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Stephen Baker over at Business Week’s Blogspotting reports: Look for Yahoo! to unveil a response to Google’s blog search early next week. This from Bradley Horowitz, director of tech development in the company’s search group. He wouldn’t provide details in advance. It will be interesting to see how the two products compare — will Yahoo…

Cymfony offers a good recap of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association held this week in Chicago. On a separate note, P&G refers to it as Word of Mouth Advocacy — a term I think is more accurate and better explains the phenomenon when executed correctly.

PaidContent: “American Public Media Group (APMG), parent company to Minnesota Public Radio, has invested almost $1 million in the for-profit, Boston-based Gather.com. The new venture is a social networking website devoted to creating an online community of public-radio listeners.”

 Lately I’ve been fascinated by the consumer generated content/media space.  And I’ve had a number of ideas of my own (which I may share later), but here are some interesting things going on this area now: iPodders vs. Non-iPodders ConsumerGeneratedMedia.com attempts to answer an interesting question: “So are Apple iPod users the ultimate influencers or…

Time magazine was apparently motivated by the Google blog search announcement and decided to run a short piece on how to become a blogger and how to find blog posts.  They decided this somehow amounts to the next version of blogging.  The article itself seems to contradict the headline: "Google’s effort, while useful, is not…

Jason Kottke makes a strong case that Technorati is heading in the wrong direction. That’s it. I’ve had it. No more Technorati. I’ve used the site for, what, a couple of years now to keep track of what people were saying about posts on kottke.org and searching blogs for keywords or current events. During that…