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About Half of Bloggers Have Ads on Their Sites

The days of blogger aversion to advertising on their sites are long gone, but still only a little more than half actually run ads on their blogs. Of those who do, nearly 70 percent use self-service contextual ad platforms such as Google's.

Google Text Ads For Known Malware Sites

notthatwillsmith writes "We all know that Google purges known 'attack sites' — sites that deliver viruses, spyware, or other malware to visitors — from its index of searchable sites, but that doesn't stop the text ad giant from happily selling ads linking to those sites. One wouldn't think it would be any more difficult to cross-reference the list of purged sites with the list of advertisers than it was for the main search index, would it?" To be fair, the article says that Google shut down the ad when notified of it; and no other examples of linked malware are offered. Was this a one-time oversight?

eBooks About Science â" Great Discoveries

eBooks About Science – Great Discoveries - Pasadena, CA June 4, 2007 – eBooks About Science announces the opening of a new store offering the best books about science available anywhere. The store has practical information about the environment and other applied science. This store is, however, an “egghead’s” delight with information about nuclear physics, molecular biology and quantum theory. This is trualy a bookstore for the curious because eBooks About Science covers everything form Acoustics to Zoology. This store is packed full of information about how the world works from Chaos Theory to Evolution there is something for everyone.

Crisis brings out worst in housing bloggers

As the housing crisis continues, real estate bloggers and commenters are becoming increasingly mean-spirited about luxury homes listed for sale. Real estate sites such as Brownstoner and Curbed have seen their traffic spike as the housing market has declined, and the sites' owners have been forced to monitor their comments sections much more closely. Agents said people who can't afford the homes listed use the sites as a way to vent.

Zoomtra.com launches a platform for travel bloggers

Zoomtra.com, travel search engine has launched a contribution platform for travel bloggers. The platform named Travel Blogsis is a collection of hand-picked blogs written by eminent travel bloggers from the country. It is one-of-its-kind platform that will enable travel bloggers from India to showcase and share their travel experiences on the portal whose users will be able to research and plan their travel based on the unbiased content written by these bloggers. In addition to this new product, Zoomtra.com will also provide readers a neutral resource for authentic travel information on various places in India and will empower bloggers with a platform to reach millions of readers in India and across the globe.

Chapeau Blog Awards Tips Their Chapeaus to Bloggers Everywhere

Chapeau Blog Awards Tips Their Chapeaus to Bloggers Everywhere - Prudent Press Agency (Prudent Press Agency)---Minneapolis, MN -- www.Chapeaublogawards.com-- Chapeau Blog Awards, is tipping its hat to the brilliance of bloggers everywhere. In the first ever Chapeau Blog Awards, bloggers from Marketing & Advertising to Parenting blogs are called to be recognized for the creativity, ingenuity and dedication they put into creating and maintaining their blogs.

EA Forcing Good Behavior: Get Banned on their Forum and You're Banned from their Games

Ripten: "A recent post by an EA Community Staff member on the company's Command and Conquer message board outlines changes to their policy, stating their intent to link a gamers forum account to their EA gaming account. Why does this matter? Because EA is planning on banning those who get banned on their forum from their games as well.

Charlotte bloggers share ideas: About 120 people gather uptown to network and talk about how they can make the city better.

TMCNet: Charlotte bloggers share ideas: About 120 people gather uptown to network and talk about how they can make the city better.

Get a Website with Google Sites

Google Sites is the website builder that's going to replace Google Page Creator. For bettor or worse Google has made up their mind, so here's your change to learn all about Google Sites and start your own Google Sites website. Google Sites is pretty easy to use, once you start using it and get used to it, I'm sure you'll soon find it almost as easy as Google Page Creator was.

FreelanceBlogger.net Takes Aggressive Step to Connect Companies With Bloggers

(PRWEB) -- Professional bloggers are stepping up their efforts to locate new and challenging blogging assignments by joining FreelanceBlogger.net - a new online community designed to connect bloggers and organizations looking for bloggers. This new blogger community allows bloggers to post free profiles highlighting their blogging expertise and it allows companies, organizations, and individuals to post open blogging jobs .

Half-hot, half-cold planets have supersonic jet streams

Washington, Oct 21 : A new study has suggested that Jupiter-like exoplanets have supersonic jet streams that transport heat from their sunny side to their dark side, indicating that the planets are half-hot and half-cold.

Blogs Thrust Newspapers to Center of Transition in Lebanon

"Bloggers are inevitable," says Jamil Mroue, likening the popularity of bloggers in Lebanon to a sensible equation: "accessible technology meets individuals willing to invest time to project their opinions." Editor-in-chief of The Daily Star, Mroue speaks positively about Lebanon's growing community of bloggers and sees a future in which newspapers and blogs can find success working together. In a series of articles, APN speaks with newspaper editors from the Arab world about the growing popularity of blogging in their respective countries.

Lars Ulrich: Napster Wasnt About Money, It Was About Control

Rarely has there been a rock star as maligned for a single incident as Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich. In 2000, he became the poster child for bands lashing out at the online world when the band sued Napster following the leak of “I Disappear” via the peer-to-peer service. Ulrich stands by what he did, but wants fans to know he did it for the right reasons. “Nine out of 10 people go, ‘What was that about? It was about money.’ Fuck you — it wasn’t about money. It was about control,” explains Ulrich. “I’ll give away all my shit for free. But I’ll decide when and where and how.” Click below for more from Ulrich’s conversation with Rolling Stone’s David Fricke, including why he lives his life more openly and how tours have changed since 1983.

Wal-Mart Says No to Black Friday Ads on Internet, Goes After Sites and Search Engines

Failing to get the memo that it's 2008, Wal-Mart has decided to get even more aggressive in battling the 'pre-mature' leakage of their Black Friday circular ads. The Bentonville, AR retailer is not only going after the sites that post the circulars, but the search engines that link to and index the sites.

Wal-Mart Now Going After Search Engines For Linking To Sites With Black Friday Ads

It would appear that Wal-Mart's lawyers need to come up with excuses to keep billing Wal-Mart every year around this time. Despite the fact that Wal-Mart employees admit that sites posting "Black Friday Ads" help drive more business, Wal-Mart's hired guns keep threatening sites for posting the ads, falsely claiming a copyright on the content (hint: you can't copyright prices). This year, they've stepped it up a notch and are claiming that it's illegal to even link to a site that has such content.

Old Sega Genesis Ads Remind Us of the First Real Console War

Oh man, are these ads awesome. No ads really become outdated faster than ads for video game systems, with their quickly-antiquated technology, ridiculous music and hilarious editing. And boy, was Sega aggressive: "If you're not playing these games, you're a giant loser!" That may have been so, but unfortunately for Sega, there were way more Giant Losers than Cool Kids. As corny as it looks now, it's the same in-your-face style used today, where the marketplace is strangely similar to the early '90s, with warm fuzzy Nintendo in the dominant position, and more edgy aggressors trying to steal market share. Will we laugh as hard at today's commercials as we do to the following Sega ads of yesteryear?

Start Your Online Identity Using Free Blog Sites

The Internet is a great place to improve your popularity. Millions of individuals today are going out of their way to set up their own online presence by putting up Web sites that people can check out their ideas, personalities, rants and raves, or even for business. Instead of dishing out hundreds of dollars to have a site created with your own domain name, it might interest your to make use of a free service that will also achieve the same thing -- like free blog sites.

Consumer Reports Poll: Americans Extremely Concerned About Internet Privacy

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A poll released today by the Consumer Reports National Research Center shows that most Americans are very concerned about what is being done with their personal information online. According to the poll, 82 percent of consumers are concerned about their credit card numbers being stolen online, while 72 percent are concerned that their online behaviors were being tracked and profiled by companies.

Road to November: Keystone State Bloggers

The Times’s Jennifer Steinhauer and Monica Almeida are traversing the country from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to the George Washington Bridge in New York, chatting with voters about the presidential campaign. The latest stop was State College, Pa. The Times’s Rebecca Cathcart talked to Keystone State bloggers today about the state of the race in their state and invited a couple to post their thoughts below.

Google Readying iPhone-Specific Ads

Even with the first Android device set to launch in a matter of days, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) still has the iPhone and the inherent opportunities it presents high on its mind. The company has been meeting with ad agencies recently to show off different ways to integrate advertising into searches conducted on the phone, AdWeek reports. Google is working to give advertisers the ability to integrate iPhone ad groups into their regular search campaign. The idea is to give ad agencies an opportunity to create iPhone-specific ads that might draw in more interest than ads simply repurposed from online ads created primarily for PCs. For example, companies could place ads that wold allow users to click to call. If implemented, this would be the first time Google has allowed advertisers to make messages specific to mobile searches, however advertisers

What US Online Consumers Want From News Web Sites

Local and national TV stations, newspapers, and radio stations still have core audiences for local and national news, sports, and entertainment, but they've failed to fully transport those audiences to their online channels. Examining the needs and interests of different generations illuminates how news has changed and how it needs to evolve further. Gen Yers care a lot less than Seniors about the quality of the news they consume and are more interested than older generations in interactivity and engaging visuals. Gen Y leads the demand for videos, customization, interactive tools, and community features on news Web sites, and media eBusiness executives have their work cut out for them to make their news experience relevant to Gen Y and future generations of news consumers.

Media Bloggers Association Launches Education, Legal Advisory and Liability Insurance Program for Bloggers

LAS VEGAS (Business Wire) -- The Media Bloggers Association ("MBA") announced today that it has launched a comprehensive program to provide bloggers access to the same sort of legal and financial resources long available to traditional media organizations including BlogInsure, a first of its kind liability insurance program for bloggers which provides coverage for all forms of defamation, invasion of privacy and copyright infringement or similar allegations arising out of blogging activities.

Consumers Alarmed about Online Privacy, 25% Provide Fake ID to View Sites

Most Americans are very concerned about their internet privacy and many are taking steps to limit the information that is being collected and shared about them online, according to a poll from Consumer Reports, MarketingCharts reports.

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