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The YouTube community is very important to CBS, which wants to spur viewership of its lucrative broadcast properties; the community just isn't important enough to eat at the same table as the CBS clips.

I awoke this morning to a few inches of snow on the ground. Nothing unusual here in Colorado, but as it so happened the snow must have caused some problems in my internet connection.

Wikipedia got a painful dose of "wikiality" this week as the online encyclopedia's greatest strength became its worst nightmare. Wikipedia editors, meet Stephen Colbert, whose satirical crusade against "truthiness" arrived with the mocking tone of Monty Python's coconut hoof beats.

Syndicāte Conference chairperson and Linux Journal senior editor Doc Searls opened Syndicāte with a brief history of blogging's Genesis before bringing HP Enterprise Brand Communications director Scott Anderson on stage for the keynote address, where he stressed the importance of dialog.

This article describes how to create a web page that can be viewed by users, who have disabled JavaScript support or whose web browser does not support it.

A recent online news article entitled "Five Reasons Why Ad Agencies Hate Search Engine Marketing" struck a responsive chord in the search engine marketing (SEM) community. Lots of posts, both critical and supportive, showed up in online forums. The article made some points that I have noted myself in previous articles. The most important ones are that good SEM is labor intensive and expensive, that profitability is hard to achieve, and that the search engine companies keep moving the goal posts. I think it's worthwhile considering the extent to which these problems also impact localized search engine marketing.

One of the many questions readers have submitted is: Q: "I have one list that is comprised of people from a lead company. In view of the spam laws, can I market to these people or not?"

Q: I just discovered that for the past six months I have been billing a client half of what I should have been. Should I just include the total of the past due balance on his next bill or contact him first to let him know that it's coming? This client has been difficult in the past, so I'd rather not deal with him until I absolutely have to. My partner, on the other hand, thinks we should call the client and let him know what's going on before sending the bill. What do you think? -- Louis K.