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Category Archives: Blogging
Rabbi Avi Shafran: Blogs “Evil,” “Infested,” “Close on the Heels of the Swindlers and Pornographers”
From YeshivaWorld (via FailedMessiah, see this related post of mine): There was a time, not terribly long ago, when disturbed individuals bent on broadcasting angry fantasies had only soapboxes in public parks from which to rant. And respectable people knew, … Continue reading
Six Easy Ways To Make $100
The MyMoneyBlog is my favorite personal finance blog. Here’s a popular entry: 1) Earn interest on your idle cash. Open up a high-yield savings account that links up directly with your existing checking account and pumps up that piddly interest … Continue reading
The Blogger Who Would Save Italy
What can I learn from this man’s example? Khunrum emails: "Perhaps you could be the blogger who saves Beverly Hills. Open your window and howl torah! torah! torah! " Fred emails: Sir, you need to be the voice of your generation. … Continue reading
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Flame War Ends Blog
From the Miami Herald: Two South Florida bloggers traded jabs through online posts for a week until one threw in the towel Sunday. Stuck on the Palmetto has slammed to a halt, disabling its archives and covering the keyboard after … Continue reading
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Blogging for Truth and Beauty
Natasha Singer writes: MOST bloggers have never met a beauty product or treatment they didn’t love. The fill their columns with wildly enthusiastic prose about the latest blush, the newest procedure or research that they laud as cutting-edge. Then there … Continue reading
Jewish Observer Warns About Blogs
Rabbi Asher Meir writes: Gil brought my attention to a recent article by Zvi Frankel in the Jewish Observer warning about the dangers of blogs, and asked if I could make some comments (Zvi Frankel, "Blogs: Transgressing a Major … Continue reading
Blogging And Spite
I admire the way Rabbi Gil Student maintains a high level on his blog and in the comments. It’s the Jewish blog I read most. It’s the best Jewish blog. It’s nice to have a refuge online where things are … Continue reading
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Bill Gates Ticked Off By Blogger
From switched.com: There is one sure fire way to make the normally quiet and geeky Bill Gates a little peeved — question his company’s record of "capitalizing on the innovation of others." According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Todd Bishop, that’s … Continue reading
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I Hate To Dirty My Blogging By Making Money From It
It’s like taking a check for my lovemaking skills. It just doesn’t feel right. I don’t want to make money from Torah Ringtones and Torah Weirdos For Christ. That’s why I’ve been so slow to commercialize this sacred website. I’m … Continue reading
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Entire Blogosphere Stunned By Blogger’s Special Weekend Post
Report: "NEW YORK—In what is being called a seminal moment in Internet history, a rare weekend post by 25-year-old blogger Ben Tiedemann on his website bentiedemanntellsall.blogspot.com rocked the 50 million-member blogosphere this Saturday. The landmark post, which updated nearly every … Continue reading