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.
Ebay data tells us something about pay per click advertising
Ebay spends tons of cash on pay per click marketing; they must do because last month they received more sponsored advert impressions than any other site – over three billion of them. And that’s almost