links for 2007-05-12

Reuters: U.S. writers are suing Google Inc. in a federal court, alleging that the Web search leader’s bid to digitize the book collections of major libraries infringes individual author’s copyrights.

CNN’s replacement for the venerable Inside Politics will include a tip of the hat to the online world, with podcasts and blogs part of the coverage.  Let’s just hope they incorporate it in a less cheesy way than the current IP blog segment.  CNN reports on its own format change: "The Situation Room" will be…

Did Bush win because of the Internet? MICHAEL CORNFELD KNOWS WHY George W. Bush won last year’s presidential election.  Bush’s camp, said Cornfeld, used the Internet to find volunteers and then gave them information to spread–via any medium at hand–to friends and neighbors. "The Bush campaign married software to Tupperware," Cornfeld, a senior consultant with…

Another company targets video search, this time overseas: Autonomy has just signed a joint venture with China Netcom Broadband (CNCBB), one of China’s biggest internet companies with more than 110m subscribers. The pair have agreed to create a service that will allow Chinese consumers to search for news and video clips from 25 local and…

Online News Squared: “Knight Ridder revives the name of a former afternoon paper and uses it for the latest effort at citizen journalism at TheColumbiaRecord.com.” And MicroPersuasion reports on another major newspaper chain getting into the CJ game: "MediaPost: ‘Cox-owned Austin American-Statesman today plans to launch a free community blogging service on its group of…