Blogged.com, a site that started off as a ratings-powered blog directory has branched out into new territory this morning. It’s now compiling the hottest news headlines by hand. Competing news tracking services like TechMeme, Google News, and BlogRunner use automated systems or a slight mix of automation and editorial choice to categorize news as it happens. Blogged’s will be entirely human-driven.

The move is a bit of a gamble to get people in the door. Once a user is looking at a story, they can dig into Blogged’s directory and check out its rating, hopefully coming back later to add their own. There’s also a new search tool that’ll let you search both blog listings and individual posts based on topic.

I got to ask founders Kenneth Yeh and Gladys Kong about the people behind these story selections. Apparently the team of feeders is the same group who’s behind the blog ratings. Believe it or not, that means they’re getting paid to sit around and read blog content in over a dozen different categories. “Our editors have pretty good taste,” Yeh stated. Not to mention a job (Yeh states they’re hiring).

That same taste is what determines which stories get front page placement, even if someone else breaks the news first. The company is hoping quality will rule over velocity, even though Yeh expects them to have approximate speed to the competitors.

Still on the horizon are additional ratings for writers, and a way to comb news using those ratings. “We are still working on that piece, as much as ratings,” stated Yeh.

Blogged's new story page will track hot stories in different disciplines.

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By Jed Horowitz Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–Enough already with the cliches about the perfect storm. For the huge investment banks, it’s nearly a cataclysm. Let’s begin with the basics. When the broad equity market suffers, brokerage stocks inevitably do worse. (When it rains on the market, in that storm analogy, it […] For more visit Source:www.investment-blog.net

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Last month, we reported that The New York Times would be expanding its online-media reach with TimesPeople, a sharing and bookmarking feature on the site.

But that’s not all for the Gray Lady’s digital makeover, Silicon Alley Insider reported Wednesday. Also on the way is a set of …

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Web page archiving tool Iterasi is getting a small but important update Tuesday morning. Users can now share their stream of archived pages with others as an RSS feed, letting anyone view their saved items either directly in their browser or in a feed-capturing tool like Google Reader or desktop e-mail clients.

Also being introduced is a new widget that can be tacked onto your blog or favorite start page like iGoogle or My Yahoo. It will display a reverse chronological stream of the latest pages you’ve tucked away. Each item is just a thumbnail, but when users click on it they’ll be taken to the fully archived version of the page, complete with working links. It’s the same basic experience seen when the service launched its sharing feature.

“What’s surprising is how many of our users were asking for RSS feeds,” Iterasi CEO Pete Grillo told me. Grillo acknowledged that the current Iterasi user base is a bit on the early-adopter side, and he thinks the widgets will help open the service up to a wider audience.

He also anticipates more people to jump onboard as the platform expands to include Mac users, which should be happening in the next few weeks–right around the time the long-awaited auto-archiving feature makes its way into users hands. “We’re close to having it ready,” Grillo said “and RSS is going to make it far more useful than we originally intended.” Once in place users, will be able to schedule when they want the service to take snapshots of their favorite pages. It will continue to do so as long as the personal where the extension is installed is running.

I’ve embedded an example of the new widget after the break. It’ll continue to update as more pages are saved.

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As has been repeatedly rumored, Silicon Valley legend Marc Andreessen will be taking a seat on Facebook’s board of directors. In a press release issued Monday afternoon, the veteran entrepreneur–co-founder of Netscape, former CTO of AOL, and now co-founder of social site Ning–was announced as the board’s …

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By Jed Horowitz Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–Enough already with the cliches about the perfect storm. For the big investment banks, it’s nearly a cataclysm. Let’s begin with the basics. When the broad equity market suffers, brokerage stocks inevitably do worse. (When it rains on the market, in that storm analogy, it […] For more visit Source:www.investment-blog.net

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(Updated at 10:45 p.m. PDT with ping information from CNET China.)

Rumors began to surface late on Tuesday that Facebook could no longer get past the Great Firewall of China.

The company appears to have acknowledged the situation. “We are disappointed to learn of reports that users in

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Fighting the common wisdom that it’s tough to make money off a social-network application, AOL announced Monday that it will guarantee CPM revenues to developers on Facebook and Bebo’s platforms if they opt to use its Platform-A ad technology. If a developer pulls in three one-of-a-kind ad impressions, …

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I recently returned from San Diego, where the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) was holding its annual conference.

From tech startups to renewable energy contractors, the exhibit hall was teeming with job opportunities. Just about each rep I talked with said their company or organization was growing — and growing fast.

By ASES’s count, there are now more than 8 million “green-collar” jobs the United States, serving a almost $1 trillion market in renewable energy and energy efficiency. (Think assembly line workers at a wind turbine plant, energy auditors, green architects, etc.) The Society says those figures could grow to 40 million jobs (about a quarter of the country’s workforce) and fuel a $4.5 trillion industry by 2030.

Superior yet, these jobs are geographically dispersed. From Vermont’s success with energy efficiency to rust belt renewal in Pennsylvania to Texas wind farms to the California photovoltaic industry, there are opportunities in just about every part of the country.

If you’ve just graduated or if you’re looking for a career change and an opportunity to be part of the new clean, green economy, here are a couple tips to get your search started:

• Think efficiency. A lot of the new, green economy is about doing more with less. Energy service companies (ESCOs) — businesses that implement energy efficiency measures and make money by taking a percentage of their clients’ savings — employ thousands of people directly and indirectly in the United Says. Weatherizing houses might not sound as trendy as installing solar panels, but it can have a much greater effect on a family’s energy consumption, finances, and quality of life. Beyond energy, there are a number of organizations doing the same kind of work for water and other natural resources.

• Consider using the skills you already have. According to the ASES report, “the vast majority of the jobs created by RE&EE [the renewable energy and energy efficiency industries] are standard jobs for accountants, engineers, computer analysts, clerks, factory workers, truck drivers, mechanics, etc.” That means there’s probably a job for someone with your skill set in these industries.

• Get educated; get involved. If you don’t have the skills for the job you want, reading up on the topics, taking classes, or volunteering are a great ways to get started. Rocky Mountain Institute has an extensive library on many of topics of interest, as do the Earth Policy Institute, Worldwatch Institute, Environmental Defense, and NRDC. Trade journals such as Solar Today and Home Power are also good resources for reading up on the renewable energy sector. Organizations such as Solar Energy International and Yestermorrow Design/Build School can instruct you skills needed for careers in this field. Many vocational schools around the country are also adding programs to prepare people for these jobs. And if you’re interested in volunteering, idealist.org has an extensive list of opportunities.

Once you’ve narrowed in on what you want, there are plenty of green job boards (greenjobs.com, greenenergyjobs.com, ecojobs.com, etc.) worth checking out on the Web.

At Rocky Mountain Institute we speak a lot about how the economy can evolve in a way that’s better for people and the planet; we call this evolution Natural Capitalism. As businesses start shifting in this direction, it’s an exciting time to join the green movement by aligning your career with your values.

As Van Jones, founder and president of Green For All, told a rapt audience at the ASES conference: “You have no idea how much good you’re going to do.”

Noah Buhayar is a fellow at Rocky Mountain Institute.

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