Wired News reports on a blog which has been set up to show readers how to find free content through affiliates sites, even though the NYTimes has put its content behind a pay wall.

The Kelsey Group has a piece assessing the significance of the user created content phenomenon which they conclude “is one of the most interesting things happening on the web” at the moment.

Online Media Daily has a piece about the “newest front in the online wars” – the Splog, or spam blog. It’s worth a read…

According to this press release two local radio hosts got get up with their station and “fired” it – leaving to set up a podcasting service of their own. It had to happen: technology tips the balance of power between the journalists and their companies…

This week is Global PR Blog Week 2.0

Google Zeitgeist 05 is the first “customer innovation conference” that Google has hosted, bringing together bloggers and members of the press. It’s getting a lot of bad press because Google has chosen to apply Chatham House Rules – not considered the spirit at all…

Every year Microsoft runs an event called the PDC (Professional Developer’s Conference, which is a crucial aspect of their communication programme for developers. Developers are a very important community for Microsoft as the more applications which take advantage of the Microsoft platform, the more money MS makes from the core technologies and the greater the company’s hold over the desktop. The real challenge, therefore, is to reach out as much as possible to widest audience, something which a physical conference, itself, can’t do. PDC Bloggers is a very interested experiment in extending the reach. MS has set up some infrastructure so that attendees can blog the event in real time and reach a potentially huge audience at the same time. Worth a look. And worth thinking about for our events…

Rex Hammock reports growing support for a Pulizer Prize nomination for the Times-Picayune breaking news weblog – which would be the first time a blog had been in the running.

Hurricane Katrina Timeline is a wiki set up to help people collaborate on a record of the disaster. It has a precident – the 9/11 Timeline which is still going thanks to public donation and participation.