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For just $25 we'll create a post about your blog on *our* blog - with a link and a brief description/introduction of your blog, your name or pen name (if you like), and a direct quote from you about why you started and maintain your blog.
Paid feature blogs will be listed in their own category (Introducing...) on the Bloggapedia Blog.

This is a great way to get your blog noticed, to drive more traffic to your site, and to let the blogosphere know what you're all about. To apply for a featured blog spot in the Bloggapedia Blog please use our handy contact form.

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We're always on the lookout for link love from around the blogosphere, and one type of mention we especially appreciate is being included in a blogger's Top 10 (or 5, or 20....!) Blog Directories to Submit To. No matter the age, size, scope, or design of a blog - when Bloggapedia Blog Directory is nestled into a list among the best of the best of the blog directories on the web it just can't help but give us the warm fuzzies.

Thanks to Scope of Money blog for listing us among their own Top 10 blog directories worth submitting to!

Have you mentioned Bloggapedia on your own blog lately? Be sure to let us know about it and we just may return the love right here on the Bloggapedia Blog!

From Science Daily:

"The UCI Irvine study examined in-depth the blog-reading habits of 15 participants of various ages to determine how they consume content and interact with blogs and blog writers. The research found that some readers frequently post comments, while in others lurk, or visit without commenting."

Among the conclusions drawn by the study, headed up by Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences doctoral candidate Eric Baumer is that blog readers have "diverse opinions of what makes a blog a blog." Citing everything from RSS feeds to personal content as the underpinnings of a true blog; rather than the more staunch 'definition' of a blog as a "frequently modified Web page[s] with dated entries listed in reverse chronological order."
 

Chez Pazienza was fired Tuesday from his postiion as senior producer of CNN's "American Morning" for "violat[ing] its standards for journalists through his blog Deus Ex Malcontent."

He says he was just blogging to pass the time while recovering from brain surgery and that he never wrote about work-related issues - although he was very candid about his opinions on just about everything else, "I wake up every morning baffled as to why America hasn’t thrown George Bush and Dick Cheney in prison, Hollywood hasn’t stopped trying to convince me that Sarah Jessica Parker is attractive, gullible soccer moms haven’t realized that they share absolutely no kinship with Oprah, and Fox canceled ‘Firefly..."

They say "CNN has a policy that says employees must first get permission to write for a non-CNN outlet."

Source link: New York Times.

Our editors here at Bloggapedia were scanning the news from the Blogosphere early this morning and came across a story that, regardless of any of our own personal and political views on war and the military, brought tears to our eyes.

Army Major Andrew Olmstead is one of many military personnel who keep a blog, providing the rest of us 'back home' with a rare glimpse and real, human insight into what it's like to experience war in Iraq. His posts for The Rocky Mountain News in Colorado Springs reported regularly on his thoughts and feelings, his life as a solider and his political notions. But it is his most recent post, dated Jan 4, 2008, that inspired us to take a moment to post to the Bloggapedia blog.

"I am leaving this message for you because it appears I must leave sooner than I intended. I would have preferred to say this in person, but since I cannot, let me say it here."  This phrase, quoted from an apparent favorite television show, begins what is Olmstead's last post, added to his website one day after he was killed while serving with the United States military in Iraq, during a fight with insurgents. He was 37 years old.

The post, a literal personal epitaph, penned in anticipation of the possibility of his death in Iraq and emailed to a friend, punctuated with moving and sometimes funny quotations, runs the gamut of thought that might accompany any person through a retrospect of their own flawed human experience. It is a moving and exceptionally modest open letter to the world, requesting at one point that his death not be used to further any one political agenda and insisting that his death is not a mistake. But still, the Major writes, “Sometimes going to war is the right idea. I think we've drawn that line too far in the direction of war rather than peace, but I'm a soldier and I know that sometimes you have to fight if you're to hold onto what you hold dear. But in making that decision, I believe we understate the costs of war; when we make the decision to fight, we make the decision to kill, and that means lives and families destroyed. Mine now falls into that category; the next time the question of war or peace comes up, if you knew me at least you can understand a bit more just what it is you're deciding to do, and whether or not those costs are worth it."

We've been looking for a reason to brag a bit these days and thanks to Search Engine Journal we've got a great one.
Number 13 on their list of 20 Essential Blog Directories To Submit Your Blog To. We're included among some pretty amazing sites on that list and are grateful for the mention and the honor!

Just this month, an online survey of 1,000 adults helped detail the use of blogs as a social media and news source by Americans.

The survey which was conducted by market research firm, Synovate, found that 65% read blogs in order to access others' opinions, 39% are looking for news and or information, and 38% are in it for the entertainment value. Approximately one third of those surveyed relish shamelessly in the gossipy blogs while a mere 2% find blogs useful for keeping tabs on family and friends.

Other statistics revealed that more women than men are blogging and that a whopping 49% claim some kind of loyalty to the blogs they read on a regular basis; breaking down to 39% viewing favorite blogs less than once a month, 28% checking in monthly, 15% feeding a daily addiction and 5% checking them numerous times each day.

Sources: Slashdot, Synovate

According to a recent study by Proofpoint, an email security and date protection company, 10 percent of companies surveyed have fired an employee for violating company policy regarding blogging and/or posting to forums while on the clock.

Although Ryan Singel at Wired's Threat Level blog speculates that the survey results may be a bit inflated or exaggerated based on the position Proofpoint has as a company in the business of selling email monitoring programs. Christopher Null at the Yahoo! tech blog The Working Guy considers the stats to be a bit more realistic, pointing out: "It's important to note that those statistics refer to the number of companies that have taken any action, not the number of workers who've been affected."

The survey included 308 companies, 28 of which have apparently fired bloggers for going against company policy.

Interested in the study in it's entirety? You can download the full report entitled "Outbound Email and Content Security in Today's Enterprise, 2007" here.