An interview with a 14-year-old professional blogger

Forbes' best small business blogs

"It stands to reason that budding businesspeople would be attracted to Weblogs, those do-it-yourself publishing sites that embody the very spirit of entrepreneurism. What do blogs add to the small-business dialogue that a whole host of magazines, cable channels and Web sites don't? In addition to transmitting news, industry gossip and occasional rants, the best small business blogs offer interactivity, allowing readers to chime into the dialogue with their own bright ideas. ..."

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Quote of the Day: Sergey Brin

"Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine." - Sergey Brin

*blogspot is owned by Google

Sarah Boxer, author of Ultimate Blogs

"... Today there are, by one count, more than 100 million blogs in the world, with about 15 million of them active. (In Japan neglected or abandoned blogs are called ishikoro, pebbles.) There are political blogs, confessional blogs, gossip blogs, sex blogs, mommy blogs, science blogs, soldier blogs, gadget blogs, fiction blogs, video blogs, photo blogs, and cartoon blogs, to name a few. Some people blog alone and some in groups. Every self-respecting newspaper and magazine has some reporters and critics blogging, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. ..."

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Blog of the Week: Monster

"The world of work can be sometimes terrific and sometimes terrible, sometimes crystal clear and sometimes completely confounding, sometimes rewarding and sometimes repugnant (are you sensing a penchant for alliteration?). Searching for your next job and/or career just magnifies all these paradoxes.

As members of the team that creates Monster Career Advice, we spend a lot of time thinking and writing about careers and the pursuit of them. The Monster Blog gives us a chance to write about an array of issues in a free-form style. Sometimes we'll talk about the day's big news stories and sometimes we'll muse about workplace microwave etiquette -- just depends on the day."

Find out more at Monster Blog.

What should your business blog do for you?

It's RSS Awareness Day

Bloggers and people in the Internet industry are aware of RSS but its reach seems to halt there. To inform more people about the benefits of RSS the RSS Awareness Day campaign was launched by Daily Blog Tips. You can find the RSS Awareness Day website at www.rssday.org . The website has a page with buttons and banners for bloggers who want to spread the word about the RSS holiday. This page also contains information that shows how few Internet users know about RSS.