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The term '''Blog''' is a [[portmanteau]] of the words 'web log'. Originally the term was used to describe online journals or diaries of people's daily lives, but the use of the term has expanded as so-called 'bloggers' have become independent sources of news (e.g. [http://www.juancole.com/ Informed Comment] and [http://www.truthdig.com/ Truthdig]) and narrowly-focused online commentary and review (e.g. [http://www.gizmodo.com Gizmodo], [http://www.autoblog.com Autoblog] or [http://boingboing.net/ Boing Boing]). Online entrepreneurs may be able to earn money from their own blogs through services such as [[Google]] AdSense, creating a source of revenue. These blogs tend to be more liberal.
The term '''Blog''' is a [[portmanteau]] of the words 'web log'. Originally the term was used to describe online journals or diaries of people's daily lives, but the use of the term has expanded as so-called 'bloggers' have become independent sources of news (e.g. [http://www.juancole.com/ Informed Comment] and [http://www.truthdig.com/ Truthdig]) and narrowly-focused online commentary and review (e.g. [http://www.gizmodo.com Gizmodo], [http://www.autoblog.com Autoblog] or [http://boingboing.net/ Boing Boing]).
Additionally, blogs have become a source of "new journalism" - many prominent newspapers, even the [[New York Times]], have created blogs, especially to cover continually evolving issues like political [[campaigns]].<ref>http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/</ref>
Online entrepreneurs may be able to earn money from their own blogs through services such as [[Google]] AdSense or [[Amazon.com]] Associates, creating a source of revenue.
Additionally, blogs have become a source of "new journalism" - many prominent newspapers, even the [[New York Times]], have created blogs, especially to cover continually evolving issues like political [[campaigns]].<ref>https://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/</ref>
[[Conservative]] and [[libertarian]] blogs have been useful in exposing the [[mainstream media]]'s lies, [[media blackout|blackouts]], [[liberal bias]] and the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] and [[Obama]] administrations. For example, a popular [[Pat Buchanan]] fan blog propagated a leaked video of a [[CNN]] [[Gulf War]] report, which claimed to be live coverage from [[Saudi Arabia]] but was actually a staged performance with props.<ref>http://thedanashow.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/charles-jaco-threatens-blogosphere-over-cnn-video/</ref> The blog [[WorldNetDaily]] is known for its work on Barack Obama's [[Obama birth certificate controversy|birth certificate]] and<ref>https://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=138293</ref> [[Barack Obama's Muslim Heritage|pro-Islamic tendencies]]. [[Ron Paul]]'s 2008 and 2012 primary campaigns have benefited from fan blogs such as [[Daily Paul]].
==Politics and the Blogosphere==
==Politics and the Blogosphere==
<ref>[http://www.rightwingnews.com/mt331/2008/03/blogging_while_female_part_2_5_1.php Blogging While Female Part 2: Five Women Bloggers Talk About Gender Issues And The Blogosphere], John Hawkins, [[Right Wing News]], March 18, 2008</ref>
<ref>[http://www.rightwingnews.com/mt331/2008/03/blogging_while_female_part_2_5_1.php Blogging While Female Part 2: Five Women Bloggers Talk About Gender Issues And The Blogosphere], John Hawkins, [[Right Wing News]], March 18, 2008</ref>
See also: [[Conservapedia]]
==Prescient Quotes on Police State Blog Surveillance==
* "The progress of [[science]] in furnishing the [[big government|government]] with means of [[espionage]] is not likely to stop with [[wiretap]]ping. Ways may some day be developed by which the [[Police state|government]], without removing papers from [[hard disk|secret drawers]], can reproduce them in [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court|court]], and by which it will be enabled to expose to a [[jury]] the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the [[computer science|psychic and related sciences]] may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. 'That places the [[liberty]] of every [[citizen|man]] in the hands of every [[tyrant|petty officer]]' was said by James Otis of much lesser [[tyranny|intrusions]] than these. 1 To Lord Camden a far slighter intrusion seemed '[[subversive]] of all the comforts of society.' Can it be that the [[Constitution]] affords no [[Right to Privacy|protection]] against such invasions of [[Fourth Amendment|individual security]]?"
** [[Louis Brandeis]]''' (1856-1941), [[United States Supreme Court]] [[Associate Justice]] Dissenting, ''[[Olmstead v. United States]]'', 277 U.S. 438 (1928).
==See also==
* [[Censorship]]
* [[Tools of censorship]]
* [[Fairness Doctrine]]
* [[Liberal censorship]]
* [[Evolutionist censorship]]
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* [[Social media]]: Facebook, Twitter, [[Google Plus]], YouTube, [[Yahoo]]
* [[NSA]] and other [[Intelligence agency]] [[mass surveillance]]: [[PRISM]], [[Wiretap]] - [[Roving wiretap]]
* [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]] of the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]]
* [[Duck Duck Go]] [[search engine]] instead of [[Google]], [[Yahoo]] and [[Bing]]
==References==
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://bertschlossberg.blogspot.com/ Real Life and Death: the Bible, Israel, America interplay]
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