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...that long ago, blogs were one of those annoying buzz words that you could safely get away with ignoring. The word blog--it works as both noun and verb--is short for Web log. It was coined in 1997 to describe a website where you could post daily scribblings, journal-style, about whatever you like--mostly critiquing and linking to other articles online that may have sparked your thinking. Unlike a big media outlet, bloggers focus their efforts on narrow topics, often rising to become de facto watchdogs and self-proclaimed experts. Blogs can be about anything: politics, sex, baseball...
...whoop, right? But it turns out some people actually have interesting thoughts on a regular basis, and a few of the better blogs began drawing sizable audiences. Blogs multiplied and evolved, slowly becoming conduits for legitimate news and serious thought. In 1999 a few companies began offering free make-your-own-blog software, which turbocharged the phenomenon. By 2002, Pyra Labs, which makes software for creating blogs, claimed 970,000 users...
...case was unique. “It’s unusual to have students over 25 living in the dorms,” he said. Cuomo has kept in touch with his fans by embracing digital technology, maintaining both an account on facebook.com and a diary on his blog, www.riverscuomo.com. He lists his AOL Instant Messager screenname on his facebook profile. While he has announced his intentions to return to Cambridge in the media, Cuomo has yet to inform Harvard of his decision, according to Susan Livingston, assistant to the Cabot House Masters. She said on Friday that...
...addition to computer programming, Zakharevich has a host of other interests, including reading, playing Frisbee, and most notably, knitting. On her website, she also maintains a knitting blog and a list of her favorite quotes...
...We’re dedicated to helping the world find information, and there’s too much information in books that cannot yet be found online,” David Drummond, general counsel and vice president of corporate development, wrote on Google’s corporate blog Wednesday.HUL, which is not a party to the lawsuits, supports Google’s interpretation of copyright law and will continue with the project, Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library Sidney Verba ’53 wrote in a statement.“We believe that the Google Library...