- Get in on the CustomScoop Blog/News Search Private Beta (MicroPersuasion) – Steve Rubel posts an open invitation to his readers to try the CucstomScoop search beta. I would have called it News/Blog since news sources are the main sources for the search, but that’s nit-picking. CustomScoop could be useful for my work stuff.
- Oodle for Local Classified Listings (SearchEngineWatch) – Oodle is a search engine for classified listings from multiple sources like CraigsList, local newspapers and the like. Worth watching.
- Q: Does Google Want to Spider Classified Ads? (John Battelle’s Searchblog) – Answer is "Hell, yeah." Related to previous link, and a big deal for anyone involved with classifieds (newspaper folks).
- Some Bloggers Meet the Bosses from Big Media (PressThink) – Jay Rosen attended a confab of prominent bloggers and big media honchos. His notes are interesting and I’ll probably write more about it after I’ve had time to digest it.
- News Meets the Global Thought Bubble (First Draft by Tim Porter) – Another participant in the confab mentioned above. I like his explanation of the "global thought bubble."
- Building the Journalism of the Future, Intentionally (First Draft by Tim Porter) – Newspapers need to get away from the passive, "news happens" form of journalism and engage in "intentional journalism."
- Copyright Scholars and Publishers Crazy Auctorial Theories About Books and Tech (BoingBoing) – This post has two quotes that highlight the idiotic, luddite stances being taken by authors and publishers in the face of new technologies’ embrace of their products. Lesson: Just because you’re literate doesn’t mean you’re smart.
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