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Darren Rowse is a full-time blogger, with the widely-read ProBlogger site to his credit. Rowse coaches his readers on promoting and developing their own blogs, but sometimes his advice reads a bit more universal. In a recent guest entry for the ScribeFire blog Rowse asks a question that he believes "has been responsible for me growing my blogs to have over 90,000 subscribers and 50,000 daily visitors."

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Statement by the First Lady After a Visit to Sochi Art Museum

WASHINGTON, April 6, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a transcript of a Statement by the First Lady After a Visit to Sochi Art Museum: Sochi Art Museum Sochi, Russia 10:51 A.M. (Local) MRS. BUSH: President Bush and I have loved having this chance to be in Sochi. I got to see the Paralympics, the Russian Paralympics team this morning. I wished them good luck in Beijing. So we're very excited to have this opportunity to be in this beautiful Russian city. And this is probably the last time we'll come to Russia to visit President Putin before President Bush and President Putin are no longer Presidents. So I want to thank President Putin for inviting us to Sochi, for giving us this chance to see this beautiful Russian city. And now to be at the beautiful art museum, this is a thrill, too.

What was Before the Big Bang? An Identical, Reversed Universe

So what did exist before the Big Bang? This question would normally belong in the realms of deep philosophical thinking; the laws of physics have no right to probe beyond the Big Bang barrier. There can be no understanding of what was there before. We have no experience, no observational capability and no way of travelling back through it (we can't even calculate it), so how can physicists even begin to think they can answer this question? Well, a new study of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) is challenging this view, perhaps there is a way of looking into the pre-Big Bang "universe". And the conclusion? The Big Bang was more of a "Big Bounce", and the pre-bounce universe had the same physics as our universe… just backwards… Confused? I am…

This Week's "Where in the Universe?" Challenge

Here's your image for this week's "Where in the Universe?" challenge. Take a look at the image and before proceeding to the end of this post, make your guess as to what location in the universe is represented here. It could be anywhere — nothing is off limits for this challenge! Near or distant, far and wide, Universe Today spares no expense when it comes to searching for unique and unusual images to test your visual knowledge of our universe! Give yourself an extra point for guessing (or knowing) the feature shown here, and another point for naming the spacecraft that took this image. Just a couple more ticks on the timer here before revealing the awesome power of this week's image….

Talk to This Year's Quirkiest Senatorial Candidate

Not many candidates for the U.S. Senate are 4'9" tall and only have one hand. But Oregon Democrat Steve Novick qualifies on both counts -- and uses them as pluses in his TV ads. Like this one, where he shows why he's the best beer-drinking partner among all the candidates. Or this one, where it's obvious why he's for "the little guy." Also, as far as we know, he's the only candidate this year for any major office who has his own brand of beer. And his online campaign manager is a major Slashdot junkie, too, which is certainly in his favor. But will humor and oddness get Steve into the Senate? We don't know. So ask him. In fact, ask him anything else you'd like about campaigning and politics. He's promised to respond, and seems like the kind of guy who will give interesting answers, at that.

In response to the comment left from "Still Lovin' Harry", being an artist I cannot...

In response to the comment left from "Still Lovin' Harry", being an artist I cannot believe this is a trial that has gotten to this point. Rowling has not only verbally said, but hinted severely in the canon itself to writing a complete "Hogwarts Guide" so to say, for years. This shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone that she was wanting to do this. The fact that the author wants ownership rights on bringing her own work to the readers is no question. It's like having the rights to decide if I want my painting plastered on shoeboxes or not. What bothers me more than anything about this trial is I really like the Lexicon, but I don't like their desire to push an artist they supposedly admire into a court hearing. Not respecting that it's *her* work.

Ask.com Search Engine - A Brief History

As of this writing, there are five top Internet search engines: Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, and Ask.com, and while Google and Yahoo! get a lot of the press (particularly lately), the Ask.com search engine is a rather interesting engine that deserves a closer look. This article will cover some of the highlights in its 12-year history, from its start as Ask Jeeves to its innovations, as well as the most recent developments behind the scenes.

Ask.com Search Engine - A Brief History

As of this writing, there are five top Internet search engines: Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, and Ask.com, and while Google and Yahoo! get a lot of the press (particularly lately), the Ask.com search engine is a rather interesting engine that deserves a closer look. This article will cover some of the highlights in its 12-year history, from its start as Ask Jeeves to its innovations, as well as the most recent developments behind the scenes.

Ask.com Search Engine - A Brief History

As of this writing, there are five top Internet search engines: Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, and Ask.com, and while Google and Yahoo! get a lot of the press (particularly lately), the Ask.com search engine is a rather interesting engine that deserves a closer look. This article will cover some of the highlights in its 12-year history, from its start as Ask Jeeves to its innovations, as well as the most recent developments behind the scenes.

In The Beginning, There Was Ask.com: The Rebirth Of A Search Engine

As of this writing, there are five top Internet search engines: Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, and Ask.com, and while Google and Yahoo! get a lot of the press (particularly lately), the Ask.com search engine is a rather interesting engine that deserves a closer look. This article will cover some of the highlights in its 12-year history, from its start as Ask Jeeves to its innovations, as well as the most recent developments behind the scenes.

This is This is Vegas (This is Vegas)

Whereas some people feel the need to keep the map of their open-ended sandbox city under lock and key, a mysterious conglomerate called Boyercrop has seen fit to send us a detailed, and remarkably tourist friendly, visual aid on the thrills that await you in Midway’s This is Vegas.

Before the Big Bang: A Twin Universe?

esocid writes "Until very recently, asking what happened at or before the Big Bang was considered by physicists to be a religious question. General relativity theory just doesn't go there — at T=0, it spews out zeros, infinities, and errors — and so the question didn't make sense from a scientific view. But in the past few years, a new theory called Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) has emerged. The theory suggests the possibility of a "quantum bounce," where our universe stems from the collapse of a previous universe. This may be similar with beliefs of Physicist Neil Turok of Cambridge University who has theorized about a cyclic universe, constantly expanding and compressing."

Sara, The BIG question we're all asking is... "How is Amazon.com going to know...

Sara, The BIG question we're all asking is... "How is Amazon.com going to know the title is a POD title"? Most people can't tell the difference. The quality is comparable to traditional litho press editions. Who's to say HOW the book was produced? Or is this a question for WHERE the book was produced? Will direct shipments be refused from Lighting Shource by Amazon.com? It will be interesting to see how they figure this out.

Roll on the end of this season with all possible haste. Defeat to Manchester City on a Sunday evening - a home win greeted with a relieved roar by City's fans, who hadn't seen their team score a goal for three matches - followed hard on the heels of

That's not to say that losing this match was anything other than hugely disappointing and annoying. It's evident that Spurs have better players than City and, all other things being equal, we should not be beaten by them. But the intensity of UEFA Cup action, the possibility of glory as a motivating factor, was just not there. I don't know whether the players feel that - they're professionals so it should make no difference - but as an armchair fan, the imperative to win this game came nowhere close to that felt on Wednesday night. The result just felt predictable - that we would contrive to lose as we have so many times this dire season.

More pink-slips for techies this year

BANGALORE: It looks like many more technology professionals and BPO executives are going to be pink-slipped this year. Companies normally ask around 10% of their bottom-level performers to quit after appraisals every year. But this year, the rupee appreciation and the widely expected US recession are likely to push this number up to 20%-25%.

Lexico Publishing Acquired By Ask.com

Lexico Publishing Group, a Long Beach-based firm that operates the Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com web sites, has been acquired by search provider Ask.com, in an all-cash deal. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Ask.com said that Lexico helps expand the firm's monthly unique visitors by 15.6M. Ask said that Lexico is profitbale, and has been seeing high double digit growth for the past two years. Lexico was founded in 1995 by Brian Kariger and Daniel Fierro. Ask.com is an operating unit of IAC.

Plight of jailed blogger exaggerated by media

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Freed blogger silent on details of detention

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Half of Saudi internet users embrace e-commerce

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Jordan to host Middle East blogging summit

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