by Ed Sutherland on January 1, 2010
It’s that time of year, when prognosticators and pundits dust off the crystal ball to predict the trends for the New Year. In the case of the business of blogging, several interesting trends are in sight for 2010. In no particular order, we start with the banishment of ‘blog.’
Remember when we’d go to the record store to buy music and the book store to find our reading material? The same can be said for ‘blog.’ It started as short-hand for a Web Log, then transmuted into both a noun and a verb umbrella indicating short online writing. However, as more and more people turn online for news and information, those blogs quickly became more than the inane rambling of someone inordinately occupied with lint, to disseminating facts. Couple that with the decline of newspapers and you need a better term to describe the wide range of online material. For that reason, I suggest the following: site. This connects with a similar prediction from our friends at the Inquisitr: five major blogs will be in the top news sites for 2010.
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by Ed Sutherland on December 27, 2009

Celebrity news site TMZ Sunday night confirmed it will launch a website focused on sports. TMZ’s Harvey Levin said there is little difference between Hollywood and well-known athletes.
“I don’t really see a difference between a sports star and a celebrity,” Levin told The New York Times. When word of Tiger Woods’ one-car auto accident happened, TMZ’s ears perked-up. “We immediately jumped on that and said we have to dig deeper,” Levin told the paper’s media reporter Brian Stelter.
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