Blogs are often identified by a specific genre or topic, such as travel or politics.

Blogs may be used as a virtual means of social protest without assembly, such as when thousands of bloggers renamed their blogs Akbar Ganji for a week in 2005, in support of the arrested critic of the regime.

The nominees are broken down into categories such as Environmental and Land Use Law Blogs, Criminal Law Blogs, Tax Law Blogs, and Divorce Law Blogs to name a few.

Blogs allow for students to maintain a running dialogue, such as a journal, thoughts, ideas, and assignments that also provide for student comment and reflection.

Web 2. 0 technologies like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Blogs enable users to participate online and create content without having to understand how the technology actually works, leading to an ever increasing digital divide between those who have the skills and understanding to interact more fully with the technology and those who are passive consumers of it.

Blogs have become a popular means for amateur Vatican watchers to share their thoughts and " insights ".

Sotheby ’ s also publishes Sotheby ’ s Blogs featuring reports from Sotheby ’ s press office.

The New York magazine Blogs are also very popular for their commenters.

See also: Category: Blogs.

He is also the co-author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers with Shel Israel.

These words are also commonly used on internet Blogs, Bulletin board systems, and games.

Blogs, portals, and wikis become common electronic dissemination methods for professionals, amateurs, and businesses to conduct knowledge management typified by success of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia which launched on January 15, 2001, grew rapidly and became the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet as well as the best known wiki in the world and the largest encyclopedia in the world.

* One Million Blogs for Peace

Blogs, short for web logs, are like online journals for a particular person.

Blogs are sometimes rated according to how many web ' hits ' they get from users viewing the page, and this rating is used by advertisers considering paying for ad space on a blog website.

The School is notable for its Tour the Life Student Blogs, in which medical students from all years write about their academic, clinical, and personal experiences at IUSM.

In her book " We are Iran: The Persian Blogs " Nasrin Alavi claims that the earthquake was a turning point for blogs being organizing forces as well as partnering with NGO's rather than governmental organizations:

* Dick Morris ' Pundits Blogs for The Hill ( newspaper ) | The Hill

Gamasutra has five main sections: the News where daily news is posted, the Features where developers post game postmortems and critical essays, Blogs where users can post their thoughts and views on various topics, Jobs / Resume where users can apply for open positions at various development studios, and Contractors where users can apply for contracted work.

Crittenden is currently the Managing Editor of Blogs for the online journal, Huffington Post Canada, which launched in May 2011.

Power relies on consumer reporting for study results as well as in-house vehicle testing for opinion based reviews in Blogs.

Paul Davidson ( born in Smithtown, New York in 1971 ) is an American author who is best known for his Words for My Enjoyment blog and his 2006 book The Lost Blogs.

Blogs – with their threaded comments, personalized illustrations, shorthand in-jokes, wide variety in quality and wider variety of content — follow the structure developed in science fiction fanzines, without ( usually ) realizing the antecedent.

Blogs and online forums further enabled individuals to spread news about titles they like.

Blogs, wikis, and Google Docs are commonly used CSCL mediums within the teaching community.

Blogs mean many things to different people, ranging from " online journal " to " easily updated personal website.

Blogs engage readers and can build a virtual community around a particular person or interest.

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Wikipedia, Blogs, even Twitter are collaborative tools.

( http :// iyiomonworks. blogspot. com /) Kingdom of Benin Blogs.

The home page was changed to reflect this by dropping both the News and Blogs links.

Time magazine named Romm one of its " Heroes of the Environment ( 2009 )", calling him " The Web's most influential climate-change blogger " and, in 2010, it included Climate Progress in a list of the 25 " Best Blogs of 2010 " Romm's 2010 book, Straight Up is a compilation of some of his best blog entries from Climate Progress, with introductions and analysis by Romm.

In August 2006, he published an article in the Columns & Blogs section of The Washington Post in which he supported Iran to pursue nuclear weapons as a deterrent to possible invasion by global powers, after normalising relations with the U. S. and Israel:

" Health Affairs Blogs, May 2011.

"" MilBlogs " ( Military Blogs ) began to share stories, mostly because they didn't get reported.

Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and other similar sites, while not necessarily created to be information media, increasingly are being used to spread news and information, potentially acting as alternative media as they allow ordinary citizens to bypass the gatekeepers of traditional, mainstream media and share the information and perspectives these citizens deem important.

Web services like IRC and ICQ allowed locals to engage in online chat not only with fellow gay Singaporeans but also with the international gay community.

A collection of eight short stories, this montage explores the myriad gay experiences of Singaporeans, albeit mostly clandestine.

An anonymous gay man named " David " was also interviewed at length, in which he doubted Singaporeans ' general level of acceptance of homosexuals.

Andy Warhol is also notable as a gay man who lived openly as such before the gay liberation movement.

Contemporary colloquial Cantonese has distinct loanwords from English, such as 卡通 " cartoon ", 基佬 " gay people ", 的士 " taxi ", and 巴士 " bus ".

Some Christian groups focus on simply refraining from gay sex, such as Courage International and North Star.

such as gay Anglicans in Nigeria.

Under such a system, a servicemember found to be gay but who had not committed any sexual acts while in service would tend to receive an undesirable discharge.

* 1998 – Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U. S. state to abandon such a law.

The police still used gross indecency laws instead to harass homosexuals, but the gay community in Poland thrived, with many important public figures, such as the composer Karol Szymanowski, the poet Bolesław Leśmian and the novelists Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz and Maria Dąbrowska being of homosexual orientation.

Their use of the word " gay " represented a new unapologetic defiance — as an antonym for " straight " (' respectable sexual behaviour '), it encompassed a range of non-normative sexualities and gender expressions, such as transgender street prostitutes, and sought ultimately to free the bisexual potential in everyone, rendering obsolete the categories of homosexual and heterosexual.

It was initially popularized circa 1984 in discothèques catering to gay and mixed, primarily African-American and Latino audiences in Chicago, but beginning in 1985, fanned out to other major cities such as Detroit, Toronto, New York City, Boston, Montreal, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Manchester, Miami, London, and Paris.

On June 3, 2009, Lynch signed a same-sex marriage bill into law, despite being personally opposed to gay marriages, making New Hampshire the fifth state in the United States to allow such unions.

Empower America represented the populist wing of the party: while avoiding divisive issues such as abortion and gay rights, it promoted free markets and growth over balancing the budget and cutting the deficit.

" He responded to such rumours by telling Playboy and other interviewers that he was not gay, and telling Lesley White of the Sunday Times, " I chose for a long time not to answer these questions because of the manner in which they were asked, and because I was never talking to someone I trusted, so why should I?

Most women in the U. S. found it necessary to marry, to a " front " such as a gay man where both could pursue homosexual relationships with public discretion, or to a man who expected a traditional wife.

Estimates of lesbians are sometimes not differentiated in studies of same-sex households, such as those performed by the U. S. census, and estimates of total gay, lesbian, or bisexual population by the U. K. government.

* Several gay rights organizations, such as Lambda Legal, and the Lambda Literary Award derive their names from the use of a lower-case lambda as a symbol for gay and lesbian rights.

In the 1960s, Brando starred in films such as One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ), a western that was the only film he ever directed ; Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1962 ), The Chase ( 1966 ), and Reflections in a Golden Eye ( 1967 ), portraying a repressed gay army officer.

The Brotherhood of the Phoenix was founded in the summer of 2004 by seven gay men from diverse traditions such as ceremonial magic, shamanism, and pre-Gardnerian witchcraft in order to create an ecumenical Neopagan tradition which serves the community of men who love men.

In the 1990s, the queercore movement developed around a number of punk bands with gay, lesbian, or bisexual members such as God Is My Co-Pilot, Pansy Division, Team Dresch, and Sister George.

Inspired by openly gay punk musicians of an earlier generation such as Jayne County, Phranc, Darby Crash and Randy Turner, and bands like Nervous Gender, The Screamers, and Coil, queercore embraces a variety of punk and other alternative music styles.

In particular it attacks the use of sharp binary classifications such as male versus female, straight versus gay, white versus black, and imperial versus colonial ; it holds realities to be plural and relative, and to be dependent on who the interested parties are and the nature of these interests.

Psychologist Douglas Haldeman writes that conversion therapy comprises efforts by mental health professionals and pastoral care providers to convert lesbians and gay men to heterosexuality by techniques including aversive treatments, such as " the application of electric shock to the hands and / or genitals ," and " nausea-inducing drugs ... administered simultaneously with the presentation of homoerotic stimuli ," masturbatory reconditioning, visualization, social skills training, psychoanalytic therapy, and spiritual interventions, such as " prayer and group support and pressure.

Haldeman concludes that such methods applied to anyone except gay people would be called torture, writing, " Individuals undergoing such treatments do not emerge heterosexually inclined ; rather they become shamed, conflicted, and fearful about their homosexual feelings.