Blogging

When Mayhill Fowler quoted Barack Obama and Bill Clinton saying things they'd never have said had they known she was in the press (sort of), her editors couldn't have been more pleased. But when Fowler pulled the same stunt on those editors, they were far less delighted.

WordPress, the hugely popular blogging platform produced by Automatic Software, is becoming the default blogging platform for Microsoft Live users. Microsoft has pretty much killed its homegrown blogging platform, and that's good for both companies.

Desperate to get an iPhone 4, but also desperately poor? San Francisco-based blogging platform Posterous can't help you with your cash strapped situation, but it is giving away 25 iPhones to hard-working college kids, plus covering the costs of each phone's two-year data plan. The catch: must...

True/Slant, the blogging network that sought to match experienced writers with advertisers, will cease publishing new stories at the end of the month.

CNN firing Octavia Nasr over a questionable Tweet is the latest high-profile controversy regarding social media. The dust-ups show the difficulties many corporate cultures have as their employees embrace new ways of communicating.

Finding freebies on the web is a big deal - there are dozens, if not hundreds of blogs devoted to sharing free stuff online. But Collin Morgan, the freebie diva behind Hip 2 Save, is a cut above. I talked to Collin, 28, who started blogging two years ago, about staying on her game, fake freebies,...

Forbes Media said Friday it has hired an investment bank to explore a sale of Investopedia, the 11-year-old investor-education website it acquired in 2007.

With social networking transforming the way people relate to each other, some fear technology "generation gaps" are increasing. Yet just as Mick Jagger's lips didn't end Western Civilization, the truth is texting, twittering and blogging will only increase connections between people and generations.

Blogging as a form of journalism is new enough that the ethics of it are still being worked out. And blog ethics can be a particularly treacherous area for those who wander into it unawares -- as one New York City publicity executive did last week.

Have you ever wondered if that blogger is really a flogger pushing a product or service just a little too hard? Starting December 1, bloggers promoting any kind of stuff from a company must admit if they got cash or gifts to do so. This means blogging will be goverment-regulated for the first...