Prospecting the blogs for Emmy gold (AP via Yahoo! News)
They watch TV so you don't have to. An army of bloggers have been parsing every second of tonight's Emmy broadcast in a form that's come to be called "live-blogging." Quips, riffs and rundowns are the tools of this trade. The best of these blogs unfold like watching the show with an outrageously funny friend. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Home Depot to Close 11 Landscape Supply Stores (Display & Design Ideas)
Atlanta-based The Home Depot Inc. will abandon its Landscape Supply store concept as part of an effort to focus on its core retail stores, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle . Home Depot plans to close its five Landscape Supply stores in Atlanta and six in the Dallas-Fort Worth area by Nov. 19, 2007. "We had no plans to expand that concept and feel the resources would be a better ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
Real Estate Blog Raises $1.5 Million (WebProNews)
So what if the real estate market is tanking? I think that’s much more interesting to read about than a break-even or everybody-gets-rich scenario, and some investors may feel the same way; Curbed.com, a blog that covers real estate, just received $1.5 million in funding. Curbed isn’t a straightforward list of housing developments; it’s actually a rather entertaining group of stories ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
Blog set up to invite visitors to South Dakota's Black Hills (Winston-Salem Journal)
PIERRE, S.D. - South Dakota tourism advocates have started a blog to attract visitors to the Black Hills. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Bloggers Push China to Prosecute Beating Death
Bloggers have used the Internet to force Chinese officials into investigating what appears to have been a brutal beating by other government officials. nytimes.com |