Ragan vs. Melcrum

Last week, Chicago-based Ragan Communications launched MyRagan.com, a free service aimed at communicators around the world that’s a mix of social network, knowledge and information resource. It’s captured a lot of imaginations and got off to a cracking start. When I signed up last week, there were about 250 members. Today, that number is over 500. Also last week, London-based research and training firm Melcrum announced…

Marketers Step Into Google FOG

It wasn't too long ago that a possible Microsoft purchase of Yahoo would have spooked the living daylights out of everybody. Not anymore, not even close. Fear of Google, the FOG, rolls in so thick the folks enveloped within are looking to Microsoft for daylight.

Googlers Take A Crack At John McCain

Never mind the PBS crew - at a recent debate starring John McCain, neither Jim Lehrer nor Gwen Ifill served as the moderator.  Instead, Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, filled that role.  And this seems fitting, considering that the event took place at the Googleplex, in front of a crowd of around 700 Googlers.

NBC Enters YouTube Legal Battle

NBC Universal and Viacom have filed a friend of the court brief that opposes YouTube's attempt to dismiss a copyright infringement case brought by Los Angeles News Service operator Robert Tur.

Blogger Anti-SLAPP Case Angers Munchkin Man

That "Left," the code-named blogger behind StockLemon.com (which is now CitronResearch)doesn't have many friends in the financial world isn't what's important. What is important that Left becomes the first blogger to be protected by Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) laws, at least in California. And The Munchkin Man (to be discussed later) isn't happy.