The News Review:
- Viewpoint: Blogging can help get us through tough times
- Live-Blogging the Big Three’s Bid for a Bailout
- LIVE CHAT: Blogging for bucks pays the bills
- We’re Live-Blogging The Grammy Nominations Concert!
Viewpoint: Blogging can help get us through tough times
Baltimore Sun United States
“For months we’ve been inundated with the raw data of the economic meltdown: unemployment figures foreclosure numbers massive bailout stats. At The Huffington Post we want to do more to put a human face on the suffering: the recently laid off the newly homeless the students unable to afford college. And who better to tell their stories than the people themselves?How is the downturn affecting you and your family? Have you lost your job? Your home? Are you seeing “For Sale” signs on your street? Are more businesses in your town going under? How are you making ends meet? What are you hearing from your friends your neighbors your co-workers? Even if you still have your job and your home and the ability to send your kids to college how has the deep economic recession affected your outlook your mood your spending habits? If you work for a charity or a food bank – what are you seeing? Blogging about them and your feelings – including your anger your fears your hopes – is a great way to cope with the many personal social and professional dislocations that the hard times are producing. Losing your job (or even fearing that you might) can make you feel powerless. But at the same time you are looking for work – or learning a new skill – you can take up blogging. It doesn’t require anyone’s permission; there is no application process. You just need blogging software (some of the best is free) and the will to express yourself.
Live-Blogging the Big Three’s Bid for a Bailout
Wall Street Journal Blogs NY
The automakers’ eager instantaneous no problemo! response made many people suspicious. Today the automakers are back in the principal’s office viability plans in hand (or restructural plans in the dubious words of the Senate Banking Committee Web site). They are ready to plead. listItems ul { float: left; margin: 8px 0px; font-size:11px; font-family:arial; list-style-type: disc; } div.
LIVE CHAT: Blogging for bucks pays the bills
Tampa Bay’s 10 FL
"We all need a plan B in this economy and that plan B could be blogging" said Williams. The 44-year-old mother of four has been creating sites online for several years but found her blogging niche in response to some negative feedback from a woman who called her daughter Jenna a "change of life baby" and also called Williams a "new old mom. ""I was really upset almost in tears that she called me a new old mom. I didn’t feel that old and I am not that old" she said. Now she embraces the title by creating a blog.
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We’re Live-Blogging The Grammy Nominations Concert!
MTV.com
) And the good folks at the Recording Academy aren’t just being all hyperbolic … there’s actually plenty to be excited about tonight especially if you like John Mayer and Celine Dion!No that’s just the cynic in me talking. There’s plenty of drama ahead of us over the next hour —plus some performances too. Will Mariah Carey cap off a disappointing year with a boatload of Grammy noms? How about Usher? How many noms can Coldplay expect to nab? And most importantly how many nominees will you actually have heard of? So strap in turn on the HD and get ready for a night of self-congratulatory mumbo-jumbo and faux humility! 9:00p.