Friday Night Ponderings

By Li Evans

I'm going to try a new thing - at least for Search Marketing Gurus - the occasional "Link Roundup".  I'll  revert to this when it seems the job that pays the bills requires much more of me.  Today being on of those days it was rough to get any kind of coherent thoughts down on virtual paper, thankfully, a lot of other bloggers did it for me.

• First, hat tip to David Naylor who led me to a great blog post by Graywolf entitled "The Secret Army of Digg Trolls".  To be honest, I think Dave's likely one of the funniest and most blunt guys in the Search Industry.  There is never a day that I don't laugh when he's co-hosting with Danny or Mikkel or Jenn.  I also enjoy reading what he writes, he's short to the point and usually damn snarky!
• Not only is Yahoo! sprucing up, but did you hear that Yahoo is cooking up something?  I thought you might of, that smell of the blogosphere churning wasn't hard to miss!  Even the Hillbilly's didn't miss this one, 'possum stew anyone?
• John Battelle's reporting that the "Spooks" really aren't scaring Google.  He's even got the proof! (so to speak).
• Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim blog has been buzzing with acquistion news & deals abound - Reddit acquired by Conde Nast, Jotspot bought by Google, Lycos Asking for Search Help and Marketing Sherpa acquired by Marketing Experiments.
• Jeremy Zawodny is being Zen, while Matt Cutts is being "Complete"ly Snarky.
• ZDNet is reporting about what cancer searchers are really looking for content wise.
• Want to help build a vertical search engine?  The Fortune 500 Blog Project is looking for volunteers.
• Alan Meckler ponders if Myspace is so "yesterday".
• Steve Rubel reports that the NBA and Google have ended their landmark deal, but Jenn Slegg lets us know hockey is now there.
• Stephan Spencer asks if Hitwise will reveal their biases since they won't reveal which ISPs provide them with data.
• WOMMA.org redesigned their home page, meanwhile they also put Edelman's membership on review.
• Finally, Robert Scoble explains why you should not get drunk with podcasters.
• Oh and before I forget - Pick Your Color and comment below at where on the scale you fall!

And that's a wrap on the link roundup! :)