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Step right up and apply to blog for one of our 90 fine blogs -- or suggest a blog topic and maybe we'll start a new blog! WIN bloggers are paid to blog as little or as much as they like, are unfiltered, and can shift from blog to blog within the network. Our only requirements are that you be totally honest with your audience and passionate about the subjects you cover. Talk to our editorial team if you're interested!

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  • There is a clear separation between advertising and editorial on all WIN blogs. Our bloggers are not involved in the advertising process. In fact, our bloggers find out who's advertising on our blogs at the same time as the audience!
  • Bloggers do not receive free products or services from the companies they write about.
  • Bloggers do accept review units (i.e., a new cell phone at Engadget, a video game at Joystiq, or a week-long car loan at Autoblog); however, when they're finished reviewing products, they return these items to the manufacturers. If the manufacturers do not take the items back, we give them to our readers. This is the same editorial policy as the New York Times or Wall Street Journal.
  • Bloggers do not accept "junkets" from vendors. Junkets are free trips that PR firms and the companies they represent provide to journalists in the hopes of getting favorable reviews for their products. Our bloggers routinely get offers of first class tickets and four-star hotels at amazing destinations � we NEVER accept them! If we go to an industry event you can be sure that we've picked up the cost of the tickets and that we suffered in coach in order to maintain our integrity.
  • If we get something wrong, we correct the error immediately.
  • Bloggers are committed to being up front and honest. Their opinions are their own, and if you don't agree with them, feel free to post a comment!

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Moving on up at WIN: Judith Meskill and Brad Hill take on new roles.

We've had a massive growth spurt in 2006 here at Weblogs, Inc. and as a result we're bumping people up. I'm thrilled to report two promotions today that will have a huge impact on both the growth of our business and our ability to produce quality blogs.

Judith Meskill (right), currently our Editorial Director, will be moving to Chief Operating Officer of Weblogs, Inc. and work with me on the operations and development of our business. Judith was one of our first bloggers, was our first editorial director, and helped us grow from 40 to more than 160 bloggers in just over one year. She also managed our side of the integration of Weblogs, Inc. and AOL.com. Judith is wildly effective, keeps everyone focused on the goal, and has the dubious distinction of being the only member of the management team who has not taken a vacation since our acquisition by AOL six months ago! (We're forcing her to take one next month!)

Brad Hill, another one of our early bloggers (and the author of Blogging for Dummies), will be moving from Associate Producer to Editorial Director. Brad is an editorial machine, a great manager, and has the unique ability to see and argue all sides of a debate. Our management team prides itself on our ability to move quickly and "fail fast" as Esther Dyson would say. I could write ten paragraphs about Judith and Brad, but I'll let their work speak for itself. Congratulations, and we're looking forward to taking it to the next level!

XBOX 360 Unpacked at Joystiq

unpacking the xbox 360 - first cutOh to be a Joystiq blogger, what I wouldn't give! The fine folks who get paid to write about video games got their grubby little mittens on an XBOX 360 and have insisted on torturing us by doing a photo essay of the unpacking. Now, if only there was a blog dedicated to the XBOX 360... yes, yes. That would be just perfect. :-)

Note: If you would like to get paid to blog about videos games ping us! We need peoples, lot of peoples, to help us grok all the video game goodness out there.


Free Tech Support on DownloadSquad

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DownloadSquad, our blog dedicated to all things software-related, launched a new weekly feature today called "Free Tech Support."

The concept? Users send in their tech support questions and the brilliant bloggers at DLS answer them--sometimes with some help from the audience! The first question? "How can I add a system-wide spell-checker?" Submit your questions here: http://www.downloadsquad.com/tips/

Engadget San Francisco Meetup Photos

 Engadget San Francisco event
The Engadget Meetup in San Francisco was amazing last week. Hundreds of rabid gadget freaks showed up for some good old fashion geek talk and gadget lusting.

Sonos, OQO, and Nokia gave away thousands of dollars in product, and everyone who came got one of the limited edition Engadget t-shirts. The t-shirt was created by the winner of the first annual Engadget t-shirt design contest which had over 500 entries!

Want Engadget to come to your town and give away tons of cool gadgets? Post a comment below!

TVSquad readers vote for LOST theory

lost logoThe team over at TVSquad has been obsessively covering LOST since the start of the season three weeks ago. It seems like we're doing at least a post a day, and the quality and quantity of comments is really impressive.

Today the TVSquad team posted a survey and it turns out the overwhelming majority of TVSquad viewers believe that the secret to the island is... oh wait, you might want to take the survey first (the answer is given after you vote).

On a side note, you can subscribe to an RSS Feed of any of the categories on our blogs. So, if you want to subscribe to an RSS Feed for just the LOST category on TVSquad you can do so by visiting http://www.tvsquad.com/feeds/ and grabbing the RSS Feed for the TV show LOST: http://www.tvsquad.com/category/lost/rss.xml.

Engadget interviews Donkey Kong creator, Shigeru Miyamoto

Shigeru MiyamotoThe team over at Engadget has done it again! This time they’ve landed an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, the man who created Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros.

Another great interview for the Weblogs, Inc. Network. Past interviews include Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. For a complete list of Engadget interviews check out their interview category.

If you've got suggestions for who we should interview on any of our blogs post a comment below or send a note to the bloggers via the tip form found on each blog.

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