Shane Snow is a New York-based tech journalist and co-founder of Contently.com, a marketplace for brand publishers and journalists. In 2010, New York City startup, Birchbox launched a blog about beauty products before it had any customers… Tweet This Post

Texas congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul may be trailing in the polls, but he is the only politician with positive Twitter buzz, according to a new study. The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism — which analyzes online conversation, news coverage and more than 20 million tweets about politics over the past [...]

Yahoo has shut down The Projector, The Set, The Amplifier and The Famous, four blogs covering television, movie, music and celebrity topics, respectively. The blogs announced the news on their Twitter accounts, adding that “other blogs” will be shut down as well… Tweet This Post

Brian Casel is the founder of CasJam Media, a web design shop that works with clients worldwide designing custom WordPress CMS sites. Connect with Brian on Twitter @CasJam. Remember when WordPress was used only for blogging? Even all of the talk about WordPress being a true CMS seems to be old news these days… Tweet [...]

A man and a woman in their 20s were tortured and hanged from a pedestrian bridge in a border town for denouncing a drug cartel on Internet forums and blogs, CNN reported Wednesday. The incident took place in Nuevo Laredo, a city of 400,000 just across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas… Tweet This Post

Michael Arrington, founder of technology blog TechCrunch and known for his fiery personality and zero tolerance for corporate authority, is no longer with the San Francisco-based tech news publication, according to a report by Fortune… Tweet This Post

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News aggregation tool Regator is launching a desktop app Thursday that it claims beats major news channels, blogs and Twitter trending topics to discovering breaking news stories.The product, Regator Breaking News, looks a bit like TweetDeck… Tweet This Post

Buzzlogic, a company that helps brands place socially targeted ads, today announced it has raised $7.8 million in a third round of funding. The company will use the funding for product development and to double its sales and account management teams… Tweet This Post

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One thing you may not know about me is that I am a writer. More specifically, I’m a freelance writer. This means I can have several clients at once, work from home in my underwear, and set my own hours… Tweet This Post

Joshua Topolsky, former top editor at AOL’s Engadget tech blog, has set up a competing tech site with the backing of a new media company called SB Nation. It’s a little odd on the surface, since SB Nation is a sports web publisher… Tweet This Post