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05May2008

Top 5 Week Ninety-Seven

  1. Yahoo alone
    Microsoft drops bid, so pressure’s on Yahoo
  2. Maker Faire 2008
    Burning Man meets a high school science fair
  3. Serious games
    Games used for contests, explaining subjects
  4. Nine Inch Nails
    New album is free, with Creative Commons license
  5. Digital IDG
    52 percent of revenues online for tech publisher
25April2008

Top 5 Week Ninety-Six

  1. Free Frank Chikowore
    Blogger/journo jailed covering Zimbabwe elections
  2. Music mags maimed
    Ad revenues move to music sites, blogs
  3. St. Louis Beacon
    Former Post-Dispatch writers go online
  4. BorderReporter
    Solo journo Marizco takes on U.S.-Mexico border
  5. Net boom in China
    Soon to pass number of U.S. Net users
11April2008

Top 5 Week Ninety-Five

  1. Blogging to death
    Blogosphere on fire over NY Times story
  2. Web of Pulitzers
    Prize-winners using web more than ever
  3. Behavioral ad-versity
    59 percent don’t like ads based on online activity
  4. Flickr video
    Photo site adds video; some don’t like it
  5. PostaCrime
    Anyone can post videos of possible criminals
21March2008

Top 5 Week Ninety-Four

  1. State of the News Media
    Massive study finds more foreign news online
  2. All-You-Can-Eat iTunes
    Apple might offer unlimited tunes with iPods
  3. Great Firewall of China
    Government blocking Tibet news and YouTube
  4. Verizon Wireless
    Wins 700MHz auction, but Google says we all win
  5. Big Money
    Slate plans yet another financial news site
14March2008

Top 5 Week Ninety-Three

  1. You’ve Got Bebo
    AOL drops $850 mil for social net
  2. Sarah Lacy
    BizWeek journo skewered for SXSW Zuckerberg chat
  3. Disney billion
    CEO Iger expects $1 billion in online revenues
  4. Hulu
    Slick video site launches, business a problem
  5. Alltop
    Kawasaki’s take on top Egos, Journos and Social Media
06March2008

Top 5 Week Ninety-Two

  1. Bankrupt Ziff
    Tech mag publisher awash in debt
  2. Tanya Andersen
    Lawsuit could hurt RIAA’s war on file-sharers
  3. Superdelegate Transparency Project
    Crowdsourcing the Dem superdelegate count
  4. Slate Delegate Calculator
    Run your own scenarios for future contests
  5. Allvoices
    Global community captures, shares news in context
22February2008

Top 5 Week Ninety-One

  1. Wikileaks
    Court blocks site, but mirror sites sprout up
  2. Josh Marshall
    First blogger to win prestigious Polk Award
  3. MySpace Music
    Ad-supported service trying to get labels on board
  4. Chez Pazienza
    CNN producer axed for attitude on personal blog
  5. Community Cookbook
    How newspapers are using blogs, social media
15February2008

Top 5 Week Ninety

  1. Digital residuals
    Writers’ strike ends with cut of web ads
  2. iReport
    CNN’s citizen media effort spins off, unfiltered
  3. Free e-books
    HarperCollins offers full content, no downloads
  4. QuadrantOne
    Newspapers band together for Yahoo alternative
  5. Lessig for Congress
    Mr. Free Culture to change Washington culture?
07February2008

Top 5 Week Eighty-Nine

  1. Twitter-Google mashup
    Perfect combo to see Super Tuesday tweets
  2. Microsoft Flickr?
    Photo community fights Yahoo takeover
  3. Industry Standard redux
    Mag reborn as online predictions market
  4. IgnoreAll
    Helps you “ignore” Facebook invites
  5. Doe 6
    Wins court case protecting anonymous speech
24January2008

Top 5 Week Eighty-Eight

  1. EveryBlock
    Data-driven info down to the street level
  2. Pay WSJ.com
    Murdoch nixes free-for-all at Journal site
  3. Tribune unblocked
    Zell lets reporters get YouTube fix
  4. Tech skills for journos
    Tag cloud shows blog, Flash expertise wanted
  5. 62.8 million
    Monthly uniques for newspaper sites; growth slows
03January2008

Top 5 Week Eighty-Seven

  1. FOIA reform
    Bloggers, citizen media to get gov info easier
  2. Fair use in video
    Study shows more legal use of copyrighted vids
  3. KYPost.com
    Online-only news site rises from ashes of paper
  4. Arab journo e-training
    Journalists learn about blogging, video in Beirut
  5. Hollywood Disrupted
    One of many online productions by striking writers
20December2007

Top 5 Week Eighty-Six

  1. Think Secret shut
    Apple settlement leaves rumor site dead
  2. Bubble trouble
    Richter Scales parody video knocked by photog
  3. RIP Al-Moussawi
    Alive in Baghdad video blogger killed at home
  4. Ask Zawahri
    Al Qaeda’s No. 2 will answer your questions
  5. Second Life needs third
    CTO out, usage down for virtual world
06December2007

Top 5 Week Eighty-Five

  1. Opt-in Beacon
    Facebook backtracks after privacy backlash
  2. Flash 9
    Video player supports HD; buh-bye to grainy vids?
  3. ProPublica
    Non-profit investigative startup nabs veteran journo
  4. Gawker Corp.
    Editors bail over low pay, grueling work
  5. User-generated content
    To make up 25 percent of entertainment by 2012
26November2007

Top 5 Week Eighty-Four

  1. MoveOn to privacy
    Political group attacks Facebook over Beacon ads
  2. Music biz shrinkage
    Jupiter says digital sales won’t counter CD losses
  3. Beatblogging.org
    13 news orgs try out social networks for reporters
  4. Kindle
    E-book reader the iPod of books or proprietary flop?
  5. Shortsighted panorama
    UK’s Society of Editors disses blogs, digital shift
29October2007

Top 5 Week Eighty-Three

  1. Friend of Microsoft
    Redmond buys Facebook stake, reviving bubble talk
  2. Web 3.0
    An immersive, smarter web; will they rename confab?
  3. Dismal Merc
    Inside story on San Jose’s newspaper in crisis
  4. CNN’s Second Life
    Wants residents to do legwork to cover world
  5. IncBizNet
    Lame name, but good idea as social net for private co’s
18October2007

Top 5 Week Eighty-Two

  1. 10Questions
    More time, more voting in video prez debate
  2. Anti-piracy database
    YouTube unveils gambit, while Big Media plans theirs
  3. Bloggers unshielded
    Congress protects journos, pro bloggers only
  4. Murky alliance
    Newspapers might be stuck with Yahoo
  5. ONA hokum
    Confab still heavy on MSM’s top-down view
11October2007

Top 5 Week Eighty-One

  1. Gawker strike
    Writers fight Evian ad takeover; Denton relents
  2. MSM absorbs blogs
    Newspapers start blog syndication, ad $ sharing
  3. MSNBC-Newsvine
    Citizen media site bought out by news site
  4. Clever Commute
    Citizen email tips on NYC metro train jams
  5. Networked Journalism Summit
    Can the all-star players remake journalism?
27September2007

Top 5 Week Eighty

  1. Myanmar citizen media
    YouTube a potent place for protest footage
  2. Amazon MP3
    iTunes rival has lower prices, no DRM
  3. Brandfame
    Finally, product placement for online video!
  4. Podcast purge
    Yahoo kills directory — bad site or hurting format?
  5. 41.5%
    American kids 3 - 11 that go online monthly
20September2007

Top 5 Week Seventy-Nine

  1. TechPresident
    Politics site wins top Knight-Batten Award
  2. Online TV
    NBC, ABC push more shows online
  3. Mobile AdSense
    Google offers contextual mobile ads
  4. Video to the Editor
    NY Times runs video responses from readers
  5. Net vs. sex
    1 in 3 Americans give up sex for time online
14September2007

Top 5 Week Seventy-Eight

  1. R.I.P. TimesSelect
    What took so long to tear down the pay wall?
  2. The Great Gadfly
    Blogger breaks stories about casinos in Mass.
  3. Facebook with Botox
    Social networks for seniors get VC funding
  4. User-gen agenda
    PEJ compares Digg, Reddit to MSM stories covered
  5. 133.6 million
    Number in U.S. who watched online video in July
30August2007

Top 5 Week Seventy-Seven

  1. Hulu
    YouTube killer has a name (besides ClownCo)
  2. Representative journalism
    Witt’s idea for atomizing news into small groups
  3. Vs. mentality
    Safran says we should all get along at confabs
  4. MinnPost
    Online daily could be next wave journalism
  5. 60 percent
    People who spend same time online as with TV
23August2007

Top 5 Week Seventy-Six

  1. YouTube ads
    Site tries non-intrusive overlay approach
  2. Blogs do journalism?!
    Rosen blasts Skube with raft of examples
  3. HD-DVD
    Rival Blu-ray format loses out at major studios
  4. Rhapsody America
    MTV, Real take on iTunes in fool’s errand
  5. 158 percent
    Growth of Internet usage in UK since 2002
17August2007

Top 5 Week Seventy-Five

  1. Wikipedia Scanner
    Find which organizations are ‘fixing’ Wikipedia
  2. Silicon Alley Insider
    Blodget says newspapers are screwed; Jarvis parries
  3. ESPN180
    Sports site revamps broadband video offering
  4. Old guys on Facebook
    News.com intern grossed out by ‘friend’ request
  5. UK papers in US
    More Americans read Guardian, UK Times than Brits
09August2007

Top 5 Week Seventy-Four

  1. Free the WSJ.com
    Murdoch wavers on making Journal site free
  2. Google News comments
    Sources get chance to comment on articles
  3. Twittering bridge collapse
    Service plays early role in breaking news
  4. Media fast
    Students suffer withdrawal during day off e-media
  5. Stubborn digital divide
    29 percent of Americans not online at all
26July2007

Top 5 Week Seventy-Three

  1. YouTube debate
    Video questions steal show in prez debate
  2. QQ citizen media
    Chinese ISP enables news from flood zone
  3. Uncov
    Finally, someone cares enough to spoof Web 2.0
  4. The GigaOm Show
    Blogger blows up big on Revision3
  5. 19.6 percent
    College kids online more than 20 hours/week
20July2007

Top 5 Week Seventy-Two

  1. Pegasus bought
    Citizen media site bought by broadcast chain
  2. Assignment Zero’ed
    Experiment ends with more lessons than stories
  3. Saving Business 2.0
    Facebook group aims to keep mag alive
  4. Mediabistro payday
    Media community falls into Jupiter’s orbit
  5. 9 percent
    Number of teens who read a newspaper daily
12July2007

Top 5 Week Seventy-One

  1. Backfence down
    Citizen media startup folds, but why?
  2. Citizen real estate
    Zillow offers community features, forums
  3. China rising
    Will have more online users than U.S.
  4. Time spent
    New web measurement to replace page views
  5. iMeem
    Media-sharing site settles with Warner Music
28June2007

Top 5 Week Seventy

  1. Jesus phone
    Awash with hype, but non-believers persist
  2. Eric Jackson
    Activist uses Netroots to take down Yahoo CEO
  3. New West FAQ
    Guide for citizen journalism entrepreneurs
  4. Web radio’s silence
    Online broadcasters protest royalty hike
  5. Change or die
    Cincy Enquirer’s motto for adding user content
14June2007

Top 5 Week Sixty-Nine

  1. Google blinks
    Cancels eBay party after auction giant pulls ads
  2. Widget mania
    177 million view embedded video, photos, music
  3. NYTVNewser
    Times hires fab cable TV blogger
  4. Blogger booted
    NCAA nixes live-blogger at baseball game
  5. Guardian of transparency
    Brit paper tops study of news orgs’ openness
07June2007

Top 5 Week Sixty-Eight

  1. Stating the obvious
    Newspapers shouldn’t blame Google, Craigslist
  2. RCTV on YouTube
    Banned Venezuelan TV channel finds air online
  3. CBS-Last.fm
    Buyout gives broadcaster entree to online music
  4. Flickr filtered
    China blocks photos from Xiamen protest
  5. Local Explorer
    Smart custom maps for DC area
24May2007

Top 5 Week Sixty-Seven

  1. Center for Future Civic Media
    MIT scores $5 mil grant; other Knight winners
  2. $16.9 billion
    Internet ads bring in record haul in 2006
  3. EveryBlock
    Holovaty leaves Post to start local-info site
  4. AdSense for video
    Google test could be future for YouTube
  5. 7iber
    Citizen journalism effort in Jordan
10May2007

Top 5 Week Sixty-Six

  1. Milblogs live
    Crackdown on military blogs overblown
  2. Freeing debates
    MSNBC softens restrictions on prez debate video
  3. Kenyan poli-blogs
    Best coverage of Kenyan election on blogs
  4. Greatfirewallofchina
    Find out if your website is blocked in China
  5. Joo$t
    Video site gets $45 million in funding
03May2007

Top 5 Week Sixty-Five

  1. Digg revolt
    Community forces honchos to allow DVD crack code
  2. Milblog crackdown
    Soldier blogs need oversight before publishing?
  3. Cult of the Amateur
    Unreleased book takes skeptical view of Web 2.0
  4. iGoogle
    Update of personalized page allows more Gadgets
  5. 11th Webby Awards
    More than 100 websites honored in annual fest
26April2007

Top 5 Week Sixty-Four

  1. Wikipedia
    Wiki more popular than online buying or dating
  2. YouTube ads
    Will viewers wait through 30-second spots?
  3. MSNBC-of-the-Future
    Checkbox journalism helps you skip overkill stories
  4. SD/HSC
    New acronym for online shoe-leather reporting
  5. MapLight.org
    Mash-up site helps track money and politics
19April2007

Top 5 Week Sixty-Three

  1. Mass murder vlog
    Va. Tech shooter’s videos too hot for TV
  2. Google uber alles
    Giant buys DoubleClick; in deal with Clear Channel
  3. Local TV’s squeeze
    Will the networks cut them out with programs online?
  4. Web 2.0 voyeurs
    Tiny percent of YouTube, Flickr visitors upload content
  5. Triblocal
    Looks to citizen journalism to save metro’s bacon
12April2007

Top 5 Week Sixty-Two

  1. Civility enforced?
    O’Reilly’s blog code of conduct summarily attacked
  2. Principles of Citizen Journalism
    Common sense guidelines for amateur journos
  3. Euro-optimism
    Newspaper publishers positive about online future
  4. Crazy ideas
    Google wants to buy out ‘crazy, cool things’
  5. TBO hyper-local
    Tampa paper lays off 70 in print; plans 15 local sites
02April2007

Top 5 Week Sixty-One

  1. DRM-free music
    EMI, iTunes deal means MP3 tracks for $1.29
  2. Online attention spans
    Surprise! They’re longer than those of print readers
  3. LonelyGirl15’s gum
    Product placement starts in popular web videos
  4. Sources as bloggers
    Winer says newspapers should decentralize control
  5. Topix.com revamp
    Citizen journo shift aims to un-suckify site
22March2007

Top 5 Week Sixty

  1. MeTooTube
    NBC, News Corp. make good on threat of MSM video site
  2. Crowdsourcing attorney scandal
    TPM readers pitch in to dig through docs
  3. Music’s single serving
    CD sales down 20 percent as digital singles rise
  4. Emmy tug-o-war
    Groups battle for right to award online video shows
  5. Webcaster reprieve
    Royalty Board to reconsider hike for web radio fees
15March2007

Top 5 Week Fifty-Nine

  1. Viacom’s heavy suit
    Dr. Evil wants $1 billion vs. ‘Do No Evil’ GooTube
  2. AssignmentZero
    Pro-am crowdsourcing effort to study crowdsourcing
  3. Pay-to-play newspapers
    Call for paid content up against problem: no one pays
  4. Net radio’s death sentence?
    Searls breaks down royalty hike; NPR may fight it
  5. Twitter
    Update your whereabouts; how to use it for good
09March2007

Top 5 Week Fifty-Eight

  1. MySpace News
    Social network plans to bring news to the mix
  2. Frontiers of Innovation
    Research report on MSM’s initial community efforts
  3. Small papers rule
    Stronger focus on local news and online experimentation
  4. Crogs
    Name for ‘carefully researched blogs’ that go beyond rants
  5. NewYorker.com revamp
    Animated cartoons, blogs, and audio, oh my!
01March2007

Top 5 Week Fifty-Seven

  1. USA Tomorrow
    USA Today redesign to tap nation’s conversation
  2. FirstPerson
    Another citizen media effort from MSNBC
  3. Free Kareem
    Egyptian blogger sentenced to 4 years in prison
  4. UR TV
    Urban citizen media project for Black Family Channel
  5. BitTorrent
    Tries legal downloads, but might backfire or misfire
23February2007

Top 5 Week Fifty-Six

  1. XM + Sirius
    Legal hurdles to satellite radio merger — but do the kids care?
  2. Reuters Africa
    Pioneering site to highlight biz news, blogs from Africa
  3. SMS defeats censors
    Zimbabwe journos get news out by text messages
  4. We Media phenom
    Anderson: ‘A phenomenon is not necessarily a business’
  5. Audible Magic
    Could it be silver bullet for GoogTube copyright issues?
15February2007

Top Five Week Fifty-Five

  1. SoCon07
    Southern-flavored social media unconference
  2. Wikipedia cash crunch
    Reports of imminent demise greatly exaggerated
  3. eWeek’s weak move
    Uses widely panned IntelliTXT ads
  4. ‘Timid’ News War
    Viewers want more teeth in Frontline doc
  5. User-generated prayers
    Modesto Bee sets up prayer exchange
07February2007

Top Five Week Fifty-Four

  1. Jobs anti-DRM
    Pens open letter against restricted music downloads
  2. Facebook Diaries
    User-generated web/TV show from Comcast
  3. Hey ho, let’s UGM
    MSN exec compares user-generated media to punk
  4. HBO Online
    Signs up web talent Amanda Congdon, Hayden Black
  5. Innovation in College Media
    Southern blog follows new media efforts at colleges
31January2007

Top 5 Week Fifty-Three

  1. Biting Apple
    Mac gossip sites win $700,000 from Apple
  2. Pilotless Drone
    SF Chron podcast of reader’s irate call sparks remix
  3. A$k a Ninja
    Comic videoblog pulls in six figures in ad deal
  4. Abu Ghraib redux?
    Alleged army guard talks of gang rape in prison
  5. Inside the Editorial Page
    Rare peek at editorial discussion at WSJ
26January2007

Top 5 Week Fifty-Two

  1. LA Times Web-stupid
    ‘Scathing’ internal report says paper doesn’t get the web
  2. Murdoch 2.0
    Rupert: ‘we are at the beginning of a great transition’
  3. Personal Journalism
    Owens puts fitting name on nouveau style of journalism
  4. The Politico
    Allbritton tries web + print pub immersed in politics
  5. Goodbye Gutenberg
    Nieman tome is instant bible for future of media
17January2007

Top 5 Week Fifty-One

  1. Joost
    Skype founders want infinite TV on all platforms
  2. So-called citizen journalism
    NY Times agog over AmericanTowns hyper-local startup
  3. Backfence on back burner
    Hyper-local citizen media effort craters a la Bayosphere
  4. Brightcove breaks bank
    Huge $59 million warchest to fight online video battles
  5. User-generated fluff
    Researcher glum about user-created video ad revenues
11January2007

Top Five Week Fifty

  1. iPhone
    Blockbuster Apple phone has gadget blogs drooling
  2. Ink-stained Open Network
    Gannett, McClatchy, Tribune team on online ad sales
  3. Live-blogging Libby case
    Bloggers get press credentials for hot case
  4. Free Kareem
    DC protest for jailed Egyptian blogger
  5. Ikbis
    Site combines YouTube, Flickr for Arab world
04January2007

Top 5 Week Forty-Nine

  1. Saddam execution video
    Cell phone video another milestone for citizen media
  2. YouTube’s Brazilian problem
    Court orders site shut down over celeb sex video
  3. Google’s sex blog problem
    Search engine mistakenly lowers ranking of blogs
  4. Turner’s incubator
    Tries not to smother web initiatives; goes for niches
  5. Doom for mass-market mags
    The Long Tail hurts mass-circulation magazines
20December2006

Top 5 Week Forty-Eight

  1. You
    Time’s Person of the Year goes all ‘we media’
  2. PayPerPost
    Startup relents, asks bloggers to disclose payments
  3. Pay-per-Digg
    Social news site battling companies paying for placement
  4. YouTube journalism
    Eyewitness news gets around censors via upload site
  5. DailySource.org
    Google News-style aggregation by discerning humans
14December2006

Top 5 Week Forty-Seven

  1. TechCrunched
    Arrington in blog war over NY Times and Le Web 3
  2. IraqSlogger
    All Iraq news, all the time from ex-CNN’er Eason Jordan
  3. HornyManatee.com
    NBC lawyers help spawn insta-hit site after joke
  4. ABCongdon
    Rocketboom’er makes soft landing at ABCNews.com
  5. YouTube Top 10
    AP lists most significant videos of 2006
07December2006

Top 5 Week Forty-Six

  1. Pilfered paparazzi pix
    Seven photo agencies sue gossip blogger Perez Hilton
  2. Frienemy
    Word used to describe Google by ad exec
  3. Gannett’s mojos
    Mobile journalist experiment leads to hunk-calendar coverage
  4. Streaming podcasts
    No iPod, no problem: just stream it online
  5. Valley of the Denton
    Publisher takes over blog, whacks competitors in petty display
29November2006

Top 5 Week Forty-Five

  1. Mobile YouTube
    Verizon offers popular video site with VCast service
  2. The Capitol Leader
    DC pub grabs two WaPo veterans for politics hub
  3. ClickStar
    Startup to use celeb power to sell movie downloads
  4. Mags not Web 2.0
    Bivings: top U.S. magazine sites falling short
  5. Next Chief Yahoo?
    Not VP Garlinghouse after Peanut Butter Manifesto
16November2006

Top Five Week Forty-Three

  1. Project Valour IT
    Milbloggers raise $200,000+ to give laptops to injured soldiers
  2. Heil StudiVZ
    German Facebook clone tries Nazi humor
  3. Valleywag of the finger
    Blogger wants to get sued; gets fired instead
  4. Outside.in
    Localized blog aggregator found fire in my area
  5. Al Jazeera English
    Pay-to-watch online strategy a loser
29October2006

Top 5 Week Forty-One

  1. Comedy Central pulls clips
    ‘Daily Show,’ ‘Colbert Report’ yanked off YouTube
  2. BBC wants you!
    To help cover U.S. mid-term elections
  3. Milblogs down
    Higher-ups crack down on military blogs
  4. UTEK Corp.
    Stock plunges 36 percent after Sharesleuth report
  5. Odeo becomes Obvious
    Podcasting startup’s CEO takes charge
18October2006

Top 5 Week Forty

  1. Adam Reuters
    Wire service opens bureau in Second Life game
  2. DeafRead
    Key source of protest news from Gallaudet U.
  3. Blog crazy at Biz 2.0
    Will pay journalists a cut of ad $$ from blogs
  4. Web crazy at BizWeek
    46 percent of online content original to web
  5. Megite revamp
    Blog aggregator improves, has River of News
12October2006

Top 5 Week Thirty-Nine

  1. ‘From gags to riches’
    GoogTube deal brings visions of Dot-Com Craze II
  2. The Sandbox
    Doonesbury gets its war on with military stories blog
  3. Geek-a-Cycle
    Type a blog post while cycling in place
  4. Podcast explosion
    News & Politics dominates 80,000+ podcasts
  5. JoeApology.com
    I’m sorry I didn’t find this site earlier
28September2006

Top 5 Week Thirty-Seven

  1. Verizon TV
    Telco hires video journalists to be new-media outlet
  2. Audiobook revival
    iPod, download boom pushes publishers to change
  3. .mobi
    Thousands snap up new domain, but why bother?
  4. HandsOff43
    Pa. blogger finds telco-backed comments proliferate
  5. Folly of John Dvorak
    ‘Citizen pro baseball’? Tech pundit whiffs badly
22September2006

Top 5 Week Thirty-Six

  1. Austin Arensberg
    American in Bangkok shoots newsworthy photos after coup
  2. Knight Brothers Challenge
    Foundation to give $5 million for local online news projects
  3. Reuters thinks ahead
    Helps fund NewAssignment.net and Global Voices
  4. NJ sock puppets?
    Kean aide denies anonymous attacks in blog comments
  5. My TV
    DVRs, streaming shows let viewers be programmers
14September2006

Top 5 Week Thirty-Five

  1. Microsoft Zune
    iPod-killer due for X-mas; brown is the new black
  2. Facebook about-face
    Backs down on stalking feature, but will open network
  3. Human Rights Video Hub
    Witness.org, Global Voices team up to stem abuses
  4. Apple’s iTV
    Can it bridge PC-to-TV divide in living room?
  5. Times Reader
    NY Times’ next-gen effort still Microsoft-only
06September2006

Top 5 Week Thirty-Four

  1. LonelyGirl15
    NY Times, BusinessWeek, LA Times agog over Bree
  2. Internet justice in China
    Net vigilantism punishes kitten-killer
  3. Facebook backlash
    50,000+ users want stalker feeds removed
  4. iPod over?
    Youngsters turn away from pricey, closed format
  5. Google News goes wayback
    News archives go back 200 years — not all are happy
31August2006

Top 5 Week Thirty-Three

  1. Katie Couric’s thin twin
    TVNewser exposes ‘fauxtography’ makeover
  2. Wired wiki
    Wired News lets readers edit story on wikis
  3. NY Times’ UK blockade
    Blocks web access to story due to British laws
  4. New news = old news
    Roeper says OJA finalists come from old media — duh
  5. The blog and chain
    If bloggers take vacations, traffic suffers
23August2006

Top 5 Week Thirty-Two

  1. Exposing Earmarks
    Groups band together to find pork in Congress
  2. Rivers of mobile news
    Winer creates aggregated RSS feeds for NY Times, BBC
  3. Uth TV
    Youth-created site includes A Girl Like Me video
  4. R.I.P. Tower Records?
    Music retailer in Chapter 11, but founder might bail it out
  5. PayMeToBlog
    Blogger puts a price on blog posts, images and videos
16August2006

Top 5 Week Thirty-One

  1. Candidate podcast
    Challenger in Wash. Senate race out-podcasts incumbent
  2. Streaming TV
    CBS joins ABC showing free TV online with commercials
  3. Land of the free
    Most popular AOL search terms were ‘free’ and ‘new’
  4. Alyssa Shelasky
    Glamour mag blogger’s readers vote on her dating moves
  5. Voice of consumer
    People trust blogs, wikis more for product reviews
09August2006

Top 5 Week Thirty

  1. MSM in decline
    TV, radio, newspapers down; online up
  2. Online journo jobs
    3 in 10 J-school grads have web-related jobs
  3. Altered states for photos
    Cartoonist has field day with Reuters photo brouhaha
  4. Kevin Roderick
    Blogger expands LA Observed with sports, business
  5. Missing treasures
    Office Pirates video site fails to go viral
02August2006

Top 5 Week Twenty-Nine

  1. Time Out for peace
    Beirut, Tel Aviv editors bond — then strained — over conflict
  2. Talk of the blogs
    Columbia Dean’s blog-bashing meets Jarvis’ counter-Fisk
  3. TMZ
    AOL’s gossip site in spotlight after Mel Gibson scoop
  4. Mini-Moguls
    WSJ profiles stars from MySpace, YouTube
  5. YouWitness News
    CNN, MSNBC, Reuters go nutty for citizen video reports
26July2006

Top 5 Week Twenty-Eight

  1. Mideast conflict on YouTube
    Violent videos mix with humor on video site
  2. NewAssignment.net
    NYU’s Jay Rosen imagines collaborative investigative reports
  3. Arrested Development lives
    Cancelled TV show finds life (in reruns) on MSN, G4 network
  4. Digital Metallica
    Anti-Napster metal band sees the light; offers songs on iTunes
  5. News21
    Journo project includes video of band’s tour of Army bases
19July2006

Top 5 Week Twenty-Seven

  1. Digg this $$
    Netscape honcho tries to woo Digg users to stem the tide
  2. Neck rub diplomacy
    Awkward massage from Bush at G8 has blogs wagging
  3. Couric’s multiplatform newscast
    New CBS anchor to broadcast on TV, radio, and Net
  4. Yahoo Music MP3s
    Offers songs for $1.99, but as unrestricted MP3s
  5. Dennis Hwang
    Former Google intern gets props for fanciful logo designs
10July2006

Top 5 Week Twenty-Six

  1. Broadband Emmys
    Forget Pulitzers, newspapers vie for online video awards
  2. Answer Bono
    Rocker asks unruly Yahoo Answers forum to solve poverty
  3. Animated headbutt parodies
    French star’s soccer no-no re-enacted in videogame clips
  4. Fans as baseball manager
    MSN show, ‘Fan Club,’ lets fans control minor league club
  5. Short shelf life for online news
    Scientists find nobody reads news after 36 hours
05July2006

Top 5 for RSS Week

  1. RSS Compendium
    Great list of available RSS readers
  2. FeedDemon
    Nice RSS reader software for Windows, synchs with NewsGator
  3. Feed reader roundup
    TechCrunch compares nine web-based RSS readers
  4. Feeds 2.0
    Personalized feed reader from Greece still in private beta
  5. Bloglines
    Still a favorite RSS reader for simple interface, fast performance
28June2006

Top 5 Week Twenty-Four

  1. PaidContent gets paid
    Popular business blog takes venture funding to expand
  2. GigaOm gets funding
    Blogger-journalist Om Malik to concentrate more on broadband blog
  3. NYTimes’ Screens
    TV critic takes critical view of online video, mashups
  4. Wall Street Journal’s screens
    Public video screens for news — and ads — in office lobbies
  5. Exposing Katrina fraud
    Gillmor wonders if citizen media project would help MSM
21June2006

Top 5 Week Twenty-Three