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Programmer Michi Kono has an interesting theory. When Google bought YouTube, all anybody could talk about was the inevitable legal hassle the video-sharing site would face. And sure enough, Viacom slapped them with a $1 billion lawsuit. Kono says that's exactly what Google wanted. Plan A was to buy YouTube and hope nobody said anything. Plan B was to get sued and settle this copyright issue once and for all.

A glut of web searches for the Nintendo Wii has made it the most desirable gadget for Christmas, surpassing the perennial iPod for the top spot. To emphasize this point, the Wii was launched in the UK last week and it sold all 50000 of the available consoles in 12 hours, making the sale rate for the Wii at 1 console sold per second.

The scenario: A limited budget and more limited knowledge of coding and SEO make choosing a shopping cart software for a website a frustrating task. If you have no idea what I'm talking about then you needn't read the rest of this article. Enjoy your customizable open source build from the ground up world. If this is your predicament, welcome to the club and read on.

I was talking to Alorie Gilbert from CNet yesterday about the relationship between bloggers and journalists.

Answers are often before our very eyes or in front of our noses - particularly if we read the American Heritage Dictionary!

You spend time and money promoting your website; but what do you want to achieve (apart from more page views)? Is it more sales of Blue Widgets? Is it more subscribers on your mailing list? To be exact, what is your site's Most Wanted Response?