Reuters, the world’s leading financial information and news organisation, has just invested $7m in blogging. They have announced that they are to use the services of Pluck, providing the outputs of blogs as part of their news service. The fact that such a respected news information organisation like Reuters is going to use blogs as part of its output should be a signal to us all as to the value of blogging. If you are not blogging, you are nowhere on the Internet these days.
User-generated content wins at Google
Google has just published it’s list of the most searched terms for 2006. Seven out of the top ten are for user-generated sites. That tells us that most people are searching for sites where they