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Monday’s blog from the team - bbc
Hi everyone, it’s Rachel here. Aled is off on a secret mission. If it comes off, you will like it a lot. Anyway, here’s what the team are up to toda. Chris is doing something very exciting today that’s he’s always wanted to do with his girlfriend and

Blog Participation and Reader Agreement - Sun-Journal
The Sun Journal wants to encourage an open exchange of information and ideas. But, if you become a nuisance while using these forums/blogs, we reserve the right (but assume no obligation) to remove your comment(s) and/or ban you from this forum

Tim Vickery blog - bbc
Towards the end of this week one South American side will be pumped up, going for gold. The other will have just bronze in its sights, and its players may well wish they were already back with their clubs. In Beijing on Tuesday Brazil face Argentina

Olympic blog round-up - Courier-Post
Here’s the latest from our local athletes in Beijing. Rachael Dawson breaks out the web cam and posts a “Video Hello” and thanks her hometown for its support. Carli Lloyd talks about the difficulties of living out of a suitcase, as well as her

Blogging company Six Apart launching blog about blogs - CNET News
Six Apart , which makes the Movable Type blogging platform and that hosts the blog services TypePad and Vox , is launching on Monday Blogs.com , a new site designed to help readers find the best blogs on the Web. Normally we wouldn’t cover the launch

How to keep your young blogger safe - Myrtle Beach Online
Start with empathy. “When the Internet’s involved, parents get stupid,” says Parry Aftab, an online safety expert. She suggests parents harken back to their own childhoods in trying to understand the need for secret blogging. Resist the urge to post

Utah graduate student competing and blogging in Beijing - NBC Olympics
A graduate student at the University of Utah is competing in the Beijing Olympics and is sharing her experiences by blogging. Zuzana Tomas is working on her doctorate at the U, but right now she’s in Beijing preparing to run the marathon for her

Andrew Sparrow - Guardian Blogs
Reading Barack Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope, recently, I came across a passage that set me thinking about John Prescott. I bet no one has ever written a sentence like that before. But it’s true (more or less). Prescott (and, admittedly

Blogging from Beijing: Pandas a national treasure of China - Detroit Free Press
I paid a brief visit to the Beijing Zoo, specifically to see the Giant Pandas that are synonymous with China. I couldn t bear to look much around the rest of the zoo, because it didn t look like the animals were in very nice enclosures. The Giant

Microsoft, bias, and blogging - CNET News
I’m always amused by comments on this blog suggesting that I’m biased against Microsoft. Of course I am . I’m a blogger, not a journalist. Who told you otherwise? I compete with Microsoft and am a strong believer in open source. I’m biased. That said

Theatre-style web awards to recognise overlooked web scene - Silicon Republic
Tuxedos and gowns appear to be fading into the past as far as Irish internet awards go with the latest web awards opting for a theatre-style DIY approach to recognise the sites which never get mentioned by other awards. The Moviestar.ie Irish

Blogging from Beijing: A democrat in the Temple of Heaven - Detroit Free Press
The Temple of Heaven contains what is considered the most beautiful building in Beijing. The place dates to the Ming Dynasty in 1420 A.D., and was used to offer sacrifices to heaven. The major attraction within the park is the Hall of Prayer for Good

Russia’s Medvedev halts military action in Georgia - Washington Post
MOSCOW — Russia’s foreign minister says that Georgia’s president must leave office and Georgian troops should stay out of the breakaway South Ossetia region for good. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says that Moscow won’t talk to President Mikhail

Web 2.0, cloud computing ‘to transform business’ - Silicon.com
Web 2.0 technologies may make you roll your eyes dismissively right now but the likes of software-as-a-service (SaaS) , mash-ups and online services will have a change-inducing impact on business within the next two years, despite currently

Blogging from Beijing: Olympic headlines from China to Israel - Detroit Free Press
The fact India won its first-ever individual Olympic gold medal when Abhinav Bindra claimed the top podium place in the 10-m air rifle Monday was huge news in Beijing. It even prompted this eye-popping headline in today s China Daily: Indians go

South Korea win women’s team title - Guardian Unlimited
BEIJING, Aug 10 (Reuters) - South Korea beat China to win gold in the women’s team archery on Sunday, earning their sixth Olympic title in a row. Athens gold medallist Park Sung-hyun, world No.1 Yun Ok-hee and Joo Hyun-jung beat the Chinese trio 224

Peterson adjusting to new life as an NFL superstar - Daily Oklahoman
OU Football Links - Live College Football Scores - Big 12 Football Scores - OU Stats Page - John Rohde’s blog - Jenni Carlson’s blog - Berry Tramel’s blog - Bedlam Nation Oklahoma City Thunder clues hidden in NBA Paul McCartney sleeps, dines in

Beijing meets The Redeem Team - Detroit Free Press
Free Press photographer Eric Seals is blogging about his experiences at the Olympic Games in Beijing. Check back with Freep.com throughout the Games for more updates on what Eric is doing and seeing. Can you spot the USA Men s basketball team in

Georgian forces quit S.Ossetia after Russian strikes - Washington Post
ERGNETI, Georgia (Reuters) - Georgian forces pulled out of the breakaway South Ossetia region on Sunday after three days of fighting and Russia said its troops controlled most of the separatist capital Tskhinvali. A Georgian convoy of troops and

Blogging the Qur an: Sura 38, Sad - Hotair.com
This Meccan sura takes its name from the Arabic letter sad , with which it begins. As always, the letters that begin many suras are left unexplained, and the commentators say that Allah alone knows what he means by these letters. Then verses 1-16

Follow the Nationwide race through live blogging from Watkins Glen - Buffalo News
WATKINS GLEN — Dario Franchitti, who lost his NASCAR Sprint Cup ride earlier this season, was off to a good start Saturday at Watkins Glen International after winning the pole for this afternoon’s Nationwide Zippo 200. Franchitti made it around the

Blogging from Beijing: Friday evening in the city - Detroit Free Press
I wasn t able to get a special credential for the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Games, so instead a colleague and I headed to the Quanjude restaurant in the just re-opened Qianmen area, which lies just south of Tiananmen Square. It s a

Follow the NASCAR Nationwide race through live blogging from Watkins - Buffalo News
WATKINS GLEN — Dario Franchitti, who lost his NASCAR Sprint Cup ride earlier this season, was off to a good start Saturday at Watkins Glen International after winning the pole for this afternoon’s Nationwide Zippo 200. Franchitti made it around the

Chinese government unlikely to be involved in hacking pro-Tibet blog - Guardian Unlimited
The culprits behind a hacking attack aimed at a British pro-Tibet protester are unlikely to have acted with the knowledge of the Chinese government, according to one expert. It emerged overnight that a web page written by Lucy Fairbrother who was

Blog update: The high price of education - Baxter Bulletin
Our daughter called yesterday from the Denver area. She just completed registering our 16-year-old grandson for school (public high school), which begins next week. Hold on to your seats when I tell you how much registration lightened her pocketbook

YouTube Strikes Online Olympics Deal - Wall Street Journal
YouTube will provide Olympics content on a dedicated channel. The Google Inc. unit will provide about three hours a day of exclusive content from the IOC’s Olympic Broadcasting Services on a dedicated channel during the Games. The content, including

CNN’s New Rules for Personal Blogging - Gawker
Chez Pazienza, fired from CNN six months ago for his writing on the HuffPo, would “really like to let the subject of my untimely dismissal from CNN go once and for all.” But! He just got ahold of a juicy memo, CNN’s brand-new guide for blogging. “You

Blogging from Beijing: The Chairman rises - Detroit Free Press
I ve been in Beijing now three days, and one of the neatest experiences was visiting Tiananmen Square, which sits directly south of the Forbidden City in central Beijing. The north part of the Square itself is just that a giant plaza (in all

Beyond Blogging Basics - Coloradoan
This hands-on workshop will give intermediate bloggers the chance to learn how to monetize and promote their blogs. Bloggers will learn about: Earning money via Adsense, ad networks, and affiliate programs. The ethics of sponsored posting. Setting up

Blogging from Beijing: Have you checked this yet? - Ithaca Journal
With all our background research essentially finished, our whole day today was spent checking over everyone’s information for accuracy and making sure that everything followed the ONS style guide. Once the first set of corrections was made, we passed

For Obama, a campaign of creativity - San Francisco Gate
Rupert Garcia, a founder of the late-1960s Chicano Art Movement, has built a national reputation for his posters depicting Frida Kahlo, Salvador Allende and Ruben Salazar. But lately, Garcia, like many painters, musicians, actors and authors, has

‘It’s horribly stifling’ - Chicago Sun-Times
A search for LiLo at Lolla turned up no hard evidence. It was rumored that Lindsay Lohan might show up at Lollapalooza with close friend Samantha Ronson, whose brother Mark Ronson is scheduled to perform at the three-day music fest. Twitter: Live

The TSA Blog: Is The Man Finally Listening? - TechNewsWorld
The TSA blog is written by one-name employees, including Bob, Ethel and Chance. Looks to me like the posts are written by a) the PR staff and given random author names; or b) the actual Bob, Ethel and Chance — but the TSA is scared people will

Ham Blog - San Francisco Examiner
Such is the rallying cry of House Republicans right about now. C-SPAN cameras are off because they apparently go off automatically when a session is officially adjourned. Nancy Pelosi adjourned it without allowing a vote on drilling, turned out the

A blogosphere of their own - Salon
The feminist blogosphere erupted this week in a brief but intense conflagration over a New York Times story about BlogHer, the annual conference for female bloggers held this year in San Francisco. “Blogging’s Glass Ceiling” was written by Times

Dissecting Microsoft s Mojave Experiment - ZDNet Blogs
Last night, as I was drifting off to sleep, something stuck me about Microsoft s Mojave Experiment that hadn t clicked when I first watched it . Out of the 140/120 participants (the number varies depending on the source) that Microsoft say took

‘Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog’: An Oral History - Entertainment Weekly Online
An Internet musical about a lovelorn would-be supervillain and the video blog he records in his home doesn’t exactly scream surefire hit, but that’s just what Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog became in the wee hours of July 15. Viewers clicked so fast

War Blog - Front Page
The Democrats’ effort to keep gas prices high is reaching a crescendo, as Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid prepare to adjourn for a five-week vacation without allowing a vote on increasing our energy resources. House Republicans are trying to prevent this