Microsoft gets into blog role contest
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Microsoft Corp.&#39;s MSN Internet division late Wednesday debuted a preliminary version of MSN Spaces, designed to bring blogs to the masses.
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CNET hopes to beef up its blogging presence.
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It was a matter of minutes before news of Microsoftâs bid  jumped from front pages to the vibrant world of technology blogs.  Hereâs some of the more interesting thoughts so far.
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The free, hosted MSN Spaces service is Microsoft&#39;s first consumer foray into providing a blogging platform. Spaces will enable MSN members to maintain a blog and control it with some sophisticated features that are not typical of all blogging services.
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Microsoft has won the browser wars, but a battle is raging for the runner-up spot and one of the contenders has recently been refreshed.
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Olympic athletes may be allowed to blog for the first time at the 2008 Beijing Games.
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Bloggers race to create compelling content during competition, but only one will survive what's billed as an "Internet cage match."
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LONDON - MSN is upping the stakes in the battle for online and desktop domination with the launch of a new set of communication services to include blogging and picture sharing.
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Microsoft's MSN division will launch a test version of a free Web logging (blogging) service aimed at consumers on Thursday, Microsoft's first foray as a provider of this increasingly popular Internet activity for the mass consumer market.
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Is Microsoft-served ads slowing down Web sites? Plus, what is Ask erasing, and what are the others keeping? And a 'Knight Rider' comeback and more.
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Hewlett-Packard is the latest IT vendor to try blogging. But analysts wonder if the weblog trend is the 21st century equivalent of CB radios, which made a big splash in the 1970s before fading.
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Google makes it easier for bloggers to distract their users by allowing its
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Wired News readers are getting a chance to shape the news: For an article about wiki collaboration software, anyone may contribute using, what else?, a wiki.
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Both employers and prospective employees are finding that blogging can be useful in the job search process.
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This is really cool!  I finally get my own comment spam!  For some reason I felt left out of the party.  I just wasn't cool enough for the spammers to consider me worthy of their spam.  Anyway.  I implemented my own little turing test.  Now the comments say:  {{{  Turing Test: Are you a human? (required. Just type yes... this is for automated spam prevention)  }}}  While this wouldn't work for all blogs in the wild I'm sure it will work just fine here in my little corner of the blogosphere.  If spammers really want my blog enough then I'll deploy a captcha.  If they solve the captcha I'll deploy a sentient robot  which will traceroute packets back to the host and then terminate with prejudic ...
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By Patricia Kitchen, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Feb. 18--Just as employers are figuring out the role of blogs, their value and downside, along come wikis.
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By Dave Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Wash.  Sep. 24--Bob Pritchett discovered the power of the corporate blog when he read one from Microsoft that completely changed his perception of the company.