John Battelle recommends that MSN and Yahoo! should join forces to spin out a seach company which will concentrate on the monitisation of search.

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Delexa.org is a web analytics tool combining the top 50,000 U.S. websites with their topic tags, using data from del.icio.us and Alexa.

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Jeff Jarvis reports on New York Observer owner Jared Kushner’s purchase of political blog PoliticsNJ. He says it’s nice to see that there is a business in blogging, but thinks it odd that a mainstream media brand needs to buy a blog to play in the market. Hear, hear.

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The Biz of Knowledge blog has a list of the top 1,000 most prolific bloggers.

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All about Microformats from Wired. A useful account of why building sites incorporating Microformats is a good thing.

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The skinny on which online properties are working and which are losing ground from PaidContent.org (quoting Avenue A Razorfish). Basically, portals are in, networks are out and verticals are doing OK. The bias is very much US and Big Site, but worth a read. And you can register to download the full PDF here.

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Wired shows leaked screenshots of the Digg-style news pages News International is planning to launch on MySpace.

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Jeff Jarvis posts on the official complaint from Viacom about infringing clips which appear on YouTube. He doesn’t have much sympathy and contrasts the attitude with that of CBS which has chosen to work with the world’s number one video site:

At last week’s Online Publishers Association, Betsy Morgan of CBSNews.com, said that when an infringing clip goes up on YouTube, they take it down and then replace it with a noninfringing, official copy, which has the added benefit of enabling the conversation to cluster around one rather than many copies of the same event. That’s smart. I guess when Viacom and CBS split up, CBS got the IQ.

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Jeff Jarvis details some of the changes happening in newspaper newsrooms around the world in response to the continuing challenges of multi-channel publishing.

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I hadn’t come across this before – Project Red Stripe is a skunkworks project from the Economist which aims to produce something really innovative in six months, with only six people and £110k of company money. Interesting, the project is being conducted on the public web. Here is the initial briefing presentation which set out the aims and parameters of the project, and here is the blog which has charted it’s progress since September last year. There’s even a web cam showing live pictures from the project office.

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