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Blogging Polling software Reviewed, Plus The One Polling Solution You Should Use

Googling ‘poll software‘ or ‘blog poll’ is an exercise in futility, which has got to be frustrating for beginning bloggers who want to incorporate a poll into their blog. That’s because, quite frankly, most hosted polling solutions are terrible.
It’s not that there aren’t plenty of poll applications littering searches (and the accompanying adsense ads) — [...]

5Sep2007 | Christopher Mims | 7 comments | Continued
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How to Make Money Stealing Other People’s Content*

One of the reasons that fudged statistics and even outright lies have a tendency to spread rapidly through the mainstream media is that the mainstream media does something that the blogosphere is only just waking up to: re-writing competitors’ stories without doing additional reporting.
In other words, one way to rapidly and cheaply generate content is [...]

22Aug2007 | Christopher Mims | 13 comments | Continued
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FIFA 2008 Next-Gen Gameplay Screen Shots Now Available

I’ve found a bunch of new Next-Gen (Playstation 3 and Xbox360) screen shots, but this time….
GAMEPLAY screen shots!!! Yes you actually get to see a few screen of the actual FIFA 2008 gameplay. Now isn’t that exciting?!
As always they can be found on the FIFA 08 Screen Shot Page.
The new pictures shows Wayne Rooney in [...]

21Aug2007 | Dennis Bjørn Petersen | 2 comments | Continued
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More Free Content On The Web Could Hurt Your Revenue — Here’s How To Fight Back

With more and more mainstream outlets launching blogs and taking down the paywalls around their news, what’s a blogger to do?
As this trend accelerates, and these sites get wise to the traffic and revenue generating potential of service journalism (which is all a blog like Engadget really is, anyway) there is a very real potential [...]

14Aug2007 | Christopher Mims | 2 comments | Continued
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Invasion Of The Inexpensive, Linux-Powered Laptops

Moore’s law is at it again, and the latest sacred cow to be slaughtered by this force of nature is the notion that a laptop need weigh about 8 pounds and do everything that a desktop can do.
OK, so the notion of an ultra-portable PC isn’t exactly new–hardware manufacturers have been chipping away at it [...]

6Aug2007 | Christopher Mims | 4 comments | Continued
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