Wednesday - June 01, 2005

Will Blog For Food

Hmmmm .... it seems one of the hottest new jobs in corporate America is .... blogging. Yep, you heard that right. Up until now, bloggers have been mostly composed of teeny-boopers keeping on-line journals, liberal lefties supporting Kerry and paid by George Soros and .... highly intelligent, good-looking, handsome, debonair, suave bloggers like .... yours truly. All right, stop laughing.

WALL STREET JOURNAL - June 1, 2005 - In its short lifespan, blogging has largely been a freewheeling exercise in online self-expression. Now it is also becoming a corporate job.

A small but growing number of businesses are hiring people to write blogs, otherwise known as Web logs, or frequently updated online journals. Companies are looking for candidates who can write in a conversational style about timely topics that would appeal to customers, clients and potential recruits.

Last year, Christine Halvorson was hired as chief blogger at Stonyfield Farm Inc., a Londonderry, N.H., organic yogurt company owned by Groupe Danone. She applied for the job after responding to an ad posted at Monster.com. A former freelance writer and Web content editor, Ms. Halvorson now writes four blogs for Stonyfield, including a blog about the company, the Daily Scoop, and Creating Healthy Kids, about healthy foods in schools. Her job entails researching, linking to news and providing personal insight.

Currently only 4% of major U.S. corporations have blogs available to the public, according to a recent survey by eMarketer, a New York research company. But ads for blogging jobs are popping up on online job boards in recent months. “Blogging jobs are growing in popularity,” says Jennifer Sullivan, spokeswoman for CareerBuilder Inc.’s CareerBuilder.com, based in Chicago. She notes that in March she recruited a communications specialist whose job includes writing CareerBuilder’s blog.

Flycell Inc., New York, an 18-month-old provider of mobile-phone content such as games and ringtones, posted an ad on the technology-job site Dice.com in April for a “blogger/copywriter/editorial-content producer.” The ad includes the following description: “Create, maintain and promote a blog that covers and reports about mobile-phone content and the marketplace ... Must have experience creating and updating blogs, including creating links to other topical blogs ... Blog savvy is a must.”

The annual salary ranges from $50,000 and $70,000.

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Wake Up Call

• Certain plastic compounds cause small penises. In a related story, scientists are measuring your “taint” (anogenital index - the distance between the genitals and the anus).


• The Ten Most Harmful Books Of The Twentieth Century list is complete. “The Communist Manifesto” topped the list, along with “Mein Kampf”. Clinton’s “My Life” somehow slipped through the cracks.


• The French voted “Non” on the EU; today, it’s the Dutch people’s turn. The EU appears to be going down in flames for sure.


• The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is taking steps to crack down on blogs who take money from politicians ....

Web loggers, who pride themselves on freewheeling political activism, might face new federal rules on candidate endorsements, online fundraising and political ads, though bloggers who don’t take money from political groups would not be affected.

Draft rules from the Federal Election Commission, which enforces campaign finance laws, would require that paid political advertisements on the Internet declare who funded the ad, as television spots do.

Similar disclaimers would be placed on political Web sites, as well as on e-mails sent to people on purchased lists containing more than 500 addresses. The FEC also is considering whether to require Web loggers, called bloggers, to disclose whether they get money from a campaign committee or a candidate and to reveal whether they are being paid to write about certain candidates or solicit contributions on their behalf.

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/01/2005 at 06:05 AM   
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Where Is Aquaman?

_{Emad Hajjaj, Al-Ghad Newspaper, Amman, Jordan}

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/01/2005 at 04:00 AM   
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Blow The Man Down

It’s official. Hurricane Season is upon us once again. Belay the Mains’l .. hoist the jib boom, batten down the hatches, call for the Cap’n ashore .... the Sloop John B done be takin’ on water, lads ....

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/01/2005 at 12:01 AM   
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