A big part of the social media scene is blogs. Whether they be on WordPress or Posterous or Tumblr or Blogger, millions of people are blogging about something. In this series, I will introduce you to bloggers who live, work and blog in Washington, DC. You’ll find out where they blog, why they blog, what they blog about and what other sites and social media tools they use. Here are links to my [...]

Blogging and Web site hosting site WordPress.com has long prevented users from allowing third-party advertising on their sites, but the organization seems to have changed its mind. Partnering with Federated Media, the blogging platform will now let anyone with a publicly visible site that has a custom domain (a paid feature) apply to take part in a money-making program, WordAds. Applying doesn’t [...]

When Klout announced in mid-September that Blogger and Tumblr would play a role in determining your Klout score, WordPress users immediately asked, “What about us?” Klout responded by quietly adding WordPress to its scoring system, which already factors in 11 other services: Blogger, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Google+, Instagram, Last.fm, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Twitter and YouTube. Unlike its integration [...]

HARTFORD, Conn. – A New Jersey blogger charged with inciting violence against Connecticut lawmakers told a jury on Friday that he was being prosecuted for exercising his totally free speech rights and never ever intended for anybody to get hurt. Harold “Hal” Turner, 49, of North Bergen, N.J., wrote a blog posting in June 2009 in response to state legislation, withdrawn 3 months earlier, [...]

HARTFORD, Conn. – Jury selection started Wednesday in the trial of a blogger who was arrested two many years ago for urging readers to “take up arms” against Connecticut lawmakers and suggesting that government officials “obey the Constitution or die” soon after a legislative debate about Catholic Church finances. The prosecution and defense started questioning possible jurors [...]

Internet stocks are undertaking well for Google. The company’s net stocks rose from $ five.71 a share a year ago to $ 7.68 a share at the finish of the second quarter. Large quarter from the Googster ($ GOOG) tonight, surely what the Nasdaq necessary to see. Skip to next paragraph Joshua M. Brown Joshua has been managing income for high net really worth customers, charitable foundations, [...]

MOSCOW (AFP) – A pilot for Russia’s flag carrier Aeroflot was Tuesday hailed as a hero by bloggers for indignantly objecting to a command by air traffic manage to delay his flight to let a leading official to board. The pilot on the flight final week from the Siberian city of Irkutsk to Moscow was told he could not take off until finally regional governor Dmitry Mezentsev had arrived for [...]