Yahoo! to buy Blog hosting company

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Slashdot/ Sven Lathams reports today that Yahoo! is set to launch into blogging based on the blog service it appears to be running in Korea (but no one is sure as its in Korean except the logo: Yahoo Korea Blog) ignores the recent history of Yahoo! and its hunger for acquisitions when it misses the boat on major new trends on the internet (which it usually does).

Sources inside Yahoo! have told the Blog Herald that the company is already in talks with a number of Blogging firms, looking for the right acquisition vehicle to integrate into the Yahoo! stable of sites. Yahoo! is also concerned with the widening scope of the Google stable the recent purchase of Pyra Labs by Google Inc.
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Flash mobbers strike Australia at last

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At long last flash mobbing has commenced in Australia
The Age> Peak-hour commuters were left gaping when 120 people, each wearing a yellow dish-washing glove and pointing at the sky, blocked the Flinders Street Station steps this evening.

Blogs make the Oxford Dictionary

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Toronto Star> Unsurprisingly, many new entries come from the world of science and high-technology, particularly genetics and the Internet. Thus blog (short for Web log), and egosurfing (searching the Internet for references to oneself) are joined in the dictionary by more unusual phrases such as shotgun cloning (the insertion of random fragments of DNA).

Columnist Eric Zorn Posts Chicago Tribune’s First Web Log

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Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn has launched the newspaper’s first Web log, part of a new approach to immediacy in journalism that takes advantage of internet Web logs. The site, in Zorn’s own words, is “a frequently updated journal containing observations, reports, tips, referrals, tirades and whatever else happens to be in my notebook. My goal is to make Breaking Views useful, provocative and amusing, sometimes all at once.”
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Web addicts taste a life unplugged

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There are some classic quotes in this story that must be read, one of our favourite is here:
International Herald Tribune> Jessica Litman, a law professor who lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, said she kept heading upstairs to her computer to get blackout news online before remembering that her sole news source then was the car radio.

Bush Campaign Reaching Out to Bloggers

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Washington Post> President Bush’s campaign will unveil a Web site today that allows proprietors of online journals — Blogs or Web logs — to “get the latest campaign headlines and inside scoop posted instantly to your site through a live news feed from GeorgeWBush.com!”

Dave Winer responds to BloggerCON con critics: still doesn’t get it

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Dave Winer has responded today to widespread criticism in the blogosphere that the cost for BloggerCon is nothing more that a Con by releasing 25 seats labelled scholarships, to the conference to bloggers in a randomly drawn competition.
Winers initiative, whilst in the right direction, has only come about as a result of the negative feedback the conference has been receiving in the Blogosphere.
However Winer will only attract further criticism with a snobbish attitude taken to bestowing “scholarships” to bloggers (a scholarship being something bestowed upon normally from a high, from those of authority, on those below) further ingraining the growing belief that Winer and his fellow group of self appointed blogging elite are nothing more that; a self appointed, self focused group of blogging carpetbaggers whose relevance may only be amongst their own small clique. His continued promotion of a hierarchical structure of a blogging elite through his actions and words will only continue to add fuel to the backlash he is already receiving.

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Blackout Blogs emerge from the dark

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Continuing the trend of frontline reporting from the citizenry of the Blogosphere, blackout blogs have begun to emerge from the darkness of the North American Eastern seaboard. The Blackout Moblog gives the event in pictures, some of which are startling and paint an amazing picture of the chaos from a non-news network perspective. Ka-blog gives a personal perspective, gabeanderson.com: life gives an opinion. There are plenty of Blogs around with other comments and perspectives: visit Technoratis links to the CNN story for breaking links, and the Blog Herald will update this site as the day progresses as more first hand accounts come to hand in the Blogosphere.

Power outage disrupts Blog traffic

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The power blackout on the North Eastern seaboard of the US and Canada has caused major disruption to Blogging and blog viewing traffic this morning (W. Aust Time). Major delays in access the Internet in general were coupled with a number of major blogging sites disappearing for several hours as hosting providers struggled with little used backup power supplies.
For online news of the blackout CNN, Foxnews and the Sydney Morning Herald