It looks like The Newspaper Consortium, the growing bunch of paper publishers, is becoming more of an official entity. The group - borne of a series of relationships between newspaper firms and Yahoo ??" has appointed a Tribune man as its new executive director. According to a press release, "Silver will report to the Newspaper Consortium Board of Directors and Executive Committee and begin developing new opportunities for the Consortium across the digital media landscape,

Posted by rebecca I'm pleased to announce that after quite a lull in guide publications, we've got 5 great guides on their way. Today we're launching one of them, The Professional's Guide to Blogging . Available in web and document format, the blogging guide provides an in-depth look at what blogging is and how a new blogger can create, write, and promote his or her own blog. Authored by blogging expert Tamar Weinberg,

Google's DoubleClick ad-serving unit, the group on which Google's video ad hopes hinge, said it can now serve video ads in video platforms forged with Microsoft Silverlight 2. Silverlight, Microsoft's Flash killer, is a programmable Web browser plug-in that lets users run animation, vector graphics and audio and video media. With the new feature in DoubleClick's In-Stream video-ad management tool,

With 205 nations, approximately 10,500 athletes and 302 events in 28 sports, it's going to be tough to keep up with all that's going on at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. That's why Yahoo! Search is launching a series of shortcuts to Olympics-related information and news coverage. Starting with the torch-lighting at the opening ceremony on August 8th, there will be a ton of Olympics-related information out there, such as breaking news, results and medal counts.

Valueclick has filed suit against AOL's behavioral targeting firm Tacoda, claiming patent infringement. As Congress and the Federal Trade Commission sharpen their focus on the sector, the continued flow of lawsuits over behavioral ad targeting technologies indicates the potential for success outweighs any government threats. According to Federal District Court filings, Valueclick filed a patent infringement suit against Tacoda in California District Court on July 15.

Let's just put the rumor to rest now. Despite searches for "bernie mac died" (+520%), "when did bernie mac die" (+288%) and the grammatically incorrect? "is bernie mac died" (+428%), the comedian is very much alive. But thank you for the concern. Mr. Mac was hospitalized with pneumonia?and is responding well to treatment. Another rumor that won't go away: Former presidential candidate John Edwards , allegedly caught in a New York hotel with a woman who had his love child,

Hi, I'm Ken Swab, senior federal government relations officer at PayPal.? You might have heard that Congress recently passed the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, a major housing bill that the President signed into law on July 30.? The bill contains a provision impacting PayPal and our merchant .

Stumbled upon this salary benchmark information on Indeed.com. No mention of benefits, but $93K to click? Not bloody likely. Sounds like click fraud perpetrators are scamming the clickers as much as they are search engines and their advertisers.

Google owns DoubleClick, a digital marketing technology and services provider while Silverlight 2 is a Microsoft product. What would you call an agreement sealed by both entities which happens to be the properties of competing major internet players? Nothing really, it's just your plain business agreement which is aimed to be both beneficial for both parties.

With so much disappointment in the Yahoo board among shareholders, how did Chairman Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang manage to get more votes this year than at last year's shareholders meeting? That's a question on the minds of Capital Research & Management, which sent proxy committees to represent its two funds that own a big chunk of Yahoo stock.