Apparently David Sifry, founder and CEO of Technorati, said yesterday that corporate employees should not only be able to blog but that they should be autonomous and not subject to PR agency screening.

Reports of the death of the ivory-billed woodpecker were premature. The rare woodpecker, listed as “presumed extinct” on the Audubon Society website has been spotted in the Big Woods region of eastern Arkansas.

I need help and would appreciate if someone could enlighten me on a technical question. I found the following in a comment to Neville’s blog:

Revenue for 2004 surpasses the height of the dot-com boom and should continue to grow this year.

In a move that sent freedom of expression advocates like Reporters Without Borders into fits, the Kingdom of Bahrain mandated that website owners register with the government for monitoring.

Oil Prices continue to bounce up and down today as light sweet crude dropped below the $50 mark this morning before starting a rally and shot back above the $51 mark and then back down to $50.90.

Their goal is to better enable contact centers to do their work without a live customer service representative in the mix.

How would you like the ability to search all of Google from a single static page? Does the idea of using Google to do a keyword search while it’s associated with a popular term and/or site appeal to you…

Everyone knows Microsoft will kick out its new X-Box in May 13, which is just a few days away. It’s going to be a hip offering and MTV will broadcast the event. New games will be available with a better graphics, sound, etc. But now Samsung will help them out just a little with its new HDTV offerings.

So-called typosquatting leaves a dangerous option for PC users who spell the popular search engines name incorrectly a certain way.

Yahoo, unsurprisingly, is taking steps towards being a banner ad-serving company via its network of content publisher partners.

There is a great podcast over at View from the Isle – The Inaugral Business Blog Roundtable – on the topic of how frequently should you post’ on your blog.

Allied Domecq is the center of attention in the alcohol industry lately, having agreed to be taken over by Pernod Ricard last week for $14.2 billion.

The Financial Times has an excellent report on why wikis are an effective collaborative tool for the workplace, quoting examples from three prominent companies …

Yesterday the world’s largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, made its first flight which lasted about 4 hours.

CNN has launched a sophisticated Google attack designed to lower the rank of posts critical of the network by introducing spam into the comment stream …

The Royal Dutch/Shell Group’s earnings increased by 42% as a result of high oil prices.

The growth of the U.S. economy slowed down to 3.1% in the first quarter, its slowest rate in two years.

Beta test of personal web search history service launches today, and includes sharing and search retention.

Best Buy has plans for expanding its stores by 20% with new stand-alone “Geek Squad” stores and open lab stores in China.

Silicon Valley legend and SpikeSource founder expounds positively on open source technologies.

While this isn’t ending dependence on fossil fuels, the breakthrough could help the oil drilling and homeland security industries.