Around The Blogosphere 15 August 07

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Tags: blogosphere, Russia, Merv Griffin

Global Voices' Veronica Khokhlova writes about Russian views on blogging. Sean’s Russia Blog writes about a Russian woman whose father owned 100 items from Hitler’s private record collection. Jane Keeler of From Russia With Blog submits a Baikal photo to a JPG Magazine’s contest and asks for your vote.

Tan Wei shan, a reporter in Guangzhou, posted a photo of an electric wire thief who has been beaten by local security guard. More metal thefts here.

Syrian blogger Yaman asks: Who is afraid of the Arabic language, following an outrage in the US over a T-shirt which has the Arabic inscription Intifada written on it.

Cory Doctorow: Following up on Monday morning's story about outing whitewashers on Wikipedia, Brian sez, "We went ahead and took a look at changes to Wikipedia allegedly made by the people from the Fox News offices - the changes originating from IP address 12.167.224.228. We've done the legwork of poring through all the edits and published a comprehensive...read more... »

This is cool. Apparently, Ask is the safest company to search with.

Dale Dougherty, the publisher of Make: Magazine did a brief interview with Publishing Executive Magazine, which included some great thoughts on how print publishers can harness the power of Web 2.0 while also playing to their own strengths. read more... »

I didn't have an opportunity to write the kind of post I'd like to about legendary TV talker Merv Griffin, but some other great bloggers did. Check out Ginger's post RIP Merv Griffin (1925-2007) and Dwacon's RIP Merv Griffin, also Cronespeaks' RIP Merv.

No matter the project, staying motivated takes work. Almost always, at some stage, you will lose the motivational spark you had when you began. So how do we stay motivated? read more... »