Email publishing is alive and kicking despite the fight against spam and the rise of RSS, writes Mark Thompson in Online Journalism Review.

"Email newsletters will remain important because email is an almost ubiquitous application," said Max Garrone of Salon.com. "Everyone in our audience already has at least one account and is familiar with the format so we don't have to introduce a technology."

• France's National Library will be working on an online archive of European literary works, rivalling a similar project by Google. National Library head Jean-Noel Jeanneney said Google's project was likely to favour Anglo-Saxon works.

Google still dominates the search market in the UK and even attracts a higher proportion of users than it does in the US. Research by Hitwise found that Google claimed 48 per cent of visits to search sites and users also searched more on Google, accounting for 63.7 per cent of search volume.

• Something to look forward to: ultra-fast wireless connections are on their way.

Money:

Wikinews was picked up by the Guardian's Simon Waldman for its "pretty good neutral summary" of this week's UK budget. Netimperative ran a live budget news blog covering implications for the digital media and creative sectors.

• Simon Waldman again, this time on Digital Edge detailing the Guardian's RSS philosophy.

• Susan Mernit on Digital Edge explores how news sites can monetise RSS feeds. Targeted advertising is one way. Scott Rafer of Feedster said that classified ads offer the biggest opportunity right now.

"There's tremendous value to creating RSS feeds of your job listings, for example, filling them out with additional jobs from a service such as ours, and then offering the RSS feed to your job seekers."

Search engine marketing will generate €1.4 billion of spending in Europe this year, according to a report on DMAsia.com. The UK has Europe's largest online advertising market - expected to generate more than €1 billion by 2010.

• Microsoft has unveiled its new search advertising service 'MSN adCenter' [sic!] and has also started beta testing a RSS aggregator.

• Yet another report confirms internet advertising is on the up: this time as the fastest-growing ad medium.

Blogging:

• More on Apple vs. bloggers: Scotsman.com's Stewart Kirkpatrick editorialises against Apple.

"In California at least, Apple has destroyed journalism by undermining the most vital tool of our trade: the ability to receive information without having to shop the person who told you."

Yahoo! has started testing Blog 360, a new tool for creating and sharing blogs.

Indian media blog shuts down after legal threats from Times of India.

• William Fisher on a redesigned Scoop.co.nz on blogging in the Middle East.

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