There’s a dirty little secret in the newspaper industry. In fact, it’s a secret that might one day cause serious damage to newspaper brands and give further rise to blogs, unless there’s action.

Marketing is the egg.

Anyone who has spent any time around marketers has probably heard about the profession’s “Four P’s.”

ClickZ summarizes yet another study on the predicted growth of digital advertising and online marketing.

A select group of invitees will visit Apple’s Cupertino campus on February 28th to see what is new from the company.

Are you a fan of easter eggs? Not the chocolate kind, but the kind hidden away in web sites or software.

Microsoft’s XML Blog reported some of the current issues they’re facing as they develop their VB 9.0 language for programming XML. Program manager Avner Aharoni brought out some of the more intriguing issues his team faces.

There have been a lot of official Google blogs and some not so official, yet they all tend to focus purely on the business-end of the company.

The forthcoming South by Southwest music and film conferences will deliver music compilations and movie trailers using BitTorrent’s P2P technology.

Could it be a Google for Coders?

I talk with marketers and IT folks all across the country about their web sites and their potential to use the search engines to drive traffic.

Greg Jarboe, known for his SEO work and SES talks, has some advice for the first-time Search Engine Strategies attendee.

A collaboration between AOL and online meeting facilitator WebEx plan to offer a business version of AIM to enterprise customers on a subscription basis.

The tech company has shifted from using its dated search technology to implementing MSN Search throughout Microsoft.com.

In China, sites are required to obtain an Internet content provider license from the government to operate; Google.cn shares a license with another Chinese site, and that could be a problem.

I hate it when people look at the Office 2007 user interface and dismiss it out of hand, calling it too big.

Paul Thurrott posts that a web page on Microsoft’s website temporarily revealed the different versions of Windows Vista that will be made available.

By 2010, the click-to-call ad market could be worth substantial money to the search advertising industry.

The Communication Commons is up and running.

A photo essay from Time Magazine shows the warm and fuzzy workers’ utopia of Google’s Mountain View headquarters in all its sun-drenched glory.

In the most recent installment of Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere, Dave Sifry enlightens us to not only the growth statistics of weblogs, but also offers a little more insight as to the nature of the spam beast. Spam pings (spings) present the latest challenge to keeping Technorati’s index uncluttered.

I’m delighted to announce that Neville Hobson and I-cohosts of the For Immediate Release podcast-have agreed to produce a series of podcasts leading up to and running through the IABC 2006 International Conference.

I’m in the business of search engine marketing, so it’s sometimes easy to forget that a majority of people don’t really know that the industry exists, how useful it is in business to business marketing, and what a valuable marketing tool SEO can be in general.

I haven’t read this yet, but after a quick scan it sure looks interesting.