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Has Social Media Made Search-Driven Publishing Irrelevant?AdweekIts signature property, eHow.com, is still massive (around 50 million unique users) but has lost about 10 million users since Google adjusted its algorithm to weed out low-quality content. Demand has very publicly pivoted to celebrity-centric content ...

Strangest items Toronto doctors have removed from children's passagesYahoo! News Canada (blog)"It's a common occurrence," reads an eHow post before it explains a trick to removing objects. Identify the nostril, close the other one and ask the child to breath out of his or her nose gently. Hopefully, the object comes out.

Thief steals six city parking metersCorvallis Gazette TimesAccording to a business site called eHow.com, parking meters can hold between $30 and $60. ?We don't have any suspects at this point unless someone gives us a tip on who did it or someone comes across some meter heads and reports it,? Wood said.

Residents share Super Bowl plansPortales News-Tribune6. Remove fragile or breakable items from the room before the game starts. You don't want someone to leap up yelling ?You call that holding? He wasn't even touching him!? and break your wife's favorite vase. (eHow)and more »

San Francisco Firm Sends Awesome Officewide 'Restroom Etiquette' EmailAbove the LawOur intrepid tipster did some research and discovered that the missive actually came from an eHow Style article. Straight-up plagiarism, for the win. That said, office policies are definitely important. Maybe the firm should have written its own policy ...and more »

Super Bowl commercials: Past and presentIowa State DailyEven then, advertisers knew the impact of commercial spots for the event and paid NBC $1250 per second of air time, or nearly $37500 for a 30-second spot, according www.ehow.com. As audiences grew, advertisers stepped up their own games by ...and more »

Three founders say ?so long? to Demand MediaVentureBeatThe content farm operates such properties as eHow and Cracked. Perez had been in charge of product marketing and community, Fitzgibbon oversaw Demand brands, and Kydd was in charge of Demand Studios, which produced original articles and video content ...Demand Media Founders Exit CompanyAdweekall 22 news articles »

BlogHer, Inc. Joins Top Women's Community Lifestyle and Food Networks as ...MarketWatch (press release)Figure 1 Top 25 US Sites tracked by comScore Media Metrix for Community Lifestyles and Food US Community Lifestyles Total Uniques/Month (000) Glam Media 86616 iVillage.com: The Womens Network 31100 Shine 30993 AOL Lifestyle 27256 eHow Lifestyle 25692 ...and more »

How often should you wash your comforters?VillageSoup BelfastBy Nicole Papagiorgio, eHow Contributor A comforter is a large, thick and sometimes heavy blanket you use may use to keep warm while sleeping. You may have other bed sheets that separate your body from the comforter, requiring the comforter to be ...

Video: P. Allen Smith Channel Debuts on YouTubeArkansas Business OnlineBy Lance Turner A web video channel programmed by eHow Home and featuring Arkansas-based garden guru P. Allen Smith has launched on YouTube, the massive online video website owned by Google Inc. Smith's channel, which features video segments on ...