Word: blogger
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...tough to say, Moulitsas argues, because so much of the profits of the site get poured back into it. Whatever his take-home pay is, it?s enough to generate respect from unlikely quarters. "Most would argue and it?s self-evident that he?s the most well compensated blogger on the planet," says Mike Krempasky, co-founder of the virulently conservative RedState.com "I don?t say that in a pejorative way. I think that?s great!" Moulitsas?s enterprise was in fact the inspiration for Red State, right down to identical software and a spirit of embattled community...
Three days before he was arrested at an anti-regime protest in downtown Cairo, award-winning Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fatah told TIME he knew he might pay a price for speaking out, but said he had developed a taste for freedom of speech and would not give up so easily...
...Abdel Fatah is one of more than 300 opposition activists - at least six of them bloggers - who have been detained and beaten over the last few weeks during an ongoing government crackdown on peaceful protests. Like many of his fellow prisoners, Abdel Fatah is being held under Egypt's repressive, 25-year-old Emergency Laws, which allow initial detentions of 15 days that can be renewed indefinitely. The blogger and other activists stand accused of blocking traffic, assembling illegally in public, and insulting President Hosni Mubarak, 78, who was reelected in September on a platform of political and economic reform...
...Some are already paying a heavy price. In a statement issued from jail and posted in numerous blogs, blogger activist Mohammad Al Sharqawi said police brutally beat and sexually assaulted him when he was arrested leaving a protest last week. "The pain was terrible," Al Sharqawi wrote in the statement. "I was screaming asking him to stop so that I can catch my breath. He took down my underwear, and tore it to pieces, and kept on hitting me on different parts of my body asking me to bend down. I refused, but they forced me." Gamal Eid, Al Sharqawi...
...wanted to be one of the first fashion brands to use it to target my audience." But while no one disputes the technical prowess of the new generation of ads, that doesn't mean they actually work. In the case of the infamous Feather, as much as Welsh blogger Huntley enjoyed and shared the site, he didn't realize it was an ad for Axe. Are some viral campaigns too cute by half, thus reducing their effectiveness? Perhaps. But as Paul Bates, ad-industry analyst at London brokerage Charles Stanley, notes, all clever advertising, TV commercials included, runs the risk...