The licensing organization headed by Lawrence Lessig made its 2005 fundraising goal courtesy of a late-arriving check with a Redmond return address.

Thousands of visitors, tons of content, and advertisers begging for a bit of that real estate may be a dream to site publishers, but for Jimmy Wales it’s a different concern.

Many experienced, thoughtful authors in the tech world attempt to forecast what’s likely to happen in the forthcoming year; we’re glad they’ve done that so we can focus on getting a few cheap laughs at the expense of others.

The official Google blog has been the search advertising company’s way of discussing its business moves and other actions over the course of the previous year.

The blogosphere’s a scary place for corporate America. It’s unruly. It’s wild. But one thing’s for sure, it can’t be ignored, and big companies are going to have to dismount from their high horses and get to street level.

With all the bad news for music lovers being generated by Sony rootkits, RIAA file-sharing lawsuits, payola practices, and music industry pressure on iTunes pricing, Pandora.com stands out like a Little Walter harp solo in the dark.

Reuters wants to find affiliates willing to place its news video player on their sites, but haven’t really touched on the issue of compensating those affiliates.

For a brief time, the BBC will throw open the film vaults online and let UK-based users create mashups of the content.

With an array of mapping technologies, satellite images, and aerial photos, map and local sites under the purview of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL still need the kind of information only local users can provide.

When Doc Searls observed to Wired’s Chris Anderson that big companies may blog only because they’re on the way down, Anderson and a squad of interns explored the Fortune 500 to see if that may be true.

Google’s explanation about Ford Explorer ads showing up on numerous sites with no automotive-related content said it’s all about the impressions.

Desktop blogging software allows you to open up an application on your computer, connect to your blog and write from the comforts of your desktop.

The swift growth of the Digg.com user-submitted and policed news site has suffered from spamming and attempts to game the system; Kevin Rose blogged that help is on the way.

If Google can take its online model back to print, where media advertising started, there’s no reason online publishers can’t take their works and make them available in print too.

The Chinese portal company Sohu wants a spokesdog for its search engine, Sogou, and will pay a salary and dog-oriented benefits to the winner.

Google, Oprah, hybrid cars are in; Britney, reality shows, and SUVs are out, according to the 2005 ImagePower Newsmaker Brands Survey that identifies which high-profile brands came out on top in consumers’ minds, which brands suffered this past year.

It’s time for some routine maintenance on the AdWords and AdSense systems at Google, and users should still see their ads display as normal during the maintenance window.

A blogger for online research firm Hitwise cited some reasons why user-driven video site YouTube is growing in popularity and usage.

The reclusive R. Crumb has had his representatives file a lawsuit against Amazon.com for copyright infringement of his “Keep on Truckin’” image.

There was a time, I tell the younguns, when finding an off-campus apartment and a suitable roommate not only tested the diligence of your would-be researcher within, but also your skills at making paper flyers with little tear-off tags. For Generation Xbox, though, eBay has added a feature to its Rent.com that helps starry-eyed pre-frosh find leaky and close-to-pizza-joint housing as well as a roommate.

One last nod from the Search Engine Journal’s Search Blog awards showed who the voters thought would be most likely to flame a spammer to crunchy blackened bits.

The homepage for Google Base has been tweaked a bit, with a much simpler look-and-feel and a few links in red.

An Illinois man will be sentenced for a string of bank robberies; the trail leading to his arrest went through the Internet and his sons.

CSS or cascading style sheets are used to create a set of styles that can be applied to your fonts, tables and most other attributes of your web page.