The News Review:
- Microsoft debuts early test version of Oxite open source blogging …
- Education Blogs Provide Platform for New Voices in National …
- Only 16% Trust Corporate Blogs: Are They Worth Doing?
- PACAF looks to blogging to tell Air Force story
- Live winter meetings blog: day one
Microsoft debuts early test version of Oxite open source blogging …
ZDNet
 Microsoft’s Codeplex team has developed an open source blogging engine that can support simple blogs and large web sites such as its own MIX Online. The project revealed by. “Oxite was developed carefully and painstakingly to be a great blogging platform or a starting point for your own web site project with CMS needs” according to Microsoft.
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Education Blogs Provide Platform for New Voices in National …
MarketWatch
Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute in his new analysis of education web logs (blogs) published in Education Next. Currently there are as many as 30000 education blogs on the Internet. Some focus on policy others on practice; many link and comment on daily newspaper articles and other blog posts and provide a forum for other users to do the same. The bloggers come from a variety of backgrounds and the influence of their blogs does not seem tied to any particular set of credentials. For example the nation’s top education policy blogger Eduwonkette was until recently anonymous: Jennifer Jennings a graduate student in sociology at Columbia University managed to overtake Eduwonk’s Andrew Rotherham in the top spot even though her competitor is a former Clinton White House aide and cofounder of a major Washington education think tank. In his analysis for Education Next Petrilli ranked the top ten education blogs and the top ten education policy blogs by their technorati score as of August 2008 which provides an indicator of the “authority” given to a site by other bloggers by identifying the number of unique blogs that have linked to that blog within the past 180 days as measured by technorati.
Only 16% Trust Corporate Blogs: Are They Worth Doing?
BusinessWeek
But the bottom line is that based on survey research the firm released a report today it’s time for some rethinking of corporate blogs. (To get the report you have to hand.
PACAF looks to blogging to tell Air Force story
Sourdough Sentinel AK
So where do people get information about the world around them? “Many of the people we’re trying to reach no longer read the New York Times or watch “Meet the Press” on Sunday morning” said Col. Ed Thomas PACAF director of public affairs. “Younger generations both in and out of uniform are far more likely to be texting chatting blogging or Twittering. ” So in September the command created its own blog called “PACAF Pixels. ” Unlike traditional military websites the blog is designed to allow Airmen across the command to share in a personal and authentic way their service experiences Col. Each of these stories forms a part or ‘pixel’ of the larger picture of PACAF’s impact on security and stability in the region.
Live winter meetings blog: day one
Examiner.com
9:19 AM – Some news from Sunday night and the wee hours of Monday morning: -. The deal was announced in the early hours of Monday morning.