These statments from http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2004/poymoments.htmlBlogging Can Get You FiredWhen Delta flight attendant Ellen Simonetti, 30-a leggy blond and self-styled "queen of the sky" -began her blog, she thought it would be fun to post pinup snapshots of herself in uniform. Delta was not amused and promptly fired her. Undaunted, Simonetti retitled the blog Diary of a fired Flight Attendant and detailed her legal battle to get her job back.
Go to: queenofsky.journalspace.com
Bloggers Get Scoops TooAfter book editor Russ Kick read that the US military was clamping down on press photos of coffins coming back from Iraq, he did not just pen an angry rant on his blog, the Memory Hole. He filed a Freedom of Information Act request-and embarrassingly for the Pentagon, was mailed a CD from the Air Force with 361 coffin snaps, which he promptly posted. The national press, which had not thought to ask whether the military had pictures, beat a path to Kick's door.
Go to: thememoryhole.org
Bloggers Keep News AliveSo your blog has not succeeded in getting national attention for your pet issue? Do not lose heart. Just blog, link and repeat. It worked for conservative bloggers like Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, who trumpeted the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's claims this summer, as well as for liberal blogs like Daily Kos, which investigated evidence that President Bush wore a wire in his first debate. Some of the issues had questionable merit, but persistent bloggers made the subjects tough to ignore. Say it enough Times Online, and someone is bound to hear you.
Go to: instapundit.com, dailykos.com
Bloggers Can Be TitillatingIn May a blog graphically detailing the sex life of an anonymous Capitol Hill staff member prompted DC's most intriguing game of guess-the-author since Primary Colors. Jessica Cutler, aka Washingtonienne, was later outed and fired by her boss , Ohio Republican Mike DeWine, for ". inappropriate use of Senate computers" (. Her site is not for kids) In another sign of the times, her first postfiring interview was with Wonkette, another Washington blogger.GO TO: washingtoniennearchive.blogspot. com, wonkette.com
Bloggers Can Be FakersPlain Layne, a highly personal blog supposedly belonging to a Minnesota lesbian named Layne Johnson that drew thousands of fans over 3 1/2 years before mysteriously disappearing, was revealed to be a hoax. Hundreds of fans helped track down the real author ODIN SOLI, 35, A MALE Entreneur From Woodbury, Minn. Later in The Year Kaufman Blogs Became Hits.
Go to: Plainlayne.dreamhost.com, BillClintondailyDiary.blogspot.com
Bloggers Make MoneyEarn a living in your pajamas! Online ads (along with Google's automated ad server) allow popular bloggers to go pro. Joshua Micah Marshall of talkingpointsmemo.com, a political blog, says he makes $ 5,000 a month from banner ads-enough to Hire a studyAss.
Go to: talkingpointsmemo.com
Most Bloggers Are WomenMen may have taken the lead in the early (read: geeky) days of blogging, but that's not the case now According to a survey of more than 4 million blogs by Perseus Development, 56% were created by women More.. Bad News for the Boys: Men Are More Likely Than Women to Abandon Their Blog Once It's Created.
GO TO: blogsisters.blogspot.comCandidates Love BlogsO.K, so Howard Dean never wrote his blog But his campaign workers posted a surprisingly intimate online diary of life on the road, and Dean had collected $ 20 million in contributions via the Internet alone.. By The end of january 2004. It didn't take long for other politicos to catch on. When New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer Announced That HE WAS Running for Governor this Month, He Did So On His Blog.
Go to: blog.deanforamerica.com, Spitzer2006.com
Pets Have Blogs TooIt started as an in-joke among feline-friendly bloggers:? Why not post pictures of their cats every Friday afternoon Friday catblogging became a hit, and soon even NASA was playing along by posting pictures of the Cat's Eye nebula.
Go to: carnivalofthecats.com
Anyone Can Do ItBlogs would not be such a democratic medium if they were not so easy to set up. The most popular service, Blogger, owned by Google, boasts features like push-button photoblogging. Microsoft has launched a trial version of its Own blogging service.
Go to: blogger.com, spaces.msn.com
