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irritainment (eer.uh.TAYN.munt) n. Entertainment and media spectacles that are both annoying and compulsively watchable. CNET News.com says Casey Serrin is "on his way to becoming the most hated blogger on the Internet." Serrin, 24, is a "would-be real estate mogul" from Sacramento, CA. He bought eight houses in eight months in four states with no money down looking to fix 'n flip. He became over-leveraged and lost …

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According to Wired, the U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops' online activities since the start of the Iraq war. And it could mean the end of military blogs, observers say. "This is the final nail in the coffin for combat blogging," …

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Outside.in presents "America's Top 10 Bloggiest Neighborhoods." 1. Clinton Hill, Brooklyn 2. Shaw, DC 3. Downtown LA 4. Newton, Mass 5. Rogers Park/North Howard Chicago 6. Pearl District ("The Pearl"), Portland 7. Watertown, Mass 8. Harlem, NY 9. Potrero Hill, SF 10. Coconut Grove ("The Grove"), FL Outside.in was introduced in February as a collector of local news and blog posts, covering about 3,000 neighborhoods in …

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The Tech Observer by Kevin Maney launched earlier this month at Condé Nast's new Portfolio.com. The blog is written by Kevin Maney of USA Today fame. He's also a member of Not Dead Yet, a powerpop band from Clifton, Virginia. Maney starts things off with a bang. 1. This is the smart tech blog. The thoughtful tech blog. The irreverent tech blog. It will burst bubbles. It will probably get in trouble, just hopefully …

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Here are two polar opposite viewpoints from two prominent businessmen with blogs. Direct marketer, Bob Bly says: Google makes no secret of its contempt for copyright and intellectual property ownership — believing, as so many Netters do, that “information should be free.” To which I say, “Bull*(#$%*!!!” Serial entrepreneur, Jason Calacanis says: Google doesn't steal anyone's content. So which is it? Granted, Bly was …

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Sheer brilliance, from Paula Scher at Pentagram. Sometimes designers just nail it, don't they? …

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"Color on Madison Avenue" by Scott Schuman New York Post is running a feature on Scott Schuman, the man behind the lens at The Sartorialist. For the past year-and-a-half, Schuman has been snapping photos of stylish folk and posting them with pithy commentary at thesartorialist.blogspot.com, which recently hit a million monthly page views. While fashion blogs are popping up like cockroaches in a tenement these days, …

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Dave Sifry at Technorati posted The State of the Live Web, April 2007 today. Here's one fact that jumps out...Japanese is the #1 blogging language at 37%, folowed by English at 36%. Chinese is the third most prevalent language at 8%; Italian is fourth at 3%; and Farsi, a newcomer in the top 10, comes in at 1%. …

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