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Anna Quindlen and the Sophisticated Teenager

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and novelist Anna Quindlen talks to the Fort Worth Star Telegram about Women's History Month and how things have changed for women since she was the same age as her daughter is now. March 21, 2006

Google's Blogger Staff Beats and Humiliates Bad Router

Google's Blogger service has beaten a bad router as an example and a warning to other potentially malfunctioning hardware. March 20, 2006

Journalists and Blogging Pay

Stephen Baker at BlogSpotting has asked whether he should be compensated for writing BlogSpotting for BusinessWeek while on unpaid leave. March 20, 2006

The Atlantic Leads Ellies With Eight Nominations

The finalists for the National Magazine Awards (the Ellies) have been announced. March 20, 2006

Social Networking Website Explosion Looms

A growing trend in social networking is specialization. March 19, 2006

The Guardian's Comment is Free Blog Has 200+ Contributors

The Guardian's Comment is Free website is off to a quick start. March 19, 2006

Arianna Huffington Offers Apology

Arianna Huffington has posted an apology for not sourcing the controversial George Clooney blog post (more on that post here and here. March 18, 2006

Today's Employers Are Googling Employees

Yahoo has an article from Business Week that looks at how employers are Googling employees. March 18, 2006

Debt Ceiling? What Debt Ceiling?

Congress blew the lid off of the spending cap Thursday by voting to allow President Bush to borrow $781 billion in order to keep the government going. March 18, 2006

Donald Rumsfeld: History is Not Made Up of Blogs

The Washington Post has a quote from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld where he says he prefers history over what blogs, news headlines and websites are saying about the situation in Iraq. March 18, 2006

Journalists and Compensation for Blogging

MarketWatch. March 17, 2006

Gawker's Stalker Maps Provide Celebrity Sightings

We've posted before about the blogarazzi and it looks like they are here for real now with Gawker's launch of Gawker Stalker maps. March 17, 2006

Kids Blogging Service Raises $6 Million

Industrious Kid has raised $6 million in funding to develop and promote its family blogging service which it bills as a safe alternative to MySpace. March 17, 2006

Cubicles Weren't Originally Meant to be Evil Squares

Inventor Robert Propst is credited with inventing the cubicle in the 1960s. March 17, 2006

2006 Book Sense Winners Announced

The 2006 Book Sense Book of the Year winners have been announced. March 17, 2006

Book Fashion Hits Ukraine

It's no secret that we love books around here and tend to tote them wherever we go. March 17, 2006

Author Gets Book Idea While Reading Harry Potter Novel

Matthew Skelton is the first-time author of Endymion Spring. March 17, 2006

K-Fed Has More MySpace Friends Than Chris Pirillo

Chris Pirillo, a blogger, technologist and founder and publisher of LockerGnome. March 16, 2006

George Clooney Says Arianna Huffington Threatened Him

Yesterday, George Clooney said in a statement that he did not write the blog post that the Huffington Post posted on Monday. March 16, 2006

The Press Release is Alive

Susan Getgood at Marketing Roadmaps has a post declaring the press release is not dead. March 15, 2006

The Confusing World of Tags

Tagging has made finding things easier but it is far from perfect. March 15, 2006

Did George Clooney Blog for the Huffington Post or Not?

A blog post on the Huffington Post attributed to George Clooney was very popular on the blogosphere earlier this week. March 15, 2006

Have Blog-related Firings Decreased?

The truth is there were not many blog related firings in the first place. March 15, 2006

Women Earn More Than Men in a Few Fields

A CNNMoney. March 15, 2006

Dan Brown is Cross-Examined

The British press is closely following the Dan Brown trial: each day the testimony is analyzed in detail. March 15, 2006