The old media filters of print, TV and radio are losing their power to influence, as consumers begin to aggregate personal recommendation filters through blogs and social networking sites.

纸媒、广播、电视等等旧媒体失去了它们的影响力，因为消费者们开始在博客和社交网站上自行推介音乐作品。

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It is likely that the predictive power of these techniques will increase as researchers develop more sophisticated methods for gauging the emotional content of blogs and tweets.

这些方法的预测能力的增加，将与研究人员开发出用于估量博客和微博潜在情绪内容的更为复杂的方法的开发速度一致是可能的。

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Users are provided with hosting for their site and a Web-based interface where they can enter their posts. (Disclosure: Forbes.com uses the TypePad service to power its blogs, including one by the author of this story.) Six Apart also operates LiveJournal, a popular free blogging service, and sells Movable Type, blogging software which companies and individuals can install on their own Web servers.

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Plus, there are so many blogs advocating early retirement in the form of extremely low cost lifestyles, or quitting your big power job to become something touchy-feely, etc.

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