Quick Site Looks Can Kill

Gather Waves Ad Cash At Bloggers

Blog networks opened a lot of eyes when AOL tossed down about $25 million at Weblogs Inc, and Gather looks like an effort that wants to follow in those high-priced footsteps.

AdAge Strikes Again

...it occurred to me that there is no such thing as blogging. There is no such thing as a blogger.

Anybody Care That The Robots Are Winning?

This shift to contextual advertising caused by intelligent software has privacy advocates going squirrelly, particularly because the larger public seems relatively unconcerned. After all, says the public, it's all about the end-user experience, not whether a robot saw my iTunes list or my Gmail inbox and made a suggestion.

DRM Suit Hits Microsoft, Yahoo

An array of technology companies just found out who SoftVault Systems is: a patent holding company that developed digital rights management technology, and the willingness to sue over them.