links for 2005-11-10

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.

Jennifer Leggio is auctioning off the services of five social media experts on eBay to help support the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. It’s not exactly a new approach to fundraising for charity, but it does break a bit of new ground in that it is the first time I can recall social media experts being…

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The Standards Editor of the New York Times,  Allan M. Siegal, made an interesting admission in an interview with his own publication today: I’m supposed to be the recipient of any complaints and misgivings by the staff about how we’re doing and what we’re doing, the person who adjudicates differences of opinion about how we…

Infectious Greed: Yahoo Finance Adds Columnists — But Why These Ones? Study: ER traffic down for Red Sox games  This is completely off-topic, but entertaining nonetheless. Global PR Blog Week 2.0 » The complexities of government blogging in a dynamic policy environment DeepVertical Launches 5 Vertical Search Sites Israeli Tech Firm Buys BuzzMetrics

Jim Horton points to an interesting article about the progres of state and federal government agencies in making information more easily accessible online. A brief excerpt: West and his team of researchers conducted a detailed analysis of 1,620 state and federal government Web sites. Among the report’s findings: • 73 percent of state and federal…