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Blogs, Texas Style
Kari Chisholm offers this: "Governing Magazine has a great discussion of the role that blogs are playing during the Texas legislative session"
This Week in Podcasting
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Ethics matter
For most of my life, baseball has been my favorite sport. There’s something soothing about watching a game, especially in person. Baseball has strategy and data — things that I have loved since a young age. It also has cheating. Cheating has been part of the game for generations. Almost exactly a century ago, the…
links for 2007-05-22
Google News: The End of News Indexing As We Know It? is Google cutting secret deals with European publishers? (tags: copyright) The Value Of Aggregating Content disaggregation vs. aggregation — where are we headed? (tags: Aggregation media) Newspapers need to go hyper-local to survive echoing my argument that most newspapers can only differentiate on local…
Moreover Acquired by Verisign
Tom Formeski over at SiliconValleyWatcher reports that the rumored Moreover deal is done and the buyer isn’t someone anyone I know was guessing: VeriSign is about to announce it acquired Moreover Technologies, the San Francisco based news aggregator. The acquisition price is around $25m according to SVW sources. I have to confess that I don’t…