The News Review:
- bama to have news conference on Wednesday
- Live Blogging BofA’s Earnings Conference Call
- Fla. Couple Murder: Blogging from the Scene
- Work and Life — and Blogging the Balance
- The vast majority of blog startups are eventually abandoned by …
- Winery looks for a sipper who Twitters
- New Stars of the Blogosphere
bama to have news conference on Wednesday
The Associated Press
The White House on Friday said that bama will meet with reporters at the White House at 9 p. The tech-savvy White House announced it on the popular micro-blogging service. bama last had a news conference at the White House on June 23. He took questions during his recent trip to Russia Italy and Ghana.
Live Blogging BofA’s Earnings Conference Call
Wall Street Journal Blogs
The first problem area: Bofa reported big losses across nearly all of its consumer loans portfolios and its commercial loans are souring. Another challenge: the merger with Merrill Lynch. BofA said this morning that the merger is on track. If that’s true investors will likely want to know why so many Merrill bankers are jumping ship.
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Fla. Couple Murder: Blogging from the Scene
CBS News
NEW YRK (CBS) In a town known for its long association with Naval Aviation Pensacola has been rocked to its core by a double homicide of a popular and seemingly almost Saintly couple whose stated life mission was to adopt and provide a home for severely disabled children. The murders of Melanie and Byrd Billings have caused the national media to descend upon Pensacola in a media feeding frenzy. Eight suspects have been arrested in connection with the execution style murder of the Billings. The planning and the actual execution of the Billings was captured on a sophisticated professionally installed video surveillance system that was installed in their North Florida mansion. The Sheriff’s department has called the homicide “a military style assault” that was very professional.
Work and Life — and Blogging the Balance
Wall Street Journal
Here is a recent post: “We leave for a six-week stay in England next Monday. In between now and then I have to finish my annual review write a book review hold a workshop on a novel for YA [young adult] librarians convene a committee meeting and pack. I think I have a couple of personal appointments in there as well — haircut? Dermatologist?.
The vast majority of blog startups are eventually abandoned by …
San Jose Mercury News
Welcome to my rant. ” Thus was born Rantings of a Crazed Soccer Mom the blog of a stay-at-home mother and murder-mystery writer from Wilmington N. Nichols 52 put up her first post in late 2004 serving up a litany of gripes about the Bush administration and people who thought they had “a monopoly on morality. ” After urging her readers to vote for John Kerry she closed with a flourish: “Practice compassionate regime change. ” The post generated no comments.
Winery looks for a sipper who Twitters
San Jose Mercury News
It was a short sharp lesson in networking etiquette but as spokesman Mark smun candidly pointed out “if we knew a lot about social media we wouldn’t have to be hiring somebody. “Among the finalists seeking to lead Murphy-Goode into the world wine web is Hardy Wallace an Atlanta IT worker who entered the job market involuntarily courtesy of the recession. He’d already decided to try to find a way to make a living out of his hobby blogging about wine when he heard about the Murphy-Goode job. Frequent flier miles left over from his previous life beckoned; he got on a plane and flew to San Francisco for the application kickoff this spring winding up first in line. To some wine and the Web are an uneasy pairing. Thousands of years old wine is a visceral not virtual pleasure made to be enjoyed in company. But Wallace thinks it’s possible for wine-lovers to connect whether they’re at the same table or 3000 miles apart.
New Stars of the Blogosphere
Wall Street Journal
Johnson started his blog Baseline Scenario in September along with his brother-in-law James Kwak to build on the popularity of his blogging stint as chief economist of the International Monetary Fund and to help people make sense of the unfolding crisis. “I think there’s a big market for explaining to people what the heck is going on in a global context” says Mr. “Blogging can now be part of this portfolio you can do as an academic. ”Selling BooksBlogging in return helps academics raise their profile and connects them to a wider audience.