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Blog For Hope Launches Today

Check out the Blog For Hope today and for the next 30 days.  It’s been a fun project to work on with Yahoo and my guess is, this will be the first of many Blogs for Hope (since it’s an off shot of their new Health Blogs section which focuses on an array of health concerns, they’ll probably tackle a ...

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Yet another new study

Check out the findings from a new study conducted by Six Apart and Gawker Media, "Blog Readers Young and Well Off: Study"…not to mention the little tiff between blog providers. I was particularly interested in this finding — of the 400 biggest blogs, blogs focused on news and politics were most popular; followed by "hipster" and lifestyle blogs, tech blogs, ...

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LiveJournal social networks studied

I happened on a Proceedings of the National Academy of Science story on geography and population density in online social networks. The article on the PNAS Web site states, "In online communities and other social networks, [scientists] report that any two members can usually find a connection with only a few degrees of separation, partly because individuals tend to optimize ...

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Social Networking Site Fires Employee for Social Networking

That was a fun title to write out for some reason. Anyway check out the latest hub-bub about Friendster. Looks like they fired one of their employees for writing about company business on their personal Blog. Now mostly my feelings are divided on this. Isn’t her having a Blog part of the whole "look-at-us-we-are-a cool-young-company" thing that Friendster thrives on? ...

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