Context For Your Blog

If you want to gain a deeper understanding of the changing field of communication your blog exists in, take a look at the presentations from WOMMA Summit 2005. The focus is obviously word-of-mouth marketing, and blogs are just one tool from that perspective. But many of the speakers did talk about blogs as part of their strategies.

Star Wars! Nothing But Sith Wars!

I can't help but the recall the old SNL sketch with Bill Murray as the lounge singer piping out "nothing but Star Wars" while playing the all too familiar theme in the piano. He should've been in a Vader costume.

Yahoo Brings Video Search Out Of Beta

Yesterday, Yahoo Search did something that may be considered quite foreign to other search engines: they brought one of their search features out of its Beta stage and officially launched it. I am referring to Yahoo Video Search and according to Yahoo; it offers "the most comprehensive video search product on the Web."

Federal Court Ditches Flag Order

The Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. stomped the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today in a ruling saying the overstepped its authority in ordering electronics manufacturers from putting a "broadcast flag" device in television sets and other video recording devices.