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Here's further proof that search engines just love blogs. Check out what Yahoo! Search returns when you search for "time's man of the year 2004."

Note result number five. Maybe that's why Intelliseek's BlogPulse has purchased a Google Adword keyword search ad for my name.

Hit refresh if it doesn't show up right away. It's still there as of post time.

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More from Steve Rubel ...

BBC Sees Major Interest in Podcasting

MediaWeek UK reports that BBC Radio is apparently seeing big interest in its podcasting service. They had 70,000 downloads of Radio 4's In Our Time program in November alone.

A Look Back at The Year in Blogging

Pete Blackshaw is posting a wealth of great information on his blog, blogwebinar.com, about the impact of blogging on public opinion. There's lots of great eye candy and data over there...

* Intro Slides
* Blogs 101
* 2004 Blog Trends

Media Bloggers Association Welcomes Nine New Members

I am proud to be one of the nine new members who this week joined the Media Bloggers Association. You can learn more here. Jeff Jarvis and Dan Gillmor this week were named founding members.

Social Media's Long Term Impact

Susan Kuchinskas reports from this week's Search Engine Strategies conference that publishers, marketers and ad technology providers are still looking at how RSS feeds and blogs will change their businesses.

Steve Rubel is a PR strategist with nearly 16 years of public relations, marketing, journalism and communications experience. He currently serves as a Senior Vice President with Edelman, the largest independent global PR firm.He authors the Micro Persuasion weblog, which tracks how blogs and participatory journalism are changing the public relations practice.