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Since I don't really have the time to become a political pundit and don't care to bore strangers with my idle thoughts, I decided to create a blog for friends and family.

Launching the account was the easy part.

I entered the address of my e-mail account at the site www.blogger.com, then checked the availability of the blog address I wanted.

I chose a newspaper name that reflected the street we live on, then selected a template that determined what the blog would look like.

Then I made my first posting.

advertisement advertisement With my wife in her ninth month of pregnancy, it wasn't hard to find something to write about.

I titled my first dispatch "An Anxious Time." I wrote a couple of hundred words about the chaotic state of our household as we prepare for our new arrival, then used the spell check function and hit a button marked "publish." It's a bit of a shock to see your blog for the first time.

It looks so official, and yet you know the truth of its shaky beginnings.

Still, without the addition of photos, my white-type-on-black-background blog appeared a bit plain.

From my home computer, I posted a digital image of my wife shot at belly level, which completed the blog's appearance.

I still needed to post a profile on the blog - this is the tagline that tells people who I am and what my blog is about - and there were...

(Washington Post) The top 100 people in IT Unfortunately some numnut decided to put this top 100 people in IT chart in a nasty slideshow, but it's still interesting in you can bear the uber-cheesy graphics.

No prizes for guessing the Google twins are top, but spot how many women are in the chart.

You almost certainly have enough fingers.

(eWeek) The news event keyword dilemma The Wall Street Journal has picked up on the tricky issue of news sites using Google's keyword ads to try and pull traffic to the sites, as highlighted by the Virginia Tech shootings.

The New York Times' vice president of marketing says it's just a modern version of "read it about if on the street corners", and NYTimes has been doing it since 2004.

CNN and ABC do the same and Bert Solivan, senior vice president for digital media at Fox News said it is key to attracting new visitors.

"These are people who probably tend not to be Fox users.

They are gravitating to a search engine to find a hot topic and are finding their way over to us," he says.

"It's an ideal way to tap into a huge audience that may not look for us immediately but may get pushed over to us." (Wall Street Journal) Angel Gambino joins Bebo We wondered where Angel Gambino would resurface after leaving MTV.

Turns out she's now the vice president for music at Bebo.

Nice gig.

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