Jeff Jarvis, along with the Guardian and BBC are participating in a project to get as many video questions posted on YouTube as possible, some of which they will get answered on video by the luminaries gathered at Davos. And he points out YouTube’s new “Quick Capture” features which takes over your webcam, so you can record and upload a message in one easy step.

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PaidContent ruminates on a couple of reports which suggest revenue from user-generated content will continue to be small and a compelling business model will prove elusive.

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Steve Rubel ponders the consequences of the launch of Wikiseek – the new search engine from Wikipedia. Could this be a Google-slayer, he asks?

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John Battelle reports on Comscore’s latest figures on the search market. He notes that in December 2006, Google gained 0.4 share from November, to lead with 47.3% market, and Yahoo! went up 0.3, continuing with the second largest share of 28.5% . Microsoft share dropped 0.5 points to 10.5% share, Ask fell .1 points to 5.5% share, and Time Warner share shrunk by 0.2 points, to close at 4.9% share.

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Usingenglish.com has a free text content analysis tool which provides instant feedback on various aspects of a piece of work, including “lexical density” and its “fog index”.

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Here’s a quick tutorial on tagging and categorizing content on your site, and how they function on TML (The Mu Life).

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New data indicates that blogging is paying off for newspapers. According to Nielsen/NetRatings blogs accounted for 13 percent of overall visits to newspaper sites in December. This is up from four percent in December 2005. Unique visitors to newspapers blogs climbed to 3.8 million. Report from Steve Rubel.

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Steve Rubel points out some interesting resources which show how to extend the power of Google Reader.

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