Posts Tagged with ‘blog’

Today the entire online world is supposed to celebrate the blog day – the holiday that is celebrated on August 31 every year. For the first time the day was celebrated in 2005 and it falls on the last day of summer because binary inscription of the word “blog” is exactly 3108 (at least according [...]

Though it's been some time coming, Twitter has finally revealed its private funding sources. With the latest boost in funding, the Twitter team should be able to deliver on its promise to the community to boost support for the platform across the board. Twitter revealed, at long last, its sources of private funding, which are [...]

Though integrating social aspects to websites seems more and more to be a necessary factor in keeping up with the Joneses, there is such a thing as going social for the wrong reasons.  At the heart of the web 2.0 and social push is to deliver a better online experience for users.  If companies try [...]

Blogging is at a turning point. There seem to be three different types of bloggers: those who use it as an online diary, those who view themselves as journalists, and those who view themselves as journalists without all the trappings that traditional media types are bound by. My personal blog is firmly in the first [...]

I was determined to remain out of this weekend's bitchmeme. I'm an old-fashioned kind of girl who comments on the blog where the author knows I said something, reads my feeds offline half the time, and doesn't jump on the latest bandwagon when it comes to "conversation." However, when the headline crossed my radar saying [...]

I knew the second that the New York Times article from Matt Richtel went across my feeds it was going to be the water cooler discussion du jour over the weekend. I'm sure it will have the entire blogosphere lit up like a Christmas tree by the time I log in tomorrow and check my [...]

Odds are that any additional articles I write today will be site reviews, because today is my least favorite day of the year as a tech blogger. Beyond my usual schedule of getting Rick rolled at least once a day by someone, I am now stuck with sifting through my feeds trying to determine what's [...]

On the off chance you haven't already been inundated with women's sites, Yahoo has launched their new site geared toward women today. Sticking with the name Shine that was originally rumored, the site follows the same mold as previous entries into this space. Right from the first article you see, you know that Yahoo has [...]

On 3 March, the Armenian government declared a 20-day state of emergency after confrontations between the former president and security due to tensions after the contested elections that took place on 19 February. As part of the state of emergency, the government declared that the only news that can be published by the media outlets [...]