Google just announced that they took Scott Johnson’s advice (no acknowledgement though…) and have added a captcha to new blog creation in an attempt to eliminate the automated creation of spam blogs. Excellent. Now guys, can you please make it…

The ladies behind the BlogherCon discussion have officially announced their conference, to be called BlogHer. The conference is a one-day event scheduled for July 30th 2005 @ the TechMart in Santa Clara, CA, USA. Registration is $99.06 (or $21.73 for…

Speaking of Searching by Cell Phone (but, alas, not voice driven in this case), SEW reports that Google Local is now available for mobile searching. Had drinks with a friend this weekend who mentioned that Google was moving aggressively to…

Deeje Cooley has been calling for an automated podcast transcription service for a while now. I’ve been meaning to comment on this, but wanted to tie in some other thoughts (what’s new). But today, I learned (via Rubel) that a…

…And eventually, the sun will shine on your little corner of the world. My thanks to the folks at Feedster (Disclosure) for naming buzzhit! the Feed Of The Day.

So, Greg Linden of Findory was kind enough to drop by yesterday and leave some thoughts regarding my post on automated tag creation. Greg, I realized this morning — with a fresh pair of eyes — that I completely missed…

When I first read on Niall Kennedy’s blog that Yahoo had released their Term Extraction API, I immediately thought, “Cool, if I can rig up a method of inserting the extracted terms into my blog posts, I can get all…

Back in late 2003, as I was coming on board at KRD, I was asked to do an analysis of the company’s current shopping offering vs. competitive offerings (newspapers, Amazon, etc), factoring in emergent shopping behaviors. While there were many…

Peter over at PC4Media left me a comment, and, posted the following over at his blog (trimmed down): “I’ve been reading Tony Gentile’s Buzzhit blog for a bit now. It is a good blog. Some good insight… However, every time…

Steve Rubel writes: “The first group are the mass marketers. This group craves safety, as the Wall Street Journal noted last month. They are skittish about advertising on blogs. As a result, they will gravitate towards teaming with the larger…