Word of the release of an exciting new project from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Thomson Reuters. From the Berkman Center Site: Researching the nature of news, and media information flows, has always faced a difficult challenge: there is so much produced by so many outlets that...

Today Reprise Media announced our six year anniversary (that’s the Aston Martin year for those of you wanting to send gifts). The passage of such a milestone led to some thinking about how little time that is in say, the ball bearing industry, but how much time that is in the world of search and s...

Clearwater considers closing some libraries Council members spent three hours Thursday discussing various programs and city jobs that they could trim. But after two hours, they hadn’t agreed on many cuts. … “We haven’t cut anything, hardly,” Hibbard said. That’s w...

We’re continuing our coverage of our Fifth Annual Search Marketing Scorecard, which looks at how well advertisers on this year’s Super Bowl broadcast integrated their search engine and social media marketing. Yesterday we pointed to Touchdowns… the brands that made into our top tier. As you mi...

Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past. Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in history, Oba...

+ Chinese target Google in month long anti-porn crack down (via Globe and Mail) + Google Wins Lawsuit on Name, Trademark of Subsidiary in China (via Bloomberg) + Google unveils Picasa for Macs (via AP) + Webcast: Watching Google AdWords: The Mysterious Mechanization of Meaning in the Google Brain Go...

SafeSearch Filter on Internet Search Engines (PDF; 22 KB) The Office of Inspector General (OIG) continues to receive monthly referrals from the Office of Information Technology (OIT) of employees who have used their SEC- assigned computers to access Internet pornography in violation of Commission ru...

News Briefs + Faulty Instructions Prompt Recall of Electrical Wiring How-to-Books by The Taunton Press; Shock Hazard to Consumers (Consumer Product Safety Commission) + Bush Library: Make Way for the Terabytes (Dallas Morning News) + Martin drops porn filtering from FCC free wireless broadband plan ...

Man Says DVD At Town ‘N Country Library Is Porn A Rocky Creek man wants to have a film he regards as pornographic removed from the shelves of the Town ‘N Country Regional Public Library. Frank DeAngelis, a former police officer and retired sociology professor, said he didn’t know w...

For a while there it seemed that Google was so big and so flush with cash that they were ready to try out any of their employees 20% time projects regardless of merit or relevance. Now that we are in an economic crunch it seems that the GoogleCopter and Google Brand chewing gum are destined to die i...