WOMMA Puts Edelman On Probation – Looks like the PR industry’s social media poster child is on a 12-step program. Ironically, Edelman helped write the WOMMA ethics code.

Web 2.0 Growing Faster Than Online Video, News – This is an excellent roundup of trends in social media properties from the ad:tech conference. One surprise: Feedburner is the fastest-growing Web 2.0 site. Interesting data, also, on search engine use by Web 2.0 participants. They’re much more active than typical surfers.

eMarketer: Online Video Ads To Surge 89% In '07 – Video is the next frontier. EMarketer predicts the online video ad market will approach $3 billion in 2010.

Four Industries Expected To Top Half Of Online Advertising – and they are media and entertainment, financial services, travel, and automotive. Not too surprising, really, but Jupiter expects those four industries to spend $11.5 billion on line in 2011. But Jupiter was also the company that said 35% of businesses would launch blogs this year.

Hackers, Plagiarism Claims Hit Wikipedia – It was a rough week for everyone’s favorite wiki. One researcher claims that about 1% of Wikipedia content is plagiarized. Of course, about 1% of everything on the Internet is plagiarized.

Review: Netgear's Skype Phone Keeps You Connected – In case you were wondering what to get me for Christmas…

Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade? – This detailed analysis of Wikipedia from The Chronicle of Higher Education moves the ball forward in the ongoing debate over trust. Basically, can a community-edited encyclopedia ever be really credible? There’s an interesting dissection of the Wikipedia culture, which is almost hostile to academic research, and the Chronicle submitted some Wikipedia entries to experts for grading (they didn’t fare so well). There’s also a reference to Citizendium, a project by a Wikipedia co-founder to create an alternative encyclopedia with formal editorial oversight.

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