FEC to go Easy on Internet
The Federal Election Commission revealed yesterday that it plans to take what one of its commissioners termed a "relatively nonintrusive" approach to regulating political campaigns on the Internet.
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Amy Gahran looks at legal issues surrounding comments posted on your blog: On Aug. 26, Dave Taylor posted an article concerning legal liability and weblog comments. Basically, Aaron Wall, who writes the SEO Book weblog, was recently threatened with a lawsuit because of something that someone posted in comments to his blog.
Gartner Looks at Collaborative Tech
Steve Rubel reports: Gartner today released its Goldie Locks-esque “2005 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies” report. The research identifies the tech industry’s “just right porridge.” It highlights the technologies that have moved from conception, to market over-enthusiasm, through a period of disillusionment, to an eventual understanding of its relevance in the market. Blogging, podcasting, RSS…
Upon Further Review Let’s Have a Booth Umpire for Baseball
I was just two years old when Larry Barnett served as the home plate umpire of Game 3 of the 1975 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds. Needless to say, I have no contemporaneous memory of the game, but I came to learn as a young boy that he had made a controversial non-call in that game that many believe cost the Red Sox a victory.
Yahoo Enters Content Biz
MediaPost reports that Yahoo has announced a leap into original content, featuring former war reporter Kevin Sites. Sites, a veteran of CNN and NBC, plans to leave for Africa on Wednesday. He will spend the next year traveling to 36 war-torn corners of the world, and reporting on how current events affect people’s lives. ……
Topix Categorizes Partner Content
Topix.net “announced the availability of its NewsRank(TM) categorization technology across the 177 newspaper and television station Web sites of Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), Knight Ridder, Inc. (NYSE: KRI) and Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB). Articles on Topix.net powered sites provide links to related, categorized content, discovered through their NewsRank(TM) technology.”
24 Hours of Blogs
Matthew Hurst of BlogPulse offers some interesting insight into blog posts over on his Data Mining blog. It comes in 3 parts: here, here, and here. He derives the data from 24 hours of pings to weblogs.com.