RSS & Blogging

InformationWeek - The MP3 Clips Widget lets users pick the song and albums they want to display or select the latest bestsellers or new releases within a specific genre.

A French blog has posted pictures of what looks to be Asustek Computer's Eee PC 901, an upcoming version of the low-cost...

DENVER - Democrats have chosen 55 bloggers who will be granted access to the national convention in Denver this summer.

San Francisco - If the many business-oriented blog and wiki solutions are starting to look like one big blur, you're not alone.

SAN FRANCISCO, (AFP) - The world had real-time news about China's massive earthquake as victims dashed out "twitter" text messages while it took place, in what was being touted Tuesday as micro-blogging outshining mainstream news.

Song Shi-nan, a blogger from the hipster Bullog blogging community, was blogging in Chengdu when an earthquake began swaying his apartment building and his computer screen on May 12. "I went to the balcony and saw all the buildings around were shaking I rushed downstairs and saw many people gathering there, mostly women, children and elderly. " A few hours after the quake struck, Song wrote, "there might be a blackout soon, and we must get out. So I took out the camping stuff and thought maybe I should just go camping with my wife tonight."

San Francisco - Microsoft released Monday beta versions of separate service packs for the Visual Studio 2008 software development platform and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5, a Microsoft official said in a blog.

Can't get enough of your friends via AOL instant messages, texts, e-mails, Gmail chat, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Chat, personal blogs or Facebook status updates? Google feels your pain.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Did Republican presidential candidate John McCain vote for President George W. Bush in 2000?

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Republican John McCain on Friday disputed blogger Arianna Huffington's contention that she heard him say he voted against President Bush in 2000.

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HAVANA (AFP) - Cuban authorities have refused to give a travel visa to a Cuban blogger who was to have flown to Spain to receive a top journalism award, the writer told AFP Tuesday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A prominent Malaysian blogger was charged Tuesday with sedition for allegedly implying the deputy prime minister was involved in the sensational killing of a young Mongolian woman.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Kanye made headlines after his big fuss over technical glitches at a recent Houston concert, but on his blog, he tells fans: "Don't believe the hype!"

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysian police raided the home of a top Internet blogger after he posted an article implicating the deputy premier and his wife in the murder of a Mongolian model, reports said Saturday.

EAGAN, Minn. - Senate candidate Al Franken wants to talk about jobs, health care and global warming. Republican blogger Michael Brodkorb wants to talk about Franken's failure to pay all his income taxes on time.

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Miley Cyrus is the only recent teen superstar who has had to manage career-endangering controversy in the midst of major success on several fronts.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who regularly rankles corporate executives with heated demands for strategic change backed by the threat of a proxy battle, is finally going live with his blog.

LONDON (Reuters) - Annie Mole's blog about the London Underground rail system began as a New Year's resolution to teach herself how to make an Internet Web site and has blossomed into a popular slice of commuter life.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - The shoulder that launched 1,000 blog posts has also been all the buzz in Hollywood. People as varied as Sally Field and Joe Jonas have come out to defend Miley Cyrus' decision to pose on the cover of Vanity Fair in nothing but a blanket.

MUMBAI (AFP) - Indian film megastar Amitabh Bachchan has reached out to fans in cyberspace, launching a blog about his life which has triggered a flood of responses from around the world.

RIYADH (AFP) - A Saudi blogger and reform advocate, whose detention without charge four months ago sparked criticism from Washington, told AFP on Sunday he was "very happy" to be free and was "fairly" treated in custody.

RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi blogger detained without charge for more than four months after expressing pro-reform opinions has been released, a colleague said on Saturday.

Spammers are using an automated method to create bogus pages on Google's Blogger service, again highlighting the diminishing...

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Lauren Conrad was the subject of an open letter courtesy of The Los Angeles Times' Showtracker blog, which took LC to task for being spoiled, whiny and less evolved than Heidi Montag.

The company will use open standards like Atom, JSON, POX, RSS, HTTP, REST, and FeedSync to allow for the "it just works experience."

Web 2.0 Expo attendees sift a tidal wave of blogs, wikis, social networks, virtual worlds and other applications.

COLUMBIA, Md. - He jotted down some ideas and posted a blog - Strobist - to show how any beginning photographer could get beyond ordinary shots by using inexpensive, $300 flashes, just like pros. Then the world found out about him. Hobby now has 200,000 mostly amateur photographers as devoted readers. His site attracts 1.6 million page views a month.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Step in time with our Dancing with the Stars blog: