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Jaclyn Fishman Accepted at Boston’s Gastronomy Graduate Program + More!

5/29/12 6:00am by The BlogHer Pub...
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Jaclyn Fishman

Jaclyn Fishman of Food Plus Words has been accepted to Boston University’s Gastronomy graduate program.  Read more >

When Photos of Your Children are Used in an Internet Hoax

5/28/12 6:00am by Melissa Ford
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Tertia, Kate, and Adam

Imagine discovering pictures of your children on someone else's blog or Facebook page; the pictures you took of your kids at their birthday party or the swimming pool or dressed up in crazy outfits now being used to create a fake life for a stranger as they claim your children as their own.  And now imagine the pictures being used in a scam that raised $1200 in several hours, garnering 6500 Facebook likes, that devastated thousands when they discovered that the whole thing was a hoax? Tertia Loebenberg Albertyn of So Close doesn't have to imagine it: it happened to her a few weeks ago.  Read more >

My Blog Got Stolen... And This is How I Got it Back

5/24/12 1:16pm by The Hungry Mouse
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Train Robbery Still

My food blog got hijacked. Hijacked, like a plane. Like a stagecoach in the Old West. You heard me right. Hackers stole my domain, thehungrymouse.com, and from mid-March to mid-May, I had absolutely no control over it. I just got it back. If you haven't heard of domain theft before, it sounds crazy. After all, domain names are pretty intangible and live in cyberspace. But, domain names are a commodity, and are subject to theft just like other property. That is, if someone can figure out how to pull the rug out from under you.  Read more >

Publishing Your Blog to Kindle

5/23/12 6:00am by Dishwater Dreams
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Kindle

Some people like reading blogs via Google Reader or jumping straight to the site, but others like to subscribe to blogs via their Kindle not only for the ease of reading (blogs become then like online magazines) but because they want to support the writer.  Think of it as 99 cents in the tip jar.  Dishwater Dreams walks blog writers through the basic steps of publishing their blog to Kindle via Amazon.  Read more

Angela Santomero's Show Receives An Emmy Nomination + More!

5/22/12 6:00am by The BlogHer Pub...
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Angela Santomero

Angela Santomero of Angela's Clues has a show nominated for an Emmy.  Read more >

How the Internet and Teen Bloggers Are Shaping the Women's Movement for the Better

5/22/12 12:00am by Mona Gable
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Teenage girls

[Editor’s note: Some of us older feminists--ok me--sometimes find this whole social media world foreign and even impersonal. But one of my favorite blogs is the Fbomb founded by teen Julie Zeilinger. Not only has it become a thriving space for young feminist bloggers, but it has also changed how feminists are organizing and finding each other.  Read more

Is Wordpress Scaring Your Commenters Away?

5/21/12 6:00am by Too Many Fish to Fry
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Wordpress

About a week ago, Stumbling Gracefully texted me to ask if I was getting like, a LOT of emails from Wordpress. I checked my inbox, and sure enough I was. When I looked at the emails, I realized that I was seeing every single response to any Wordpress post I had commented on. Previously, I had to subscribe to a commenting thread to see any response made after mine. But now it seemed Wordpress was automatically checking the box “Notify me of follow-up emails” each time I commented. The result? 113 emails in the last five days informing me of "new comments!"  Read more >

Mark Zuckerberg Marries Longtime Girlfriend, Priscilla Chan

5/19/12 6:48pm by Melissa Ford
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Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, today in a ceremony at his home and... yes, he changed his Facebook status to married.  It was a big week for Zuckerberg which also included moving Facebook to be a public company on Friday as well as a big week for Chan who graduated medical school.  In fact, the guests believed they were there to celebrate Chan's graduation.  Read more >

Facebook Goes Public to the Tune of $104 Billion

5/18/12 10:30am by lauriewrites
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Facebook IPO (Credit Image: © Shen Hong/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)

The social sharing network that Mark Zuckerberg launched in a dorm room graduated big-time today, to the tune of a $104 billion public offering on Wall Street, making it the third largest IPO in history, and biggest ever for a tech company.  Read more >

Slideshow Header Instructions

5/18/12 6:00am by Red Oak Lane
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Slides

Ever wonder how people get those cool slideshow headers that feature their photographs?  Red Oak Lane has put together a tutorial for making those headers with simple step-by-step instructions.  Now the hard part will be deciding which pictures to feature and how often to change them.  Read more