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Meta RSS and other tips on finding the information that you want

There is an ever expanding array of new tools that claim to help bloggers and media junkie’s track down the relevant information coming off The Net, and most importantly, keep track of it all. However, there are only a few tools that really matter: your email program, your feed reader, and your ability to [...]

Corante is exploding with new and interesting blogs

Lately it seems that New York City focused regional blog is busting at the seams with new blogs. Long known for its carefully selected list of qualified and on point bloggers, Corante seems to be undergoing an interesting expansion that involves adding about one blog every day or so. Being a New Yorker [...]

In Defense of Fun!: Letter to The Times Editor

Dear Byron,
I just read " On the Web, Fearlessness Meets Frivolousness by Sarah Boxer, and I am wondering where she is coming from in saying the following about werenotafraid.com.
“We’re Not Afraid, set up to show solidarity with London, seems to be turning into a place where the haves of the world can show that they’re [...]

An Author’s Mark Twain PR Stunt

“The first night out was fitful, scary even. After putting in at Helena, Ark., the homemade raft got caught up in the wash of the massive towboats that surrounded it on the Mississippi. The craft bounced along in the inky black, and then searing beams of light from the towboats began to strafe it, the [...]

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Market researchers who want immediate insights into into the consumer zietgiest are blog watching.WSJ

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