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Headlines from the Future

Blogging Backlash

Revised February 2005

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Live Life, Don’t BlogPsychologist Dr. Phil joined the call for a blogging holiday every August.

“Good for your mental health, freeing

for your inner child.”

Others complain of being blog widows

or latchkey bloggers.

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Want Privacy? Don’t Blog

“Weblogs are just like public records” says private investigator Adam Cartwright.

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Credit card and medical insurance companies are making business decisions, denying credit or coverage from weblogs data.

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Want Privacy? Don’t BlogTransparentLives.com includes weblogs in background checksfor employers, divorce lawyers, congressional committees and college admissions.

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Pain BloggingHandheld blogreader pain-mods have a cult following two years after the Painstation swept America.

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Pain Blogging• Don’t post every 5 minutes?

Get an electric shock.

• Don’t read your competitor’s posts?

Shock.

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Pain Blogging• Judges rate your

posts down? a shock for you.

• Rate up? a shock for the other blogger.

• Loser walks away.

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Blog Addiction Up 376%

Atlanta, Georgia –The Center for

Disease Control

reports a sharp

rise in the

number of

reported blog

addicts in 2004. BABA

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Blog Addiction Up 376%

“Symptoms include absenteeism, compulsive posting, and a sense that life events are not real unless blogged. BABA

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Blog Addiction Up 376%

In addition to

new clinical

treatments you

can consult

your local

Bloggers

Anonymous.” BABARECOVERYRECOVERY

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Blog Stalkers Claim 8th

Victim

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA –Marisa Tomlinson hanged herself last night after 3 months of continuous online harassment, said University police.

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Blog Stalkers Claim 8th

Victim

The student’s blog became the target of a gang of “blog stalkers.”

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Blog Stalkers Claim 8th

Victim

They parodied her blog, taunting her interests, love life, intelligence, writing style, looks, social appeal, and sorority.

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Blog Stalkers Claim 8th

Victim

“It just became too much” said her dorm mate.

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Angry Bloggers the New Hooligans

PARIS, FRANCE –Starbucks throughout Paris were attacked this morning.

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Angry Bloggers the New Hooligans

Luc Pascal posted “Coffee is our heritage, our birthright. Let’s take back the latte and push Starbucks back to Seattle” to his Café, Liberte, Egaliteblog.

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Angry Bloggers the New Hooligans

The idea spread through the French blogosphere in three hours.Protesters pushed to target stores.

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Bishop

Bans

Blogs

Competes with Confessional.

“It should be between you & God, not the Internet”

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Weblogs

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Dow tumbles 15% as blogosphere rumors and commentary tank proposed Disney and AOL/Time Warner merger.

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Weblogs

SEC investigates.

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Comment

Attack

Succeeds

$15 million legal fees; nothing proved

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Bloggers Get Repetitive Stress Disorders

London – The Ministry of

Health reports carpal

tunnel syndrome and other

repetitive stress disorders

rose 23% in 2006. “More

people are blogging, and

blogging longer.”

Blog Guards™ top Xmas sales

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Headlines from the Future

Blogging Backlash

Revised July 5, 2004

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Bloggers Hurt MyGoogle Ranking

Ad Age – “Catalog sales are down

since customers are going to blogs first before our catalog pages” said a Land’s End spokesman.

The Direct Marketing Association sued Google, Gizmodo, and more than 13,000 other bloggers, to lower blog rankings.

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Bloggers Hurt MyGoogle Ranking

The Direct Marketing Association sued Google, Gizmodo, and more than 13,000 other bloggers, to lower blog rankings.

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Pulitzer Pulls Prize

Blogger Was

Paid For Posts

by Subject

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Steven King: “Bloggers Steal My Words, Violate my Copyright”

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Steven King: “Bloggers Steal My Words, Violate my Copyright”

He took a beating

from bloggers over

Blue Marjorie, his latest

book.

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Steven King: “Bloggers Steal My Words, Violate my Copyright”

King says blog posts of

sections from his book

hurt sales, infringed

copyrights.

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Steven King: “Bloggers Steal My Words, Violate my Copyright”

Won’t sue now. “Where

does fair use end and

piracy begin?”

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GodBlogs.com out-hosts LiveJournal:

Red States go big

for Blogging

Family Values

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Czech PM Candidate: “I will never blog”

Wins by a landslide

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All Doubt

Removed

Manager’s Blog shows

He Is Stupid

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Libeloggers Cast Stones in Glass Web Sites

Madonna returns fire at slanderous bloggers. Not only suing them for libel, also taking aim from her own weblog.

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Libeloggers Cast Stones in Glass Web Sites

“My children are not fair game for your snark hunt. Don’t take your small lives out on me.”

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Bankrupt:

Mercury News

Ads taken by Ebay and Craigslist

Editorial taken over by bloggers

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BlognosingSucking Up To the Boss

Works sometimes.

Tutorials at blognoser.com

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Blogger Loses Job, Weblog, on Appeal

9th District rules employer rights trump personal speech.

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Blogger Loses Job, Weblog, on Appeal

Kris Kringle was fired by Macy’s.com for telling customers to try Gimbles.com for some toys.

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Blogger Loses Job, Weblog, on Appeal

“He posted from work, so his blog is company property.”

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Blogger Loses Job, Weblog, on Appeal

Kringle was blindsided when Macy’s sued for control of his personal blog, and won.

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Blogger Loses Job, Weblog, on Appeal

“My 35,000 readers will lose all their comments. I lost family photos.”

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Special Ops Takes Out Blogistan Before Invasion

Special Ops Takes Out Blogistan Before Invasion

As important

as TV, radio

stations &

newspapers.

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Special Ops Takes Out Blogistan Before Invasion

Special Ops Takes Out Blogistan Before Invasion

Opposition

forces blog

operational

intel and direct

guerilla forces.

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Special Ops Takes Out Blogistan Before Invasion

Special Ops Takes Out Blogistan Before Invasion

Our military

blogs in public

too. PsyOps,

congressional

& media

relations,

recruiting.

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Blogger Divorce Rates Higher

First we had blog

marriages.

Now the wave of

divorce.

Time spent online

taken away from

marital relationships.

Less sex.

Less conversation.

Less intimacy.

Less romance.

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Wife Wins

Joint Weblog

In Divorce

CourtHusband gets kids

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SAP buys blogg.de

“Blogging made CMS fun and popular.

Accounting software needs blog appeal.”

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Warbloggers trigger war

Factions erupt

76,000 die

Terrorists retaliate

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Use a Weblog, Go To Jail

As a condition of probation, thief Brian Mayberry is prohibited from blogging.

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$4 million in

AOL Blogtones

in January.

AOL Journalers Pay For Nike, FIFA, NBA, NFL, and MLB Graphics, Templates, Feeds.

$4 million in

AOL Blogtones

in January.

AOL Journalers Pay For Nike, FIFA, NBA, NFL, and MLB Graphics, Templates, Feeds.

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CEO Sentenced

Blog Blows SarbOx

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Headlines from the Future

Blogging Backlash

Revised July 5, 2004

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Blogger knifed over Technorati ranking

It backfires.

Wounded blogger’s score soars.

AdWord revenue covers bandwidth spike.

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Blogger Jailed for Protecting Source

Instapundit spent last night in jail after refusing to name the White House source leading to Bloggergate.

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Blogger Jailed for Protecting Source

“Citizens have the same duty as journalists. If I can’t keep a source’s confidentiality, who will trust the blogosphere?”

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Blogger Jailed for Protecting Source

The Oval Office had no comment.

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Welsh community buys tinyURL service

blogs.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch.com

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Microsoft gains 87% of Enterprise Blogging MarketCIOs prefer Microsoft over the

Blogger Appliance, TypePadExec, the

Technorati Workplace.

“It works better with Office 2006 and

Windows, is more secure, better

integrated with ERPs and we have

more control over what people say.”

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Microsoft Kills Off Enterprise Blogging MarketUnsuccessful, Microsoft retires its blogging products after burning IT budgets and convincing CIOs blogging doesn’t work.

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Outlaw Blogs Kidnapping of Baby Jane Doe

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Outlaw Blogs Kidnapping of Baby Jane DoeThe blogger known asAdam Adam Adam continues to post pictures of a scared little girl.

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Outlaw Blogs Kidnapping of Baby Jane DoeA3 posts via mobile phone, Internet café, public library, and dial-up while evading a national dragnet.

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Outlaw Blogs Kidnapping of Baby Jane DoeFBI asks Attorney General to lock down the blogosphere. Senator Grubb filibusters.

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4 Bloggers Executed In Sierra Leone

BBC –West African peace-keeping force in Sierra Leone questioned after reports of webloggers being summarily executed, United Nations official says.

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Spammers Tailor Mail Using Blog Data

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Spammers Tailor Mail Using Blog DataEngineers show new bots that parse weblogs at the 5th Annual Nigerian Email Conference.

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Spammers Tailor Mail Using Blog DataThe bots grab locations, language, personal contacts, professional jargon, favorite music, and blogrolled sites.

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Spammers Tailor Mail Using Blog DataThe bots use the data to beat spam filters and tailor messages.

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MTV’s RealWorld Madrid goes blog batty

More

immediacy,

intimacy

than video.

“Fewer

boring

parts. ”

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Blogger joins White House Communications Department

Proven on the campaign trail

Online voice of the President

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Italian law registers bloggers as journalists; EU to vote

Trade unionsacross Italy support law: requires bloggers to register as reporters.

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Italian law registers bloggers as journalists; EU to vote

“What nonsense will they publish if they do not apprentice to a master and train properly?Our democracy depends on a skilled press.”

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Trackbacker Worm Shuts Down Blog Community For 3rd Day

Daimler-Chrysler product development stops while industry responds. “It’s costing us $1 million a day. We’re going back to email and wikis for now.”

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Senator Blogs, Loses Presidential Nomination Admissions of cross dressing in a college weblog forced Mike Lawrson, congressman from Alabama, to quit his campaign for president.

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Senator Blogs, Loses Presidential Nomination “Just one more place to rummage for youthful indiscretion” said the local reporter who broke the story.

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Google deletes 23,000 weblogs under PRC pressure

Terra closes division, deletes 150,000 blogs

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EduBlogs in Cheating Scandal

BOULDER, COLORADO –Test takers

Googled fellow

student weblogs

for answers to

state exams.

Auditor blames

blogging culture.

School funding in

question.

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President Edwards starts “Weblogs for Welfare”

“Our most challenged need a voice.

We will listen.”

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What if?

Phil WolffEvanwolf Group: Strategy & Policy

+1 510 444 8234

dijest.com/dontblogSuggestions? Sightings?Spring 2003 – Spring 2005

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