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.
Idil Cakin of Burson Marstellar offers some good advice about dealing with the blogosphere in an article for DMNews. Excerpted below are some of the more interesting points. Whoever comes up with the best "secret sauce" to solve the problem of weighting blogs will have a powerful offering. (This is something the brains at CustomScoop…
The John Edwards podcast attempts to strike a folksy, casual tone. The former VP candidate talks about the NCAA tournament being on in the background while he records with wife Elizabeth. But what really struck me in listening was that Mrs. Edwards plays a much more significant role in the podcast than one might imagine. …
The SEC has nailed an Estonian investment bank and a couple of hackers for sneaking into the Business Wire press release distribution system to find out which public companies would be making significant announcements in the near future. They then bought stock or sold it short for a profit. Since the start of this year,…
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…
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…
This blog has joined the TechJots blog network, which right now also includes TechJots and NH TechJots. InterAdvocacy will continue to follow the business of content and public affairs online, while TechJots follows high-tech entrepreneurship and angel investing. NH TechJots has a specific focus on the high-tech community in the Granite State. Soon you will…