Two things of interest today about blogging that is both positive & negative. One positive discusses the power of blogging and its acceleration as a personal publishing phenomena. The other article is a negative one about an Iranian blogger jailed for 14 years.

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A few positive more positive articles here, here and this interesting study from Pew Internet (download PDF of report).

A few more negative articles that are about bloggers getting fired for blogging here, here and here.