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Another company targets video search, this time overseas: Autonomy has just signed a joint venture with China Netcom Broadband (CNCBB), one of China’s biggest internet companies with more than 110m subscribers. The pair have agreed to create a service that will allow Chinese consumers to search for news and video clips from 25 local and…

The Chicago Tribune reports on the FEC’s latest plans for regulating online political activity.  And, at least as sketched out in this report, the proposal seems reasonable since it seeks to mimic "real world" requirements in cyberspace. Web loggers, who pride themselves on freewheeling political activism, might face new federal rules on candidate endorsements, online…

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The New York Times will begin a paid subscription section starting next Monday, 9/19, that will primarily include columns.  Jupiter analyst David Card wonders: shall we start the countdown for how long this lasts till the Timesmen (and women) demand to be set free so they can continue to participate in the online blogger-commentariat fray?

Charlen Li explores an interesting concept: the third page of search. I’ve been noodling around the idea of the "Third Page" of search (credit goes to Perry Evans from LocalMatters for prompting this train of thought). The first page of search is the query page (like www.google.com), the second page is the search results, and…

Blogs may be going mainstream — CNN has officially added a daily 4 minute blog segment to its "Inside Politics" show, according to USA Today highlighted by Steve Rubel.  At some point blogs may no longer be the mavericks that they once were.  How will this affect their impact?  Bloggers today proud themselves on being…