The Blogosphere By the Numbers

Rob McGann, over at ClickZ, has a nice article entitled The Blogosphere By the Numbers, with some interesting metrics on blogging (Deeje, Susan, take note!). My key takeaways (and if you care about search, local search, p2p, social networking, etc,

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Inside AOL’s restructuring

ContentNext has posted an internal AOL memo, which details the internal roles and responsibilities of key players in each of AOL’s four divisions… a very useful guide if you (intend to) partner (or work) with AOL.

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A misguided comparison: SEM vs. Rich Media Ads

Rich Media Is Rising Star of Online Ad: “A new report from eMarketer predicts that rich media will overtake search to become the dominant form of Web advertising by the end of the decade. ” Ugh. Appearantly, those in our

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Appearantly it would be "simple" for Microsoft to build a bidded marketplace

In his article entitled MSN Renews With Overture — for Now Kevin Newcomb, who I like and respect, makes a misguided leap of logic in saying: “The company has a few options for technology that accepts bids and bills advertisers.

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Delta flight attendant fired for blog content, pictures

News.com reports that Delta has fired a non-union flight attendant (“Queen of the Sky”) for the contents of her blog… namely, these ‘racy’ photos. This is becoming a rather disturbing trend.

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Microsoft hedges, renews deal with Overture for paid listing marketplace through 2006!

Ahead of the recent launch of Microsoft’s new search offering, I wrote: “…The real test for Microsoft will be their ability to create their own vibrant marketplace for paid listings (further breaking their ties to Yahoo)…” According to this joint

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Ignore – Feedster Blog Claim

No Need to Click Here – I’m just claiming my feed at Feedster

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TKG ILM 2004 PowerPoints Now Available

For those of you who weren’t able to attend, the PowerPoint slides for the various presenters at The Kelsey Groups’ Interactive Local Media 2004 conference are now available here. My recommendations for those with a few minutes on their hands:

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A quick rant to the boys at SiliconBeat

There are so many things in life that can frustrate you if you allow them to, hence the common (and appropriate) advice to ‘let go of the little things’. Then, there are the things that irk you so much for

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Google’s Orkut launches Op-Ed’s in hopes of finding a purpose

Orkut, the social-networking site that is still only loosely ‘affiliated with Google’ (perhaps because of lawsuits, or its rediculously slow performance…) announced in an email to members today that it was launching a new ‘Media tab’ where members could rant

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