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.
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Matthew Hurst of BlogPulse offers some interesting insight into blog posts over on his Data Mining blog. It comes in 3 parts: here, here, and here. He derives the data from 24 hours of pings to weblogs.com.
MarketingVOX: “Consumer still don’t like paying for online content, but resistance has somewhat weakened, according to a new JupiterResearch, writes DM News. Adoption of paid content is up from last year, though 64 percent of adults still say they wouldn’t pay for content to avoid online advertising. However, 31 percent of online adults paid for…
Lately I’ve been fascinated by the consumer generated content/media space. And I’ve had a number of ideas of my own (which I may share later), but here are some interesting things going on this area now: iPodders vs. Non-iPodders ConsumerGeneratedMedia.com attempts to answer an interesting question: “So are Apple iPod users the ultimate influencers or…
Speculation has begun as to whether or not MeetUp.com is on its last legs. The odd messaging they chose they chose for their announcement suggests a lack of confidence in their decision: "We have some news to share that we don’t think you’re going to like. There’s no point in dancing around it so here…
Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch profiles a couple of new offerings from Pluck that are designed to help provide fuel to the citizen journalism fire and to make it easier for online publishers to get into the RSS game. I’m particularly intrigued by the effort to help enable community blogging, a move that could revitalize…