Periodically this question pops up.

The three best paragraphs I’ve read today, from the Lefsetz Letter, regarding the marketing of the Borat movie:

So, the secret is out, I was the mystery blogger over on the Intel blogger challenge.

Microsoft has launched a new social networking site for IT professionals called Aggreg8.
Think of MySpace but only focusing on all things IT related. On their homepage is the mission statement.

Detlev Johnson, in the SearchReturn email newsletter, weighs in on the subject of landing page quality algorithms by turning to a history of paid search price increases:

Two major open source contributions from IBM for its Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) have placed it with the Apache Software Foundation as an incubator project, and out to the OASIS specification development group to create a true standard around the UIMA framework.

Arab TV network Al Jazeera launched an English-language service yesterday that, inevitably, attracted criticisms in the US and elsewhere where some see the station purely as a mouthpiece for Osama Bin Laden.

The latest complaint to social-networking site MySpace comes from city officials in Houston, Texas, who claim that MySpace pages are being used to glorify killers.

Soon Cingular Wireless will introduce mobile phone banking to its customers. The features will include funds transfers, paying bills and other online banking transactions.
The mobile banking launch is expected to take place in early 2007.

The head of Weblogs, Inc, who sold his blog network to AOL for a reported $25 million price tag has followed his mentor, ex-CEO Jonathan Miller, out of the company.

For some reason, Microsoft didn’t add a Week property to the DateTime class. I never could figure out why.

Ah-Ha, Bobby McFerrin and Dexy’s Midnight Runners are all classic examples of one-hit wonders you may or may not remember from the 1980s. Effective one-page wonders, however, boast a more significant impact on the industry landscape than Terrence Trent D’Arby or Devo.

John Bell, founder of our 360 Digital Influence group here at Ogilvy has a great post on his blog about helping organizations understand how to approach social media as part of their overall marketing communications efforts.

Vanessa Fox of Google and Tim Mayer announced sitemaps in an exclusive video interview with WebProNews reporter Chris Richardson. View All Videos In an exclusive video interview with WebProNews Yahoo and Google announced a collaborative site called sitemaps.org. Tim Mayer …

In great news, Google, Yahoo and MSN have agreed upon a XML sitemap standard.

Just signed up for ReviewMe a new site for which Advertisers can get their Web site’s products or services reviewed by related Web sites/Blogs thus benefiting from valuable exposure, feedback, and viral buzz.

Today’s keynote featured the lyrical stylings of Danny Sullivan, whose decade-long observation of the search engine industry has been a fixture of his blogging and conference sessions. WebProNews settled in for the story.

You remember from your CCNA studies that when a port goes through the transition from blocking to forwarding, youre looking at a 50-second delay before that port can actually begin forwarding frames.

Google is having quite a day. The company has been initiated into the S&P 100, and its stock is very close to hitting the $500 mark (may, in fact, hit it before I finish this article). There is also news that Google is “winning” the “UK search battle,” with a year-on-year share increase of nine percent.

Gabe Rivera of news aggregator Techmeme says, “if your blog or news article sends a moderate level of traffic to one of my sites, it will be evaluated for inclusion.”

Last weekend, when I moved my blog to this new domain, after moving the files from their old location at http://www.infohatter.com/blog/ to their present location, I needed to set up a redirect to ensure that traffic following links pointing to the old location would still end up at the right posts.

The Session in ASP.NET is a very simple way of storing user specific data for the duration of a single user session.

One vendor you’re sure to see at virtually every SES and Pubcon conference is web analytics company, ClickTracks.

CaseCamp, a marketing unconference’ open to anyone, is holding it’s first event in Second Life on December 14.