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Robert MacMillan / Reuters:
Storytelling, not journalism, spurs most blogs — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many people see Web journals or "blogs" as alternatives to the mainstream media, but most Americans who run them do so as a hobby rather than a vocation, according to a report released on Wednesday.
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pewinternet.org:
Bloggers: A portrait of the internet's new storytellers — The ease and appeal of blogging is inspiring a new group of writers and creators to share their voices with the world. — A national phone survey of bloggers finds that most are focused on describing their personal experiences …
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Mark Evans, Micro Persuasion, Changing Way, Blogspotting, Weblogsky, Joho the Blog and Listics
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
3 Million Bloggers Looking to Make Money — The Pew Internet & American Life Project released the results from a blogger survey today, which detailed the reasons why bloggers blog. The report focuses on some notion of storytelling vs. journalism (whatever), but what jumped out at me was that 7% …
Yahoo! Search blog:
Finding Home Values in Web Search — With all the recent discussion on where home prices are heading, we saw a great opportunity to improve our home valuation product on Yahoo! Real Estate. We've integrated our product with Zillow.com to provide users with free instant home value estimates …
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microsoft.com:
Windows Principles — Twelve Tenets to Promote Competition — Microsoft Corp. recognizes the important role its Windows® desktop operating system products play in the information economy and the responsibilities that come with that role. To promote competitive opportunities …
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Web 2.0 Explorer, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Microsoft Monitor, IPcentral Weblog and Bink.nu
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Huge Red Flag at Netscape — A little known Digg-fact is that a relatively small group of users submit a large percentage of the stories that end up on the Digg home page. Netscape, which recently relaunched as a Digg-clone, wants to pay those top users to switch over to them.
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Things That, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, The Jason Calacanis Weblog, Good Morning Silicon Valley, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web, InterMedia, SearchViews, Read/WriteWeb, Ensight, rev2.org, CyberNet Technology News, B2Day, BASEMENT.ORG, Smalltalk Tidbits …, Susan Mernit's Blog, Valleywag, Kevin Maney, WeBreakStuff, Threadwatch.org, ReveNews Online Revenue …, Delicate Genius Blog, Performancing.com, Blogspotting, TechEffect, robhyndman.com, Publishing 2.0, Make Money Online … and WebMetricsGuru
David E. Williams / CNN:
Google's unknown artist has huge following — (CNN) — Dennis Hwang may be the most famous unknown artist in the world — his work doesn't hang in galleries or museums, but it's been viewed hundreds of millions of times. — The 28-year-old webmaster designs the whimsical logos …
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
AOL launches corporate IM service — AOL is set to launch on Wednesday its new AIM Pro instant-messaging service, which features security and online meeting functions aimed at corporate users. — The service, which is free for anyone to use, integrates with Microsoft Outlook's calendar …
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Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect, Mashable*, Download Squad, 21talks, PaulStamatiou.com and digg
Iancr / Yahoo! Music Blog:
Buy A Customized Jessica Simpson MP3 At Yahoo! Music — You can buy a personalized version of the new Jessica Simpson song "A Public Affair" from Yahoo! Music's Web Site (Music.Yahoo.com) for $1.99, and it's an MP3. Dear digital consumer, even if you're not into Jessica Simpson …
PR Newswire:
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results — Posts Second Highest Quarterly Revenue and Earnings in Company's History — CUPERTINO, Calif., July 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2006 third quarter ended July 1, 2006.
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paidContent.org, Consumer Electronics …, Blackfriars' Marketing, The Secret Diary …, SurfBits and Mac News First.
Ian Sager / Business Week:
iPod Accessories Gone Wild — The desire to personalize the Apple music-player experience—and make a fast buck—has resulted in some downright odd products — The early, runaway success of Apple Computer's iPod has spawned a whole ecosystem of third-party suppliers pushing accessories …
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Mac sales up 12 percent as Apple profits soar — Apple Computer's third-quarter revenue fell a little short of expectations, but profitability was far higher than expected and Mac sales increased at a healthy clip. — Revenue was $4.37 billion, up 24 percent from last year's quarterly revenue of $3.52 billion.
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New York Times:
Wall Street Journal to Run Ads on Front Page — The Wall Street Journal calls it a "jewel box," but readers of its front page will know it by its common name: advertising. — The Journal today confirmed long-time speculation that it would open its front page to advertising, probably in September …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Comcast throws a curve in its broadband pitch — As AT&T prepares to enter the video market in the Bay Area, Comcast is attempting to get owners of local apartment buildings to agree to 10-year contracts that would grant the cable giant an exclusive right to provide tenants with all broadband services.
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Lee Gomes / Wall Street Journal:
All the Good Ones Have Been Taken — In Domain Names, Too — It's hardly secret knowledge, though perhaps only Dennis Forbes has seen it in all its glory. — There are roughly 47 million domain names that end with ".com," making that space the biggest and most prestigious piece of real estate on the Internet.
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