If you haven’t been over to Flickr in awhile, you’re due for a visit.
We recently did a freelance shoot for Oceanside Building & Realty, which has a luxury home for sale and used Flickr to quickly and easily share the results.
Flickr makes it really easy to add a badge like this to your blog or [...]

From the Web 2.0 chieftain and the father of Wiki comes some proposed blogging guidelines.

1. Take responsibility not just for your own words, but for the comments you allow on your blog.
2. Label your tolerance level for abusive comments.
3. Consider eliminating anonymous comments.
4. Ignore the trolls.
5. Take the conversation offline, and talk directly, or find [...]

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Papa Jobs’ love letter must’ve had an influence on the good people over at EMI.
Yesterday, The New York Times reported that EMI will no longer be deploying DRM (digital rights management) on the music files that it sells via iTunes. The trade-off? $.30/song more.
The issue of DRM has been one of [...]

Forget the headlines of lost productivity and conspiracy theories about bandwidth shrinkage as a result of March Madness. It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
CBS has stepped up to the foul line just in time with a handy widget that you add to your own blog.

Via Widgify.

We knew it was only a matter of time before the lawyers over at Viacom started to lay out some serious smack:
Viacom, the parent company of MTV and Comedy Central, sued Google and YouTube in federal court today, citing “massive intentional copyright infringement.”
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Viacom, which has feuded publicly with YouTube and its parent [...]

Head on over to USAtoday.com to get a completely redesigned home page fraught with the latest social elements that (might) make reading the newspaper online just a little bit more interactive.
We’re not going to tell you what they did, you can check it out on your own.
We liked the welcome note that explained the new [...]

We have to side with the boys over at 37signals on some issues related to Weather.com.
Today they just might have totally redeemed themselves.
Since many of you have commented on how you like the tools that we highlight here on the pulp, here’s another one for you:

Weather.com unveiled a new – surprise surprise – Flash-based interactive [...]

Obsessing over minute-to-minute changes on the stock market? If you are, get some help.
If you’re just looking to quickly check out a stock or index, however, there are some new tools to use that enable you to crunch stock data until your eyes start to sizzle. These new tools are pretty [...]

We got a kick out of Jon Fine’s recent piece.
In the piece about citizen ads, he lauds several clichés and we thought we’d repost in agreement.
To start, he shortens “‘consumer-generated advertising’ and ‘consumer-generated marketing,’ down to ‘citizen advertising’ and ‘citizen marketing.’”
Then there’s:

engagement, interacting with the brand
community
authentic
breaking through the clutter

We’ll add Web 2.0, social-based, and viral [...]

This just in:
XM Satellite Radio (NASDAQ: XMSR) and SIRIUS Satellite Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement, under which the companies will be combined in a tax-free, all-stock merger of equals with a combined enterprise value of approximately $13 billion, which includes net debt of approximately $1.6 billion.
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The combination [...]