According to Wired bloggers in the US are looking to unionise in the hope of securing better terms and conditions. A bit counter-intuitive!!!

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CMP has sold techcareers to Beyond.com the business recruitment site in the UK. As part of the deal the company becomes the recruitment sales agent for CMP as a whole.

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Google is now indexing the web almost within the hour, compared with monthly in the days when we worried about the “Google Dance”, according to Google blogger, Matt Cutts.

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VC Veronis Suhler releases a forecast that suggests that internet advertising will become the largest sector in the US by 2011, surpassing newspapers. Not all commentators believe this is an aggressive enough forecast.

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David Lawee, VP of marketing for Google explains to Business Week why he has the easiest job in marketing.

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Steve Rubel, stalwart A List Blogger, explains how he is winding down his blog in favour of “micro blogging” – using Twitter and the like. Is this a trend? Is it the end for the blog as we know it?

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How do you measure influence on the web? The number and quality of links was the traditional way, but now David Brain, ceo of Edelman Europe is trying to develop a more comprehensive model which tracks influence across large numbers of social networks.

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Social networks will define media consumption in the future – or so says Dan Scheinman, senior vice president of Cisco Systems’ Media Solutions Group. Though it may sound like an activity relegated to high school and college kids, social networking is going to be the avenue for marketers and media companies to reach consumers and enterprise customers alike, Scheinman said.

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Forrester analyst Josh Bernoff has some sensible advice for those developing software or delivering internet based content – stop calling your customers “users”.

Try, just for a day, to stop using this word. You’ll be amazed at how differently you think about the world. Web users become people looking for information.
Application users become employees trying to get stuff done. Users of your Web site become customers….User-generated media becomes amateur media.

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Robert Scoble is comparing Facebook to blogs and concluding that Facebook has something extra… The key? True two way interaction, in his view.

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