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Blogging Can Get You Hired
The Wall Street Journal has an article about how blogging can land you a job. A couple years ago the WSJ would have been a very unlikely place for such an article but times have changed. The article says corporate recruiters are surfing blogs — especially in the tech and media industries. A Wal-Mart recruitment manager is one of the recruiters surfing blogs for potential employees. Ryan Loken, a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. recruitment manager, says he spends one to two hours a week searching through blogs for new talent or additional information about the candidates he has interviewed. “Blogs are a tool in the tool kit,” he says. Since he joined the Bentonville, Ark., retail giant three years ago, Mr. Logen estimates that Web journals have helped him fill 125 corporate jobs. Most of the recruits were referred to him by bloggers and blog contributors, and some were the writers themselves. In addition to blogs that focus on their industry or field of interest, recruiters say they check candidates’ blogs about noncareer-related topics for evidence of writing skills and clues to how well rounded they are. Most blog-related recruits are professionals in technology and media because jobs in these fields often require knowledge of the blogosphere, says Kirsten Dixson, a founding partner at Brandego LLC, a career-management firm in Exeter, N.H., that specializes in personal branding. In June, Brian Balfour’s blog, SocialDegree.com, inspired an unsolicited offer for a product-manager job from an executive at Zoom Information Inc. “I was impressed by the points Brian was making and the way he was making them,” says Russell Glass, vice president of products and marketing at the Waltham, Mass., technology company. The blog also offered details about Mr. Balfour’s work history and education. “It was a no-brainer to give him a call and see if he’d be interested,” Mr. Glass says. Blogs offer recruiters a tool for assessing the skill level of the people writing the blogs. This is something that isn’t nearly as easy to do with a resume. Bloggers will want to avoid the obvious things that will turn off recruiters — foul language, discussing drinking and partying, lewd photographs, etc. If bloggers avoid the negatives and write well enough about the industry they work in or are interested in then it’s possible to get a job from blogging — even the Wall Street Journal says it’s true. Posted in Working Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

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Ebay to Acquire StumbleUpon
TechCrunch is reporting that eBay has signed a deal to acquire the StumbleUpon website. StumbleUpon allows people to create a profile and share webpage recommendations and reviews. High-flying startup StumbleUpon has been rumored to be in acquisition discussions since at least last November. Recently we’ve heard that talks have heated up again, with Google, AOL and eBay as potential suitors. A source with knowledge of the deal now says the company has signed a term sheet with eBay to be acquired. The price is somewhere between $40 – $75 million. (update: GigaOm is now reporting the price at a $40 – $45 million). StumbleUpon lets users rate websites via a browser toolbar. At any time a user can click “Stumble!” and will be taken to a website highly rated by other StumbleUpon users who tend to vote in a similar way as the person “stumbling.” More often than not, it’s something almost serendipitously interesting to the reader. The company expanded into video referrals in late 2006. People who are passionate about StumbleUpon say they like it because of the surprise factor in what they see next, and the fact that the product has such a high hit rate in delivering interesting new content. The StumbleUpon site says they have 2.1 million users, up from 1.7 million in December 2006. 4+ million sites are “stumbled” daily. StumbleUpon has only raised a single $1.5 million round of seed financing. GigaOm blogs that eBay could connect the StumbleUpon toolbar with Skype and “do an end run around Google’s dominance of the search business.” Several bloggers (see here, here, here, here, here and here) are noting a new Google feature launched just today that helps you find new websites based on your Google search history. Outside of the website recommendations this new Google toolbar feature really isn’t much like StumbleUpon but it could become more like it. StumbleUpon includes profiles and social networking type features that the new Google toolbar feature doesn’t provide. Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

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MySpace News is Bloggy
MySpace has launched a beta version of its MySpace News website. The news service aggregates news stories and displays a headline and a short text excerpt from the news source. Blogs appear to the primary source of the news displayed on MySpace News. MySpace members can vote on news stories in a Digg-like fashion. There are hundreds of specialty news categories on MySpace News like Addiction, Boston Red Sox, gadgets, kayaking, martial arts, tea, Web 2.0 and yoga. TechCrunch says MySpace News is based on the Newroo technology they acquired in 2006. There has been some criticism of the service. Mashable says it kinda sucks because there are no comments, widgets or search. We like the service because of its heavy focus on blogs for news. Once MySpace News is featured prominently on the MySpace website it should help drive traffic to blogs. The only downside is that MySpace News does frame websites it links to with a long blue MySpace News bar. If you can’t find any headlines from your blog on MySpace News you can use the submit form to submit your blog. Thanks to Search Engine Journal for finding the submit blog page. PC World’s blog shows a cheesy badge you can use if your blog is included in MySpace News. Posted in MySpace Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

Blogs, Cell Phones Provide Coverage of Virginia Tech Shootings
Information Week reports that blogs and cell phones helped provide some of the earliest coverage of the shooting tragedy at Virginia Tech this morning. A New York Times article calls the horrific incident the “deadliest shooting rampage in American history.” 33 students were killed and at least 15 students were injured. Blog posts to CollegeMedia.com, the website of the publisher of Virginia Tech’s campus newspaper, began at 9:47. With their Web server down, contributors to the campus newspaper the Collegiate Times filed blog entries on their parent company’s Web site beginning at 9:47 a.m. as they attempted to confirm information about two Monday morning university shootings, which left at least 22 people dead and many more injured. ABC reported 29 dead by Monday afternoon. According to the student newspaper’s blog, 20 students died in Norris Hall, a 72,375-square-foot building that houses the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics. The department focuses on materials, material systems, biomechanics, and computational methods, among other subjects. Students and faculty communicated with each other during the crisis through instant messaging and e-mail. A student captured the sound of several gunshots on campus. By the afternoon, the university had posted a podcast of statements from its president, Charles Steger. He said police were investigating the first shooting when they received reports of a second shooting. He said the school was shocked and horrified by a tragedy of “monumental proportions.” He also said he felt a great personal loss. A post on icantread01’s livejournal account called “Madness on Campus” also helped capture the tramatic events. Icantread01 blogged about his friend Kate who helped block the shooter from re-entering a classroom by barricating the door. Kate was also shot in the hand. Several of the comments left on the icantread01 post are requests from the media for interviews. Cybersoc.com has a roundup of blog coverage that included the icantread01 post as well as this post from Jennie Tal whose friend was possibly shot in the leg. Wired’s Threat Level blog has a roundup of blog and cell phone accounts. Boing Boing also has a roundup of first-person coverage that includes the DC Metblogs open thread and Flickr photos of police cars on the scene. The Roanoke Times has a blog-style article (hat tip Citmedia.org) that covers the shootings in reverse chronological order. Cynical-C Blog also has a good roundup of blog and cell phone accounts. Posted in General News Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

Will Ferrell Clip Kicks Off Funny or Die
Funny or Die is a new comedy video website from Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s production company Gary Sanchez Productions. The website lets people upload funny videos where they can be discussed and rated. Videos that have been voted “die” too many times end up in the Crypt. The video site was kicked off with a funny video clip called The Landlord starring Will Ferrell himself. Wired’s Compiler blog says there will be videos from other Hollywood comedy stars but the bulk of the videos will be from “real people.” Ferrell and McKay are using their alter ego, Gary Sanchez, as a mouth piece for the site. Sanchez says that videos starring Hollywood heavyweights will appear regularly in the featured section of FunnyOrDie, but “the meat and cabbage of the site will be the real peoples.” The website does offer embedding even for the Will Ferrell clip. This should boost the viral component of the videos posted on Funny or Die. The Will Ferrell clip and the buzz surrounding the launch may be putting a lot of demand on the website because the upload tab currently displays the following message: “Sorry, Uploading temporarily disabled due to very heavy server load Please try again later.” The front of the website also now contains this message, “There are too many people blowing off work to download our videos. Sorry, it may take a few minutes…” Posted in Videos Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

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Gaia Online: An Escape For Teens
GigaOm has an article about Gaia Online, a virtual world and online hangout inhabited by teens. Gaia already has considerable traffic with 300,000 users logging in each day. GigaOm says most of the activity at Gaia actually takes place in the online forums. The largest cohort of activity (wholly 30%) takes place in the Gaia forums, and here’s where the truly staggering numbers come in: Averaging a million posts a day and a billion posts so far, Gaia’s message boards (with topics running the gamut from pop culture to politics) is second only to Yahoo in popularity. A million posts a day is very impressive. MySpace has matured so the fickle teens have to go somewhere and it sounds like Gaia is one of their destinations. GigaOm’s post also has an interview with Gaia Online CEO Craig Sherman who seems to be billing Gaia as an escape for those fleeing MySpace and other social networks. Craig Sherman has been thinking what the value-proposition of his site in the era of MySpace or Facebook. “In a world where teens are constantly branding and packaging themselves” on sites like those, he points out, “Gaia is where you get away from it all.” Gaia, which offers the virtual world, forums, content rating and flash games, also has a way of making money that is not from advertising. They sell virtual fashion accessories and other “rare items.” Instead of monthly subscriptions, Gaia Online sells “rare items” – treasures, fantastically cool fashion accessories for player avatars, and so on – two offered a month for $2.50 each. Subscribers buy them via credit card, Pay Pay, cellphone – or cash on the barrel. (“We employ someone full time whose job is getting dollars and quarters” out of envelopes kids send them, Sherman notes.) The article says Gaia Online also has advertising including a recent campaign for The Last Mimzy movie where Gaians were challenged to “accomplish a series of tasks in order to get their own special Gaian-only Mimzy (a super-intelligent bunny).” Gaia is off to a fast stealthy start but there is competition from Habbo Hotel, Nicktropolis, WeeWorld and Cyworld. TheDealBlogs.com has an article about a couple more virtual world startups including Club Penguin and Areae. Update: Lightspeed mentions several other competitors including Neopets and Webkinz. Posted in Teens Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

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