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Online Reputation Management Basics

As much time and effort that marketers put into improving visibility within search results, not all search engine ranking pages (SERPs) are good. Increasing numbers of companies are experiencing the sharp edge of the sword from disgruntled employees or customers taking advantage of the amazingly simplistic process of publishing content to the web.

Historic American Newspapers Move Online

If you are an American History buff you will be interested to know that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress has announced that "Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers" is available online. The site has more than 226,000 pages of public domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and Washington DC published between 1900 and 1910. The text of the newspapers is searchable, and search terms can focus on a single state, newspaper, year and months.

HGTV Adds Social Network

HGTV, the home and garden cable channel owned by Scripps Networks has launched a social network called Rate My Room. The new social community can be seen at HGTV.com.

French Politics Goes To The Blogs

The next president of France may owe the blogosphere a debt of gratitude after toiling in "la toile," the fabric of the Internet.

AOL Poll: Heroes And Villains

Not many times in American politics or history do you have a person on both a hero's list and a villain's list. In a new poll from the Associated Press and America Online News President George W. Bush is top of the list for being both a hero and a villain in 2006.

Brokaw: Google Is Making America Fat

Veteran news anchor Tom Brokaw goes off on a tangent about the Internet being the cause of American indifference and obesity.

The Feds Wish You A Happy Holiday

The US government, via its revamped FirstGov platform, has plenty of suggestions on how people can handle all that the holidays throw their way.

AOL Loves Football

Football fanatics rejoice! AOL announced an online video contest, dubbed America Loves Football, that gives fans a chance to submit videos to win big prizes.

Amanda Booms On To HBO and ABC

As many people predicted when Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon split up so acrimoniously with her former partner Andrew Baron (which I wrote about here), it didn't take long for someone to see the potential benefit of having an attractive video-blogger with a built-in following on their payroll.

Edelman, Karma's Not Just For Earl Anymore

Fortunately, for all things pure and noble, this new free marketplace of ideas works as a circle - what goes around comes around eventually. Wal-Mart and Edelman, meet your blogospheric comeuppance, served with a side of cold irony.