"We think we're providing the outlet for the amateur in all of us, " Ranalli says, adding that 68% of all blogs go unread.
The academics could write all the blogs they want--but the financial crisis created the audience.
The inspiration for Netvibes came to Mr Krim one day as he was trying to track the activity on all his blogs.
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But in recent years, live-blogging has also become the default approach to covering much harder breaking news stories: the uprisings of the Arab spring, the phone-hacking scandal in the UK and the Norway shootings, for example, were all covered in live blogs on almost all major news platforms.
The big retailers sourcing goods from Bangladesh are getting pummeled by groups that shape public opinion unions, students, non-governmental organizations, academics, and the media among them all lighting up blogs, Twitter and other public squares.
But perhaps the granddaddy of all real estate blogs, and certainly one of the best-known, is Curbed, which focuses on real estate in New York, a city whose inhabitants are perennially preoccupied with housing.
And, for a reading experience not to be missed, the ICONIA TAB A110 comes with Google Currents, a smart mobile app that lets you browse hundreds of free online magazines and top blogs all in one place.
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Despite all the hundreds of reviews, blogs, video and opinions we still all rushed to order the game.
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If I once guessed at whether some of my friends or family were decent writers, reading their blogs removed all doubt.
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As we all have publishing platforms via blogs, Twitter, or Facebook, you are basically always on the record.
By contrast, most blogs, for all their ardor and liveliness, are as openly partisan as newspapers were in the 1870s.
Although it is anecdotal that there are more errors, the evidence is certainly there: At the American Copy Editors Society, Charles Apple blogs regularly about all those who need a copy editor.
As companies like General Motors, IBM, HP, Microsoft, Infosys, Google and Charles Schwab all started adopting internal corporate blogs around five years ago, Ghose wondered about whether those blogs were just time sucks for employees, or whether they made workers more productive.
And because of our history and tradition, Scoble and I will do all this transparently on our respective blogs.
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The team, from the University of Nottingham and the London-based Institute of Education Knowledge Lab, looked at evidence from hundreds of academic papers, blogs and reviews from all over the globe.
Easy enough to do with your marketing materials, your web site and even your blogs, but if all else looks great and you show up for an appointment looking as if you put little thought into your appearance, all your marketing efforts might appear to be a bait-and-switch to a would-be lucrative prospect.
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This article now ranks very high (if not first) of blogs in the world in all three keywords.
Twitter, along with Facebook, blogs, Tumblr, and all the rest, allow me to keep a little connection with lots of people without much effort.
Austin, Texas (CNN) -- Food-travel TV host Anthony Bourdain doesn't really get why people snap photos of all their meals and share them on blogs, Facebook or other social networks.
That's for all the reasons discussed in my previous blogs on this, including the basic problem that the public might not be able to work out what on earth the Bank was up to.
With all the GIFs floating around on forums and blogs imagine if they could be gathered into one searchable location?
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In the Consumersphere analysis, which includes discussions from all forms of social media including Facebook, blogs, forums, reviews, and other sources, JCP has the lowest positives and highest negatives as a percent of total versus others.
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Of course, while blogs and Web sites can energize all sorts of people behind a candidate, a product or an idea, there still has to be real value if there is to be any lasting appeal.
And what is is about their blogs that make you want to read all the way to the end?
The site features regularly updated blogs, videos and Twitter feeds, all produced by current students for prospective and admitted students.
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Because when I talk with my colleagues and read B2B blogs and editorials, I find that all too often, B2B marketing is still equated almost exclusively with lead generation.
The company backs up its aggressive and in-your-face marketing with a sophisticated advertising campaign that uses different mediums modern men are all too familiar with -- the Web, Blogs, cell phones and games.
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