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.
BL Ochman has gone on the warpath against the BlogOn conference and its PR firm, Porter Novelli. First, she was irked that Porter Novelli’s rep refused to grant her a press pass to cover the event. Then she seemed insulted when BlogOn’s marketing rep suggested a trade in which BL would agree to promote the…
Speaking of paying for content, USC’s Annenberg school has an interesting piece about a paid content success stroy: Cook’s Illustrated: Stirring up synergy to sell online food content. [via Online News Squared]
SiliconBeat: Digg gets $2.8 Mil Funding another “public as the news editor” site (tags: Aggregation VC) e-fluentials – Advocacy Drives Growth “finding a link between word of mouth recommendations and sales performance” (tags: WordOfMouth MarketResearch) LookSmart Expands Vertical Search 131 new verticals added (tags: VerticalSearch)
We have taken a few steps forward with CustomScoop Personal Edition today. First, we introduced a mashup with Google Maps that shows pushpins for every location in which you have a clip. It easily allows you to see any geographic patterns to your recent news coverage. Currently, we have geocoded most newspapers and certain other…
Pete Cashmore highlights a just-launched company called theWeblogWire that attempts to set up a more efficient and effective distribution method for getting press releases to bloggers: The Weblog Wire allows companies to submit press releases, and bloggers to subscribe to these releases via RSS. Submitting a press release costs $99, or $149.99 if you want…
Reuters: It took just minutes for the Vatican to alert the world’s media of Pope John Paul’s death — using text messages and email so the 2,000-year-old Church could meet the new demands of real-time news. The Vatican isn’t exactly known as a bleeding-edge technology center, so any large organization who isn’t prepared to use…