Gaming Top 200

The top 200 Online Gaming, Check it out

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And now it’s Shiite vs. Shiite

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Brazil: Bloggers united against WordPress ban

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The First Campaign by Garrett M. Graff

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Blogging for Business

A “Weblog” – or “blog,” for short – is a Web site that consists of a collection of posts,
or entries, organized in reverse chronological order.

• “Blogs are ideal for providing a fl ow of time-sensitive information, such as commentary and analysis of events.

Typical blogs include the following features:

• Description
• “Posts”
• “Comments”
• “Trackback”
• “Permalink”
• “Sidebars”

Using blogging in business “When  Pitching Your Business to a Blogger”:

• Keep it short.
• Start a conversation.
• Don’t ask directly for a link or a mention.
• Target individual bloggers; don’t send a mass e-mail.
• Focus on why the blogger might be interested in your product or service.

The Search

Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page met as graduate students at California’s
Stanford University, a top-notch academic center that encouraged students to find
practical applications for their knowledge. While searching for a dissertation topic, Page
became intrigued with the Web. He began investigating the links to various Web sites.
This led him to a more refined idea: create a system to track academic citations (HTML
links) or annotations (the wording describing the link) in online publications.
In the Web early days it was really difficult tracking
a link backward,Page worked to develop a prioritizing system, “PageRank,” which measured the number
of links connecting related sites. As he and Brin collaborated on Page Rank, they testing
and, to their surprise, their crawler and ranking system better than existing search engines,
such as Alta Vista, Info seek and Excite. They found that their Web crawler knew no
limits; it could grow as fast as the Web. To name it, they chose a variation of googol, the
mathematical term for a one followed by 100 zeros. Brin and Page launched Google in
August 1996 as a tool on the Stanford University Web site.

Wikinomics

• “Wikinomics” combines the term “wiki” (from the Hawaiian word for “quick”) with

“economics,” but even more than speed, Wikinomics refers to a new way of interacting
that is appropriate for and made possible by the digital age. It is built on software that
enables collaboration.

• Wikinomics is based on four principles: “openness, peering, sharing and acting globally.”Wikinomics is based on four principles: “openness, peering, sharing and acting globally.”
• Traditional consumers are relatively passive. They consume what others produce.
  “Prosumers,” by contrast, co-create products in tandem with providers.development.
• In ancient Greece, people met in the agora (marketplace), where the great philosophers
  taught. The online world has spawned something similar: the “ideagora,” a virtual
  “marketplace of ideas.” Using an ideagora is like “having an eBay for innovation.”

Naked Conversations

Blogs differ from other corporate communications in six distinct ways:

• “Publishable”
• Findable
• “Social”
• “Viral”
• Syndicatable
• Linka

Good Blogging :

• Talk, don’t sell
• Post often and be interesting
• Write on issues you know and care about
• Blogging saves money, but costs time.
• You get smarter by listening to what people tell you.

Long Tail

Builet pints from the book:

The Triple Force: “The tools of creativity are now cheap and talent is more widely distributade than we know”

• Democratization” of production tools than we know.”
• Reduced distribution costs.
• Supply-demand pipeline

Nine Basic Rules of Long-Tail Success:

• Move inventory way in…or way out
• Let the customers do the work
• One distribution method doesn’t fi t all
• One product doesn’t fi t all
• One price doesn’t fi t all
• Share information
• Think ‘and’ not “or”
• Trust the market to do your job.
• Understand the power of free

Looking for Blogs from Iraq? Click on one!

Healing Iraq
“Daily news and comments on the situation in post Saddam Iraq by an Iraqi dentist”

Pro Deo Et Patria
A Chaplain in the U. S. Army serving in Iraq

Hamlett Post
News and views of a soldier deployed in support ofOperation Iraqi Freedom, blogging from Kuwait

HNK’s Blog
Weblog of the teen-aged daughter of a doctor and an engineer in Mosul, Iraq

Baghdad Burning
“Girl Blog from Iraq… let’s talk war, politics and occupation.”

Iraq at a Glance
Weblog from another dentist in Baghdad

Tell Me A Secret
Khalid Jarrar blogs from Baghdad about life in Iraq and his recent detention

Where Date Palms Grow
Weblog from a dentist in Baghdad

A Family In Baghdad
An Iraqi mother and her three sons share their personal diaries (sometimes in Arabic)