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Netscape founder and well-known Sillicon Valley blogger, Marc Andreessen, spent an hour and half with Barack Obama back in early 2007. He tells us about that meeting and his reasons to endorse him.

Savva Terentyev, a citizen of the town of Siktivkar, 22, is charged for the first Russian case of posting abusive comments in the popular online blog LiveJournal.com. Terentyev is accused for inciting racial and religious hatred and word abusing of law-enforcement authorities.

The International Olympic Committee has given athletes the green light to blog from the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, but bloggers will have to make sure their posts can make it through the great firewall of China.

What we’re going to do is hypermile these cars. Although, much like Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, we’re not sure you can handle the truth. To be perfectly honest, we were shocked ourselves. Shocked and giddy,

The White House claims Congress is caving to "left-wing bloggers" by opposing torture.

A feminist blogger has asked Hillary to give up the presidential campaign. "I truly believed you would be the best person for the job, and I had this nagging thought in the back of my mind[…] The thought that drove me on Super Tuesday to Vote for Senator Obama instead. Senator Hillary Clinton divides this country."

Take your blog from small to successful with these key tips from a Top 50 blogger.

Bloggers may be the most important music critics of all, as a new study shows that buzz from everyday people (i.e., not marketers) correlates to strong sales in the music business.

It would seem most bloggers are only concerned with the traffic they get and fail to study and take advantage of their blogs subscriber loyalty. Here is a great article on how you can increase your reader loyalty.

Need to get your metabolism going? Personal trainer and blogger Lauren proposes that you can bolster your metabolism by eating enough (not too little, like most people who diet), eating more…

Proving that it truly is the airline of bloggers and the technorati, Virgin America (the airline with an electrical socket and Ethernet port at every seat) will be offering episodes of Diggnation and other Web shows produced by Revsion3

Remember when "environmentalist" just meant… recycling? Today there’s a lot more choice! Check out these tips from scientists and leading green bloggers on how to make personal, everyday choices to help save the planet.

Automattic, the company behind the WordPress blogging platform have dramatically increased the online file storage capacity for free WordPress.com blogs. How dramatically? Well bloggers used to get 50MB of space for images and documents. Now they can upload up to 3GB. For free.

We went to the Blogger Lounge at the Microsoft booth on the Macworld floor. While we were there though, we found M&M’s graced with the Microsoft Office, Word and Excel logos, comfy leather couches. And a computer that everyone in the lounge was very interested in — but not the one you’d suspect.

Blogger and podcaster Violet Blue approached the Apple CEO on the Macworld floor to ask for a photo — and got completely blown off.

While representing Gizmodo, a very large and popular gadget blog, Richard Blakeley decided to run around with a gadget called "TV-B-Gone" turning off TVs at the CES convention. Rich is now banned for life from all future CES conventions. Will this have an adverse effect on bloggers and blogging sites in terms of access to future events?

Many bloggers and media (including MacRumors) have started to descend on San Francisco for Macworld Expo 2008. SetteB.IT managed to take an extensive gallery of photographs from the expo floor, including Apple’s floor displays which were covered in their usual black tarps:They even managed …

Authorities have fired an official in central China after city inspectors beat to death a man who filmed their confrontation with villagers. The killing has sparked outrage in China, with thousands expressing outrage in Chinese Internet chat rooms, often the only outlet for public criticism of the government.

Clearly they have an especial affinity for geeks and nerds at the floss. Almost every blogger on this site, has written about geeks and nerds at one point or another. Some highlights include:

Andrew Olmsted, who also posted here as G’Kar, was killed yesterday in Iraq. Andy gave me a post to publish in the event of his death; the last revisions to it were made in July.

"I’m dead. That sucks, at least for me and my family and friends. But all the tears in the world aren’t going to bring me back, so I would prefer that people remember the good things about me rather than mourning my loss. (If it turns out a specific number of tears will, in fact, bring me back to life, then by all means, break out the onions.)"

Calling them his “secret weapon,” former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee urged bloggers to “clog” up the wireless system in Des Moines so that reporters couldn’t file any more “bad” stories about him. He added that by blocking the free press from doing their jobs, bloggers were “doing the Lord’s work."

Shocking revelation by a well known designer..a must read…if you are using gmail…you may not be secure!!!!

"In January 2007, I started Zen Habits, and at first I thought there was no way for me to get noticed. Eleven months later, I’m a Top 100 blogger and I’ve learned a few things about how to get noticed…"

After Neowin posted a story about Kotaku taking pictures from Prince17’s blog, cropping them, and posting them as part of their gaming stories, and the story made it to Digg’s front page, the gaming news site responded. Prince17 sent an e-mail to Managing Editor Brian Crecente and the man did not ignore him. Kotaku is paying Prince17 $200 for his..

One of Neowin’s forum members has discovered that Kotaku, a popular gamers’ news site, is taking pictures from his blog, cropping them, and posting them as part of their gaming stories. Not only did Kotaku not ask Prince17 for permission to take his pictures, they did not credit his work whatsoever.

"The first weeks here were something of a cultural shock. It has taken me these last three months to work away certain habits I’d acquired in Iraq after the war. It took me at least three weeks to teach myself to walk properly again- with head lifted, not constantly looking behind me."

Just as he was the first to talk about IE7, Bill Gates kept the tradition alive and discussed IE8 at the Mix ‘n Mash event here on campus yesterday. Bill was talking to some bloggers about IE.Next and called it IE8, the same way we do here in the IE team hallway.

If you visit Google.com from an iPhone, you now get a menu of services to choose from - home (search box), Gmail, Calendar, Reader and More (docs, sms, goog-411, news, photos, blogger and notebook). It’s basically all of the core Google services, accessible from a single easy to use menu.

TUAW blogger tests a couple of high-speed mobile internet options (EVDO cards) from several carriers. Let’s watch the fun!

It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to know who is driving this, and Google even drops a hint in the example link: “http://brad.livejournal.com/”; LiveJournal founder and former SixApart employee Brad Fitzpatrick joined Google in August and is credited as the founder of OpenID.

Now that’s a dream come true for this blogger.

In 2004, both major party candidates for President were members of the secret society "Skull and Bones", but no one knew until after Kerry won the nomination. Blogger without his own video camera asks someone to submit a video for CNN/Youtube debate asking the Repub candidates which secret societies they belong to. Submit deadline is November 25.

The benefits of marketing yourself on YouTube… YouTube (and Blogger, for that matter) are owned by Google. And guess who indexes metadata and content to the biggest search engine in the world before it even appears on the web?

What would you do if Honda handed you the keys to a $10 million car that emits only water vapor? Everything legal, that’s what. Read AutoblogGreen’s first in-depth review of a car some lucky people will be able to lease next summer. When will the rest of us get to drive a hydrogen car?

I’ll save you the trouble of reading the entire article right now, and just answer the question: yes. Absolutely, without a doubt, copywriting is extremely important to bloggers.

There has been a lot of talk around the web on why OpenSocial is just not open enough ( here, here and here). But for now lets rest the speculation of all the bloggers aside and have a look at the emergence of all theses platforms. It all started when facebook launched it platform (F8) at a conference earlier this year. This allowed developers to

Well, when the FCX Clarity is available to Southern California consumers this summer, it will go for $600 a month. The $10,000,000 guesstimate comes from the LA Times’ Pulitzer Prize winning wunderkind Dan Neil. Jalopnik was invited to drive the Clarity around Santa Monica and Malibu.

I was intrigued when I received an invitation to an “Exclusive SimCity Societies low carbon power online blogger event.” Held by gaming company Electronic Arts and their first ever corporate partner on a game, BP (yes, BP), bloggers had the opportunity to take a sneak peak at the game.

Strike updates and opinions including an interview with anonymous WGA blogger, A.E. Vogler. Discussion then turns to Ellen, who is crossing the picket lines to continue her show, and the formation of new picket lines on Broadway for the stagehands strike. They finish up with talk of Moby and his "donating" of tracks to indie filmmakers.

Blogger Mike Stark has a history of haranguing O’Reilly during his call-in radio show, and he once visited the Fox host’s house to mock him over sexual harassment allegations. And now Stark, 39, has become the target of a network executive working on behalf of the combative Fox News pundit. A letter to Stark’s law school dean urges an investigation

Flixster, champion of the underdog, salutes these intrepid movie lovers who have what it takes to be the next Roger Ebert.

Dan Lyons, the faux Apple CEO blogger, is introduced by the real Steve Wozniak. Check Woz’s manic but funny patter about Kathy Griffin, Fake Steve, and Apple.

Blogging can be a lonely business. And if online blogger communities don’t satisfy you desire to mingle, this is a list of the top 10 events in the real world where you can participate in, meet with fellow bloggers, and share experiences.

Bloggers around the internet are abuzz with the news, with some saying they plan to Twitter live from the event as it’s happening. [humor]

Podcasters, videobloggers, bloggers, and media makers of all kinds can take from this list of topics and create their own sessions for a PodCamp event, like PodCamp Boston coming Oct 26th, or you can blog or podcast on any of these topics. Stuck for ideas? Check out this list of 100 blogging topics and presentation options.

Face it, if you’re a blogger looking to appeal to the attention-deprived digg nation, what more could you ask for than appropriating a well known word, catchphrase or lyric and molding it into a witty headline that combines popularity, familiar recognition and humor?

Microsoft has been sharing with bloggers today some screenshots of the forthcoming Microsoft Office Live Workspace. The company made its most recent major announcement about the online collaboration suite that integrates with Office at the end of last month. Interested users can now pre-register for the free service’s launch later this year.

Simple question: “If you had 2-hours a day to devote to no-cost, off-blog (even off-line) marketing for your blog, what would you do?” I posed this very question to a collection of some of the world’s top bloggers and social network marketers…and here’s what they revealed.