In just another demonstration of how blogs can change the course of human opinion worldwide, bloggers have exposed that Sony/BMG is actually installing rootkits–a form of malware–in systems where some of its audio CDs are played.
Mark Russinovich of Sysinternals, who originally discovered the rootkit, wrote an analysis of how certain Sony/BMG discs implement a digital [...]

A survey of by the Pew Internet and American Life Project showed that one in five 12- to 17-year-olds in the United States have their own blogs.
The Associated Press reported that “the survey also found that older school-age girls with online access were most likely to keep a blog.”
“Blogging for teens is about staying tuned [...]

With blogs estimated at over 10 million and growing, there certainly is need for a search engine.
Poynter, an online journalism resource, reviews the best blog tools on the web and says the google blog search is the “fastest of any of the blog searches…and does the best job of returning posts that are [...]

Veteran publisher Jason Calacanis of Weblogs, Inc. talks about how their publishing consortium of 100 independent bloggers who publish over 1,000 blog posts a week grew blog ad revenues with Google Adsense from $200 to P$3,000 a day. Article found via cyberjournalist.net.

Forbes has written a scathing attack on the blogosphere, calling web logs as the “prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective.”
The article by Dan Lyons said blogs started as online diaries but later became the “ultimate vehicle for brand-bashing, personal attacks, political extremism and smear campaigns.”
Lyons [...]

From Agence France Presse: Trade paper AdAge.com reported this week that US workers would waste the equivalent of 551,000 years during 2005 reading blogs, online web diaries and gossip sheets, which have exploded in numbers in recent years.
Further on in the article, AFP said: But some blog and Internet experts argue that reading a [...]

Sun.Star Network Online launched this afternoon launched its blogs: Blog Chronicles and Citizen Watch: The Arroyo
Presidency. Sun.Star Cebu’s Citizen Journalists project, which has a web log component, was also launched during the event held in SM City Cebu.

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Sun.Star website staff plans blog launch

OUR HOME: http://pinoyteachersnetwork.blog-city.com
“Any new endeavour is always tough in the beginning”.
I gave us just two weeks to plan this out and prepare for the launching. Ready or not, the website of the Pinoy Teachers Network went officially up in cyberspace on July 12, 2005. We took the challenge. We learned from our own experiences [...]

Each day, members of Individualized Education Program (IEP) teams support students with disabilities who have trouble writing. Many students with mild disabilities know that they want to write but have difficulty with the mechanics of translating those thoughts to paper. They often disregard language skills such as spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Some students’ thoughts move [...]