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Army Lifts Social Media Ban

Chalk this one up as a victory for the brave men and women around the country that are helping to keep our country completely safe and sound.  Up until this point, due to security concerns and privacy worries by ol’ Uncle Sam, the U.S. Army had blocked the vast majority of all social media and [...]

White House Dips Into Social Networking Pool

Looks like the White House is going 21st century, in a very big way.  We all knew during the campaign that Obama was a bit more advanced than any other presidential candidate in history when it came to his embracing and utilizing new technology.  That trend is continuing as the White House made a fairly [...]

We Will Miss You Dean Barnett

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  • Posted on October 27th, 2008 by User ImageRick

I didn’t know Dean Barnett that well. We had only met once in person last year at BlogWorld, had one phone conversation and a few email exchanges. What I do know is that he was a brilliant man and among his many other accomplishments a great blogger, writer,radio host, avid golfer and rabid Red Sox [...]

BlogWorld Radio 8.15.08 is under attack!

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  • Posted on August 14th, 2008 by User ImageRick

Well sort of. Jim like’s to say “we have a very special guest this week” pretty much no matter who our guest is on BlogWorld Radio. And so far, they really all have been special. But tomorrow our guests are special in a different way.
Join us on BlogWorld Radio this Friday August 15th at Noon [...]

Bloggers Should Not Take Free Speech For Granted

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  • Posted on June 16th, 2008 by User ImageRick

There are few things people agree on in the Blogosphere. In fact the debate and discourse are arguably the most compelling thing about the Blogosphere. Anyone can say just about anything they want and they can say it without fear of prosecution and in most cases for free.
Well not everyone. Per the BBC Today:
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Blogs Receive More Clout Than Ever in 2008 Presidential Campaign

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  • Posted on May 19th, 2008 by User ImageRick

Presidential candidates began courting political bloggers before the 2008 nomination race even got started. Virtually every candidate hired bloggers on staff. Some successfully and some not so much. Many set up conference calls with bloggers (McCain has excelled here). Both the RNC and DNC are allowing bloggers access to the show floor during their [...]

Blog Wars on the Jon Stewart Show.

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  • Posted on May 15th, 2008 by User ImageRick

Check out 2007 BlogWorld speaker author and all around nice guy Professor David Perlmutter on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Show talking about his new book Blog Wars.

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links 3.17.08

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  • Posted on March 17th, 2008 by User ImageRick

why do we hate Vista?
It seems Joe Wilcox warned Microsoft about many of the reasons before the release.
More Chinese Internet repression.
A Mac patch named after Rush Limbaugh?
Techcrunch interviews former HP CEO and new RNC hired gun Carly Fiorina. 
Congrats to Chris Brogan whose blog is working again.
Technorati Tags: Joe Wilcox,Microsoft,China,Rush Limbaugh,Techcrunch,Carly [...]

Blog service providers agree to register; censor bloggers for Chinese Government

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  • Posted on August 24th, 2007 by User ImageRick

This is scary stuff. From Reporters Without Borders:
Reporters Without Borders condemns the “self-discipline pact” signed by at least 20 leading blog service providers in China including Yahoo.cn! and MSN.cn. Unveiled yesterday by the Internet Society of China (ISC), an offshoot of the information industry ministry, the pact stops short the previous project of making [...]

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Gnomedex 7.0 Opening Keynote Robert Steele

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  • Posted on August 10th, 2007 by User ImageRick

This morning’s opening keynote speaker Robert Steele is dropping bombs. This presentation is supposed to be about Open Source but Steele (a former spy and self proclaimed “moderate Republican” is off the rails. He opened with the statement that Dick Cheney had created at least 25 impeachable offenses. I missed quite a few [...]

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