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Reading Blogs to Get Lucky

Can reading blogs improve your sex life? That's the gist of this article from Can West which cites a recent Ad Age article. March 14, 2006

WeSmirch Tracks Celebrity Gossip

WeSmirch is a new memetracker that focuses on celebrity gossip. March 14, 2006

Politics Popular Topic on Maktoob

A Strategiy. March 14, 2006

How Many Blog Posts Per Day is Too Many?

Some blogs, especially group blogs, post ten to twenty times per day. March 13, 2006

PostSecret Dominates 2006 Bloggies

The winners of the 2006 Bloggies have been announced. March 13, 2006

Opinmind Offers Blog Add-on

Opinmind, a search engine that lists bloggers' opinions, has a new feature called StikIt. March 13, 2006

Dave Winer Plans to Quit Blogging

Dave Winer has blogged that he will quit blogging. March 13, 2006

Tagworld Raises $7.5 Million in Financing

TechCrunch reports that Tagworld has completed a round of venture capital financing for $7. March 13, 2006

Study: Only 20% of Men Working Past 65

The Seattle Times reports on a new study that indicates many men are not working past the 65-year retirement age. March 13, 2006

Ray Kurzweil and the Coming Singularity

Author Ray Kurzweil discusses his new book, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Viking), with the Paramus Post. March 13, 2006

From Walled Garden to Personal Playground

The Mercury News has an interesting article that ties up all the recent product launches, acquisitions and rumors into a believable theory about what Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are up to. March 11, 2006

Blooker Prize Short-list Announced

The short-list for the Blooker prize has been announced. March 11, 2006

Bolt and Xuqa Chase MySpace

MySpace is the most popular social networking service but it has plenty of competition. March 10, 2006

Blogstorm Follows Google's Acquisition of Writerly

A blogstorm has erupted in the tech blogosphere over Google's recent acquisition of Writerly, an Internet based word processor. March 10, 2006

New Email Service From Microsoft Provides Blogging Tool

Betanews. March 10, 2006

The Ports Deal is Over...Or Is It?

DP World of the UAE has announced that it is withdrawing from the deal in which it would take over a number of U. March 10, 2006

Al-Qaeda Also Uses MySpace

The Al-Qaeda terror organization has reportedly been using social networks like Orkut and Myspace. March 10, 2006

Amazon.com in Talks With Studios About Movie Downloads

The New York Times reports that Amazon. March 10, 2006

Jermaine Jackson and the Bizarre Book Proposal

Pop star Michael Jackson has even more trouble brewing for him. March 10, 2006

Producer of Oscar-Winning Film is Flat Broke

How's this for a bummer? Independent producer Cathy Schulman won the Best Picture Oscar for Crash last Sunday night, so you'd think she's be on top of the world, right? Nope, she's actually flat broke. March 10, 2006

Podcast by Phone With Gcast

Gcast is a new free podcasting service from the people that created the popular GarageBand. March 9, 2006

China Temporarily Shuts Down More Blogs

The BBC reports that China has shut down more blogs including Massage Milk, a blog that has provided critical coverage of the Chinese media and government. March 9, 2006

New York Magazine's Weak Linkology Article

New York Magazine has a feature called Linkology: How the Most-Linked Blogs Related. March 9, 2006

Orkut Home to Osama Bin Laden Fan Clubs

USA Today has an article that says Google's Orkut service is being used for recruitment by Al-Qaeda. March 8, 2006

PubSub CEO Steps Down

A post on the PubSub blog says CEO Salim Ismail has stepped down. March 8, 2006