During the early days, SEO or search engine optimization relied on meta-tags in optimizing web pages. However, the downside was that it was sufficient enough to spam the title, keyword and description with many keywords to be able to rank highly in search engines. But as time passed by, and with the coming up of [...]

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In the past, I have solemnly vowed to my readers that they will never learn anything from this blog, and that though they search the entire blogosphere, they will never find anything less relevant.
So imagine my embarrassment now that bloggers are writing about whether President Barack Obama called that jackass Kanye [...]

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The following is a guest column by Chris Ahearn, President, Media at Thomson Reuters.
“Do unto others”
It’s a simple standard my mom taught me when I was a kid – yours probably taught it too. It isn’t always easy, but in business it’s a good guiding light if you don’t want your company to [...]

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It’s taken a while but YouTube is officially pushing back at the various estimates on how much money it costs parent Google by satisfying our collective hunger for million of video clips every day. Google paid $1.65 billion for YouTube in 2006, when it bought the site from Chad Hurley and former CTO Steve Chen [...]

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Here are some of the day’s stories on the media industry:
‘Tonight Show’ Audience a Decade Younger (NYT)
“In Mr. O’Brien’s first month as host, the median age of “Tonight Show” viewers has fallen by a decade — to 45 from 55, a startling shift in such a short time. This audience composition means advertisers can now [...]

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