Google lawyers hopping: On Monday, a trial begins in which Geico is attempting to keep Google from attaching ads for rival companies when a Google user is searching for information about Geico. (Okay. Let’s try that and see what ads appear if we search using the word GEICO — here’s a screen shot of my search results.) And now, John Battelle blogs that the American Chemical Society is suing Google claiming the product Google Scholar infringes on its own product, SciFinder Scholar, which proves once again that despite having a Ph.D. in chemistry and obviously knowing at what temperature ice melts, one can still not know when one does not have a snow ball’s chance in hell. (Who’s going sue next? Rhodes Scholar? Fulbright Scholar?)
(via: Gary Price)
What the world needs now: More vaporzines in the magazine category we fondly call around here, the nouveau niche. According to Crains NY, there will be one in DC and another in Boston next fall. (via: iwantmedia.com)
More White House bloggers: Jeff Jarvis (blogging from Harvard this weekend) reports that two well-known bloggers spent some time at the White House this week.
Quote:
“Omar and Mohammed just told me about their visit to the Oval Office this week. They said President Bush assured them that we would finish the job this time.
They told the President that they were grateful for their liberation and that the coalition did a great job. Bush asked them about security in Iraq. They told him that they feel safe now. They talked about hearing the news reports of gigantic explosions in Baghdad, in their city, but they don’t hear or see the evidence. It’s a big place, Iraq; the brothers keep repeating that.
Bush also went to Omar, as a dentist, and said he wanted him to fix a cavity. Mohammed said the President understood what blogs are and their importance and they found the staff in the White House views reading blogs as part of their jobs now. The brothers said they were in the White House not just as Iraqi citizens but as representatives of the blogosphere.”
Now that’s cool.
By the way, I’ve joined Jeff’s “Spirit of America” Team. If you’d like join me in contributing to help in his support of the effort to create an Arabic blogging tool, then please click here.
