I don’t recall the last WSJ article I read where I pretty much nodded my head in agreement to every word, but you MUST read Jason Fry’s take on the current status of blogging and the future of the medium.

Should you be in the early stages of a business start-up then there are elements to your personal business banking service which you should be looking for – and if you haven’t yet set up an account now is the time to take a deep breath and go shopping!

A Lexington, KY, high school received the reality show treatment from the Lifetime cable channel, which devoted web development forum hosting, and other new technology to supplement the upcoming reality series “Cheerleader Nation.”

If Search Engine Strategies New York had been kicked off with a parade, that parade would most certainly have started with the mayor (in a bowler hat) giving Barry Diller the key to city and declaring today “Ask.com Day”.

Version 6.1 of ClickTracks was released today with several new features:

Google has had a feature out for some time which allows webmasters to create a sitemap file to help Google’s crawlers find and index content.

The Wall Street Journal is running an article on how many analysts expect (or at least wish) Google to break from its early promises and actually provide investor guidance at its first Analyst Day this Thursday.

The Teoma technology at the heart of the Ask.com search engine will be back with the new name of ExpertRank, and Teoma.com redirects to Ask.com now.

There are effective ways to search for podcasts, and more importantly, to prepare the podcasts you create for indexing, as a session at SES 2006 New York discussed.

Microsoft has one more thing for Apple: a product announcement on Tuesday afternoon that will follow an Apple “special event” earlier in the day.

Over at ProBlogger, Aaron Brazell has written an outstanding tutorial on how to integrate tags into your blog and why this is important.

A Midwestern private school has sent home warnings about students placing personal information on the popular networking site MySpace.com.

Call it what you want, Google appears to be testing a secure payment system at Google Base.

If you pay attention to what’s going on in the broad tech world (Tech Memeorandum is a great way to get the hum of some opinion), you can’t help but notice things like the growing buzz about Microsoft’s Origami during the past few days.

This next session was both about how companies can use rich media on the internet to gain popularity, and about video advertising on the web.

The value of RSS and tags got a lot clearer and more exciting with today’s launch of Edgeio.

We all know that link building is an important aspect of SEO. Most of the websites I look at are reasonably well optimized, at least in terms of “on page” factors, but they’re usually in terrible shape when it comes to links – both within the website and within the area of link popularity.

The Long Tail theory believes that the Web marks the end of the blockbuster era and rise of the niche. Perhaps true. But there may be some significant unexpected consequences.

From a search marketing perspective, censorship, or put nicely, “content regulation,” is something that we’ve been living with on Google and the other engines for years.

While it may be a common after-lunch ritual to check your website positioning in Google for your company name, there’s another online traffic source to keep an eye on – Web Browsers.

I also sat in the Contextual Advertising session. While I was too busy getting caught up on things to blog the session, I will say this: It is quite clear that there is a lot of dissatisfaction with contextual tools, especially with AdSense.

Red Herring has details of the $6.5m just raised by TV search engine start-up MeeVee.

From contextual text advertising to image banners to rich media advertising, Google has now extended what it can do with its AdSense network.

Barry Diller is giving the keynote this morning at SES and it will be available live from my favorite internet radio station, WebmasterRadio.FM.