The push to AdSense for Feeds begins in earnest.

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It’s time to stop worrying about Regulation FD and start being folksy, down-to-earth, and whatever else your PR people tell you to do in starting your corner window office blog.

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Daily Kos favorite Poblano, the moniker for blogger Nate Silver, spent a lot of time getting right what powerful polling organizations missed with the Democratic nomination process. You could say he hit a home run.
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Depicting the Democratic frontrunner as a flag-burning, Osama bin Laden devotee won The New Yorker few fans.

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Remember how Ach-moo-dent-in-jab told us there were no homosexuals in Iran? He could be right about that, considering anybody who reveals himself is hanged. Here’s another offense that carries the death penalty in Iran: blogging.

Well, blogging about the wrong things, anyway. This article in the Jerusulem Post is a little contradictory about which offenses carry the death penalty–in the first line you get it for insulting Islam or drug trafficking; later Kurds are killed for spying and separatist propadanda.

Nonetheless, a new law has been passed there to make sure the death penalty is extended to crimes committed online, presumably like insulting Islam via a blog or opening up an online head shop. Or just being gay online, one might suppose. Though the Internet is global, one assumes punishment is a local affair–if not, maybe Perez Hilton should be our next ambassador.

We take a shot at making a quality, human-edited directory of useful sites for our visitors.

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The turnkey platform offered by Mochila takes content distribution and ad serving, and puts it into an easy to add package for publishers.

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Weird behavior on Google’s translation service page made the gossips at Gawker think they found a scoop. They didn’t. Here’s why.

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A soft real estate market affects all parts of the economy. It presents an opportunity for blogs to shine with the information they can present to detail seekers.

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The Yahoo ID used by its members to login to services like Flickr and Yahoo Mail will soon be usable to authenticate to sites supporting the OpenID standard.

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