This page has listed all the clones of the MillionDollarHomePage site which made an English student a very rich young man.
Then you have this blogger who has made fun of people’s copycat tendencies in his own inimitable (?) way. He has claimed that he’ll fill a weblog full of paid content if the price is right.
Hmm...actually, come to think of it. That’s not a bad idea to copy!!!
Anti-death penalty activists are using blogs as part of a new strategy to carry their message to a wider audience.
The most recent example is that of Vernon Lee Evans who is scheduled to die next month in Maryland. He answers readers’ questions at Meet Vernon.
In his blog, Vernon maintains that he is innocent. His stance has sparked off a barrage of opinions both for and against the death penalty. The blog also serves as an effective medium for readers to get to know the condemned more closely.
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Graeme Thickins has launched a new blog that would report and analyze in the technology industry. The blog can be reached at http://graemethickins.typepad.com. It will be covering important technology events, the first of them being Demo Conference in Phoenix from February 6th to 8th. The blog has been named Tech Surf Blog. The various categories that would be covered by the new blog are innovation, entrepreneurship, marketing, utility computing, IT and software, web content, web technology, blogging, Web 2.0, consumer electronics and messaging and collaboration.
Via [PRWeb]
Bill Biesecker has posted his first message on a new blog named http://community.hairdirect.com/blogs/bills_blog/. It is one of the first blogs which deals with hair replacement. The blog would be covering day to day issues concerning all men and women who suffer from hair loss. The blog will provide fresh content on all topics regarding hair replacement. This blog will serve as an ideal platform for discussing issues that matter the most. Bill Biesecker is a professional hair loss consultant who specializes in non surgical hair replacement systems for both men and women. He is considered to be a leader in the industry and has an experience of forty years of providing hair loss solutions to both retailers and clients.
via [The Open Press]
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It invites people in the United States to identify unnecessary spending in their congressional districts and then holds their representatives to task.
The number of blogs has nearly doubled since March, with a new blog now being created every second, according to Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere report. Technorati was tracking some 14.2 Million blogs and 1.3 billion links at the end of July, whereas in March it was tracking 7.8 million blogs. Technorati says about 80,000 new weblogs are being created every day - roughly one every second.
More than half (55 percent) of all blogs are considered active, with a posting in the last three months, and 13 percent (1.8 million blogs), update at least weekly. The report identified significant growth in the U.S., Japan, Korea, China, France, and Brazil.
Technorati said the fastest-growing blogging services are MSN Spaces, Blogger, LiveJournal, and AOL Journals, along with several international-hosted services. The use of software such as Word Press and Moveable Type to set up blogs also continued to grow significantly.
Technorati
Two Swedish eyes on media and public relations. One of seven blogs about branding that ‘people at Ogilvy PR are reading.’
Go to Media Culpa
Pledgebank is The latest Social Software Web Service
PledgeBank: just create a pledge which says “I’ll do this, but only if 5 other people will do the same”.
Go to pledgebank
