by Vera H-C Chan South Carolina governor Mark Sanford seemed to take every step to make revelations about his indiscreet affair global news : Be MIA on Father's Day (and seven days total); Don't alert staffers you're not showing up to work; Throw in an Appalachian Trail red herring ; Have a weepy news conference admitting wrongdoing; Be the former chairman of the Republican Governors' Committee and another 2012 self-imploding GOP possible.

I've been reading the latest "Is SEO copywriting dead" debate by Glenn Murray and Brian Clark . Considering that I've been talking about SEO copywriting for over 11 years - and I'm considered by some as the pioneer of SEO copywriting - reading the headline "Is SEO copywriting dead" is a little like hearing that your baby is ugly.  My first response was not just "No," but "Hell no." SEO copywriting is alive and well. But then I got to thinking.

Summer is in full swing and that means summer movie season is right around the corner. Get a sneak peek at upcoming blockbusters by checking out our new Trailers page in the Movies section of our site. We have previews for some of the season's most anticipated films, like "Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince" and the new Twilight movie, "New Moon." We're adding new trailers frequently, so check back often. Cheers,

Yahoo unveiled its new Pay Per Candidate offering. And, no, it's got nothing to do with Jersey or Illinois politics! Pay Per Candidate is a new performance-based payment option for Yahoo HotJobs ads, allowing job recruiters to pay based on the number of people who respond to a job ad, rather than per job listing. According to the company press release,

Hello everyone, it's Carl Scheible here, managing director of PayPal in the UK.     I'm just back from Bloomberg TV's studio in London. I was talking about a new report from PayPal that forecasts that British consumers will more than double the amount they spend online by the end of 2011, .

An enthusiastic group of data geeks and Semantic Web enthusiasts met last week at our Sunnyvale headquarters where we hosted the latest edition of VoCamp. VoCamps are a series of informal events that provide a small setting where the Semantic Web community can discuss issues related to semantic interoperability and creating, managing, and publishing vocabularies. The format of VoCamp was conceived by Talis' Tom Heath and Yahoo!'s Peter Mika,

I had a chat with Google Apps Senior Product Manager Rajen Sheth this week about cloud computing, interoperability with Microsoft and enterprise applications. If you haven't already, you can read the full Q&A here on Eweek . I'm not going to delve into how whether or not Google is going to start doing enterprise apps a la Salesforce.com, though no doubt the subject begs for intrigue. Some of you would say such an effort by Google would be disastrous,

If you have a mobile phone where you can download apps, then you may have noticed that some of the apps have ads on them. Mobile application developers use them to make money. Sometimes developers make two versions of an app - a paid version with no ads or a free version with ads. There are a handful of mobile app advertising providers (such as Admob), and now Google is getting into the game . They've launched AdSense for Mobile Applications into beta. Backgrounds, Sega,

Job search site HotJobs, which is owned by Yahoo!, has announced a new performance-based offering for recruiters. Human resources professionals will now be able to pay-per-candidate, similar to pay-per-click. With the offering, recruiters buy credits, but are only charged when candidates click on a listing and apply for the job. If credits go unused, they can be shifted to another listing. Additionally,

On Thursday Yahoo hosted a beach luncheon across from the Carlton Hotel. In attendance were R/GA's Bob Greenberg, former Martha Stewart co-CEO Wenda Harris Millard, Yahoo head of sales Joanne Bradford, Sapient's Alan Wexler and Freddie Laker, among others. Click above for photo descriptions and additional pics from around the Cannes festival, or view the slideshow below.