Reuters - Malaysia's deputy prime minister
dismissed on Wednesday as "total garbage" a blogger's
allegation that his wife was involved in the murder of a
Mongolian woman. -- read full article
Reuters - Shares of Yahoo Inc rose as
much as 11 percent on Tuesday, reversing earlier declines,
after contradictory reports said buyout talks with Microsoft
Corp could be heating up again.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The founder of The Huffington Post said traditional news organizations have failed to uncover and report the truth. -- read full article
USATODAY.com - Achieving visibility in Google's search rankings can be a mystery. To help solve the riddle, USA TODAY sat down with Google's Matt Cutts, an engineer and active blogger, who has five easy tips on how to "optimize" your site so Google and the rest of the world can find it. -- read full article
AFP - Videos shared on YouTube and blogs scrutinizing candidates are part of an Internet-age revolution shaking up the US presidential election and sweeping in a new political era.
AP - A news discussion site and The Associated Press have resolved a dispute over an AP demand that the site remove some of the news agency's content. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The experimental phone network uses geo-tagged data, mobile social networking, and "virtual sticky notes" to send and receive real-time information. -- read full article
AFP - A media rights watchdog on Thursday urged Vietnamese authorities to free a blogger arrested before the Olympic torch relay who the group said was being targetted for his political views.
Reuters - The New York Post can finally drop its
Carl Icahn blog-watch timer. The long-delayed Icahn Report blog
is going live on Thursday, the financier and corporate agitator
said on Wednesday.
AP - Bloggers may find their messages blocked by Myanmar's military regime, but that hasn't stopped Nyi Lynn Seck from raising tens of thousands of dollars for cyclone survivors through his website.
AP - The Associated Press, following criticism from bloggers over an AP assertion of copyright, plans to meet this week with a bloggers' group to help form guidelines under which AP news stories could be quoted online. -- read full article
AFP - A US political blog, Talking Points Memo (TPM), was awarded Tuesday by the International Press Institute (IPI) with the "Free Media Pioneer 2008" prize, aimed at honouring individuals or organisations fighting for free and independent media.
