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Meski demikian, blog ini PR nya naik dari 0 ke 4..huehuehuehue

Baiklah, daripada pusing dan pening..mari kita membahas program satu ini.

Setelah ditolak hampir sebanyak 5 (lima) kali di mbahnya program paid review PayPerPost, akhirnya blog saya diterima juga. Seneng? Pastinya duonk. Sebagai engkongnya program paid review, saya kira siapa pun pasti mengidam-idamkan blognya agar diapprove oleh PayPerPost. Maklum, PayPerPost (PPP) terkenal dengan jumlah job dan tawaran penghasilan yang cukup menggiurkan. Ibaratnya cpc, PPP itu google adsensenya.

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PayPerPost biasa disingkat PPP adalah broker paid review yang sangat kredibel, merupakan bagian dari big company-nya online earning for blogger. Kenapa saya bilang begitu? Ya, karena hal ini sangat jelas terlihat di halaman opportunity mereka dengan jumlah advertiser/job yang selalu diatas angka 150 ekor buah. Wow.

All right, mari kita mulai dari bagian awal supaya ga ngalor ngidul.

Cara Kerja

Saat ini PPP memperbolehkan setiap blog mengambil 3 job setiap harinya. Jadi kalau misalnya kamu punya dua blog yang diterima di PPP, maka kamu bisa mengerjakan 6 job sehari dengan nilai rata-rata per job $5-$20. Meski demikian, untuk menambahkan blog lain ke dalam account PPP, kamu diharuskan sudah memiliki 10 buah job yang disetujui oleh mereka terlebih dahulu.

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QB’s Heisman formula? Just win baby

Reaching title game, not amazing stats, key to capturing trophy

Though he did catch a respectable number of passes — 45 — last season for the Thundering Herd, Marshall wideout Darius Passmore is hardly a viable Heisman Trophy threat in 2008. Instead, Passmore, or at least his surname, serves as a 21st century guidepost. A declaration. A Heismantra, if you will.

Pass more.

Seven of the past eight Heisman Trophy winners have been quarterbacks, and that trend will likely continue this season. Once running backs seemingly owned the bronze bust. From 1972-1983 the award was strictly the domain of running backs, and if Gerard Phalen of Boston College had not been so sure-handed in 1984 — it was he who hauled in Doug Flutie's prayer as time expired at Miami — that streak may have extended longer.

Whereas the 1970s and early '80s were the RB era, a time when iconic coaches such as John Robinson (USC) and Woody Hayes (Ohio State) produced multiple Heismans from the tailback slot — it was Hayes who grumbled, "Three things can happen when you attempt a pass, and two of them are bad" — the 21st century is so far a passer's fancy.

The irony is that the most prolific passers have not been taking home the Heisman this decade — the ones with the highest-ranked team have.

In 1999 Wisconsin running back Ron Dayne won the Heisman. All the Badger back had to do to earn his bust was finish his career in Madison as Division I-A's all-time leading rusher. Dayne gained 6,397 yards in four seasons.

To win the Heisman as a running back, you have to post massive yardage. To do so as a quarterback, you simply have to win.

During that 12-year running backs run (1972-1983), for example, no pretenders won the award. From 1976-1983 all but one of the seven Heisman Trophy winners was also that season's leading rusher in I-A: Tony Dorsett, Earl Campbell, Billy Sims, Charles White, George Rogers, Marcus Allen and Mike Rozier. Memorable figures, those. The exception was Georgia's Herschel Walker who in 1982 had a lower yards-per-game figure than Oklahoma State's Ernest Anderson. Walker, few will argue, was the most devastating rusher college football has ever seen. The only dispute concerning Herschel was why he did not win the award twice.

It was an era in which the Heisman was bestowed on the most prolific rusher in America. And if that back happened to also play for a national championship-caliber team (all but Rogers played in a New Year's Day bowl), well, that was a function of what the most successful programs did offensively at the time. It was a FedEx Ground era in college football.

This decade? Seven of the eight Heismans have gone to quarterbacks. And whereas the yardstick on rushers has always been yardage — six of the top dozen all-time rushing leaders have won the award — the standard for
Consider these five names: Chris Weinke, Eric Crouch, Jason White, Matt Leinart and Troy Smith. All five quarterbacks won the Heisman this decade, though none of them are anywhere near the top in all-time or single-season NCAA passing records lists. None of them led the nation in passing the year they won the award. What those five had in common was an appearance in the national championship game the year they visited Manhattan in December.
A sixth quarterback, Carson Palmer of USC, never made it to the national championship game, but at least in NFL scouts' (and Fantasy Leaguers') eyes, he's by far the best Heisman winner of the bunch. The seventh, Florida's Tim Tebow, played in the national championship game the year before he won the trophy.

The oddity is that passers, with apologies to the Houston slingers of the late '80s-early '90s, have never been more prolific than in this decade. Hawaii's Timmy Chang (2000-04) is the sport's all-time passing yardage leader (17,072) while his successor, Colt Brennan, holds the NCAA record for most touchdown passes in a season (58). Neither won the Heisman, and only Brennan was even invited to the ceremony.

‘Batman’ star denies assault allegations

Bale out on bail after being questioned about incident with mom, sister

LONDON - The darkness around Batman has deepened: While audiences were shattering weekend box-office records in the U.S., Christian Bale was in London, where his mother and sister reportedly leveled assault allegations against the star of “The Dark Knight” that have yet to become clear.

Bale said the allegations were false Tuesday, hours after the Wales-born actor was arrested, questioned by London police and released on bail. The 34-year-old actor spent four hours talking with authorities but was not charged.

British media reported that Bale’s mother and sister told police he assaulted them at the Dorchester Hotel in London on Sunday night, a day before attending the European premiere of “The Dark Knight.” The Sun newspaper said the complaint was filed by sister Sharon Bale and mother Jenny Bale.

“Christian Bale attended a London police station today on a voluntary basis,” read a statement from Bale’s lawyer, Simon Smith, of the London-based firm Schillings. “Bale, who denies the allegation, cooperated throughout, gave his account in full of the events in question, and has left the station without any charge being made against him by the police.”

A woman thought to be Bale’s sister Sharon told reporters “it’s a family matter” from her home in Corfe Mullen, 110 miles southwest of London. A man who answered the door at the home of Jenny Bale in nearby Bournemouth said she did not want to comment.

The reports surfaced just days after “The Dark Knight,” which co-stars Heath Ledger as Batman’s nemesis the Joker, took a record $158.4 million at the box office in its opening weekend. Ledger, who took the iconic villain to a deeply disturbed and diabolical place, died earlier this year of an accidental drug overdose in New York — a circumstance that has only added to the movie’s brooding mystique.

Asked Tuesday whether Bale had been arrested, a London police spokesman did not refer to him by name but said: “A 34-year-old man attended a central London police station this morning by appointment and was arrested in connection with an allegation of assault.”

The spokesman requested anonymity because he is not authorized to be identified under police policy. British police do not name suspects who have not been formally charged.

The force later said in a statement that the man had been released on bail pending further inquiries and told to return in September. It did not specify the date.

The Sun said police did not question the actor Monday because they did not want to interfere with the premiere of the movie. The next scheduled stops on the film’s European premiere tour were Madrid, Spain, July 23; and Tokyo on July 28.

In the sequel to “Batman Begins,” Bale reprises the role of wealthy playboy Bruce Wayne and his crime-fighting alter-ego Batman, a brooding vigilante superhero still scarred by the murder of his parents.

In his destructive battle of wits with the Joker, Batman pushes his own ethical boundaries, and ultimately is forced into the shadows. Winding up what may be the darkest — and most critically acclaimed — superhero movie ever, Bale’s Batman truly becomes, as coined by Bruce Wayne’s butler Alfred: “The Dark Knight.”

Bale first made a splash as the child star of Steven Spielberg’s “Empire of the Sun” in 1987 and as an adult has made his name with intense screen roles. His earlier films include “American Psycho” and “The Machinist.”

Bale is the youngest of four children and is the stepson of Gloria Steinem. Her assistant said Tuesday that the author and feminist leader was at a writing retreat and unavailable for comment.

Bale’s current project is playing John Connor in “Terminator Salvation,” scheduled for filming this week in New Mexico. The film “will continue to shoot with Mr. Bale when he has completed his International tour for ’The Dark Knight,”’ said Lee Anne Muldoon, unit publicist for the movie.

A records check turned up no criminal record for Bale in the Los Angeles area, where he’s lived with his wife, Sibi Blazic, and their young daughter.

You don’t have to break the bank on furniture

10 Tips: The economy may look bleak, but your home doesn't have to

With gas and food prices rising and the economy stalling, it can be hard to keep up with routine bills and expenses, let alone expenses that are extra or unexpected. But what if you really need to furnish a room or section of your home at a time like this?

It’s easy enough to find yourself in such a predicament whether you’re just starting out or you’ve been established for years.

Don’t worry, though – the following tips can help you consider your options and save some of your hard-earned cash.

1. The Internet is your friend. Rather than blow hour after hour of precious weekend time visiting furniture stores on a potentially fruitless search, do some shopping around online first. You could compare the prices and details of similar pieces of furniture at 10 to 12 different stores in a matter of minutes.

2. Reflect on ways to spend nothing, or almost nothing. Don’t necessarily turn your nose up at the idea of scoring free or low-cost pieces of furniture from other people who live in your area. You could find exactly what you’re looking for via Web sites such as Craigslist (check out the “free” link under “for sale”), The Freecycle Network, Sharing Is Giving, Freecycleamerica.org, ReUseIt Network and FreeSharing.org. Here’s something to remember, though: When visiting all of these Web sites with the exception of Craigslist, try to have an eye toward giving as well as receiving. Also, don’t try to trade or swap through these sites; the idea is to give stuff away with no strings attached.

3. Check out the goods in person. As convenient as it can be to shop at home, it’s still important to be careful about buying furniture solely on the basis of a tiny thumbnail image on the Internet. If at all possible, try to inspect the actual furniture before you buy so you can see its overall finish and appearance. Another benefit of examining the furniture in person: You could avoid exorbitant shipping fees that way.

4. Remember warehouse stores. Places like Costco and Sam’s Club aren’t just for bulk purchases of dog food, diapers and artichoke hearts, you know. You often can find surprising deals on high-quality furniture at warehouse stores and literally save hundreds of dollars on the purchases you make.

5. Be alert for deals. If you’re in the market for furniture, get in the habit of scanning the ads in your Sunday paper, in your mailbox and in the windows of stores in your area. Stay on the lookout for going-out-of-business sales and same-as-cash financing deals with zero-percent interest for six to 12 months. (Note: If you finance a furniture purchase in this way, be absolutely sure to pay it off in full in the time you’re given to do so.)

6. Think ahead before you buy. You may fall in love with the look of a certain piece of furniture, but take a moment to read the care instructions. Reflect on how the piece will hold up after a few encounters with your small children or pets. If it’s likely to be trashed in mere days or weeks, don’t buy it.

7. Examine the construction. For units such as bookcases, tables and entertainment centers, determine whether the items are prefinished or made of unfinished wood. Bear in mind that sanding and finishing a shelving unit can take a great deal of time and effort. Also think twice before buying “wood grain” laminate or particle board that looks fake, and watch out for sloppy corners on moldings and doors that don’t align properly.

8. Measure, measure, measure. Before you do any shopping – and certainly before you bring a piece of furniture home – be sure to measure the area where you want the furniture to go so you can be confident that it will fit well and it won’t overwhelm or underwhelm the room. With shelving units, remember to write down the dimensions of the items you want to store on the shelves.

9. Plan ahead for transportation. Make sure you have the capacity to transport big, heavy items home or have the store deliver them for you – hopefully for a fee that isn’t too hefty. Also, if you decide you don’t want to keep the item, will you have to lug it all the way back to the store yourself?

10. Eyeball the warranty carefully. Make sure you understand what it does and does not cover, and get the details of any agreement in writing. For instance, if a salesperson verbally raves about a fabric-guard guarantee that sounds fabulous, make sure the details of that guarantee are clearly spelled out in writing.

Rap, rock, classical — music to Obama’s ears

Democratic nominee says ‘Maggie's Farm’ among campaign-trail favorites

WASHINGTON - Bob Dylan. Yo-Yo Ma. Sheryl Crow. Jay-Z. These aren't musical acts in a summer concert series: They're artists featured on Barack Obama's iPod.

"I have pretty eclectic tastes," the Democratic presidential contender said in an interview to be published in Friday's issue of Rolling Stone.

Growing up in the '70s, Obama said, he listened to the Rolling Stones, Elton John and Earth, Wind & Fire. Stevie Wonder is his musical hero from the era. The Stones' "Gimme Shelter" tops his favorites from the band.

The Illinois senator's playlist contains these musicians, along with about 30 songs from Dylan and the singer's "Blood on the Tracks" album. Jazz legends Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Charlie Parker are also in the mix.

"Actually, one of my favorites during the political season is 'Maggie's Farm,'" Obama said of one of Dylan's tracks. "It speaks to me as I listen to some of the political rhetoric."

In the song, Dylan sings about trying be himself, "but everybody wants you to be just like them."

Several musicians on Obama's iPod support his bid for the White House, including Bruce Springsteen. Earlier this month, Dylan told a British newspaper that he believes Obama is redefining politics in the United States and could deliver change to a nation in upheaval.

"I've got to say, having both Dylan and Bruce Springsteen say kind words about you is pretty remarkable," Obama said. "Those guys are icons."

Obama said he hasn't met Springsteen, but the two have talked over the phone.

"Not only do I love Bruce's music, but I just love him as a person," Obama said. "He is a guy who has never lost track of his roots, who knows who he is, who has never put on a front."

And did he address him as the Boss?

"You've got to," the candidate said.

Asked what he thought of rap, Obama said the genre has broken down barriers within the music world, though he's concerned about his daughters — Malia, 9, and Sasha, 7 — listening to it.

"I am troubled sometimes by the misogyny and materialism of a lot of rap lyrics," he said, "but I think the genius of the art form has shifted the culture and helped to desegregate music."

He said hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and rappers Jay-Z and Ludacris were "great talents and great businessmen."

"It would be nice if I could have my daughters listen to their music without me worrying that they were getting bad images of themselves," he added.

Obama appears on the cover of the magazine, which endorsed him for president in March.

Brendan Fraser: Invisible action hero

A rarity in Hollywood, the leading man who doesn’t leave indelible marks

Brendan Fraser came to my apartment last night. He was on a Papa John’s pizza box. More accurately, an ad for his upcoming movie “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor,” was on the box. It covered the whole box, too. The box flap read, “Awaken someone’s appetite!” and there’s a big photo of floppy-haired Brendan wielding two old-timey wooden swords.

Lots of people get their noses bent out of shape by marketing like this. They find it intrusive. They like their pizza boxes to be boring. Not me. I appreciate that in this context, my appetite for pizza is analogous to a sleeping, undead corpse; the box is the tomb to be opened; and the pizza is… OK the pizza is also a sleeping, undead corpse. It falls apart if you think about it too hard. The point is that it made me go, “Oh yeah, Brendan Fraser’s in a new movie.”

And then I realized, “Oh yeah, Brendan Fraser is also in this week’s ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth.’”

And then I ate the pizza and threw out the box and forgot that he’s got any movies coming out at all. And that is the mystery appeal of Brendan Fraser: his ability to slip in and out of your consciousness like a cardboard pizza box. How does he do it?

If Will Smith or Tom Cruise had two potentially huge movies coming out this summer in a one-two punch like that, especially if one was the third film in a monstrously money-making, pizza-box-embossment-worthy franchise and the other was a tech-heavy, 3-D family movie about being sucked down into a giant sinkhole, you’d never stop hearing about it, them, their families, their shaving habits, their charities, their travails, their recent purchase of an island or castle or baseball team or family of endangered manatees, their wacky religion, their disavowal of being connected to a wacky religion, all of it. You’d be saturated.

Contrast this to the only media I’ve seen all week about Brendan Fraser: a photo op of him hoisting some unknown kid in the air. In this picture, Brendan Fraser has a wet spot of undetermined origin on his T-shirt.

And that’s it.

The stealth star
This is a man who knows a weird secret of Hollywood, the one where, if you play it right, you can recede into the background and still make jillions of dollars in huge movies and walk around mostly not-bothered by anything and not turn into that much of a lunatic freak. You can win by being invisible.

The proof: he’s done the “Mummy” movies, but do you remember what he did in them? He was in “Looney Tunes: Back in Action.” Got any favorite quotes from that one? The answer to both of those questions is no, you don’t. Because he understands that those movies weren’t about him. He got out of the way and let the cash roll in.

He’s a funny actor who got his start playing endearing morons in stuff like “Encino Man,” “Airheads” and “George of The Jungle.” His best movie, Bill Condon’s “Gods and Monsters,” showed he was capable of leaving Paulie Shore territory and playing a lug who thinks (he keeps making small indies that few critics love and fewer ticket-buyers see), and his moments in the award-winning-but-dopey “Crash” were few.

But it’s the big tentpole summer films where he’s cemented his status as That Guy in That Movie We Saw That One Time, The One That Had The Rock Being The Scorpion King. I don’t want to accuse him of being generic. I don’t know that he’s that easily reducible. But he’s so incredibly accessible and on-screen affable that he becomes simply another cog in the blockbuster machine — the most well-paid cog, but still. He knows his place.

He’s the inverse male version of Nicole Kidman, the person who makes big studio projects that tank and who shines in small, strange movies like “Birth.” And he’s the anti-Brad Pitt, a man who, while apparently made of super-magnets that draw all of life on Earth into rapt fascination every time he hoists Maddox onto his shoulders, has no game when it comes to opening weekend box office. Fraser makes hits. And then he disappears.

Nice guy finishes first ... quietly
I live in Los Angeles and I have some friends who work in TV and movies. They do all that crew stuff. And they talk. I’ve heard great stories about high-strung weirdo actors. But I’ve never heard a single thing about Brendan Fraser, save for some Rogaine-related speculation about his hair. (And when Nicolas Cage beats you to crazy rug-land, you kind of have to pursue the undetectable route or risk being seen as a copy-cat.)

I imagine he shows up on time, learns his lines, treats everyone nicely and is totally professional. I hear he warmly welcomes the fan on the street and seemingly just stays home with his kids when he’s not running from other-worldly creatures in front of a green screen.

He’s not gadding about shirtless with Lance Armstrong or roping Posh and Becks into a blinding display of public paparazzi dazzlement. When he wants to blow off steam he shows up for a one-off episode of “Scrubs” with his bloody hand nailed to a board. Then he plays Gay Chicken (that’s the game where two straight guys pretend like they’re going to kiss each other and the first one who backs out loses) with the male cast members.

Moviegoers get wound up over ‘Watchmen’

Can ‘300’ director Zach Synder capture the graphic novel’s complexities?

The Watchmen are coming. But who will watch the Watchmen?

When it soared through 4,366 theaters during its record-breaking opening weekend, “The Dark Knight” also delivered the first wide-screen peek at a live-action superhero movie that even diehard comic fans worry is too eccentric, unwieldy or dense for the big screen. Based on the Hugo award-winning graphic novel “Watchmen” by Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons (with help from Neil Gaiman), the film by director Zack Snyder (“300”) will be released on March 6, 2009.

The “Watchmen” trailer treated viewers to a deliberately paced montage of sizzling lightning, hushed rain, an owl-shaped ship emerging from a river, a raven-haired woman in a skin-tight yellow and black costume descending a staircase and a glowing blue man.

For fans, the question is: Can the movie fulfill the novel's vision and entertain a wider audience? Other moviegoers are asking: What the heck was that?

Internet traffic about the “Watchmen” movie increased eightfold during “The Dark Knight’s” opening weekend, according to Google Trends. But whether that’s a growing fan club or a perplexed audience looking for answers is unclear.

Certain superheroes, like Spider-Man or Superman, need no introduction thanks to decades of TV shows, coloring books, Halloween costumes and, yes, even underwear. But Moore wanted the Watchmen to be something else, a superhero story for grown-ups with serious literary heft.

The series won the 1988 Hugo Award — the first graphic novel to win the highest honor in science fiction, joining “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury, “Dune” by Frank Herbert and “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” by J. K. Rowling. Time put “Watchmen” on its list of the top 100 novels in English since 1923, with classics written by Faulkner, Hemingway, Orwell and Steinbeck.

“I wouldn't care if it was done with Crayons,” said Avril Dannenbaum, 52, a lifelong comic book fan in New York. “This is such a significant part of comic book history, not to mention the roller coaster of getting it produced — I’d go see it no matter what. As I told my 11-year-old son, without ‘Watchmen’ you wouldn't have had the movie ‘Hancock.’”

A story rooted in the Cold War
In an alternative 1985 America, the “Watchmen” superheroes are real, but almost all lack superpowers and have retired. The United States and the Soviet Union are in a nuclear standoff, and a conspiracy is at work to stop or discredit the masked heroes and start World War III. The masked adventurers wrestle with their personal and moral issues as often as the so-called villains. Time is running out. Their mission is to watch over humanity … but who is watching the Watchmen?

The movie “seems moody and atmospheric, which can be a point in its favor if they live up to it,” said Rhiannon Held, 23, a comics fan in Seattle. “The graphic novel seemed dated. I’m much younger. The world politics stuff didn’t speak to me.”

But 20 years later, “Watchmen” sales are still going strong. If you set aside Japanese-style Manga comics, “Batman: The Killing Joke,” also written by Moore and fueled by Batman fever, and “Watchmen” were the No. 1 and No. 2 selling American graphic novels between April 6 and July 13. From 2001 to July 13, 2008, bookstores and online retailers sold about 173,000 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan.

Sven Patrick Larsen, chief operating officer at Teshkeel Comics, has no doubt the film will be successful with a mainstream audience if given a chance.

“If you look at the track record for the ‘Watchmen’ … in Amazon and other places then it has to be considered one of the most mainstream graphic novels ever published,” Larsen said by e-mail. “… That being said, I have no idea how one film will be able to completely encompass Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ incredibly complex vision.”

The novel’s gritty, realistic interpretation of superheroes, multilayered storytelling, ensemble cast, cinematic-style art and explorations of themes including authority, responsibility, optimism and nihilism continue to inspire writers and artists. The book directly or indirectly influenced many of today’s pop culture hits: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Heroes,” “The Incredibles,” “Lost” and Neil Gaiman’s comic book series “The Sandman.”

Fans can get ready for the movie
For now, people can watch “Watchmen” in other ways. The first of 12 animated chapters of the original book and the song in the trailer (“The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning” by Smashing Pumpkins) are on iTunes.

Foreigner's Jones says new songs on the way

One new track is on double-disc set, but more new music due in 2009

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Foreigner's Mick Jones says the band's new career retrospective "No End in Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner" is a signal that new material is on the way.

Besides the band's hits as well as some deeper album cuts and live versions, the double-disc set released last week includes one new track, "Too Late."

Jones, a founding member of the group, told the Associated Press on Tuesday that a "fuller" new album will be out next year.

"We haven't had the time because of the tour to concentrate on a whole album but we wanted something out that denotes the fact that the band is alive and taking this seriously."

Foreigner had a run of hit singles and albums from the late 1970s through the '80s with Lou Gramm on vocals. They included "Cold as Ice," "Urgent" and "Waiting for a Girl Like You."

A reconfigured lineup featuring Kelly Hansen at the mike has been touring the past few years and is currently co-headlining shows with Bryan Adams. The tour stops Thursday.

"I kind of wanted to almost reconstruct the foundation of the band. I wasn't happy with the way the band drifted into obscurity toward the end of the '90s," the 63-year-old Jones said. "So this is a chance to re-establish ourselves and regain some prestige and respect."

Miley overshadows ‘Hannah’ with new album

15-year-old Disney star and her fans are growing up — and so is the music

NEW YORK - Hannah Montana may be the most potent phenomenon in Hollywood right now — bigger than Batman, bigger than Brangelina. Yet these days, the girl who truly fascinates is not Hannah, but Miley Cyrus.

The 15-year-old face of the billion-dollar Disney franchise is no longer a star for just the tween set: She’s intriguing people who turn the pages of Seventeen magazine, as well as Us Weekly and Vanity Fair (more on THAT later). While “Hannah” is still very much a part of Miley, it does not solely define the singer/actress.

Nowhere is that clearer than with the release of Miley’s latest album, “Breakout,” which comes out Tuesday. While Miley has already sold millions of albums, it’s always been with the “Hannah Montana” moniker attached (2006’s “Hannah Montana” and 2007’s “Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus”).

But there’s no blonde wig to be found on the cover of this CD. Instead, there’s a more mature sound that’s already finding an older audience. The CD’s first single, the rocker “7 Things,” is now No. 9 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart) and marks her biggest success in translating her music beyond the Radio Disney audience.

“To be played on these radio stations is awesome, to be able to rock out to it in your car without planning it, without it being just a kids channel,” says Miley, who with her deep voice and self-assured manner seems a decade older than 15.

“(I’m) making it a little more fun and edgy, and I think being able to step out of the ‘Hannah Montana’ thing — not in a way where I’m forgetting her completely, but as my fans grow up, me growing up too and kind of having my own person.”

The “Hannah Montana thing” is familiar to millions of kids and adults alike. A movie is due out next year, the third season of the kitschy TV show starts filming in weeks, and the DVD of the blockbuster “Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds” tour, which wrapped up earlier this year, is a lock to top the charts when it debuts later this summer.

But navigating her own celebrity path outside the confines of famous character has proven to be difficult. With former teen phenoms like Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears providing epic examples of bad behavior, and the nude photo scandal involving Disney “High School Musical” star Vanessa Hudgens, tabloids have been eager to document a Miley implosion.

The first signs of potential concern came in the form of personal pictures that made their way onto the Internet, showing Miley dressed provocatively (though not obscenely) and setting the blogosphere abuzz.

A more serious firestorm erupted in April when Vanity Fair published a photo of Miley wrapped in a sheet, showing her bare back and shoulders. The photo caused such outrage that no less than The New York Times chronicled the controversy, and Miley and her father, country star Billy Ray Cyrus, said they regretted the result of the photo shoot. They also said she was never topless, as the photo by the esteemed Annie Leibovitz suggested.

But Miley has learned she doesn’t even have to bare a shoulder to cause a fuss — as when she revealed in an interview earlier this month that “Sex and the City” was one of her favorite shows.

“It just scared people because there was the word ’sex’ in the title, you know what I mean?” says Miley, brushing off her critics.

“Just because that’s what the show is about that doesn’t mean I’m doing that ... you don’t all the sudden become the character that you watch,” she adds (though looking very Carrie Bradshaw-ish in a long flowing blue bohemian dress, her hair cascading down her shoulders, with a Chanel bag close to her side).

While allowing that she’s made “mistakes,” she also feels that the media has been unforgiving in their scrutiny at times — and a bit unwilling to see that she’s not a little kid anymore.

“It’s kind of hard to let someone that was so young when they started kind of grow up,” reasons Miley, who was 13 when she debuted in the role. “You just have to realize that people make mistakes and that makes you almost a little more relatable.”

Miley overshadows ‘Hannah’ with new album

Hollywood Records A&R executive Jon Lind, who worked with Miley on the “Hannah Montana/Meet Miley Cyrus” album, says such scrutiny is just a part of today’s tabloid world.

“I don’t think she’s really done anything scathingly wrong, but I think there’s a lot of people selling a lot of magazines following her around, making her into the next somebody, and I don’t think that’s fair — she’s not the next anybody as far as I can see,” he says.

He adds that he’s seen a significant growth in Miley in just the past year: “The difference between being a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old in any tween or teenager’s life is an extraordinary amount — it’s like dog years.”

Much of that growth is reflected on her new CD. While she co-wrote a majority of the songs on the “Meet Miley Cyrus” half of the last record, on “Breakout,” her songs have a weightier tone, discussing the environment, breakups and relationships.

“She always reached the adult audience, because she always reached moms. It’s just in a way that radio finally started to acknowledge,” says Sean Ross of Edison Media Research, which tracks the radio industry. “‘7 Things,’ ... has a little bit of an Avril Lavigne-thing going; it sounds like an adult record.”

“There are lots of people who wouldn’t necessarily wanna buy or listen to a ‘Hannah Montana’ record because of their predisposition to the Disney television character,” says Lind. “But if you listen to this record as an artist, the quality of her voice, the quality of her writing, and the quality of the production, I hope, as she does, that it will be taken seriously by (an) older music audience.”

“I hope I get respected a little bit more as a writer,” says Miley. “I want them to respect me and know that I have a lot to say, I have a lot for the world to know and take away from what my life experiences have been.”

She’s also hoping to show more of those life experiences in her acting. She’s like to do some independent films and play gritty characters: “I do wanna, like, showcase a little more of what I can do, and also some different situations ... I would like to do something that was a little more deep.”

She’s even hoping to add a little bit more of an edge to “Hannah” next season.

“There’s some things that I want to reinvent with her look, and not make it all sparkles and butterflies, you know? Some stars, and some black rock ’n’ roll stuff,” she says. “I did want it to grow up a little bit.”

But lest anyone fear that she’s growing up a bit too much, she’s quick to point out that’s she hasn’t grown out of “Hannah.”

“I probably won’t tour again as a ‘Hannah Montana’ tour ... I’m kind of past that stuff. But I definitely wanna keep doing my show. I love doing (it) and I wouldn’t wanna give it up quite yet.”

Rumors and tell-all take a toll on Madonna

Plus: ‘The Two Coreys’ call it quits; Nicole shows off post-baby body

The Queen of Pop needs a break. According to The Sun, Madonna now suffers from stress and exhaustion thanks to her busy schedule, alleged marital woes, and the release of her brother’s tell-all biography.

“Madonna is doing less than OK,” an insider told the paper. “She has been rehearsing for the (Sticky & Sweet) tour and she is totally miserable. She’s down physically and mentally.”

The source claims the “situation with (her husband, Guy Ritchie) is very, very tense,” and Madonna feels that she lacks support from those around her.

“She feels nobody has taken her side,” the source said. “One of her closest pals says she has never seen Madonna so low. She has been feeling low and looking really gaunt.”

Corey Feldman is through with Corey Haim
One of television’s most cringeworthy guilty pleasures may be coming to an end. The National Enquirer reports that “The Two Coreys,” which documents the made-for-TV drama between ’80s actors and BFFs Corey Feldman and Corey Haim, is over as far as one of the stars is concerned.

“Feldman is livid with his former best friend because Haim is allegedly strung out on prescription drugs,” an insider revealed. “He told a pal, ‘I think the next stop for Corey Haim is ‘Celebrity Rehab.’”

Not a bad lateral move, as far as reality TV goes, but the source claims Feldman is serious about Haim’s troubles.

“(Haim’s) done, and I’m through with him for good,” Feldman was heard to say.

Filming is already complete for the second season of the A&E show, but according Feldman’s manager, there are no plans to go forward with a third season.

“Right now, there will not be a third season of ‘The Two Coreys,’” Scott Carlson told the Enquirer. “Things just can’t continue the way they did toward the end of the second season.”

Things can’t continue with Haim having a meltdown and Feldman acting frustrated and angry? That’s what the show’s all about.

Dish on the fly
She gave birth to a baby girl just two weeks ago, but you’d never know it by looking at Nicole Kidman now. Paparazzi caught up with the actress on her way to yoga class and caught her decked out in form-fitting workout-wear and showing off a perfectly flat tummy. According to the Daily Mail, the credit for Nicole’s lack of post-baby bulge goes to her personal trainer, with whom she continued to work throughout her pregnancy. … While her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, serves out the remainder of his prison sentence, Amy Winehouse imagines big plans for their future. “Blake and I can’t wait to have kids,” the embattled singer told OK! magazine’s U.K. edition. “I want at least five kids. I want twins. Blake is gonna be the most amazing dad.” Sure, some might question the couple’s decision to start a family given their public battles with substance abuse, but Amy expects the kids would turn out just fine. “To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults,” she said. “They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.” … Is the hot-and-heavy romance between Paris Hilton and Benji Madden cooling off? E!’s Ted Casablanca reports everyone’s favorite heirhead was recently spotted flirting it up with Cristiano Ronaldo. A source claims the attraction was a one-way street, as the soccer stud du jour showed no interest in Paris’ advances.

Courtney Love sued over Nirvana catalog sale

Firm claims Kurt Cobain's widow failed to pay them $975,000

LOS ANGELES - A business management and accounting firm sued Courtney Love for nearly $1 million on Tuesday, claiming she failed to pay them a share of profits from the sale of Nirvana’s publishing catalog.

Love is the widow of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain. The five-page lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court Tuesday afternoon claims she sold a portion of his share of Nirvana’s publishing catalog for $19.5 million.

Los Angeles-based London & Co. alleges Love broke an oral contract to share 5 percent of any of her earnings or those from her company, The End of Music.

That company, according to the lawsuit, was created to manage Cobain’s intellectual property, including his career with Nirvana.

London & Co. claims its share from the sale would have been $975,000.

Love controlled most of the rights to Cobain and Nirvana’s work after his suicide in 1994.

The former Hole front woman sold a portion of her rights to Nirvana’s publishing catalog in 2006. It was unclear late Tuesday whether that is the deal London & Co. is claiming a share of. The attorney who filed the suit did not immediately return a phone message left after hours Tuesday.

A phone message left for Love’s publicist and an e-mail sent to her attorney were also not returned Tuesday evening.

Blogger (service)

Blogger is a blog publishing system. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003.

• On August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. As one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools, it is credited for helping popularize the format.
• In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms. The acquisition allowed premium features (for which Pyra had charged) to become free. About a year later, Pyra Labs' co-founder, Evan Williams, left Google.
• In 2004, Google purchased Picasa; it integrated Picasa and its photo sharing utility Hello into Blogger, allowing users to post photos to their blogs.
• On May 9, 2004, Blogger introduced a major redesign, adding features such as CSS-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by email.
• On 14 August 2006, Blogger launched its latest version in beta, codenamed "Invader", alongside the gold release. This migrated users to Google servers and included some new features.
• In December 2006, this new version of Blogger was taken out of beta.
• By May 2007, Blogger had completely moved over to Google operated servers.

Blogger was ranked 16 on the list of top 50 domains in terms of number of unique visitors in 2007.^[1]

Redesign

As part of the Blogger redesign in 2006, all blogs associated with a user's Google Account were migrated to Google servers. Blogger claims that the service is now more reliable because of the quality of the servers.^[2]

Along with the migration to Google servers, several new features were introduced, including label organization, a drag-and-drop template editing interface, reading permissions (to create private blogs) and new Web feed options. Furthermore, blogs are updated dynamically, as opposed to rewriting HTML files.

Integration

• The Google Toolbar has a feature called "BlogThis!" which allows toolbar users with Blogger accounts to post links directly to their blogs.
• "Blogger for Word" is a free add-in for Microsoft Word. This add-in allows users to save a Microsoft Word Document directly to a Blogger blog, as well as edit their posts both on- and offline. As of January 2007, Google says "Blogger for Word is not currently compatible with the new version of Blogger", and they state no decision has been made about supporting it with the new Blogger.^[3] However, Microsoft Office 2007 adds native support for a variety of blogging systems, including Blogger.
• Blogger supports Google's AdSense service as a simple way of generating revenue from running a blog.
• Blogger offers multiple author support, making it possible to establish group blogs.
• Blogger offers a template editing feature, which allows users to customize the Blogger template.^[4]
• Windows Live Writer, a standalone app of the Windows Live suite, publishes directly to Blogger.

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