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http://gigaom.com/2009/08/22/blog-revolution/ Chalk up that headline as a hat tip to one of my favorite artists, Tracy Chapman, who is performing in San Francisco this weekend.

Talkin’ Bout a (Blogging) Revolution

a way to quote

Click our bookmarklet on a web page you wish to quote, and the screenshot of the entire web page will be popped up. http://kwout.com/
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1879276_1879279_1879165,00.html

25 top blogs

Journalist Josh Marshall began publishing Talking Points Memo in November 2000, during the Florida recount. More than eight years later, the winner of the recount is clearing brush in Texas, while Talking Points has become the prototype of what a successful Web-based news organization is likely to be in the future. Last February, Marshall's blog won a George Polk Award for its coverage of the firing of eight United States attorneys, the first blog ever to win a major journalism award.
Lundi, la ministre pakistanaise des Affaires étrangères, Hina Rabbani Khar (ci-dessus), a laissé entendre qu'Islamabad pourrait rouvrir dans les jours qui viennent ses routes aux convois de ravitaillement de l'Otan. http://blog.lefigaro.fr/inde/

Namaste ! Salam ! blogs le figaro

While the Open Education movement focuses on institutional issues, a large ocean exists of powerful individual accomplishments simply from tapping into content that is open for sharing and re-use. As colorful as old covers of “Amazing Stories” magazine, this presentation shares moving, personal stories that would not have been previously possible, enabled by open licensed materials and personal networks.

Amazing Stories of Openness (Open Ed Conference 2009)

http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/opened09/
http://terry-freedman.org.uk/artman/publish/The_blog_is_dead_long_live_the_blog.php An article in Wired magazine advocates dropping blogging, or not starting to blog in the first place.

The Educational Technology Site: ICT in Education: --> The blog is dead, long live the blog

Datablog | News | guardian.co.uk

Six soldiers who were killed in a bomb blast in Afghanistan: top row left to right, Sergeant Nigel Coupe, Corporal Jake Hartley and Private Anthony Frampton, with bottom row left to right, Private Christopher Kershaw, Private Daniel Wade and Private Daniel Wilford Photograph: MOD/PA http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog
http://blogs.sacbee.com/the_state_worker/

The State Worker: Blog back: Language, 'lies,' and per diem

This is the latest installment in a series of posts detailing the 2011 political spending by California state workers' unions.
You would think, by transitive properties, that investment blog aggregation would also be difficult. http://abnormalreturns.com/creating-order-out-of-aggregation/

Creating order out of aggregation Abnormal Returns

Just spotted Gawker founder Nick Denton at his new American Gigolo-style loft on Spring Street in SoHo.

Wired 12.06: How Can I Sex Up This Blog Business?

Yep, that’s right, it’s time for another blogger’s party. They are supposed to be monthly, but somehow that never actually happens.

Second Effects: Second Life Blogger’s Party - Fall 2009!

things magazine: an online journal about objects and meanings

A couple of months ago we received a book, Blogs: Mad about Design (that link is to a comprehensive post on the book with many pictures by David Airey ). Published by Maomao Publications in Barcelona, it's an is a rather curious publication. We say curious, but things is in it, as are a fair few other sites from our sidebar, so obviously our perception is skewed.
[Notes: You can view all my "Thoughts on Twitter" posts displayed chronologically here: http://www.RexBlog.com/thoughts-on-twitter .

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