review

A California man named Christopher Norberg is in the middle of a legal dispute with a chiropractor for posting a negative review of his services on the site Yelp.com. The dispute stems from a billing experience, which Norberg referred to in his review, and the chiropractor filed a defamation suit. It is now a classic example of where the line between free speech and defamation should be drawn.

Amazon.com has unveiled a "Holiday Customer Review Team" that consists of half a dozen of its most active reviewers.Amazon says the goal of the review team is to "provide fellow Amazon customers with top gift picks for the season as well as helpful tips on cutting costs over the holidays."The reviewers have been given access to some of Amazon's most popular Black Friday deals so they can offer up their opinions on the items with other shoppers.

M&O PR’s Kevin Sawyer and I are now finally back in the office after two jam packed days of Media Relations Summit. Public...

Late last year, the British Prime Minister asked a clinical psychologist to look at the risks the Internet and video games pose to children.  Dr. Tanya Byron has now come back with several suggestions that the government has said it will follow.

If the Ad Review Center hasn't been enabled on your AdSense account, you can either consider this article a preview or completely irrelevant - read on or click back as you please.  But the Center's availability has been expanded, and Google wants publishers to know what it's all about.

The Google AdSense Blog reports:  “In an effort to provide you with more transparency and control over the ads appearing on your pages, we've developed the Ad Review Center.

Yesterday, I had the tremendous privilege of moderating a Webinar with our Search 2010 Panel: Marissa Mayer from Google, Larry Cornett from Yahoo, Justin Osmer from Microsoft, Daniel Read from Ask, Jakob Nielsen from the Nielsen Norman Group, Chris Sherman from Search Engine Land and Greg Sterling from Sterling Market Intelligence. It was a great conversation, and the full one hour Webinar is now available.

November 13th will be the new date for the European Union Competition Commission to give its decision on Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, based on the Commission's perception of competition issues.