Losing America’s History

I admit I never even think about AOL as a player in online news search.  But I guess I should.  MarketingVox reports: AOL News has sprinted into a leading position in online news search, joining Yahoo News, Google News and Topix.net, writes SearchEngineWatch, citing July Nielsen/NetRatings data, according to which AOL News has a unique…

Stuff worth checking out: "Chris Heuer is the project lead: Signups for the new media press release (really!)" (Tom Foremski) – more on the effort to update the press release for the new media age.  Something worth following. "Blogs, Politics and Public Relations" (Beltway Blogroll) – campaigns in the new media age "GOP Superiority in…

Marianne Hudson of the Kauffman Foundation’s Entreworld asks: What books or articles have been most helpful to you in your entrepreneurial growth venture? Certainly an interesting question.  First, I second her recommendation of Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of the Start, which I have suggested to a number of budding entrepreneurs lately.  But I would also…

Having just returned from 10 days away from the office on business and vacation, I’m left to catch up on several thousand blog posts.  So here are my notes as I blaze through them at a blistering pace, no doubt missing some good stuff, but hopefully enjoying the foam on the cappuccino (OK, I don’t…

Jason Kottke makes a strong case that Technorati is heading in the wrong direction. That’s it. I’ve had it. No more Technorati. I’ve used the site for, what, a couple of years now to keep track of what people were saying about posts on kottke.org and searching blogs for keywords or current events. During that…

Henry Copeland of BlogAds, an advertising network for blogs, spoke to the current state of the market for ad spending in the blogosphere: After dropping 40-50% for the first couple of months after the election, it looks like we’ll be at new highs in March and April. I won’t call it a tipping point, because…