IBM has created a widget that crowd-sources ideas for blog posts. Blogging often sounds like a great idea: sharing thoughts and expertise, becoming a part of a community, and taking the first few steps to wider recognition as a writer. But many bloggers quickly get disillusioned.

Minneapolis resident Raina, who grew up in Minnetonka, is competing in this season's "America's Next Top Model," which starts Wednesday at 7 on the CW. She's sharing her experience with us in her blog, which will appear a couple of times a week in the Playlist blog at twincities.com.

The state Coastal Commission will hold a rare Santa Cruz session Thursday and take up the hotly debated plan to build a paved bike-pedestrian path linking Santa Cruz and Live Oak. Read Don Miller's blog

Read highlights from Jim Ross' latest blog entry

The New Mexican sports team will be live blogging from the state basketball tournament beginning 8 a.m. Tuesday morning. Click on the "video" tab (Web users) above the live blog to watch The New Mexican's sportswriters Feb. 28, 2010 radio show previewing this year's tournament.

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The nationally acclaimed The Massachusetts Real Estate Law Blog created by real estate attorney Richard D. Vetstein was recently ranked #97 in a ranking of all North American law blogs by Avvo.com.

A Catholic priest today defended comments on his blog in which he offered sympathy to Jon Venables, saying he felt "immensely sorry" for him.