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U of U study examines how blogs impact venture capital

Last updated Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 6:34am

SALT LAKE CITY -- For years, researchers have scoured the Internet for evidence of how bloggers and social media affect consumer decisions like choosing what movie to see or which book to buy. Never has there been a similar look at how the blogosphere affects larger financial decisions-particularly new venture financing decisions in which every choice is worth millions of dollars-until now.

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Free classes to teach adults how to use Facebook, Twitter, blogs

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 10:51pm

HUNTSVILLE — Feeling left out because you’re not living the tweet life, blogging and making friends on the Internet? The Weber County Library Ogden Valley branch, 131 S. 7400 East, is offering a series of basic social media “how-to” classes for adults.

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Gennaveve Dilley, 11, checks milk warming on the stove at her home in Clearfield on Tuesday. Her father, Kevin, is away on military leave in Greenland until July and in the meantime, her mother Tyrena home-schools and takes care of five young children, two of whom have spina bifida, including Gennaveve. The family has a chance to win money in a contest sponsored by Home Depot for home repairs.

Votes could win home repairs for Clearfield military family

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 2, 2011 - 7:25am

CLEARFIELD -- While U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Kevin Dilley is away serving his country, his wife Tyrena is home with their five children in a house with a malfunctioning heater, no air conditioning, no insulation in the walls, broken windows and a roof ready to flood the home in any rainfall.

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Gov. Herbert blogging

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, August 12, 2011 - 8:53am

SALT LAKE CITY — Gov. Gary Herbert is starting his own blog.

Herbert’s office says it will be an extension of the governor’s existing website and will serve as an avenue for residents to gain insight into his policy priorities.

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Blog a reflection of yourself

Lynette Randall, TX correspondent Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, July 11, 2011 - 9:19am

We are taking the blogosphere by storm! Blogging -- the new scrapbooking, journal-writing, memory-keeping craze.

Last year, I don't remember exactly what family function I attended but afterward my uncle made a point of telling me that I could check out his pictures on his blog. What? You have a blog? I was in awe at how cool he seemed.

He mentioned that I could have a blog, if I wanted. He'd even help me set it up. Hmmm, a blog. All of a sudden I feet insanely cool and wonderfully original. A blog!

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Senate panel to look into charge that Bush administration, CIA tried to smear professor

Niraj Warikoo

Last updated Thursday, June 23, 2011 - 11:42pm

DETROIT — The Senate Intelligence Committee is reviewing allegations that the CIA and the Bush White House tried to smear Juan Cole, a University of Michigan professor who writes a popular blog on Middle Eastern issues.

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Cuban's right: Bloggers aren't governed by professional ethics

Jim Burton Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Saturday, April 9, 2011 - 10:31pm

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and I are not close. We don't hang out together or swap text messages or anything like that.

But we both tweet, which is to say we both use the social network Twitter to share our opinions with the world, all in 140 characters or less.

I follow Mark. He's one of 100 or so people I follow, all in an effort to stay both entertained and informed.

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Teacher calls her students 'lazy whiners' in blog

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 12:28pm

FEASTERVILLE, Pa. -- A high school English teacher in suburban Philadelphia who was suspended for a profanity-laced blog in which she called her young charges "disengaged, lazy whiners" is driving a sensation by daring to ask: Why are today's students unmotivated -- and what's wrong with calling them out?

As she fights to keep her job at Central Bucks East High School, 30-year-old Natalie Munroe says she had no interest in becoming any sort of educational icon. The blog has been taken down, but its contents can still be found easily online.

Her comments and her suspension by the middle-class school district have clearly touched a nerve, with scores of online commenters applauding her for taking a tough love approach or excoriating her for verbal abuse. Media attention has rained down, and backers have started a Facebook group.

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