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.
Google and the YouTube deal
So, Google has bought YouTube for $1.65 billion. Wow! In case you don’t know, YouTube is an online video sharing web site. You can post your home videos up there and anyone can have a