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The Philadelphia-area high school teacher who was suspended for blogging about some of her "lazy" and "frightfully dim" students will get her ...

A new entry to a blog purportedly written by a Syrian-American lesbian living in Damascus asserted the saga was a hoax, as the male writer of the post claimed to have penned it all.

Blogger. Vlogger. Tweeter. Author. Journalist. These words aren’t synonymous, and yet they all have one thing in common: behind these terms are people who are jockeying in the media world for your attention.

A Canadian man who blogged about his battle with cancer has died, but not without leaving a post-mortem message. "Here it is. I'm dead," read the last internet post of Derek Miller, who died last week after more than four years of blogging about his struggle with colorectal cancer.

The understanding was Arianna provided the platform, I provided the content, and the hope was (on my part anyway) that at some point the combination of the two would land me a paying gig, or up my profile (or in the case of people I know, up their consulting fees and/or land them publishing deals) etc.

Long-form blogs were once the outlet of choice, but now sites like Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr are favored.

I know, like many webmasters you must be already familiar with many of the techniques of optimization; but are you making the most of them?

A “Tonight Show” video showing Taylor Swift reacting to her awards-show victories looked familiar to two bloggers who created a similar segment for VH1.com.

Debbie Schlussel, the Michigan-based blogger and movie critic, was left to wonder whether she had offended the powers at Paramount Pictures when she learned last month that she had been cut from the studio's screening lists.

Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft announced today at the TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in San Francisco, California that its 30 million Windows Live Spaces bloggers will be moved to WordPress.com over the next six months.