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Blogs will help kill the for-profit porn industry

That's one of the predictions I make in this week's final Blogspotter column. Read on for my full forecast for blogworld's second decade. ( Full post )

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's other blog

The New York Times recently profiled Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's official blog, Personal Memos. ( Full post )

Found in translation: Blogs from around the world

On the 10th anniversary of Alta Vista's Babel Fish launch, this week's column looks at three free translator services that can give readers access to blog content in multiple languages. ( Full post )

How blogs can aid missing-persons searches

Wired delivers a fascinating story about efforts to find backpacker Nicole Vienneau who disappeared eight months ago while traveling from West Africa to Turkey: ( Full post )

What's your doctor thinking while he has his hand up your...

Read his blog to find out. The Chicago Tribune rounds up the favorite medical practitioner blogs of Cardiologist Westby Fisher, proprietor of the Dr. Wes blog. His picks: ( Full post )

All Google blogs eventually have at least one human reader

Wired rehashes the whole MP3 blog phenomenon: It's file-sharing, but it's also good publicity so the music industry tends to warily support it, etc. ( Full post )

Holiday gifts for the bloggers on your list

If you know and love a blogger (you poor sap, you), check out this week's column for some holiday gift-giving tips. ( Full post )

Blogs pierce the veil of charities

"Philanthropy has been late to the game of blogging, hardly a surprise in a field that has operated on personal relationships and reputations earned over decades," the New York Times reports. "But just as charities have learned in recent years to use e-mail blasts to solicit support, their executives are getting used to a digital world in which there are fewer secrets than in the past. ( Full post )

When tech blogs collide

Cutting in line! Accidentally upending a video camera! Such are the crazy antics when the arch-enemies from Engadget and Gizmodo square off, Fortune reports. ( Full post )

Dilbert creator endures blog-book backlash

"I spend about a third of my workday blogging," Dilbert guru Scott Adams admitted in the Wall Street Journal recently. "Thanks to the miracle of online advertising, that increases my income by 1%. I balance that by hoping no one asks me why I do it." ( Full post )

The only female, gay, Jewish, blogging taxi driver in New York?

That just might be one of Melissa Plaut's claims to fame, ABC News reports: ( Full post )

Saving the planet, one blog at a time

Environmental Graffiti recently crunched some numbers to come up with the world's top 10 environmental blogs. ( Full post )

Who will be America's Next Top Blogging Celebrity?

Read this week's column to find out. And no, it's not Rosie O'Donnell this year. Fans of bad poetry will just have to suck it up. ( Full post )

How blogs can help reporters do a better job

This week's column offers a glimpse at a journalism project that has reporters from outlets as varied as the Seattle Times and MTV exploring how blogs can help them improve coverage of their beats. ( Full post )

Tempting fate and getting burned

This week's column tells a cautionary tale of a blog-based business that almost crashed and burned for want of an archive backup. ( Full post )

Get a taste for your next dream job online

If you're casting about for a career change, blogs can give you a good idea of the actual day-to-day feel of a given job, this week's unbylined column reports. ( Full post )

Another fantastic holiday gift for your fave blogger

From the fine folks at Despair Inc. we have the "More people have read this shirt than your blog" T. It comes complete with a site counter stuck on 0000002... ( Full post )

If LOLcats had created the Web

Ye olde Blogspotter would look like this. ( Full post )

A T-shirt sure to be on your favorite blogger's Christmas wish list

It depicts a "Pulp Fiction"-era Samuel L. Jackson pointing a gun at the viewer and growling, "Say 'blogosphere' again." ( Full post )

With apologies to the Addams Family...

...this week's column takes you on a musically inspired tour of noteworthy Halloween blogs. ( Full post )