TV BUZZ: A blogger dedicated a site to writing jokes in hopes of getting hired for a gig at Late Night (he Tweets, too). Hey if you can't join 'em…set up a blog or whatever.

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1. Hire Me, Jimmy Fallon!
2. Hire Me Jimmy Fallon on Twitter
3. He Tumbls, Too, But Not About All Things Jimmy

Liberia's Alfred Sirleaf started his blackboard blog, the “Daily News,” so he could get news to those who couldn't afford newspapers, let alone computers. He even has footer and sidebar ads!

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Neil Patrick Harris, on the cutting-edge since 1992. I'm a little alarmed that he's blogging about his mother, but I guess that's allowed at 16? Maybe?

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1. Doogie Is Also The Original Poon Handler
2. Via

TECH BUZZ: Akin to the Slow Food Movement , Slow Blogging refers to a “rejection of immediacy,” and an “affirmation that not all things worth reading are written quickly.” In other words, forget everything you learned from Arianna Huffington, Nick Denton, and Buzzfeed, and just…chill…(but don't be surprised if you lose your readers in the process).

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The Best Links:

1. Blogging at a Snail’s Pace
2. The Elements of Slow Blogging
3. The Slow Blog Manifesto
4. “I Do Think That We Try to Balance Our Quick Hits With Our Slowly-developing Consciousness, Our Action-oriented Items With Our Reflection-encouraging Content, and Our Sass With Our Search.”
5. Slow Design - Featured on Buzzfeed

CULTURE BUZZ: Burning Man’s up-to-the-minute blog from the desert. With the annual desert art orgy kicking off today in Black Rock City, Nevada, the Burning Blog should be fun to watch for info, news, happenings, and more! Never before has blogging been so hot.

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The Best Links:

1. The Burning Blog
2. How To Experience Burning Man Remotely
3. Burning Man on Twitter
4. What Is Burning Man?
5. Burning Man blogs
6. Burning Man on SFGate

SCIENCE BUZZ: Southern California has an earthquake, and we know thanks to bloggers! More news as there are updates — looks like the quake only just struck, but there’s still been time for the blogosphere to pat itself on the back for beating the mainstream media to the story.

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The Best Links:

1. “Tumblr had CNN beat by a good 5 minutes.”
2. Perez Hilton Explains How Earthquakes Work
3. First Earthquake Tweet!
4. How Twitter Allows For TMI: Earthquake Edition
5. Earthquake on Twitter Search
6. Looks Like It Was Centered In Chino Hills
7. Confirmed…By Blogger?
8. Thanks, Wikipedia!
9. Even Reddit Commenters Felt It
10. Earthquake Shakes Southern California
11. LA Times Server Down — Due To Quake?

TECH BUZZ: A website that aggregates newly posted blog entries with the phrase “I feel” and “I am feeling”, so you can research how people are feeling on a global scale. The entries are searchable by feeling, date, weather, location, and blogger’s age to help you answer questions like: Do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s? What do people feel like in Baghdad right now?

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The Best Links:

1. We Feel Fine.org