IAR: Overture Plans New Products

In the coming year, Overture plans to offer contextual advertising, in order to capitalize on the success of its pay-for-performance advertising, as well as local search products.

In the coming year, Overture plans to offer contextual advertising, in order to capitalize on the success of its pay-for-performance advertising, as well as local search products.

In Politics Creeps into NY Times Technology Stories, Dave Aiello, an observer (and an observer of observers) of "the obvious political bias of the management of The New York Times," finds evidence of the same in Deal may Freshen Up Google's Links, by David F. Gallagher, in yesterday's issue of the paper.

I thought David G's piece was pretty fair and straightforward piece, as this breed of story goes. Essentially, it aggregated the concerns and speculations of various sources among bloggers and search engine watchers, along quotage from Ev.

Not mentioned was the fact that Gallagher himself is a blogger — of photos, all offered under a Creative Commons License. He's not a Times staffer, but a freelancer (like, say, Glenn Fleishman) whose articles on generally in an iconoclastic vein. In Turning a Digital Database into Local Radio, for example, he exposes Clear Channel's digital localization of Carson Daly's radio show.

I point all this out because Dave Aiello says, "Midway through the article, it talks about the development of Google News in a way that is self-serving to The New York Times and establishment journalism —

Google's attempt to automate news gathering on its news page (news.google.com) is still under development but has already earned some ridicule from journalists. Google News scans some 4,000 news sites and compiles a page of links, using clues like the content and placement of articles to arrange headlines. The page resembles other news sites, but there have been glitches. For example, Google News was more than an hour behind human-powered sites CNN.com and Yahoo News with word of the disintegration of the space shuttle Columbia."

Dave A says David G is wrong about how far Google was behind on the curve on the Columbia story. Even if that's true, I believe David G' remarks are more consistent with his own interest in automated journalism (which Google News entirely is) than with some pro-establishment subagenda at the Times.

But... I dunno. Maybe Dave A is right.

From the FWIW Dept., last June I did some blogging about a different David G's piece in the Times, not long before I ran into him at a blog party in New York City. Nice guy.

What are blog "word bursts" and where can I get a list of current word bursts?

Quoted from the DAYPOP site - "Word Bursts are heightened usage of certain words in weblogs within the last couple days. They are indicators of what webloggers are writing about right now. Word Bursts can frequently indicate current events of interest that are not usually accompanied by links. Sample weblog posts accompany each word burst."

DAYPOPS' word burst page is a must-check-out if you are an information junkie. The ability to research "word bursts" is a great example of the power of the technology that is under the hood of blogs

keywords: blog, business-blog, b-blog, word bursts, daypop, weblog, webloggers, bloggers, business webloggers, blogs4business, bloganswerman, questions about blogs, blogging answers, blog consulting, business blog consultant, blog strategy, blogs for business.

Daypop Word Bursts are "heightened usage of certain words in weblogs within the last couple days." [Scripting News]

This is a must-check-out if you are an information junkie. The ability to research "word bursts" is a great example of the power of the technology that is under the hood of blogs.

John Lawlor - Boca Raton - 2003-Feb-25