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Top 100 Small Business Blogs

Having been live for only a year, we’ll gladly take a moment to pat ourselves on the back for making Blog Rank’s Top 100 list of small business blogs. It’s certainly an honor to be in the company of such well-respected blogs that have not only been around for a lot longer than ours, but [...]

Dear President Obama: Blogs Fact-Check and Put Stories in Context Much Better than the Corporate Media

President Obama said yesterday:I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each…

Are Financial Blogs Trustworthy?

The talking heads say that financial blogs aren’t trustworthy. But the whole debate about blogs versus mainstream media is nonsense. In fact, many of the world’s top PhD economics professors and financial advisors have their own blogs. For example…

Do Blogs Dynamically Transform the Modern American Political Culture

Recently web logs, or blogs, have exploded in popularity and have come to occupy an increasingly important place in American politics. Given the disparity in resources and organization against other actors, their influence presents a puzzle. How can a collection of decentralized, nonprofit, contrarian and discordant websites exercise any influence over political and policy outputs? [...]

Diane Tucker: Hey, Sarah Palin, Quit Stealing My HuffPost Blogs

(In order to get Ms. Palin’s attention, I use an unforgivable number of ice hockey terms in this post.) Dear Sarah Palin, During your resignation…

“Blogs Are Best at Debunking Myths That Can Slip Through a Lot of the Traditional Media Outlets”

Guess who just said: Blogs are best at debunking myths that can slip through a lot of the traditional media outlets. ? Some rabbid blogger? A radical proto-terrorist? A neo-nazi? Some loser who lives in his mom’s basement? Wrong. Obama just said it. So next time an Obama official (or someone from a future administration) [...]

Walter Cronkite’s Words: Read His Blogs

The legendary news anchor Walter Cronkite is dead at age 92. Among many other achievements, “the most trusted man in America” helmed the “CBS Evening News” for nearly two decades, ending in 1981.

The Huffington Post had the privilege of po…

Tim Armstrong, AOL CEO: “The Old AOL Was Run By Blogs, The New AOL Is Run By Me”

During the question-and-answer portion of the all-hands, one staffer asked Tim if SAI’s estimate that AOL will probably have to lay-off another ~2,000 employees was close to the mark.

We were glad to hear of Tim’s response. First he said that…

Bollywood tweets, blogs for the fans

Taking a lead from their Hollywood counterparts, India’s Hindi-language film stars are getting online, using the Internet to get closer to their fans. Whereas only a few years ago, Bollywood stars were still responding to fan mail, signing photographs of themselves and sending them across