Bob Greene (I)
Other Works: Wrote, played self, in video essay in short-form writers’ series “Byline Showtime” for Showtime cable TV, 1988. Directed by Marc Wallace. more
Bob Greene – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Bernard Greene, Jr. (born March 10 , 1947 ) is an American journalist , best known as an award-winning columnist for the Chicago Tribune newspaper for twenty-four years …
Melanie Brown – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Melanie Janine Brown (born 29 May 1975 ), professionally known as Melanie Brown and Mel B , is an English pop singer and songwriter turned actress and television personality best …
Athletes Will Be Allowed to Blog at Beijing Olympics
Athletes will be allowed to blog at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. This is the first time athletes will be allowed to blog their experience. There were some unofficial blogs at previous olympic gaes. The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) guidelines do permit audio or video of events to be used. The IOC has set out guidelines for blogging at the Beijing Games to ensure copyright agreements are not infringed. They include bans on posting any audio or visual material of action from the games themselves. The move follows the increasing use of unofficial blogs by athletes in previous Games, including Athens in 2004 and the Turin Winter Games. “It is required that, when accredited persons at the games post any Olympic content, it be confined solely to their own personal Olympic-related experience,” said an IOC statement. A Reuters story on the IOC guidelines says “Athletes or officials who blog can only post still pictures taken outside accredited areas or their own pictures taken within these areas that do not contain any sporting action.” So pictures can be used but only of the athletes residence or of sightseeing – no sports photos or photographs of the opening or closing events. The IOC also does not want advertising on the blogs and wants the blog to be in “good taste.” Blogs should not have exclusive agreements with any company and there should be no commercial reference or advertising either, the IOC said. Blogs should also adhere to the Olympic spirit “and be dignified and in good taste.” Yet another article on the story – this time from the Canadian Press – says bloggers should avoid disclosing security information. The IOC also does not want bloggers to use the word Olympic or Olympics in their domain URL. Here’s a summary of the information contained above and from reading other other articles. Olympic athletes will be allowed to blog. Blog domains should not contain any word similar to Olympic or Olympics. No audio, photo or video of olympic or sports events. Other photos are fine as long as they are not photographs of Olympic areas or sports activity. Sports athletes need to get permission to take photographs of other athletes. Blogs should be about the athlete’s personal experience. Blogs should not contain advertising or have exclusive agreements with any company. Athlete bloggers should be careful to avoid disclosing security information. Blogs should be dignified and in good taste. Permalink | Recent Headlines | Twitter | WWFeeds.com
Will Young People Still Care About Facebook in 2013?
There are some stories here, here, here and here that the traffic to Facebook might be falling or plateauing in the U.S. and/or in the UK. Webware notes that it was never going to be possible for Facebook to sustain its explosive 200,000 new members per day growth forever. It’s inevitable that the explosive expansion that Facebook experienced in 2007 can’t possibly go on forever. And since no hot new destination has popped up to potentially suck away Facebook traffic, the obvious conclusion is to blame it on social-networking fatigue. Facebook, one could say, is a trend and users have simply grown tired of it. The argument makes sense. For many there was an initial novelty to keeping in touch with faraway friends and classmates, wasting time at the office with games and other developer-created applications, and voyeuristically sifting through online photo albums all on a single destination site. Me, I’ve grown tired of the Scrabulous gaming application on Facebook–it’s way more fun to play word games in person. But an apparent leveling in traffic doesn’t equal mass account deletion. “Coolness factor” always fades; now it’s up to Facebook to prove it can stay relevant and useful in its post-expansion era. Remember when instant-messaging client adoption was soaring and people were IMing each other just for the heck of it? We’re all still IMing, but it’s no longer a novelty, it’s a utility. (“Utility,” by the way, appears to be one of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s favorite words.) Robert Scoble thinks Facebook is not doomed but it is really too early to know for sure. What we really need to know is how many active members there are at MySpace, Facebook or Bebo. Will users of these sites dump them for another service or for privacy as they get older? Facebook isn’t so over dude today but what about five years from now. Five years ago who would have believed young people would stop using email? Will today’s Webkinz-using grade school students really want Facebook accounts when they reach high school and college age or will they seek out new destinations of their own that people in their 30s and 40s don’t get? There is no real way to answer that question until a few years have passed but there have been many warnings against building a service that primarily targets the very young. If the next generation doesn’t want Facebook then as big as Facebook has become they could still end up being beaten by Classmates.com or slowly become as uninteresting as GeoCities. Permalink | Recent Headlines | Twitter | WWFeeds.com
Bob Greene: The Best Life Diet
Bob Greene’s Best Life Diet helped Oprah live her best life. Now it’s your turn! … Another thing I know for sure now is that you ve got to ask yourself, What kind of life do …
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