Jason Calacanis of Weblogs, Inc. posts a rational, albeit emotional, reply to Marc Canter’s proposal to promote Bloggers writing product reviews for money (so long as its done transparently), which I covered here. As noted in my post, and in…

ContraCostaTimes (owned by Knight Ridder, who owns one-third of the JV that owns CrossMedia Services and their site, ShopLocal.com) writer Ellen Lee writes a fair article on local shopping site, Cairo.com. Like ShopLocal (whose results are syndicated by AOL’s In-Store…

Richard Hagerty’s article, Mobile Search Is Almost Too Good To Be True, is a good reminder to those who might have forgotten that “Local” Search can be determined by proximity to any given “object”, including the Searcher herself, including when…

An SF Chronicle article earlier this week pointed to an internal Google document that forecasted 372K new advertisers over the next four years (at a fairly even ramp of 90-100K/yr). These seem like low numbers to me, especially given that…

I first read about Blabble from a SJ Merc piece written by Michael Bazeley. What was notable from Michael’s article was the unique position/niche Blabble was taking in providing for-pay “pr data mining” on blog posts on behalf of (presumably)…

Please let me know if you’ll be at the BloggerCon III Friday Night Dinner and want to connect!

Dan Gillmor points out p2p-politics.org on his blog. The site allows you to post home made political videos for (or against) a candidate. Particapatory media is a meme on the rise, and is tied in with many of the other…

Very interesting! It reminds me a lot of BzzAgent.com, a rather clever marketing group. I’d be more than happy to get paid to blog, so long as it doesn’t impact my credibility. Where do you see this falling between Paid…

Deeje Cooley emailed me a link to a Warton b-school interview with Macromedia CEO Rod Burgess**, baiting me to post on Rob’s comments on PointCast. I’ll pass on that 😉 but say this instead. All of this talk about Flash…

PortalPlayer’s Bid to Join iPod’s Party I gotta say, I’m pretty surprised that Apple doesn’t see the opportunity in buying these guys on the cheap (they certainly have negotiating leverage)… or the threat if one of their competitors does. (Kinda…