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2009.01.20 14:28:36

Under the banner headline, 'Renew America Together, "President-elect Barack Obama and his incoming staff are marking today's federal holiday remembering the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as a day of service," writes The Caucus. You can find service projects at USAService.org. The site also has a blog, where you can text message your plans for today and get ideas from others. Debbie from Delaware "lost my home to an impending foreclosure so I am volunteering with an organization helping homeowners to not fall prey to sub-prime," while Sherri from Illinois will be "volunteering at Hope Haven womans shelter serving dinner in Dekalb Illinois from 5 to 7 pm." Over at BlogHer, Britt Bravo explains that "Congress passed the King Holiday and Service Act in 1994 making it a national day of volunteer service," and lists five ways to get involved today.

2008.11.23 21:47:50

A blog (a contraction of the term "Web log") is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketches (sketchblog), videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting), which are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging, one which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs. With the advent of video blogging, the word blog has taken on an even looser meaning — that of any bit of media wherein the subject expresses his opinion or simply talks about something.