Today's New York Times featured a story on what is considered Fair Use on the web.Specifically, they focused on news organizations pushing back on services that aggregate their content. This is not a new argument; since the dawn of the web there has been a struggle over what constitutes fair use. Fo...

This week, Content Matters caught up with e-marketing thought leader David Meerman Scott. David is a highly sought-after speaker and is author of the "The New Rules of Marketing and PR" and "Cashing In With Content". His newest book, World Wide Rave: Creating Triggers that Get Millions of People to ...

Newspapers had a dreadful year in 2008. So, have they hit rock bottom or are they just beginning their decline? To find out, I caught up with Ken Doctor earlier this week. Ken Doctor is author of the Content Bridges blog and is a leading authority on the newspaper industry. Ken had a 21-year career ...

The first panel discussion of the day at SIIA was entitled "Sink or Swim: How do you Grow an Information Business Now?"The moderator was, somewhat ironically, Kevin English, SVP at Satyam, a company that is doing more sinking than swimming right now. The panelists were Vanity Fair writer (and Newser...

Last Saturday my tennis pro, Woody Yokum, asked me to keep my left hand on my racket a little longer than usual as I bring my racket back for a forehand. This helped me get more shoulder rotation. Then I unleashed my stroke and hit the ball. BAM! The ball flew faster and harder than I’d ever hit b...

Like many other subjects net neutrality is hard to understand. If bandwidth is limited, why shouldn’t some traffic get priority? If networks own their own gear, why shouldn’t they do with it what they will? The answers are bandwidth is not limited and networks control speech, where limi...

What brands do you think of when you think about political polls? For most people, the names Gallup, Mason-Dixon, Rasmussen, Pew and ,perhaps, Zogby come to mind. Smart analysts and political junkies are quickly adding the name Silver to that list. Nate Silver is the founder of FiveThirtyEight.com, ...

This political season (can you call something that's gone on for nearly two years a season?) has generated more interest than any other in my lifetime. Cable viewership is up and the political blogs and websites have seen their traffic grow considerably. But in looking at the recent comScore results...

It's no surprise that Conde Nast is cutting back spending, particularly at Conde Nast Portfolio. After all, Time, Inc. is cutting more than 600 positions and the bloodbath will only get worse as the advertising spend drops further as we head into 2009. Conde Nast had been somewhat sheltered by being...

Google (NASD:GOOG) and Amazon (NASD:AMZN) are the two big winners in the Internet race, while Yahoo and IAC/Interactive Corp are also-rans. That’s the conclusion of the new Sanford Bernstein Black Book, U.S. Internet: the End of the Beginning. The report looks at the ultimate winners and losers du...