From Search Engine Watch reports on the emerging market for B2B search and features commentary by some current players in that sector.
One of the top trends highlighted at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose was the growing importance of vertical search, and one of the key sessions in the vertical track was "Meet The B2B Search Engines."
For those of you interested in history or politics, I encourage you to check out the essay I wrote about the potential loss of "America’s story" as author David McCullough calls it.
AP has the latest on FEC efforts to regulate politics online: "I like to think of myself as just a guy with a blog, but it’s clear that ‘just a guy with a blog’ is different today than it was when I started three years ago," said Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, founder of the Web log…
If you are a food and/or drink blogger, check out the plan for Cork & Knife Food Blogger Dinners, coming soon to a restaurant in a city near you.
Poynter Online reports: DenverPost.com’s podcasts are finding some funding. Executive producer Gil Asakawa reports that the retailer Best Buy is paying for a $30,000 campaign that begins October 3. The podcasts will have a short sponsor mention at the beginning, then a longer (10-second) product-specific mention at the end. [via Online News Squared]
National Journal conducted a survey of 71 GOP and 65 Democrat "insiders." Interestingly, 69 percent of the Democrats thought the netroots would help their party (as opposed to 0 percent feeling it would help the GOP and 31 percent thinking no significant impact). OK, that much might be expected. Democrats are optimistic about their chances…
BL Ochman reports: MoveOn.org, which was seeking 500,000 signatures on a petition against proposed Congress’ cancellation of funding to NPR and PBS, has now reached almost a million signatures.