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Jen Chung of Gothamist is participating in a new brand-sponsored group blog at intelbloggerchallenge.com. Each week a moderator asks Intel's small group of prominent bloggers a question. The chosen ones blog their responses. The introductory query was, "Why do you blog and what is one thing you have accomplished through blogging that you are most proud of?" Chung's response (in part): My friends and I would e-mail …

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Wired is running a Xeni Jardin piece on military blogs called, "Under Fire, Soldiers Kill Blogs." Milblogs offer one of the last direct witnesses to the Iraq war from the point of view of front line soldiers -- a sharp reversal from three years ago, when the U.S.-led invasion was among the most closely-watched military attacks in history. According to Editor and Publisher, the number of reporters embedded in military …

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According to Ad Age, Orlando startup PayPerPost is paying bloggers to shill for it's clients. Granted, a full-time income isn't uncommon in the blogosphere, where plenty of bloggers aggregate eyeballs with daily musings on everything from politics to pets to how to make a living. But advertisers have until now taken a hands-off approach to blog content, buying mostly banner ads clearly distinguishable as advertising. …

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Vox user, Veruca Salt made a post this morning with an interesting headline: Fallon is Finished It turns out the legendary Minneapolis agency is not finished, rather Veruca Salt's doll, "Fallon" is. And just in time for Halloween. By the way, Vox is Six Apart's free blogging platform. According to GigaOM, Vox held a launch party last night at Bimbo's in San Francisco, where Six Apart founder and president Mena Trott …

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Conscious Media Maker is a blog for entertainment, media, advertising and public relations professionals who are committed to bringing about more realistic, three-dimensional representations of people of color. [HAT TIP to High Jive] …

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Media Grove points to a Deadspin story highlighting one mainstream media company's aversion to blogs. Per ESPN editorial policy, the use of "underground" web sites as a source of credible information within any ESPN platform is strongly discouraged. Specifically speaking, the use of the site "Deadspin.com" as a source of credible information is not allowed under any circumstance. As always, any breaking hard news …

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“AdPulp is the most accessible and populist ad blog. Therefore, it's also probably the most successful.” –Vinny Warren Two years ago today, we started posting our opinions about the industry that sustains us in this space. So much has happened since then... We've made over 3000 posts. You've made close to 4000 comments on our posts. The site has logged over one million unique visits, and we have nearly 1000 …

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I Want Media interviewed Business 2.0 editor Josh Quittner in connection with the M-Squared conference in San Francisco. I've asked all of my journalists to create a blog. It's an experiment in response to a lot of thinking I've been doing about Om Malik and the great success we had with him while he was on staff full time. I loved the daily interactions he was having with his community of readers. It made him …

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