Less than 20 of Japanese blogs frequently updated: related news

Less than 20% of Japanese blogs frequently updated+

TOKYO, July 9-(Kyodo), A recent government survey showed that less than 20 percent of Japanese blogs have been updated at least once a month.

Cision Makes Working With Mom Blogs Easier With List of Most Influential Blogs in the Category

CHICAGO, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Cision (http://www.us.cision.com), the leading provider of media research, distribution, monitoring and analysis services, continued its expansion into new media, announcing it has compiled information on hundreds of "mom (or mommy) blogs" -- blogs written by moms for moms -- for its Cision media database. Blogs authored by mothers are one of the more influential social media communities, engaging with a market of more than 30 million women in North America between the ages of 18 and 42 who directly influence household spending estimated at more than $1 trillion a year.

As Bloggers Take Office In Malaysia, Gov't Orders ISPs To Block Certain Blogs

Over the last couple of years, we've had a series of interesting stories about how the Malaysian gov't is dealing with "blogs." First, a gov't official slammed blogs and tried to pass a law requiring bloggers to register with the government. Outrage over such a plan resulted in it being scrapped, but the majority ruling party still struggled with blogs -- though tried to figure out ways to respond to them more feasibly than attacking them. It set up a gov't agency to respond to bloggers, and later required certain candidates for offices to set up their own blogs. Of course, it also tried to crack down on some bloggers it didn't like, including having a state owned paper file a libel suit over a blog.

iPhone App Store Downloads Top 10 Million in First Weekend

Apple iPhone and iPod touch users downloaded more than 10 million applications from the new App Store since its launch late last week, according to the company. The selection of applications ranges from games to location-based social networking to medical applications to enterprise productivity tools. The company noted that more than 800 native applications are now available on the App Store, with more than 200 offered for free and more than 90 percent priced at less than $10.

Cision Documents Rapidly Growing Blog Influence in Print Media Elevates Need to Develop Strong Blogger Relationships

Rapid acceleration of blog and blogger mentions in top mainstream print publications emphasizes the importance of proper blogger relations CHICAGO, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Cision (http://www.us.cision.com), the leading provider of media research, distribution, monitoring and analysis services, today released figures that clearly demonstrate the growing influence of blogs in the mainstream print media. A study of the top 20 national magazines and newspapers shows that over the last 5 years, the number of times blogs and bloggers are mentioned in articles has increased more than 16-fold. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080717/NYTH017 ) Cision discovered that the top 20 national magazines and newspapers mentioned blogs and bloggers 13,066 times in the one-year period ending June 30, 2008.

Can I make money with blogs? Look at my free moneymaking blog

Can I make money with blogs? Look at my free money making blogger and learn how to do it yourself. Lots of people ask me how I promote GDI or Global Domains International. How do I get my online business leads. Please visit http://gdijoinnowforfree.blogspot.com/ to see one of the companies I promote on my blogs. First let me say that blogs must be informational. You cannot make a blatant sales pitch blog full of ads only or blogs entirely devoted your promoting your product or service.

Six Apart Launches Blogs.com for Discovering Premium Content on the Web

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/18/08 -- Six Apart, the world's leading blogging software and services company, announced today the launch of Blogs.com, a destination website that connects readers with the best blogs on a wide array of topics. In order to ensure the highest quality content, Blogs.com relies on a team of passionate editors to choose blogs based on their quality, popularity and relevance. In addition, daily editorials and a weekly newsletter provide readers with a convenient round-up of the latest buzz in the blogosphere.

Six Apart Launches Blogs.com for Discovering Premium Content on the Web

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(MARKET WIRE)--Aug 18, 2008 -- Six Apart, the world's leading blogging software and services company, announced today the launch of Blogs.com, a destination website that connects readers with the best blogs on a wide array of topics. In order to ensure the highest quality content, Blogs.com relies on a team of passionate editors to choose blogs based on their quality, popularity and relevance. In addition, daily editorials and a weekly newsletter provide readers with a convenient round-up of the latest buzz in the blogosphere.

Jeffery: Sega Not Trying To Be 'A Japanese Company In The West'

Jeffery: Sega Not Trying To Be 'A Japanese Company In The West' Talking to Gamasutra at E3, Sega of America president Simon Jeffery has been discussing pulling back from a traditional Japanese reliance on "a small number of huge games", and suggesting: "We're trying to make sure that we don't make the mistake of being yet another Japanese company trying to be a Japanese company in the West."

iPhone 3G countdown - less than a week to go...

Less than a week until the iPhone 3G will be sold by Vodafone in New Zealand, but no pricing information as of yet...

Less than a year after pulling off the best tech IPO since Google, 'virtualisation' software firm VMware has had a rude awakening.5:44 AM

Funny how quickly one goes from darling to dishwater on Wall Street. Last August VMware, maker of virtualisation software that allows numerous applications and operating systems to run on a single computer server, pulled off the best tech IPO since Google in 2004. Less than a year later its shares have fallen nearly 70 per cent.

A Report Has Identified no Less than 30 Cross-Site Scripting Flaws Across the Sites of McAfee, Symantec and Verisign

A Report Has Identified no Less than 30 Cross-Site Scripting Flaws Across the Sites of McAfee, Symantec and

Martian soil may be less hospitable for potential life than once believed

Washington, August 5 : NASA's Phoenix spacecraft has detected the presence of a chemically reactive salt in the Martian soil, a finding that if confirmed could make it less friendly to potential life than once believed.

Acer's Linux Netbook lighter, less RAM than Windows counterpart

Hot on the heals of ASUS's Eee PC announcement, computer giant Acer has announced the availability of its $599, Linux-friendly ultra-portable notebook, the Aspire One, which weighs either less or more than 1 kilogram depending on your choice of operating system.

Woman sues Nebraska painting business, says company paid her less than men for same job

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A Nebraska woman says in a lawsuit that a painting business discriminated against her by paying her less than the male painters it employed.

Taiwan market: EMI-defective digital photo frames 20-40% cheaper than normal

White-box vendors are dumping 7-inch digital photo frames that failed to meet EMI testing standards in the Taiwan market at retail prices below NT$2,000 (US$66), 20-40% lower than prices for normal 7-inch models, according to industry sources.

Komando's Q & A: Few digital cameras sell for less than $100

Question: I'm looking for a digital camera. But I'm on a budget. I'd like to find a camera for less than $100. What kind of features should I look for?

Hot Links: Online Blog Aggregating Services

This Web site does a lot more than track blogs; it enables you to filter and subscribe to content you find interesting, create or publish your own blog, and/or easily share information with other users. It’s free, with nothing to download or install, and can be accessed on any computer. And it’s available in 10 languages! The site tracks news feeds, articles, blogs, images, and audio, totaling more than 80 million files. So get rid of the junk and focus on things of interest to you. If you’ve got logs of blogs and need help getting them organized, this site could be your lifeline!

Bio-Rad Shows Method to Obtain Tag-Free, Native Protein in Less than an Hour

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. has announced the availability of a new technical note (tech note 5652A) entitled “Profinity eXact™ Fusion-Tag System Performs On-Column Cleavage and Yields Pure Native Protein From Lysate in Less Than an Hour,” which compares methods used for fusion protein construction, tag cleavage involving the addition of protease, and subsequent steps involved for post-purification tag and protease removal, to the novel Profinity eXact system.

Business Bloggers No Longer Rebels

Journalist Louise Story wrote an insightful article recently in the New York Times about the growth in the number of bloggers who accept advertising on their blogs. If you do much surfing of blogs you may have noticed the increasing prevalence of advertising in blogs. Certainly among the business blogs out there, most that I visit at least have some Google AdSense ads on their blogs.

Study: Some doctor bloggers tell all

Although doctor or nurse bloggers might think they're anonymous, they sometimes inadvertently end up revealing their identities and, as a result, their patients', according to a study. Researchers reviewed five entries each for 271 blogs written by people who said they were a physician or a nurse, and they found that 114 of the blogs described patients. More than half of the bloggers provided enough information in their text or images to reveal their identities, and 45 of the blogs that described interactions with individual patients included enough information for them to identify their doctors or themselves. Three blogs went so far to show recognizable photos of patients.

Crawling Businessman Robot Is a Critique On Japanese Salarymen

Japanese Performance artist Momoyo Torimitsu built a crawling Japanese businessman robot and took it to the streets of Australia to creep out little kids and turn on weird dudes with camcorders. The bot is her critique on the Japanese salaryman lifestyle and the apparent upcoming Asian economic crash. All we know is that dressing up like a nurse and pulling down an old man's pants in the middle of the street is going to attract some lookey-loos. Oh, and I wouldn't want to scrape along the street with my undies down. Ouch. [Diagonal View via Dvice]

Japanese Scientists Develop Long-Life Flash Memory

schliz writes "Flash memory chips with a potential lifetime of hundreds of years have been developed by Japanese scientists. The new chips also work at lower voltages than conventional chips, according to the scientists from the University of Tokyo. They are said to be scaleable down to at least 10 nm; current Flash chips wouldn't be usable below 20 nm."

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