If you are a food and/or drink blogger, check out the plan for Cork & Knife Food Blogger Dinners, coming soon to a restaurant in a city near you.
Steve Rubel launched an interesting discussion on whether RSS growth has stalled. As I see it, the problem is that RSS is difficult to explain in laymen’s terms and it is saddled with an ugly acronym. To this day, people cringe at the term HTML, but they have no problem accessing a web site. For…
AP reports on a new Pew study that shows that: Reliance on the Internet for political news during last year’s presidential campaign grew sixfold from 1996, while the influence of newspapers dropped sharply, according to a study issued Sunday. Full report here.
MediaPost Publications – Web Marketing Experts: RSS Ads Resemble E-Mail, But Without The Spam – 09/28/2005 (tags: RSS Advertising) Classified Intelligence Announces That Google Shops for Classified Providers (tags: Aggregation Classifieds VerticalSearch) Micro Persuasion: BusinessWeek Spotlights Web 2.0 (tags: Web2.0) Kevin Burton’s Feed Blog: No More CNET/Google Boycott? (tags: PR Search)
An article ("Courts Unlikely To Stop Google Book Copying") about the controversial project finds: Despite objections from publishers and writers, copyright law appears to be on Google’s side, legal experts say. The social value of Google’s initiative to digitize library books, including those protected by copyright, will likely weigh heavily in the search engine’s favor.
Over at one of the companies I’m involved with, CustomScoop, we’ve been playing with a new tool that we’ve only soft-launched and are getting feedback on. I thought I’d share it with readers of InterAdvocacy to see what you think. Basically, it’s a free service that let’s visitors see how two search terms do in…