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When Andrew Sullivan---former blogger for Time and The Atlantic and best known for blogging for The Daily Beast and The Daily Dish---announced last week that he was retiring from blogging to focus on other things, the media world took notice.
During the month of October 2006 when WordPress was just starting out, 595,412 posts were published on blogs using the WordPress-hosted application at WordPress.com. Those 595,412 posts generated an impressive 25.6 million pages views during the same month.
Scholarly publishing is competitive, and getting an article published in a leading journal is an important step in establishing credibility. However, not all scholarly journals are alike.Do you know the difference between real and fake scholarly journals?
Spend some time on web design websites and reading 2015 web design predictions from experts and you'll see one word pops up again and again. That word is interactive. If the predictions are accurate, 2015 will be the year of interactive digital content.
A few years ago, online video was the hottest trend for content publishers. Everyone was creating YouTube channels and taking their blogs or websites to the leading user-generated video site.
The journalism and news industry has changed dramatically in recent years and the continued growth of social news consumption has changed not only how audiences get news but also how journalists create news stories.
What's your 2015 research revolution? That's the question asked by George King of Digital Science (a software and technology company for the scientific research community), and a lot of people are responding by publishing their research resolutions on Twitter using the #researchresolution hashtag.
While there are still many people in the legal profession who worry about publishing online content and posting on social media sites, things have changed a lot in the past few years.
The amount of content that is uploaded and shared online every second is staggering and seems nearly impossible to calculate, but WebpageFX has created a tool that does exactly that.
The world was obsessed with celebrities and sports in 2015 based on Google's top search trends of 2014. According to Google, the top search of the year was Robin Williams followed by World Cup. Even the top Google Doodles of 2014 were related to sports.
In the academic world, professors' jobs are often dependent on the publication of peer-reviewed articles in scholarly journals. Many professors around the world write blogs every day and those blogs are fascinating, but until recently, blogging wasn't taken very seriously in the academic community.
On Sunday, Sucuri reported a huge malware campaign referred to as "SoakSoak" that had compromised over 100,000 self-hosted WordPress sites.
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