Vint Cerf, co-creator of the Internet will be in Washington on Wednesday. He was asked to speak at a House Committee meeting but blew them off to go hang out at the White House. It’s something about some Presidential Medal of Freedom. Anyway, while’s he not going to talk to Congress, he did send them a letter and it’s posted on Google’s blog.

Information is power. Google knows that. It also knows that information is money, lots of it. The up-until-recently-only-a search company has the world’s most powerful and wealthy corporations reexamining how they see life, the universe, and everything.

NBA owner and spam blog crusader Mark Cuban sees an opportunity to turn content piracy into content profitability…possibly.

One of the hottest topics in marketing is search marketing and many webmasters, company marketers and agencies are scrambling to acquire the knowledge necessary to serve their clients.

Kids are fighting authority and winning. In a recent case in New Jersey, a school district will pay out $117,500 to a student they punished for putting up his own website critical of the school district.

Another tool to help fight comment spam in blogs hosted by Google’s Blogger service lets bloggers enable comment moderation for their sites.

Among the many tech companies rewarding employees for opting for hybrid vehicles, Google pays if Googlers either buy or lease a hybrid.

Search engine advertising saw a small drop in year-over-year prices from October 2004 to this October, with a new average price of $1.45 for keyword ads.

One blogger delved into the offerings from the world’s top search engine, placed them into matrices against Yahoo, AOL, and Microsoft, and sought to find if Google was truly unique.

A sixteen-year-old Japanese girl slowly poisoned her mother into a coma while keeping a regularly updated weblog about the crime, alleges Japanese authorities. The unnamed Shizuoka Prefecture minor, from the tiny town of Izunokuni, emulated the infamous Teacup Poisoner, Graham Young.

Tossing a website address into the Link Popularity tool gives back a list of pages linking to it from several search engines.

Henry Copeland of BlogAds seems to think so. He spoke at Ad:Tech on Monday and said the online advertising model is faster to change and gives advertisers more control and even better, it’s much less expensive in both money and resources.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the Stock Market is an easier medium for investors to understand (i.e., to form behavioral expectations about) than the Fixed Income Market.

Technical skills have little value if you have poor soft skills. Don’t get me wrong, your tech expertise matters. But don’t be fooled by your tech skills. King of Linux, champion of Oracle? You’ve got it made, right? Give me a break! Tech skills alone are no guarantee of success.

Can you say cool waste of time, boys and girls? I knew you could. Someone has taken the Google Maps API and created an online version of Risk, the classic military strategy game.

Do you have to sacrifice all of the creative and artistic elements of your web site to rank in the search engines? Later in this article I’ll show you a real case scenario and the design and SEO approach used.

All the search engine/portal personalization, tailoring, and customization come at a price: unique user data, and that may be a tradeoff that more users become unwilling to make.

Left eyes accepted, too, with the proper paper work. FeedBurner announced the launch of its RSS advertising network today as part of an expansion of subscription services for publishers. The network already has a long list of well-known participants desiring a more targeted online ad campaign.

After students at a San Antonio high school posted messages on MySpace threatening the school, the school district said it would hold MySpace “accountable” for the problem.

If there’s any one site I use more than others (with the exception of Gmail), it’s Technorati. This site is a fantastic window into the psyche of the more digitally inclined. Here, in another in my series of hack postings, are 10 ways I get more mileage from T’rati.

Within hours of uploading their songs to MySpace.com, unknown indie band Hollywood Undead became, well, known. Their music hit the top of MySpace charts winning them not only new-found fame, but now a record deal with MySpace Records, a merger of the social networking website and Interscope Records.

Etherchannels are in use all over the world, as well as on your CCNA and CCNP exams. Learn how to build and support an EC in this tutorial from Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933.