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Beltway Blogroll reports: Down the hall here at National Journal, The Hotline’s Blogometer reports on the newest advertising network organized through BlogAds. It is called Buy the Right Ads and caters to advertisers who want a presence on conservative blogs. The network includes big-name blogs like Ankle Biting Pundits, Hugh Hewitt, Michelle Malkin, PoliPundit and…

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…

This one I just don’t understand.  Tom Foremski  takes Technorati to task over at Silicon Valley Watcher for a pay service that allows corporations to track their coverage in the blogosphere.  He writes: "I was surprised by how aggressive Technorati was in its pitch because it has a very good standing within the blogging community,…

Pete Cashmore highlights a just-launched company called theWeblogWire that attempts to set up a more efficient and effective distribution method for getting press releases to bloggers: The Weblog Wire allows companies to submit press releases, and bloggers to subscribe to these releases via RSS. Submitting a press release costs $99, or $149.99 if you want…

Bottom line: things went as well as could be expected this week. Now bring on 2009!