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BUZZMEDIA Buys Four Punk Rock Blogs

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, Punknews.org and PropertyOfZack, which it will join with its current AbsolutePunk punk rock news site under the AbsoluteVoices brand. includes content such as videos, albums, news, and interviews. Financial terms of the buys were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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HitFix Partners With Entertainment Blog

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Los Angeles-based HitFix , the entertainment news site headed by Jennifer Sargent and backed by angel groups the Tech Coast Angels and Golden Seeds, said today that it is in a strategic partnership with film and awards blog In Contention.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

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I reached out to Michael after their surprising day at the top of Hacker News during early September. The innocuous post, which was simply titled " Divshot " generated over 110 comments and was awarded nearly 200 points by Hacker News' notoriously jaded readers. According to Michael, the Hacker News exposure was completely unplanned.

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Mafia Sourcing – How Insider’s Game User Generated News

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I had previously believed that the world of user-generated news sites were run on a open, crowd-sourced model. You submitted news to a website like Digg and if it was interesting content with a great headline and newsworthy text it would get driven up to the masses. And then I had another bubble burst. Not the expected reaction.

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Amazon’s Selz Acquisition is Encouraging News for Small Businesses

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Martin Rushe, the CEO and founder of Selz wrote a blog post announcing the deal. The post Amazon’s Selz Acquisition is Encouraging News for Small Businesses appeared first on Tech.co. To be clear, Amazon actually acquired Selz back in January but didn't see fit to announce the deal at the time, leaving it to Selz. App required.

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How Many Times Should You Tweet Your Blog Post?

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They just consume Twitter when they’re hungry for a conversation or some news right now. I wanted to see two things: Would the second (or sometimes even third Tweet) convert enough people to my blog to make it worth potentially annoying some people on Twitter? So I started experimenting with multiple Tweets. My conclusions.

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How the Hell do I Prioritize Work, Blog & Find Balance?

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I don’t know Ezra yet but since he’s taking the time to blog (which I hugesly respect) and share thoughts I thought I’d take him up on his challenge and also spill the beans on my secrets. On blogging I blog because I love it. Mostly I’m Blogging for the Hell of It, Not Blogging to Stay Relevant.

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