SEAMAN WILLIAM SELBY (Office of Secretary of Defense Public Affairs): Okay, sir, I'm going to go ahead and get started here. And I'd like to welcome you all to the Department of Defense's Bloggers' Roundtable for Thursday, October 9th, 2008. My name is

Google Alerts will soon get a bit more flexible with the addition of RSS feeds for search results. The feature will be a nice addition to the search giant's lineup, but google is also playing some major catchup to competitors in this space. When RSS

The revolution, if it ever comes, might not be televised. But I can guarantee you that, at this rate, people are going to live-blog the living daylights out of it. It seems like every news organization that has something to prove (and there are none that

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA: Some of them got it wrong but only one sociopolitical blogger apologised to his readers for suggesting that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will defend his Umno president's post at the party's election in March.

ReadWriteWeb asked 20 top-tier bloggers how much money they make, and analyzed the data. Naturally, the span is great, but the average top tier blogger made $25/post. RWW also analyzed in-house bloggers, either employed, or with special contracts, and got the following: Our respondents reported annual pay rates ranging from $45k and $55k with benefits (!) up to $70k, $80k and $90k with bonuses. We're tempted to say, based on the anonymously submitted but descriptive replies we got, that the closer to pure journalism our respondents were doing the lower their wages were. For more, like where the big money is, check out the post. Now, what does this mean? Professional bloggers work a lot, and I do mean a lot. RWW got an hourly wage at $20-$35 when doing the math for the in-house bloggers, and they get that kind of surprisingly low number by the fact that most successful bloggers put down 50-60 hours each week (compared to 40). Now, I'm not sure what you can be expected to earn in the US

At least that's the feeling you get when reading Duncan Riley's post on Crikey Blogs over at The Inquisitr. He reckons the Australian blogosphere is some 5 years behind the US, which is interesting. The network brings together some of Australia's leading political blogs, including PollBludger and former Senator Andrew Bartlett under the one roof. The Crikey blog network is live now, but I understand that other blogs are to follow, including some leading Australian blogs in excess of 1 million page views a month. They manage this by buying existing blogs, rather than just recruit bloggers and build from the ground up. The actual blog network is powered by WordPress MU, which the WordPress Publisher Blog gladly points out. Crikey is an independent online media service, according to their own words, which costs money. You can read more about it here. Possibly Related PostsCindy McCain Gets Hijacked on TwitterB5media Revamps Pay Model, Bloggers Lose MoneyPresidential Debate Cranks Up Twitt

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The Huffington Post should watch out. There's a new beast in the blogging jungle. Tina Brown has left print journalism behind (she edited Vanity Fair and the New Yorker) to tackle cyberspace. Her blog, the Daily Beast, launched this week. Named after the

Ben is running a competition in his all about cloud computing blog Diversity to introduce a new class of products. The winner will get the Nova Navigator, a box that runs with a local OS, but is designed to take advantage of applications in the cloud -