There’s been a lot of talk about the 25 percent.

Wikipedia has blocked certain US Congressional IP addresses over allegations that certain staffers repeatedly ignored community policy and edited out certain passages of articles they object to.

Jeff Jarvis’ rant the other day about conferences strikes a chord for me as I’m involved in speaking at quite a few during the next few months (see the links in the left-hand column).

If you are like most bloggers, you often discover that finding time to blog can be an issue.

Aaron Pratt turns out another great SEO interview.

After General Motors made a call to television viewers to “Google” the Pontiac brand name, it didn’t take long for Mazda to launch a keyword counterattack. Sponsored search results carried the echo of Mazda marketing snickers as Pontiac searchers were invited to a side-by-side comparison under the link title “Pontiac vs. Mazda.”

Surprise, surprise. Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney appointed a successor to the departed CIO of the state’s Information Technology Division, Peter Quinn, and stood behind the current plan to implement OpenDocument Format support by January 2007.

In the world of web development, the choice of which development language to use commonly comes down to two popular choices.

Reuters reports Google’s net profit rose 82% in fourth quarter to $372.2 million.

When I started podcasting, I used the free cross-platform audio editor Audacity as my application of choice for recording and editing audio.

Still think that search marketing is not important? FTD just realized they screwed-up their Christmas marketing efforts by not utilizing search.

If you are a software maker producing a product that may be harmful to the hardware of innocent gamers, calling out the whistle-blowing blogger with a lawsuit threat may be generally regarded as a bad move.

I joined the RSS Advisory Board with Meg Hourihan, Loc Le Meur, Eric Lunt, Rogers Cadenhead, Jenny Levine, Randy Charles Morin, Greg Reinacker and Dave Sifry.

Three out of the four companies invited to tomorrow’s congressional briefing on American companies enforcing Chinese censorship have flat out refused to attend.

Cymfony has launched a Knowledge Center that contains all kinds of rich information to help marketers learn about blogs, consumer generated media, PR measurement and Web 2.0.

Microsoft has said that it will not provide free antivirus protection for Windows Vista, but instead sell it as a subscription service through Windows OneCare.

Warner Music Group Corp. today announced it will make available master recordings from WMG’s roster of recording artists as ringtones to the more than 74 million registered users of of eBay-owned VOIP service Skype.

I had missed this one. Jeff Jarvis and Craig’s List founder Craig Newmark are reportedly working on a new venture to aggregate quality investigative reports from citizens and professional journalists.

The latest version of Java Studio Creator includes drag and drop support for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) from a new component library.

Yes, white papers are an effective way to generate leads with business buyers. But the tricky part is getting your white paper into the hands of those buyers in the first place.

This website, as a protest, is running a Google Cache. That is, not a cache like Google’s cache of other websites, but a cache of Google, page by page. Basically, its a protest against Google’s cache. Confused?

The Google AdSense team posted some advice about placing AdSense blocks in blogs and making the most of the space on the blog to better profit from those ads.

Google looked the Wall Street suits in the eye and said, “we nearly doubled our earnings in the fourth quarter. Profit was up 82 percent. Revenue was up 86 percent. In all, we pulled in $1.29 billion. What do you think?” The Wall Streets suits scowled all in a row and shouted in unison, “You stink!”

Microsoft has said that CableCARD, which allows you to access and control digital cable with a Media Center PC, will only work on certified systems, and naturally, the certification procedure is too expensive for mom-and-pops and individual system builders.