For example, writer and editor Om Malik expanded the eminence of his popular technology blog into a successful media company, the GigaOm network, now affecting the decisions of users, vendors and investors in the high tech industry.

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In the modern day, this writer also neglected to mention, for example, the large and growing ranks of professing Christians in the most important position in the game: quarterback.

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Last week, for example, corporate governance writer Lucy Marcus discussed how a particular Groupon deal annoyed her enough to tweet about it.

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Amartya Sen, a Nobel laureate and writer on the politics of famine, says rising demand (for example, from the Asian middle classes) and not failing productivity is the main reason for the current crisis.

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The most famous example is the Constellation, a 200-foot schooner which was writer Peter Benchley's inspiration for the book The Deep.

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