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I recently interviewed Colleen Coplick about taking over Buzz Networker, and there I said that an interview with her focusing on PR was due on BloggerTalks. Well, it is up now, and Colleen shares her views on paid reviews, PR agencies sending out samples, getting famous in the social sphere, how to write a great press release, and more. Check it out, over at BloggerTalks!

MyBlogLog have added some new stuff, since the obviously get that we're not monogamous when it comes to online apps and social networks. Specifically, whenever you: post a question to Yahoo Answers share an item on Google Reader post a video on Seesmic MyBlogLog will post those events and make them part of your New with Me page. All you need to do is to share your service ID for these services respectively. Good stuff.

Last year, Time magazine named Raul Castro one of the 100 most influential people in the world. via NPR

? There are lots of Eclipse-related blogs out there, but many seem to have fizzled. Hereâ??s a list of some of the most active. Planet Eclipse: Daily posts by Eclipse insiders and others in the know. Hansel and Eclipse: Leif Frenzel makes

I'm reading that Google is closing Hello, which apparently was (and is, as I'm writing this), a photo sharing service that came with Picasa. I guess they feel it doesn't fill a purpose anymore. This from Hello.com: We originally embarked on a mission to make photo sharing easier and more fun with Hello. We plan to keep carrying that torch in new projects to come. We hope that you continue to enjoy the other sharing products Google offers including Picasa, Picasa Web Albums and Google Talk. More over at Google Blogoscoped, with some links to the old version. Matthew Ingram says that Hello was a really cool app, in which case it's a shame it closes. On May 15, Google can begin doing something really cool with hello.com, a truly premium domain name. Too bad for the users of the defunct service though.

Sometimes our thoughts crystallize not through direct learning but through looking, comparing and contrasting. Such a moment happened for me after returning from Chicago and checking through Twitter and my emails. I saw a division between the openness, positivity, helpfulness, encouragement, passion of social media, with one or two individuals who, frankly, don't want to get it. I was jabbed with a tweet yesterday "all this 'feelings' stuff and those that gravitate to it are for those that cannot compete". Oh dear, how sad. How many ways can one sentence be wrong? Now, of course, this particular tweet account is all about getting a rise out of people, so best not to give too much attention to it. Let's instead look at the top of human achievement, according to Maslow: Read through what Maslow said we as humans need and, you know, I think feelings do matter. It's very much not just about competing for dollars. I do ok financially, I pay my bills, have nice vacations, buy boys toys, but

This is my last column as a newspaper writer. After five years at the Mercury News and 20 years in newspapers and magazines, I'm leaving the old media for the new. Tomorrow, I'll start a new job at VentureBeat, a blogging Web site created by my former

According to a recent national survey conducted by Harris Interactive The new nationwide survey of 2,733 U.S. adults, (ages 18 and over), of whom more than 13 percent, or 362, self identified as gay or lesbian (which includes an oversample of lesbian,

After the exuberance that followed Hardy Heron's landing not long ago, the mood on the Linux blogs shifted considerably last week in the wake of the conviction of ReiserFS file-system designer Hans Reiser of first-degree murder. Before the highly

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