Correction: Linking Gone Wild story

In an Aug. 3 story about automated linking programs on the Internet, The Associated Press erroneously described what happened when Yahoo's Shortcuts software tagged the phrase "underage girls" in a news item. The story said readers who passed their mouse over the phrase were shown a pop-up window with multiple corresponding images from Flickr, Yahoo's photo-sharing Web site. Yahoo Inc. says the software initially displays just one image, not multiple pictures, unless the user takes the extra step of clicking on the Shortcut.

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With automated tagging, Web links can surprise

It wasn't what anyone expected to see while perusing a news article.

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Rupert Murdoch Doesn't Get IT

In a speech before The Cable Show, an annual cable television industry event, in Washington, D.C. Rupert Murdoch showed just how out of touch he is. "People reading news for free on the Web, that's got to change," said Murdoch.

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Type "newspaper industry" into Google News and there's nothing but bad news. Everything from falling profits and job losses to trying to figure out their footing in the new media world.

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Excerpt: During the Web 2.0 Summit recently, the Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, pointed out that one of the reasons the world is no longer the same is YouTube. For better or worse, said Mr. Newsom, we are now always on the record.

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Last year, Bill Janeway really got my attention when he noted that "over time, Wall Street 'firms began to trade against their clients for their own account, such that now, the direct investment activities of a firm like Goldman Sachs dwarf their activities on behalf of outside c …

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Hollywood has been granted another victory in its war against piracy, this time at the expense of two linking sites that the Motion Picture Association of America believes profited from enabling copyright infringement.

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Newsvine seeding etiquette: dealing with the "red banner page" and other miscellaneous bogarts

Not curing cancer today, but here's a topic that I've been forced to think about on several occasions during the short time I've been on Newsvine.

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Today I found a cool little FREE website that everyone in internet marketing should know about. I am participating in a beta test for a brand new site...and I needed a way to check to see how many backlinks I have. So off to Google I went...and this is what I found...

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Dunno if this violates the CoC, but here goes. Apparently they linked to my FF2 review here on NV. #10

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I have to admit that, as strategies go, this one totally worked on me.

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For all of their surging traffic, a lot of blogging, social networking, community and other Web 2.0 sites truly fail at keeping people on their site in the most basic way - by pointing people to related content within their walls.

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Earlier I mentioned how, in the upcoming presidential race, candidates' sites are becoming more important than ever. Since big news is breaking on those sites directly to the public, it makes sense to link directly to those sites from news stories.

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The mainstream media have fallen in love with blogs, launching them on everything from politics to life in Las Vegas to bowling.

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Last Friday, we wrote about Fox's decision to send a cease-and-desist letter to a site that linked to (but did not host) videos of various TV shows.

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Now, dubious Internet marketers are planting stories, paying people to promote items, and otherwise trying to manipulate rankings on Digg and other so-called social media sites like Reddit and Delicious to drum up more links to their Web sites and thus more business, experts say.

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The business of blogging

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Newsvine JSS Link Doohickey

So yesterday I'm browsing around in here and I notice that we've been given some rotating mastheads. Groovy. So like a kid in a candy store I'm all over the refresh button.

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