links for 2007-05-17
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TV nets circumventing the MSM and going to TV bloggers instead
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thoughts on how Google ranks news stories
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57 questions that deserve answers — but most of us don’t have them
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.
Google has launched an app called Sidebar that sits on your desktop and monitors news, email, weather and other things. It self customizes based on what you browse. I just installed it to test it out and will let you know what I find. [via TechCrunch]
Three weeks ago, Kari Chisholm had an interesting post about how to build an email list. (I’m getting caught up on posting interesting reads today, in case you didn’t notice the flurry of posts.)
San Francisco Chronicle writes about a city councilor blogging using a government web server. The article addresses some of the concerns over the use of taxpayer resources to maintain a blog. It points out that for members of Congress, there are myriad rules and regulations already in place, but for local officials the guidelines tend…
Robert Scoble thinks so. He argues that Bloglines beats out Technorati because it has more links. Now, Bloglines may indeed be better than Technorati — I simply haven’t examined it carefully enough to comment. But you can’t focus solely on quantity at the expense of quality. All the links in the world don’t matter if…
TechCrunch reports on an interesting approach by Seth Godin to marketing his new book: As I mentioned in a recent weekly summary (see no. 6), Seth’s new book, The Big Moo, is coming out and he’s eating his own dogfood in promoting it. Seth has started selling batches of 50 galley copies to people if…