Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World's Top Bloggers

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John Wiley & Sons, Mar 10, 2008 - Computers - 350 pages
Among more than 102,000,000 blogs, a few stand out as influential, ground-breaking, and singularly successful. These thirty bloggers, who write about everything from business trends to parenting, have been featured in Wired magazine, Popular Science, and on CNN, NPR, MSNBC, and 20/20. In one-on-one conversations with Michael A. Banks, these innovative, creative thinkers have shared their tactics, their philosophies, what drives them, how they mine for subject matter, and their personal secrets for success. Come and learn from the masters.
 

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Contents

Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 1 Dave Taylor The Intuitive Life Business Blog
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 2 Chris Anderson The Long Tail
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 3 Gina Trapani Lifehacker
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 4 Ina Steiner AuctionBytes
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 5 Mary Jo Foley All about Microsoft
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 6 David Rothman TeleRead
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 7 Frank Warren PostSecret
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 8 Mike Masnick Techdirt
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 18 Chris Grant Joystiq
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 19 Scott McNulty The Unofficial Apple Weblog
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 20 Philipp Lenssen Google Blogoscoped
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 21 Brad Hill Weblogs Inc
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 22 Steve Rubel Micro Persuasion
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 23 Rebecca Lieb ClickZ
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 24 Deidre Woollard Luxist
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 25 Gary Lee An Internet Marketing Web Site
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 9 Mark Frauenfelder BoingBoing net
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 10 Robert Scoble Scobleizer
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 11 Peter Rojas Engadget
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 12 John Neff Autoblog
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 13 Ken Fisher Ars Technica
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 14 Deborah Petersen Life in the Fast Lane
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 15 Joel Comm JoelComm com
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 16 Brian Lam Gizmodo
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 17 Kristin Darguzas ParentDish
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 26 Richard MacManus ReadWriteWeb
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 27 Eric T Internet Duct Tape
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 28 Victor Agreda DIY Life
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 29 Steve Garfield Steve Garfields Video Blog
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Chapter 30 Grant Robertson Download Squad
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Further Reading
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Interviews with 30 of the Worlds Top Bloggers Index
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Michael A. Banks
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About the author (2008)

Michael A. Banks has written more than forty books, including the bestseller Crosley: Two Brothers and a Business Empire that Transformed the Nation. Online since 1979, he wrote some of the first hands-on guides introducing people to the online world and such services as CompuServe, AOL, and Prodigy, as well as the pre-Web Internet. He has also chronicled online activities for Windows magazine, Computer Shopper, PCMagazine, PC World, BYTE, and other publications.
An enthusiastic blogger, Banks has participated in online communities for more than a quarter-century. He sees blogging as the cottage industry of the 21st century, and foresees a variety of new Internet-based business categories changing the shape of business over the next decade.

Bibliographic information

TitleBlogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World's Top Bloggers
AuthorMichael A. Banks
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2008
ISBN0470262141, 9780470262146
Length350 pages
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