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From the Ted Talk by Mena Trott: Meet the founder of the blog revolution

Unscramble the Blue Letters

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Open Cloze

So — I'm a blogger, which, probably, to a lot of you, _____ different things. You may have heard about the __________ lock brouhaha, where a _______ talked about how you hack or _____ into a Kryptonite lock using a ballpoint pen, and it spread all over. Kryptonite had to ______ the lock, and they had to address it to avoid too many customer concerns. You may have heard about Rathergate, which was _________ the result of bloggers realizing that the "th" in 111 is not typeset on an old typewriter; it's on Word. Bloggers exposed this, or they worked hard to expose this. You know, _____ are scary. This is what you see. I see this, and I'm sure scared — I swear on _____ — shitless about blogs, because this is not something that's friendly. But there are blogs that are changing the way we read news and _______ _____, and these are great examples. These people are reaching thousands, if not millions, of readers, and that's incredibly important. During the hurricane, you had MSNBC posting about the hurricane on their blog, updating it frequently. This was possible because of the easy nature of ________ tools.

Solution

  1. basically
  2. adjust
  3. media
  4. kryptonite
  5. blogger
  6. means
  7. blogs
  8. blogging
  9. break
  10. stage
  11. consume

Original Text

So — I'm a blogger, which, probably, to a lot of you, means different things. You may have heard about the Kryptonite lock brouhaha, where a blogger talked about how you hack or break into a Kryptonite lock using a ballpoint pen, and it spread all over. Kryptonite had to adjust the lock, and they had to address it to avoid too many customer concerns. You may have heard about Rathergate, which was basically the result of bloggers realizing that the "th" in 111 is not typeset on an old typewriter; it's on Word. Bloggers exposed this, or they worked hard to expose this. You know, blogs are scary. This is what you see. I see this, and I'm sure scared — I swear on stage — shitless about blogs, because this is not something that's friendly. But there are blogs that are changing the way we read news and consume media, and these are great examples. These people are reaching thousands, if not millions, of readers, and that's incredibly important. During the hurricane, you had MSNBC posting about the hurricane on their blog, updating it frequently. This was possible because of the easy nature of blogging tools.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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bad pictures 2

Important Words

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  31. lock
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  35. millions
  36. msnbc
  37. nature
  38. news
  39. pen
  40. people
  41. posting
  42. rathergate
  43. reaching
  44. read
  45. readers
  46. realizing
  47. result
  48. scared
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  50. shitless
  51. spread
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  54. talked
  55. thousands
  56. tools
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  59. word
  60. worked