have to do is to get a map of Italy, make yourself a specific route and go...

Alexander: Blogging about Unconditional Love

Just in time for Valentine's Day, Alexander blogs about true love as written about in devotionals, books, and the Gospel. This taken from Henry Blackaby's Day by Day: "Love has no limits. Love never says,...

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