"'Blog Till You Drop' Phenomenon Overblown
Finding Balance::'Blog Till You Drop' Phenomenon Overblown; Disconnecting Is Key
The New York Times recently published a story , “In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop,” that created a lot of buzz. The story told about bloggers who were literally working themselves to death. As if it were a quickly advancing trend, the Times’ Matt Richtel declared, “a growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment.” The gist: The 24/7 news cycle of bloggers is killing them......
Blogosphere on fire over NY Times story
Campaign: Overview of the Egyptian General Strike
Description of Campaign: As mentioned in our previous post, Egyptian activists organized a massive nation-wide strike on April 6. In our last post we talked about their use of Facebook. Now Global Voices correspondent Amira Husseini gives a complete run-down of the other technologies used by the activists. This is definitely one of the most sophisticated digital activism campaigns to date.
Why Yahoo's alliance with Google won't save it from Microsoft
Why Bloggers Should Have a Privacy Policy, and 9 Points to Include in Yours
This is a guest post by Aditya Mahesh.
With the way technology is evolving these days, it is no surprise that people are worried about online fraud, identity theft, and the misuse of their personal information. They need to be assured that sensitive data will be protected when using technology, and this applies to web surfing as well.
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