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The old static blog is indeed dying. But it's being resurrected by Wordpress as a real-time social media personal portal. Check out Buddy Press and P2; they help you aggregate your Facebook/Twitter material inside your blog.

Google Buzz, a new social tool by Google. If you are still unaware of Google Buzz, you can read about it here. Famous tech blogs Mashable and TechCrunch already started adding the Google Buzz buttons into their posts. Now you can also add Buzz this button to your Wordpress blog. To make this butt

BeTweeted Increase Blog Traffic with Twitter this sentence might look crazy, but the video demo has some weight. It's true fact that Twitter is a powerful

Skip1.org is a non-profit with a simple idea. Skip doing just one thing for a day…a coffee, a car wash, a pack of gum and give the money you would have spent on that small luxury to help fight world hunger. Skip1 doesn't have splashy billboards, ads, commercials or any of the traditional trappings of branding campaigns. Skip1.org uses social media to spread their message by engaging people and building relationships. @Skip1 is on Twitter. Skip1dotorg is on YouTube. Skip1.org has a fan page on Facebook, an active blog, and numerous page 1 Google rankings of its web pages and of blog posts by everyday folks to celebrities about the charity's good works.

Internet research Nancy Baym discusses the supposed death of blogs thanks to Twitter. Her justifications for using Twitter a good, particularly point 5.

Develop a Twitter Landing Page

Bloggers, a Twitter landing page may be a better introduction to you than the front page of your blog. When folks click on a link under your Twitter picture, they're curious about YOU, and don't want to navigate a confusing blog page.

On how twitter can make you a better person

Evan Williams and Biz Stone of Twitter Robyn Twomey for TIME ENLARGE + Print Reprints Email Twitter Linkedin Buzz up! (44) Facebook MORE... Add to my: del.icio.us Technorati reddit Google Bookmarks Mixx StumbleUpon Blog this on: TypePad LiveJournal Blogger MySpace The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal." Related Audio Host Katherine Lanpher talks with TIME's Just Fox on stocks vs. bonds and Barbara Kiviat about the housing market's new movement Download | Subscribe Specials The World of Twitter Specials Top 10 Celebrity Twitter Feeds Specials 10 Ways Twitter Will Change American Business Stories The TIME 100: The Twitter Guys by Ashton Kutcher More Related The TIME 100: The Twitter Guys by Ashton Kutcher The TIME 100: The Twitter Guys by Ashton Kutcher The Future of Twitter I, too, was skeptical at first. I had met Evan Williams, Twitter's co-creator, a couple of times in the dotcom '90s when he was launching Blogger.com. Back then, what people worried about was the threat that blogging posed to our attention span, with telegraphic, two-paragraph blog posts replacing long-format articles and books. With Twitter, Williams w

"Injecting Twitter into that conversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. It added a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchange. And it gave the event an afterlife on the Web. Yes, it was built entirely out of 140-character messages, but the sum total of those tweets added up to something truly substantive, like a suspension bridge made of pebbles."

As the recession looms on, more and more people are turning to social media and blogs to look for jobs. Jamie Varon (@jamievaron) has generated buzz in the Twitter community with her new website called Twitter Should Hire Me, where she blogs candidly about her attempts to get a job at Twitter. In this interview, she shares her tips on how to use social media to land the job of your dreams, even in a recession.

Great blog post by Liz Strauss on the 25 traits of twitter folks I admire.

Rebuttal to an article critical of twitter published in the New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2010/01/stop-the-world.html Some interesting comments at the end of the post. Could be a good prompt for a class discussion.

Good morning everyone! Friday is here and the big announcement that you all have been waiting for is finally here. I mentioned on the blog last week to stay turned because of something important to announce. I am proud to say that today will be the start of Levoltz.com's One Year Blog Anniversary

Create a mini blog, share your page, get topics from friends. Describe it in one sentences

Une très belle entrée en matière. "Ce guide s'adresse à tout ceux qui s'intéressent au phénomène Twitter sans pour autant avoir les clés nécessaires à sa compréhension. Il se présente donc comme un guide en 4 parties à l'attention des particuliers mais aussi des entreprises. La première est une présentation générale du service, de ses usages et de ce qu'il a changé dans les méthodes de consommation de l'information pour ses membres. La deuxième partie s'attarde sur la galaxie de services dérivés qu'il a engendré. La troisième s'intéresse aux usages pour les entreprises. Enfin, la quatrième et dernière partie s'interroge sur le futur possible de l'outil de micro-blogging et sur ses utilisations insolites" (Le Blog du Modérateur). Bravo à Flavien Chantrel, Antoine Dupin SEOMAN, Fadhila Brahimi, François Mathieu, Yann Leroux, Benjamin Romei, Eric Dupin, Christophe Logiste, Emilie Ogez, Pierre Jollet, Kim Auclair, Emmanuel Gadenne, Hubert Vaudaux et Lilian Mahoukou.