links for 2007-05-16

As expected, Google has entered the blog search game.  Try it here. Note that it is not truly a blog search function, but a feed search tool.  If a blog publishes only excerpts, Google will only search the excerpt.  Also, it does not search comments or other material on blog sites.  And it only covers…

Old time clipping service meets new media stats: BurrellesLuce, the nation’s leading media monitoring company, today announced that it will include Nielsen//NetRatings global Internet audience reach figures on all press clippings retrieved from Internet sources.

PaidContent reports that news parody site The Onion has dropped its premium pay service.

Idil Cakin of Burson Marstellar offers some good advice about dealing with the blogosphere in an article for DMNews.  Excerpted below are some of the more interesting points.  Whoever comes up with the best "secret sauce" to solve the problem of weighting blogs will have a powerful offering.  (This is something the brains at CustomScoop…

A Kintera/Luth study found that: On average, online givers donate in total (both online and offline) more than 50 percent more than those donors who do not give online.

Over in the UK, text messaging is taking on new importance as a way to communicate with the parents of school children.  From LeedsToday.net: FOR 27,000 parents, a reminder of an upcoming teacher training day, or a message that a school trip is returning late, could soon arrive instantly by text message thanks to Leeds-based…