Each month, ChicagoNow holds a contest to select the best blog posts throughout ChicagoNow. Out of more than 500 posts published during the month of December, here are the 20... ChicagoNow’s 20 best ...

The 110th carnival of education blogs is up and open for business over at The Education Wonks, including some interesting posts about where education fits into the Presidential campaign. The opinions ...

Yesterday, if I had suffered a grievous accident involving some kind of heavy farm machinery, and my fingers were mangled to leave only a single, stubby nubbin where previously I had sported ten ...

Blog posts are quite possibly the most common content type that exists. You read them, I read them, we all read them – but which ones actually made an impact on you? Which blogs gave you useful ...

This year, I think, is finally the year we can stop talking about whether blogging is as good as "real" journalism. At its best, it's as good as anything out there. And, with blogging's ability to ...

Although quality content has always been crucial for ranking well on search engines, Google has redefined what “quality” means. It’s no longer about sprinkling in keywords or hitting a word count. In ...