Authors Sue Google
U.S. writers are suing Google Inc. in a federal court, alleging that the Web search leader’s bid to digitize the book collections of major libraries infringes individual author’s copyrights.
Stop what you’re doing (including reading this blog) and read this: 10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company. Charlie from Union Square Ventures hits the nail on the head. He put a lot of my own philosophy to "paper" just in a much cleaner, clearer way. Must reading for any entrepreneur or anyone…
Thanks to all who shared their advice on the right bag to use for my laptop and D-SLR camera/lenses/accessories. I ended up selecting the Lowepro CompuDaypack. I took it with me to Washington, DC this week and it fit all my gear, if a bit snugly, and was able to be stowed under the seat…
Topix.net “announced the availability of its NewsRank(TM) categorization technology across the 177 newspaper and television station Web sites of Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), Knight Ridder, Inc. (NYSE: KRI) and Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB). Articles on Topix.net powered sites provide links to related, categorized content, discovered through their NewsRank(TM) technology.”
New Media Marketer: E-mail marketers are lobbying the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to add a sunset provision to the CAN-SPAM Act that would allow e-mail addresses to be automatically removed from suppression files after five years.
ConsumerGeneratedMedia.com: Joel Cere of Hill & Knowlton published a good, well-researched piece on CGM entitled Consumer-Generated: From mayhem to Marketing, which serves as a appropriate survey of key themes related to consumer-generated content. Regular readers know this is a hot topic for me lately.
The Washington Post reports that new rules on internet campaigning are likely. "We are almost certainly going to move from an environment in which the Internet was per se not regulated to where it is going to be regulated in some part," said FEC Commissioner David M. Mason, a Republican. "That shift has huge significance…