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Thursday, April 17, 2008



As someone who's checked the Drudge Report once an hour, every hour for the last 10 years of my life, I can certainly accept the idea that the sites I read and like has to do with habit, as opposed to just content…
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Masters of ambiguity Blog Without Leaving Facebook
S ix Apart and Facebook have teamed on a new service called Blog It that lets any blog posted to Facebook automatically be posted to other blogging platforms including Movable Type, TypePad, Pownce, Twitter, Blogger, and WordPress (see complete list below).

What makes Blog It unique is the nature of how it works. Traditionally, Facebook allows users to import data and information around the Web to Facebook. Blog It now flips this process around allowing you to export content. The beauty of the service is rather than updating each blog service individually, you can do it all at once from within Facebook


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• · Sorry for being slow to mention this (I've been on holiday for two weeks) but the good news is that after a gap of nearly two years - two years! - Fafblog returns from its cyber-silence to thrill us once again with its blend of humour and more humour. That's going straight into the blogroll. World's best blog returns ; One person from IRS.GOV visited the Nation Builder blog for nearly 20 hours over the last two days. Hopefully it's a future Joseph Banister. Several others from IRS.GOV, DOJ.GOV and .MIL domains also visited. IRS Agents Visit Nation Builder Blog
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• · · · Last Saturday, a Moscow magazine named Moskovsky Korrespondent published a sensational article claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin had divorced his middle-aged wife, Ludmila, and was preparing to marry a gorgeous 24-year-old Olympic gymnast-turned-topless magazine model-turned-Duma-deputy, Alina Kabaeva. The Scary Story Behind the Putin Sex Scandal ; In 1998, Matt Drudge became famous for reporting the White House sex scandal between then-president Bill Clinton and intern Monica Lewinsky on his blog, I'm in ur website, reading ur blog
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