Global Olympic Blog Project

 This past week in the string of posts about the book coming out, I've been stockpiling ideas for "real" blog posts and wanting to write about them more and more. Thankfully now that I launched the Personality Matters blog, I will post most of the updates about the book there and refocus on marketing strategy and insights here. I can't promise I won't share the…

Score Another For Citizen Journalism

Webmasters scored another victory in the court system recently when a Vermont judge tossed out a defamation lawsuit brought by a woman upset by comments made about her by a third party commentator.Superior Court Judge David Howard upheld provisions set forth under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, enacted by the US Congress in 1996, which protects providers of interactive computer services from liability…

Google Maps Gets Contour Lines

Contour lines don't come up on a daily basis; it's rare enough that anyone even checks a map.  But contour lines do have a number of uses, and Google has just introduced the lines on its Terrain Maps option within Google Maps.

Getting Ranked In Google News

The Google News Team has an interesting blog post about the "truths and myths" of how Google includes and ranks articles.Some of the facts that stand out include "Having an image next to your article improves your ranking MYTH. While having a good image with your article does improve your chance to get your picture shown, it has no impact on the ranking of the…