Dude, Blogging is So Over…

MerchantCircle Brings Local Businesses MySpace Platform

My hat’s off to MerchantCircle. I’ve just read a Business Week article that explains how the company is serving local businesses with a network that borrows a few ideas from MySpace. It sounds like they’ve hit on a winner!

Pull Marketing: The Golden Age

Since blogging has become popular there are far more people writing than their are good ideas to spread. This means that if you can create a good idea marketed at publishers looking for a scoop, and format the idea to spread you can probably get enough link authority to get a natural PageRank 6 in just about any market.

Skype To FCC: Let My People Go

VoIP firm Skype wants the Federal Communications Commission to force cellular providers into letting people have more choice about how they connect to those wireless networks.

George Lucas Declares Trademark War On Digg

There's no balance in the Force with the Digg.com around, says LucasFilms, who has filed a trademark complaint against the social news site. Diggers haven't been this torn since they walked out of The Phantom Menace and realized how much it sucked.

Fuzzy Zoeller Incensed Over Wikipedia Edit

Professional golfer Fuzzy Zoeller has filed a lawsuit against a Florida company linked to the IP address of the computer used to post defamatory remarks about him on Wikipedia.