The Newstex Team

Once again, I"ve been drafted to help put together a new SIIA Previews event, this time in London at the Global Information Industry Summit ("GIS").

Our good friend Debby Richman over at Collarity wrote a nice blog post on SearchEngineWatch.com about our new Twitter aggregated newsfeed - "Newstwits"

The New York Times on Saturday, May 31 reported that the Phoenix Mars Lander has been "equipped" with Twitter and has been sending Tweets back to earth. Read NY Times article.

We use Twitter at Newstex and have noticed over the past four months a surge of activity on Twitter by many of the same bloggers whose blogs we syndicate.

Barry Graubart spends his day Tweeting all day long on Twitter and now he wants us all to LiveTwit at the SIIA NetGain Conference. Have no idea what I'm talking about? Read On...........

In a recent YouGovsurvey, respondents showed lack of understanding and consensus aboutthe laws regarding blogging and User Generated Content (UGC). It's interesting reading as over 77% of the bloggers surveyed are unclear on the legal liability issues.

SIIA Previews heads west to The SIIA Netgain Conference from May 18 - 20, 2008 at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco, CA.

Unfortunately my cold, that started before I left the east coast, has moved into my chest producing a bad cough and I've lost my voice. Interesting I learned last night about a company called Inn-House Doctor from the hotel concierge

Each presenter tried very hard to not do to much of a product demo but make general statements. I would have preferred detailed product pitches to really learn more about what each product does. I was left wondering how the products worked and what their business models are.

We just learned that Chuck Neul, who blogs as "The Reasoned Sceptic" has been asked to appear on Bill O'Reilly's - The O'Reilly Factor tonight (Monday, April 14, 2008) at 8pm ET on the Fox network.