Victoria Espinel Will See Full Senate Vote for Copyright Czar
Wired was among a number of news sources last week that reported on Victoria Espinel's progress throguh the U.S. Senate, where she is moving through the confirmation process and could soon become the first Copyright Czar.The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Victoria Espinel’s nomination Thursday, paving the way for a full Senate vote to confirm the nation’s first copyright czar. No Senate vote date was set immediately for a nominee who was applauded by both the “copyleft” and the “copyright.” Espinel is expected to have a ...

Seen that? - Blogging Explained in Simple Terms
Blogging Explained in Simple Terms at The Search Engine Weblog By now, if you haven't heard of Blogging, you must be in a coma, seldom watch or listen to the news, or never use the internet. Bloggers are the newest and most popular ...

Seen that? - New AOL Homepage Launched
New AOL Homepage Launched at The Search Engine Weblog Aol has launched a brand-new layout to their site...it's really nice! It definitely has more of a portal fee, in the Yahoo! vein. Lot's of interesting tools like weather, AOL Radio, and the AOL ...

Twitter Becoming a Malware Source
Wired Threat Level ran a piece this week about how malware is becoming a growing threat in the URL's that get posted on Twitter.As many as one in every 500 web addresses posted on Twitter lead to sites hosting malware, according to researchers at Kaspersky Labs who have deployed a tool that examines URLs circulating in tweets. The spread of malware is aided by the popular use of shortened URLs on Twitter, which generally hide the real website address from users before they click on a ...

How Search Engines Judge Links
© Max Klingensmith Randfish had a good piece a while back on how search engine's decide the value of your links. Randfish looks in detail at what search engines are are doing with their link metrics at the moment. Top of the list is teh value of links from outside your domain.As you've likely noticed, search engines have become more and more dependent on metrics about an entire domain, rather than just an individual page. It's why you'll see new pages or those with very few links ...