Google seems to be under the false impression that it decides what ‘Do No Evil’ means. As it turns out, we do. First, Zeldman gave us a way to block Autolink. Now, witness Butler, a Firefox script (requires greasemonkey) that,…

Many outlets have been speculating about Yahoo!’s upcoming launch of YPN, and leaks abound. Here’s what we “know”: Yahoo! will offer a self-serve model for its Content Match contextual advertising service to micro-content publishers Here’s my speculation: Yahoo! will release…

David Sifry, CEO of Technorati, posts the first of a multi-part update on the State of The Blogosphere as of March 2005. Boiled down: lots of growth (doubling every 5 months — still) and lots of spam/link farming. I’ll be…

Seth Goodin writes about creating a “sticky blog post” (my wording) at the top of his newest blog, so that those dropping in on the middle of the conversation can get some context. He advocates that TypePad should support the…

Pamela Parker points to a post by Tom Watson, entitled, “Google’s Death Throes” that left me scratching my head. Tom believes Google and eBay are both screwed (my word), and points to a seemingly ill matched Contextual (i.e., AdSense) ad…

Blogads.com has posted the results from their second annual Blogger survey. Needless to say, this is a fascinating read for anyone doing business (or participating) in this ‘space’.

Daithí Ó hAnluain has posted a very interesting look into how Newspapers (and news) are and aren’t being impacted by Social Networking, and, what Newspapers are, aren’t and should be doing with SN. I’m quoted very liberally in the piece…

According to this piece from Reuters (it’ll link rot soon since it’s up on Yahoo!), Motorola is starting to trickle out info on their new iTunes phones, and while details are scarce (look for more from Gizmodo later today), what’s…

I just dropped by Google News and noticed a big “Customize this Page” link in the upper right hand corner. Clicking the link, I’m able to do several new things: 1. Rearrange the order of news sections (e.g., Top Stories,…

Susan Mernit points to an I Want Media interview with Lockhart Steele, managing editor of Nick Denton’s Gawker Media. In it, Steele states that Gawker pays its bloggers $2500.00 USD/mth, with potential for additional upside based on traffic, for a…