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Original Music Created Specifically for Ringtones

The CS Monitor reports that a company named Start Mobile is going to start selling 60-second original music compositions for use as ringtones. April 24, 2006

More Good News For Dan Brown

More good news for Dan Brown: the 2nd U. April 24, 2006

Technorati 100 List Goes Bonkers

As of this writing Page Not Found from MSNBC. April 23, 2006

Trendy New Job: Blog Editor

CNNMoney. April 22, 2006

MoodViews Tracks Bloggers' Moods on LiveJournal

A service called MoodViews is tracking people's moods on LiveJournal. April 22, 2006

Buyer's Remorse: Kerry Would Beat Bush Easily If Election Were Held Today

A new Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll shows that if the 2004 presidential election were held again today, John Kerry would easily win. April 22, 2006

Babar Celebrates 75th Birthday

Babar the elephant celebrated his 75th birthday with worldwide birthday events. April 22, 2006

Dan Brown Back To Writing

Now that he's not spending all his time being grilled by aggressive British barristers in a baseless lawsuit, Dan Brown is finally getting back to work on the sequel to The Da Vinci Code. April 22, 2006

Is MySpace the AIM Killer?

AOL's Ted Leonsis has blogged about the recent MySpace competitor rumors. April 21, 2006

Nancy Pelosi Offers Blogging Tips

Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) offered some blog tips for fellow Democrats on her democraticleader. April 21, 2006

The Pink Panther Blogs for Owens Corning

The Pink Panther now has an energy blog where he tells people how to save money using products from Owens Corning. April 20, 2006

Scientists Urged to Blog to Fight Junk Science

National Geographic has an article that urges environment, climate and conservation experts to start blogs to fight the growing amount of junk science that is published today. April 20, 2006

TVGuide.com Debuts Blog Network With 65 Blogs

TV Guide has stormed onto the blogosphere with sixty-five new blogs covering television, movies and entertainment. April 20, 2006

AOL MySpace Challenge in the Works

Dave Winer has posted a rumor that AOL will offer a direct challenge to the MySpace youth juggernaut called Head On. April 20, 2006

Site Creates List of Bizarre Jobs

A website called 2Spare has compiled a list of jobs they call the 25 most bizarre jobs. April 20, 2006

Kevin Sites' Hot Zone Builds Audience

An AP article says journalist Kevin Sites started his Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone site on Yahoo so that he could "tell smaller stories about human lives. April 20, 2006

Facebook Raises $25 Million. Takes Down For Sale Sign.

Silicon Beat reports that Facebook has raised $25 million. April 19, 2006

How Much Can Bloggers Make Per Month?

The Wall Street Journal has posted a conversation between Alan Meckler, the CEO of Jupitermedia Inc. April 19, 2006

Backfence Acquires Bayosphere

Backfence has acquired Bayosphere in a merger of two citizen journalism websites. April 19, 2006

Malachy McCourt Wants To Be Governor of New York

Writer and actor Malachy McCourt, the brother of author Frank McCourt has announced that he will run for governor of New York. April 19, 2006

Gossip Columns Aren't What They Used to Be

Gossip columns are very popular in newspapers, but the writers often get slammed for not being "real" journalists. April 19, 2006

Use Blogs to Hide Unwanted Content From Employers

There are still continuous stories published about how you can get fired for blogging. April 18, 2006

Newspapers Win Pulitzers for Katrina Reporting

The Times-Picayune of New Orleans and Sun Herald of Biloxi, Mississippi have both won Pulitzers for Public Service. April 18, 2006

Blog Your Personal Finances

CBS2Chicago reports on some bloggers that are using blogs to record their personal finances and motivate themselves to obtain financial goals. April 17, 2006

Blogosphere Still Doubling Every Six Months

David Sifry, the CEO and founder of Technorati, has posted another State of the Blogosphere report. April 17, 2006