Mark Oldham is blogging: Mark is a Nashville friend of mine — a business owner, civic leader and (we’ll forgive him) University of Tennessee sports fanatic. A few years ago, he was the first “civilian” to come up to me in the real world and tell me he read this weblog. In my quest to get more Nashville business owners blogging, every time I see him, I encourage him to plunge in. Well, he has. And, not surprisingly, he used an orange-color template. In addition to his business-related posts, I predict one day, he’ll be a must-read for anyone who follows sports at that school in Knoxville.

What Paul Allen (not “that” one, but the one in Utah) said: “…Today I glimpsed something that scares me and makes me wonder who is in charge at Google anymore.” He says the maximum number of “sponsored” results above the “natural” results have increased.

Admission: I’ll have to take his word on this as I’ve never counted how many were there before.

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Remarkable restraint: I’d like to commend reporter Jay Greene of BusinessWeek and his editors for being able to write and edit this story without ever once using the phrase, “iPod killer.”

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Where art thou? A new print business-to-business magazine covering search advertising, Search Marketing Standard, issued a pre-launch press release today.

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