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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

It started in 2004 when a legislative committee held a series of hearings on digital copyright reform. Geist and some prominent bloggers criticized Bulte for what looked to them to be a clear conflict of interest. People can now create mashups without fear of reprisal. Nash won the riding. Mainstream media picked up on the story.

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The information processing view of humanity

Buzz Marketing for Technology

In fact, many bloggers say that they write mainly for themselves, in capturing some of the interesting things they are seeing and thinking. Trevor Cook is just one example of a blogger who writes notes from all of the conference sessions he attends (including his reflections on our Enterprise 2.0 Future of Media Report 2007.

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BMJ blogs " Blog Archive " Richard Smith: Get with Web 2.0 or become yesterday's person

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Posted in Guest bloggers. Categories bmj.com redevelopment: updates on 2007 relaunch (2). Guest bloggers (20). December 2007. November 2007. October 2007. September 2007. August 2007. April 2007. March 2007. February 2007. January 2007. March 2004. Print page.

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Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I was contacted by 16-year-old blogger Onibalusi Bamidele who has guest-written this post. There is a trend among many new (and even old) bloggers. Yet many bloggers who have not even spent up to a year on their blogs keep complaining about not achieving any results. They have been around for years now.

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Social Media "Pioneers" Tell Why

Diva Marketing Blog

Yvonne DiVita, BlogPaws, Lipsticking - I joined in 2004 and it gave me immediate results. Before I was blogging in 2004, I was already writing a lot for eMarketer (my full-time job), and then started contributing to MediaPost. After the fact, I came to appreciate the community of bloggers that I was part of just by blogging.

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Social Class Distinction Between MySpace and Facebook » Techipedia.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

by Tamar Weinberg on June 26, 2007 Share A recent study performed by Ph.D. As a college graduate and early adopter of Facebook (in 2004), I could definitely see that. Why did I join in 2004? One was in college in 2004, while the other was in high school. MySpace and Facebook: A Social Class Divide? Initial audience.

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What if You Can’t Find Your Niche?

ProBlogger

In the old days of blogging, bloggers were often advised to be very specific – define a niche on a very narrow topic (e.g. Many bloggers have a fairly broad remit, and it’s become far more common to think about having a niche demographic than a niche topic ( which I wrote about on ProBlogger way back in 2007 ). Including me.

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