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This Blog Is Dead

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Blogging (as we knew it) is dead. Not even all that ago and think about the early days of blogging. What we had was place for online journaling. It''s obvious why the popularity of blogs took hold. Newspapers could use blogging as a farm team for their printed publications. Blogs are for 40-somethings with kids.

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Citizen Journalism: Who is a Journalist Today?

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Almost half of all Americans (47%) now get some form of local news on a mobile device. Citizen journalism doesn’t only apply to major political events or disasters. Citizen journalism is one of the hottest buzzwords in the news business right now. Many newsrooms are implementing some sort of citizen-journalism initiative.

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How to create mobile-friendly content with Google’s AMP

Socialmedia.biz

How Accelerated Mobile Pages can fuel your mobile marketing strategy. Target audience: Businesses, brands, mobile marketers, digital marketers, advertising agencies, SEO specialists, entrepreneurs, educators, journalists, Web publishers. Google is placing more and more emphasis on speed and mobile friendliness.

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The Blog Turns 20 This Year

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Yesterday, The Guardian posted an article titled, The blog turns 20: a conversation with three internet pioneers. This blog, has been around for eleven years. I can''t thank you enough for being here, and I can''t tell you how grateful I am that blogging was invented. you should be blogging. Can you believe it?

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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook To Buy WhatsApp, LinkedIn Opens Publishing To All Members

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Facebook to pay $19 billion for WhatsApp – Facebook is acquiring mobile messaging service WhatsApp; the company will continue to operate separately, and co-founder Jan Koum will join Facebook’s board of directors (The Wall Street Journal).

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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Launches “Nearby Friends”

The Realtime Report

Twitter agrees to buy data partner Gnip – Twitter has acquired Gnip, a startup the micro-blogging platform has been working with for years; plans are to offer more sophisticated data sets and better data enrichments for businesses using the data from Twitter’s “Firehose” (re/code).

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Blogging Is Dead (Again)

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Blogging is dead. Why go through the hassle of thinking up unique thoughts, trying to formulate them into sentences and paragraphs, and then pull it all together in a text-based Blog post? Blogging isn't really dead. So, is Blogging truly waning? " Blogging isn't dead. Did you read the news? Plain and simple.

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