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Post Popularity: Your Blog Needs It

There's a good time and a bad time to put up your latest bit of life-changing brilliance on your blog.

British Blogger Fined For Threatening Post

Stupidity and anger are never a good combination. A British blogger has been fined for posting an offensive and menacing message about a police officer on his blog. Gavin Brent, 24, from Holywell, Flintshire, was fined $296 and $718  in costs. He said his post was not meant to be offensive and he used the blog to "let off steam."

Fix Your Lousy Company Blog

Businesspeople possess a unique opportunity to be more than just a cash funnel to their customers. A few steps to improve the company blog can work wonders for customer relations.

Small Business Marketing Unleashed: Blogging For Business

Mack Collier, owner of The Viral Garden spoke on the subject of blogging for business.

Six Apart Clicks With Adify

Six Apart CEO Chris Alden and Adify CEO Russ Fradin told WebProNews they plan to bring bloggers and ads together more effectively.

Pirate Bay Opens Uncensored Blogging Service

Stay on the right side of Swedish laws, and the gleeful operators of The Pirate Bay's blogging service, Baywords, won't cave to demands for one's blog to be taken down.

Twitter Helps Free American Held In Egypt

A journalism student photographing demonstrations outside a police station in Egypt found himself jailed by police, but he managed to put a word out to his friends on Twitter.

Shyftr Responds To Feed Usage Outcry

Feed reader/sharing service Shyftr tweaked how it uses feed content after several bloggers complained about the practice.

Shyftr May Kill Full RSS Feeds

The Shyftr service ties feeds and social networking features together in a way that has some prominent bloggers screaming foul.

Death By Blogging, NYT Style

I'm not sure the last time I saw a New York Times piece that failed to convince, well, anybody. It may be because Matt Richtel made the classic mistake of developing a thesis and sticking to it until he found some evidence. (Academic tip: A good thesis comes after research.)