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.
Bottom line: things went as well as could be expected this week. Now bring on 2009!
CBS News buys Wallstrip (tags: MandA media) Getting The Story Straight (tags: MandA angelinvesting vc) Bringing Editorial Calendars Into the Social Sphere Steve raises the interesting concept of bloggers publishing editorial calendars (tags: media blogs) At Journal, Slim Margins Open Door to Murdoch – New York Times My obsession with the WSJ/Murdoch story continues… (tags:…
PaidContent reports that Google is exploring creating a financial vertical, perhaps along the lines of Yahoo! Finance. Supposedly they are in an exploratory stage and have had meetings with many data vendors.
An intriguing new service is available to allow users of Salesforce.com to get account updates via RSS feeds. [via Scoble] UPDATE: This only works with Enterprise Edition accounts.
There’s something enjoyable about pulling out a new year’s calendar — even if we now don’t grab an actual calendar but simply see the date flip over to a new year on the computer screen. Even though dates have no magical powers, it always feels a bit like a clean slate every January 1. That’s…
Did Bush win because of the Internet? MICHAEL CORNFELD KNOWS WHY George W. Bush won last year’s presidential election. Bush’s camp, said Cornfeld, used the Internet to find volunteers and then gave them information to spread–via any medium at hand–to friends and neighbors. "The Bush campaign married software to Tupperware," Cornfeld, a senior consultant with…