links for 2005-10-12

Townhall.com is spinning off from The Heritage Foundation to become a separate entity and is shedding its 501(c)3 tax status in the process.  This represents a major development as it will no longer be constrained by IRS rules to avoid political activism.  It has the potential to become a powerful conservative grassroots activation tool.  (As…

My preferred RSS reader, SearchFox, will cease to exist in 2 weeks.  Esteban Kozak writes in his blog: Thanks for all your help in making SearchFox what it is. We have enjoyed providing this service, and hope that you have enjoyed using it. Please export all of your links and an OPML file with your…

Amy Gahran looks at legal issues surrounding comments posted on your blog: On Aug. 26, Dave Taylor posted an article concerning legal liability and weblog comments. Basically, Aaron Wall, who writes the SEO Book weblog, was recently threatened with a lawsuit because of something that someone posted in comments to his blog.

PubSub‘s Bob Wyman offers two interesting posts as part of Global PR Blog Week 2.0 describing what prospective search is and how it can benefit clients needing blog monitoring.  It’s a subject I have particular interest in since it is the primary methodology we use at CustomScoop for our online media monitoring. Come to think…

Matthew Hurst notes that David Sifry of Technorati appears to be making the rounds of major PR firms, likely to let them know about his company’s professional blog monitoring product (reportedly soon to be released).  He also observes: There is no doubt that blogs are an important part of the equation, but the world of…

I tried.  I really, really wanted to go back to Microsoft Internet Explorer.  Overall, I prefer that browser to Firefox, mostly because the extensions they have and that many web sites take advantage of.  But I couldn’t do it.  The MSN search toolbar had me feeling good for a while because it enables tabbed browsing. …