Around The Blogosphere 05 July 10

Orient Lodge

What If It’s Not All Just Slogans? - Those of us who grew up in the Pepsi Generation, who were encouraged to reach out and touch someone and who wanted to teach the world to sing, may find i...

Scilla Alecci · East Asia

(via Global Voices) While in many countries around the world ordinary citizens learn to take advantage of the new technologies to make their voices heard, in Japan it's the free-lance journalists who take up the battle against establishment media from which they are determined to remain apart.

Famous Bloggers

Miracle Traffic Bot Review – Article Submission Software - I have recently purchased the Miracle Traffic Bot in the hope that it would help me to reduce the time I spend on link building.

Blog says Steve Jobs e-mail was real

CNET (blog) Though the blog said it had made a mistake in the original post by attributing one of the more outlandish comments to Jobs--

Online Social Networking

The Problem with Facebook Groups - The main problem with Facebook groups is a problem that all online networking sites and offline networking groups face, insufficient engagement.

TechCrunch

Everything You Need To Know About The Fragmented Mobile Developer Ecosystem - Considering the immense fragmentation that characterizes the mobile apps industry, it's good to see decent research help us try and make sense of ...

Young patients turn to blogs to make cancer public

The Guardian (Newspaper) Three young people explain why they are using the web to blog about their battles with cancer.

the twitterer

Keeping In Touch Without Hurting Your Wallet - Does making overseas calls make a killing in your budget?

Afroblogger Marvin writes about Twitter in the Kenyan business sector: “I am in the process of compiling a list of Kenyans businesses currently on Twitter. But prior to publishing that post, I thought it prudent to write a post on how Kenyan businesses can use Twitter in their businesses.”

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