Blog Notes is a weekly helping of blogs recently reviewed on PR Newswire for Bloggers. Would you like your blog reviewed? Tweet to PR Newswire media relations manager Christine Cube at @PRN4Bloggers.

Copyblogger delivers audience-focused articles on online content marketing. It was launched Jan. 2006 by Brian Clark, a serial entrepreneur and former attorney and real estate broker. Copyblogger began as a one-man blog. Today, Copyblogger Media editorial team churns out content that has landed the site as a top marketing blog on Advertising Age's Power150 list. "Copyblogger has been teaching people how to create killer online content," the blog says. "Not bland corporate crap created to fill up a company webpage. Valuable information that attracts attention, drives traffic, and builds your business." I particularly identify with one popular post, 8 Strange Rituals of Productive Writers. The site also features several tutorials on copywriting, content marketing, SEO copywriting, email marketing, and landing pages, to name a few. Read the full post on PR Newswire for Bloggers here.

Looting Matters is a "discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities." I was first introduced to Looting Matters by a friend, who understands my love of history, culture, and old things. Looting Matters provides a fascinating glimpse that historical items that have surfaced and what their future holds. It's written by David Gill, professor of archaeological heritage and head of the division of humanities at University Campus Suffolk.  A recent post includes a piece about two Khmer statues being returned to Cambodia from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Another interesting post is about an upcoming lecture Gill will give exploring the "background to the donation of the "Disney collection" to the University of Cambridge, and the establishment of the Disney chair of archaeology." Read the full post here.

We all know that when it comes to real estate, it's all about location, location, location. This week, we're going to look at Brooklyn. Now, I've actually never visited, but I have many friends there. And the blog, Brownstoner, is an interesting place not only to see the real estate offerings in that fine part of New York, but also read about some of the "tangential topics that impact life inside and outside the home in Brooklyn." The blog features residential and commercial real estate news, development updates, and neighborhood news. The site boasts a marketplace with more than 3,000 real estate listings and 250 local businesses in Brooklyn. The Brownstoner was launched by Jonathan Butler in Oct. 2004, and it currently has more than 200,000 unique visitors and nearly two million page views a month. Read the full post here.

Christine Cube is a media relations manager with PR Newswire and freelance writer. You can follow her at @cpcube or see what's happening over at @PRN4Bloggers.

Blog Notes is a weekly helping of blogs recently reviewed on PR Newswire for Bloggers. Would you like your blog reviewed? Tweet to PR Newswire media relations manager Christine Cube at @PRN4Bloggers.

When it comes to politics and culture, Reason has "elbowed its way into the discussion." At least, that's what Columbia Journalism Review has to say about Reason. Reason comes in two forms: The online version and a monthly print magazine of "free minds and free markets." The print publication focuses on politics, culture, and ideas through news, analysis, and commentary. Online, Reason features articles and columns on current events, specifically on politics and culture. "Reason provides a refreshing alternative to right-wing and left-wing opinion magazines by making a principled case for liberty and individual choice in all areas of human activity," the site says, mentioning that Reason and Reason Online are editorially independent publications of the Reason Foundation. Gary S. Becker, Nobel laureate in economics, said Reason has excellent discussions of economic, political, and social issues. Read the full post on PR Newswire for Bloggers here.

While surfing the Internet this weekend, I stumbled across a recipe for peanut butter chocolate chip cookies … which led me to a recipe for Ethiopian-style beef stir fry … and a post about Willie Mays' birthday. Not a surprising turn of (online) events, except it was all one place, MarcusSamuelsson.com. Marcus Samuelsson was born in Ethiopia, raised in Sweden, and is now a top chef and restaurateur in New York City. His story is an intriguing one, and his mission is to create conversations about food, nutrition, culture, art, and design. Samuelsson's blog -- written with help from an editorial team -- marries food, culture, and community with a healthy twist. It’s a place where you can learn a new idea, a new perspective, or try a new recipe. Read the full post here.

Wall St. Cheat Sheet is a financial news blog managed by brothers, Damien and Derek Hoffman. The site launched days after the market's most recent historic nosedive. (This was early 2009, when the Dow was in the 600s!) It was from those days of panic and worry that a voice of reason came up through the blogosphere. "We provide top insights specifically for investors, business professionals, and entrepreneurs," the blog says. "Wall St. Cheat Sheet also provides premium investment newsletters for serious investors in stocks, gold, commodities, and ETFs." Wall St. Cheat Sheet was named the No. 1 Social Media Influencer on Wall Street, according to Forbes. Follow @wallstCS on Twitter. Read the full post here.

Christine Cube is a media relations manager with PR Newswire and freelance writer. You can follow her at @cpcube or see what's happening over at @PRN4Bloggers.

Blog Notes is a weekly helping of blogs recently reviewed on PR Newswire for Bloggers. Would you like your blog reviewed? Tweet to PR Newswire media relations manager Christine Cube at @PRN4Bloggers.

When it comes to the "home of social TV," look no further than Lost Remote. I've actually been following Lost Remote for years. It has really good information about what's happening in the social TV world and things we can expect. The most recent post is a piece on HuffPost Live teaming up with Mark Cuban for a cable TV debut. Also on Lost Remote, you can find a social TV guide, charts, and a leaderboard with the top Twitter accounts. For example, Lost Remote lists the top network/cable TV journalists and top local TV stations on Twitter. Lost Remote is a product of WebMediaBrands. Other members of the WebMediaBrands family include Mediabistro, Inside Network, and SemanticWeb. Read the full post on PR Newswire for Bloggers here.

On this May Day, I checked out a Coupon Geek, who posted a dozen times already today on different deals. Good finds today include everything from Ball Park lean hot dogs to A-1 steak sauce and the Disney Carnival app on iTunes. This is all the work of blogger Jaycie, a wife and stay-at-home mom. Coupon Geek was born Aug. 2008. "I had been finding lots of great deals and wanted a place for my family and friends to read about them, too," Jaycie says in her blog. "While I do my best to learn to live a frugal lifestyle, I am still learning more and more each day on how to cut back on the things that aren’t so important and hinder our goal of a debt-free life." Coupon Geek's deals cover store, online, restaurant, kids-baby, pet, photo, organic, and the Chicago-area. The site also features info on freebies, coupons, giveaways, cooking and various stores. Read the full post here.

There are lots of ways to plan a wedding. But to keep it entirely eco-friendly? Well, that's just cool. Ecopolitan Bride, formerly My Eco Chic Wedding, is for folks who want to kick their eco-game up a notch without sacrificing elegance.  Ecopolitan Bride features posts tucked under a handful of categories: A Bride Idea, Contests & Events, Crafts, and Editor's Pick, to name a few. Looking for some simply brilliant eco-friendly wedding jewelry? How about some uniquely you cake toppers? And then there's thinking outside the box. Look beyond diamonds, for example, and go with what you love. It's a happy surprise that I followed my own eco-friendly route for my wedding a couple years ago. Read the full post here.

Christine Cube is a media relations manager with PR Newswire and freelance writer. You can follow her at @cpcube or see what's happening over at @PRN4Bloggers.

Blog Notes is a weekly helping of blogs recently reviewed on PR Newswire for Bloggers. Would you like your blog reviewed? Tweet to PR Newswire media relations manager Christine Cube at @PRN4Bloggers.

The garden is coming around. Spring is when I'm tinkering around in the garden -- mulching, planting trees and perennials, and scraping back flowerbeds trying to find flowers I'd forgotten.  I'm especially excited about a sea of tulips coming in, proving our hard work in November was not in vain.  So it's in this thread that I found myself poking around for a good garden blog. I discovered Red, White & Grew. This blog is the product of lifestyle blogger Pamela Price. Price launched the blog in 2008 with the mission to promote "the victory garden revival and other simple, soulful, and earth-friendly endeavors as patriotic acts in an age of uncertainty." A rough sketch of her editorial calendar is simple: spring (gardens and gardening), summer (homeschooling), fall (recipes), and winter (memoir). Here's a recent post called Coming Up Short in the Yard, where Price talks about some garden challenges they're facing this year. Read the full post on PR Newswire for Bloggers here.

Finding a recipe or dinner idea online is so common these days that we take the convenience for granted. And if I'm trying to recall all the ingredients to a certain dish while shopping, the answer is accessible via the smartphone in my pocket. This weekend, I was looking for a springtime dish to have for dinner one night and take for lunch the next day. I went directly to 101 Cookbooks by Heidi Swanson. For years, I've followed her posts and enjoyed her inspirations for a sure-to-please meal or dessert. This blog has vegetarian recipes that spring out of Swanson's life -- inspired by friends and family, travels, and (of course) her cookbook collection. A recently-posted recipe for a buttermilk asparagus salad came together using "everything on the left-hand bottom shelf" of Swanson's refrigerator. While I'm sure her refrigerator is better-stocked than mine, it was exactly what I was looking for. Read the full post here.

GameSkinny is a place to "discover, create, and elevate the voice of your gaming community." There, you'll find new, reviews, tips, culture, and a big "browse" section. You can look up just about anything -- by platform (XBox, Playstation, Nintendo, desktop or mobile), genre (action, family, indie, etc.), or game.  GameSkinny is an interesting place. Posts are written by gamers for gamers. And, it's always looking for more folks to write.  It asks: "Wondering why you should spend your precious time posting on GameSkinny? Here's why: Publishing great stuff online isn't hard anymore. Being heard is." Read the full post here.

Christine Cube is a media relations manager with PR Newswire and freelance writer. You can follow her at @cpcube or see what's happening over at @PRN4Bloggers.

You could call Larry Grady a news junkie, and you wouldn’t be far off.

The online content manager with PR Newswire misses nothing: Grady tries to look over every single headline, even the ones that cross late in the evening or over the weekend.

Grady is responsible for highlighting the best and most newsworthy releases on PRNewswire.com and PR Newswire for Journalists. His hand-picked releases populate the slider on the public site, the news packages below the slider, and “Hot Topics” panel on the PRNJ home page. He also troubleshoots technical issues with PRNewswire.com and PRNJ.

“My favorite part of the day is just coming in the morning, when I have some time to look at what ran the night before,” Grady said. “We tend to get big things overnight and on the weekend.”

His news judgment is impeccable. Prior to coming to PR Newswire, Grady spent some time writing the headlines and stories for the Dow Jones News Service ticker.

That was 20 years ago.

Grady said some of the bigger news items that crossed the newswire in recent years included the 2012 Facebook IPO and Standard & Poor’s lowered rating of the federal government debt.

Grady just celebrated his 20th anniversary with PR Newswire last year. He started with the company managing member services before moving into the editorial department. Grady was already with PR Newswire at the mid-1990s launch of PR Newswire for Journalists, a media-only site that features releases, media advisories, photos, logos, and experts through ProfNet.

Over the years, PRNJ has changed quite a bit. At the start, the service had a fax-on-demand feature that offered journalists a menu of headlines and an 800-number to receive the full text of the story to their fax machine. Today, the same thing exists with a list of headlines emailed directly to journalists.

Grady works out of the Harborside, NJ office of PR Newswire. In addition to highlighting news releases, Grady manages the emails that come to PR Newswire from PRNJ. Emails run the gamut from troubleshooting to helping journalists with their individual profiles.

Not even the weather can stop Grady and the rest of the online team from doing their jobs.

During Hurricane Sandy last year, Grady, who lives in New Jersey, worked from home for two weeks.

“We were able to keep things updated and functioning,” he said.

Away from work, Grady enjoys music and books.

He’s begun to appreciate classical music a great deal since everything he liked in the 1980s -- REM, The Police, New Order -- “all were running out of steam in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s,” he said.

Grady also appreciates a good bottle of wine. His preference? Red, pinot noir especially.

He visits wineries with friends annually. The group visited wineries in France in 2007; Australia in 2009. Next on Grady’s list is a trip out to the wineries on Long Island, around the Hamptons.

Christine Cube is a media relations manager for PR Newswire and freelance writer. You can follow her @cpcube.