Bloggers using the TypePad platform received an email last month from Say Media, which owns TypePad, informing them that Say would stop offering advertising services to customers whose websites registered fewer than 500,000 daily impressions. Those who not meeting the traffic minimum could still use Typepad but would have to find a third-party provider to serve ads on their sites. This is a preview [...]

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 [...]

All the points that produced the Web a perfect forum for female blogger voices to flourish, also provided the identical opportunities for a backlash of nasty, hateful, sexist commentary. This week, New York‘s Emily Nussbaum facts all the approaches the Globe Broad Internet produced a feminist conversation that just wasn’t taking place prior to. “Lacking editors (whose intolerance [...]

CAIRO (AFP) – Six months after they launched a revolution that ousted the regime, Egyptian bloggers have acknowledged that it takes more than a Facebook page on the Web to overthrow a dictator. “The Web played a essential part but it was not the only tool. The revolution really belongs to the people,” stated Wael Abbas, a veteran Egyptian blogger who has been posting his thoughts in [...]

TRENTON, N.J. – The New Jersey Supreme Court says people posting opinions on the internet don’t have the exact same protections for sources as mainstream journalists. The court ruled Tuesday that New Jersey’s shield law for journalists does not apply to on the internet message boards. The situation involved a New Jersey-based application company named Too Much Media. It sued a Washington [...]

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