Last week, I reported that six out of 10 news executives think the Internet is changing the fundamental values of journalism . Well, news search engines and social media are also changing industry best practices in newsrooms, too. Click to read the rest of this post.

Back in March, I featured some of the video marketing case studies that David Meerman Scott and I thought were worth sharing. Today, the Art Directors Club )ADC( topped that by launching YouTube Show & Tell . Click to read the rest of this post.

Today, the Official Google Blog announced that the Local Business Center is becoming Google Places . Why? According to John Hanke, Google's VP Google Maps, Earth and Local, "Millions of people use Google every day to find places in the real world, and we want to better connect Place Pages - the way that businesses are being found today - with the tool that enables business owners to manage their presence on Google." Click to read the rest of this post.

SearchIgnite '4.0' is released today, which is a newer and enhanced version of the company's search marketing and digital media attribution platform. This latest version includes a number of major enhancements such as in-line editing, ROI forecasting and bulk change management. Click to read the rest of this post.

New software suite offers typical keyword analysis and keyword suggestion capabilities of other SEO tools, but is now layering in high-level keyword analytics, keyword grouping and blogging platform plugins, that enables authors to research keywords as they blog. Click to read the rest of this post.

Tomorrow marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who is better known by his pen name, Mark Twain. What does this have to do with search engine optimization? Well, as the American author and humorist once noted, "A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read." Click to read the rest of this post.

Facebook 'Like' button has gone live! Click to read the rest of this post.

Today is a civic holiday in Massachusetts: Patriots' Day. It commemorates the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first battles of the American Revolutionary War. It also offers social media marketers some important lessons that are still relevant today. Click to read the rest of this post.

YouTube has started streaming the Indian Premier League cricket season. And according to Amit Agrawal, Strategic Partner Development Manager, "With only five of 60 matches left in the tournament, we've been blown away by the response. We've seen views come in from countries around the globe, and the IPL channel on YouTube now has over 40 million views." Related articles by Zemanta Indian Premier League bowls wicked googly* to the world on YouTube )googleblog.blogspot.

The general election 2010: poll of polls in guardian.co.uk yesterday showed the Conservatives with 34 percent )down more than 5 points from the previous Sunday(, Labour with over 28 percent )down less than 3 points from the previous Sunday(, and the Liberal Democrats with 27 percent )up more than 8 points from the previous Sunday(. In other words, it's a three horse race. Click to read the rest of this post.

According to Google Trends , three of the latest Hot Topics are volcano in Iceland , ash cloud over Europe , and air traffic . Click to read the rest of this post.

How did I miss this announcement? I know, I'll blame the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano and the closure of British air space. Click to read the rest of this post.

Okay, so I'm a PC guy, not a Mac guy. But I've just seen a study from Experian Simmons that answers the question: Which markets are the biggest users of Apple products? Click to read the rest of this post.

Today, Google announced three enhancements to help you input your searches more quickly and easily. As Commander Leonard "Bones" McCoy would say, "I know engineers, they LOVE to change things." Click to read the rest of this post.

Jeffrey D. Oldham, Software Engineer at Google, posted " Brits search for a leader " last night - about three hours after Dan Hoffman, Director of Real Estate and Workplace Services for NorCal, and Chief Goat Herder at Google, posted " The goats are baaack! " Click to read the rest of this post.

Back in January, I posted a story entitled, " Scott Brown beat Martha Coakley on YouTube, too ." One of the lessons that campaign taught us was the importance of letting YouTubers add comments to your videos Click to read the rest of this post.

Wow, is the Chirp Conference cranking out a high volume of news. On top of Promoted Tweets and Google Replay , there was also Google Follow Finder . Click to read the rest of this post.

I've gotten into the habit of visiting the Twitter Blog lately. And today I read a post by Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, that is entited, "It's Alive!" He's means @anywhere is now live . But I kept thinking of that memorable quote from the Mel Brooks' movie "Young Frankenstein." Click to read the rest of this post.

Maile Ohye, a Senior Developer Programs Engineer at Google, will be one of the keynote speakers at SES Toronto 2010 . Click to read the rest of this post.

In the past two days, the UK Labour Party has uploaded several videos to its YouTube channel that are a departure from what we've seen to date. One is "The Road Ahead," which is featured on the homepage of its website. The other is the Labour Party's 2010 animated manifesto films. Click to read the rest of this post.