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CNET News:
The modern woman, per the popular ’70s television commercial, was once “bringing home the bacon and frying it up in a pan.” Now she’s also writing a blog.
As many as 3,000 women attended the fourth annual BlogHer Conference 2008 to talk about their lives, their businesses, and their blogs. And in some cases, they’re […]
International Herald Tribune:
They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.
A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling […]
Chronicleive.co.uk:
Ceyhan Mihcioglu, 19, has a golf handicap of five but says he will now play the sport for fun and make his living through the internet.
The Newcastle College student, who has entered the If We Can You Can Challenge, has already secured partial funding for the project through the Government’s Business Link and says his […]
The New York Times:
Microsoft is one of Wal-Mart’s biggest suppliers. But that did not stop the Wal-Mart employee in charge of buying computers from panning Microsoft’s newest operating system, Vista.
“Is it really all that and a bag of chips?” he wrote on his blog. “My life has not changed dramatically — well, for that matter, […]
Can blogging be considered a full time income? Some blogs are cashing in making over 6 figures. BusinessWeek reports:
1. icanhascheezburger.com
Launched: January, 2007
Revenue: Estimated $5,600 a month based on ad rates and self-reported traffic data
This blog, consisting of silly photos of cats, and even sillier captions, rocketed to the top of the blogosphere a few months […]
ars technica:
Happy blog-a-versary! This week is the tenth anniversary of the coining of the term that makes some of us giddy and others recoil in horror: blogging.
If you subscribe to the view that says the term was coined by Jorn Barger on December 17, 1997, today’s the day. It was on that day that he […]
Six years ago this month, this website was born. Today, it’s the number one business blog in the world.
Thank you for all for reading.
Original post by Dane and software by Elliott Back
CNET News:
Angie Mecklenburg, a mother of four in Sutter, Ill., blogs about chickens, God, and her farm. For an estimated $15, she’ll write about soy-wax candles for a marketer.
Over the last 18 months, Mecklenburg has kept up three blogs, the most popular being Ang’s Chicken Coop, which has the tagline “a view of the world […]
The New York Times:
Without quite having a clear plan, Gregg Rottler began contemplating his Web empire last year on his desktop computer at his home near Tampa, Fla.
As many bloggers have done, Mr. Rottler, a state environmental code officer, followed an impulse to share stories about annoyances. He and his wife, Karen, an elementary school […]
Guardian Unlimited:
Blogger.com helped spark a revolution - and it still makes self-publishing quick and easy.
Blogger was launched by Ev Williams of Pyra Labs in 1999, and bought by Google in 2003. Google eventually started to improve it, and a few months ago it finally moved to Google servers. New users can sign in with any […]
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