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Top Five Two Hundred Forty Two
YouTube Reporter's Center Site unveils special section to give advice, guidance to teach citizen journalists Michael Jackson fallout Websites experience massive overloads after death of King of Pop The Video Bay Pirate Bay launches YouTube-like video sharing website Hulu growth Screen Digest: Hulu sold 10 percent of all online video ads Twitter Guide Book Mashable publishes ultimate online guide...
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Top Five Two Hundred Forty One
Iran censorship Iranian gov clamps down on protesters with help of Western tech Google blocks Google appears to remove adult websites from searches in China Jobs surgery Apple head Steve Jobs revealed to have had liver transplant MySpace cuts Social net slashes staff by 30 percent, closes four offices Newspaper.coms hurting Nielsen finds readers spending less time on newspaper...
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Iran election Track the Iranian election turmoil with Twitter, social media Tweet or tweet? Latest AP style manual includes new tech terms, including Twitter and texting Your name in Facebook Millions snap up personalized URLs on Facebook Deseret News hacked Mormon newspaper's Twitter feed runs anti-Mormon screeds New HuffPost CEO Eric Hippeau to replace Betsy Morgan as CEO of...
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Top Five Two Hundred Thirty Nine
Google Wave Could revamp email or change way news is gathered Microsoft's Bing Relaunches search engine, gains some market share $99 iPhone Price cut and new iPhone 3G S could put iPhones all over Digg ads New Digg ad platform lets users vote up or down ads SF311 San Francisco's 311 call service now on Twitter...
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Top Five Two Hundred Thirty Eight
Cyberczar Obama to create new position to enforce web security Wikipedia bans Scientology Online encyclopedia bars church IPs from editing articles E3 opens Microsoft reveals Xbox to have Twitter, Facebook connections New Media Makers J-Lab report finds US news initiatives have received $128 million in grants since 2005 These kids'll go far EconAffinity lists top 10 kid web entrepreneurs...
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Top Five Two Hundred Thirty Seven
Data.gov Obama opens website to make gov data more transparent Craigslist on offensive Site sues South Carolina AG to block investigation over adult ads Twitter TV Twitter in talks for TV project, denies rumors of official series YouTube beyond UGC VP David Eun tells PaidContent they have more "premium" videos than anyone Digital Sky takes Facebook stake $200 million...
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Top Five Two Hundred Thirty Six
Dowd plagiarizes NYT's Maureen Dowd says she accidentally plagiarized TPMCafe post Fair Use how-to video Center for Social Media outlines Fair Use in video Twitvid Fliggio launches micro-video service Crowdfunding lessons Spot.us founder David Cohn breaks down good, bad 104-year-old fraud Is media so desperate for Twitter stories that it's making them up?...
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Top Five Two Hundred Thirty Five
Wikipedia obit hoax Irish student gets fake quote into newspapers who relied on Wikipedia Cell-only households CDC report finds that 1 in 5 U.S. homes have eliminated landlines Hate on Facebook Site criticized over Holocaust denial Facebook groups Spam trending on Twitter Spammers discover, invade Twitter trending topics Life without newspapers Shafer looks back at NYC during '62-'63 newspaper...
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Top Five Two Hundred Thirty Four
White House Flickr Obama administration opens photo stream on Flickr iPhone required Mizzou J-school requires iPhone or iPod touch; students protest move Twitter quitters Nielsen says over 60 percent of new users quit in first month World Press Freedom Day US State Dept. Facebook page lists May 3 events Googlopoly FTC considers if Apple, Google board overlap amounts to...
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Top Five Two Hundred Thirty Three
Swine Flu spreads online Internet helps with information -- and misinformation -- about latest epidemic Pirate Bay conflict Judge in Pirate Bay trial revealed to have links to Swedish copyright associations 4chan pwns Time Head B/tard Moot crowned Time's most influential person Apple stifles speech? EFF files lawsuit over removal of wiki posts on how to mod iPods Twitter...
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Top Five Two Hundred Thirty Two
Filibusted Mashup tracking Senate votes wins Sunlight's Apps for America contest Public input on public info Knight Commission wants your ideas on getting local news without newspapers The Pirate Bay Bit-torrent tracking site appeals prison sentence, fine uReport on MySpace Fox citizen journalism project under tight control at launch Taking paper out of news Case study: switching to digital-only...
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Top Five Two Hundred Thirty One
#AmazonFail Twitter uproar over Amazon delisting gay books; Hodder faults human error Journalism Online Wants pay wall around news content; Doctor weighs pros and cons Political shift online Pew: 74 of Americans went online for political action, news in '08% Europe logs on European consumption of Internet to overtake television in 2010 Citizen Journalist Standards Huffington Post publishes six...
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Trouble at Boston Globe NY Times Co. threatens shutdown without union concessions AP's threat to thieves Singleton makes vague threat about online use of AP content How Google helps newspapers Sullivan rips newspapers for whining while getting traffic E-book pricing protest Kindle readers use Amazon tags to protest high e-book prices Break Media buys HBOLab Some speculate cable giant...
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Top Five Two Hundred Twenty Nine
HuffPost Investigative Fund Puts $1.75 million into investigative reports anyone can run Disney eyes Hulu Might join video hub; inks deal with YouTube Blogging G-20 50 top bloggers to cover G-20 Summit in London Library of Congress 2.0 Pushes archived content through YouTube, iTunes, Flickr Censors hacked Hackers vandalize Censor Board site after Wikileaks reveals blacklist of censored sites...
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Top Five Two Hundred Twenty Eight
Google Publishers Council Big Media complains Google should feature them more in searches/ aXXo hits 1,000 Notorious pirate posts his 1000th movie online Newspapers matter Princeton study links closure of newspapers with reduced political engagement McCain Twitterview George Stephanopoulos interviews John McCain via Twitter Baudrill's Blender Recreate the 2008 U.S. presidential election TV coverage...
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Top Five Two Hundred Twenty Seven
Web-only Seattle P-I Seattle Post-Intelligencer goes online-only State of the Media 2009 Rough times for legacy media but new ventures get props, too SXSW %Geeks flock to expo; tweet about every angle Cute as Hell New site allows social networking for pets Tweetdeck on board Popular Twitter app joins Facebook Connect...
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Top Five Two Hundred Twenty Six
Apple Netbook Mini-laptop coming with 10-inch touch-screen Reporter's Guide to Multimedia McAdams' excellent guide for journos to get multimedia religion Tweets in court Judge allows reporter to tweet during court session Pimp this bum Crowdsourcing website offers hope for homeless man TheSixtyOne Site lets fans vote up favorite indie music...
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Top Five Two Hundred Twenty Five
Sponsored conversations Companies pay bloggers for coverage; RWW cries foul NYT's The Local Times tries hyper-local as Patch.com comes on scene Pentagon blogger DoD puts its own official blogger in the field Read the Bill Group wants Congress to post all proposed bills online Eagle Cam Nature Conservancy streams live footage of nesting bald eagles...
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Top Five Two hundred Twenty Four
Oscar buzz online Oscar night chatter tracked on blogs, Twitter SF Chronicle to close? Whether threat or reality, journos start wiki for what's next SAFETY Act Bill would make ISPs retain users' data for 2 years Leaked Wikileaks Wikileaks spills its own data, posts it online Socialmedia.biz revamp JD Lasica's blog changed to group blog of consultants...
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Top Five Two Hundred Twenty Three
Facebook owns uploads? New terms of service say Facebook owns all uploaded content Battle Plans for Newspapers NYT polls experts for opinions on future of papers Text-to-speech tiff Authors Guild says Kindle 2 could infringe audiobook rights Twitter breach Congressman's Iraq tweets reveal secret trip I Can Haz Twittypic? Pet Holdings purchases site tracking Twitter memes...
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Top Five Two Hundred Twenty Two
Kindle 2 Amazon unveils thinner e-reader with text-to-voice O'Reilly Tools of Change Publishers meet to discuss future of print industry Google Books on mobiles Google public domain books now available on mobiles The Printed Blog Newspaper aims to put best blogs in print The Age of the eBook Do publishers prefer e-books to paper ones?...
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Top Five Two Hundred Twenty One
Scoopt shut Citizen photo upload site shut by Getty Kindle the next iPod? Analysts estimate sales because Amazon won't tell Under the Sea Google Earth to map sea bed No Facebook database Facebook denies rumors it will create largest market research database Three Strikes Irish ISP to cut service to copyright infringers; AT&T, Comcast next?...
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GateHouse v. Boston.com Linking case settled out of court without setting precedent Social network boom Pew finds adults with profiles quadrupled in 4 years Correct YouTube comments YouTube introduces 'delete comment' feature Amap New application visually maps out arguments Celebrity Tweet Follow lots of celebs on Twitter, including Brits...
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Microblog inauguration CNN, Facebook team up to microblog Obama's inauguration RJI News Collaboratory Support network for entrepreneurial journalists on the web Twingly Micro-blogging search engine launched Vatican Videos Vatican to partner with Google to launch YouTube channel Ustream Ustream application now available for iPhone...
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Waflood Twitter collaboration Journos team up to cover Wash. floods on Publish2 Delicious development Delicious founder Joshua Schachter joins Google Googling's carbon footprint Report says a Google search produces 7 grams of CO2 Business looks to Web 2.0 E-marketer: More businesses to embrace social nets in '09 TadCast Start-up puts product placements into YouTube videos...
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Top Five Two Hundred Seventeen
Gaza War via social media Follow the latest news with RSS feeds, Twitter Phishing for Tweets Twitter users fall victim to phishing, hack attacks Jobs' health note Apple CEO explains health problem to faithful DRM-free iTunes Big labels agree to DRM-free downloads, tiered pricing Ground Zero Maps mashup shows effect of nuclear blast in your town...
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Google fast lane WSJ says Google weakens on Net neutrality; others call foul Real names law? Idaho lawmaker wants bloggers, commenters to use real names Help A Reporter Out Shankman's service connects journos, sources Top 3 Twitterers Blogger sorts out people with most Twitter followers Journalists as curators McAdams spells out how journos, museum curators overlap...
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Tribune bankruptcy Zell files for Chapter 11 to buy time Online Pulitzers Prize categories expanded to include online journalism YouTube Symphony YouTube to create first collaborative online orchestra Songbird Open source iTunes competitor officially released Clerkdogs Video recommendation service gets tips from rental clerks...
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Mumbai attacks via social media Citizen journalist captures devastation in photos Cyber-bullying case ends Mom found guilty of misdemeanors National Day of Listening Project encourages people to record oral histories MSN Unsigned Microsoft launches music-sharing site for unsigned bands Newsom on YouTube SF mayor delivers 'State of City' in 7 hours of video...
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Yang yanked Yahoo CEO resigns as Google deal implodes CNN wire Cable net plans 'Newspaper Summit,' could take on AP FCC review Net Neutrality activists lead Obama's FCC review team Motrin headache Ad campaign backfires over Twitter Local watchdogs NYT looks at VoiceofSanDiego, MinnPost, others...
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Fair Use in the Classroom Guide helps teachers use copyrighted media legally Rickrolling MTV Internet fans help Rick Astley win Best Act Ever Fireside Chat 2.0 Obama presidency plans major use of web communications Social media tips for journos Guzman explains how journalists can better connect Big Brother Awards Finland EFFi "awards" for censorship, faulty electronic voting...
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NYT Election Wordtrain Shows how Dems, Repubs feel on Election Day Search the hidden web Google OCR can search through PDFs Halloween Twitters 'War of the Worlds' played out in tweets MySpace copyright deal Some material can stay; copyright holders can profit Anti-trust concessions Google, Yahoo submit revised ad deal to DOJ...
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YouTube Live YouTube celebrities to perform live in San Francisco Gigantic Former Miramax exec to stream indie films via web Joel Moss Levinson Makes a mint with D.I.Y. corporate ad contests The Scarlet Letter Ashley Todd hoax leads to Twitter mockery Mufin Computers pick your favorite music for you...
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Voting block? Wired tracks voting problems with location-based map Networked families Pew study examines how families use new media TuneCore Unsigned bands can sell music through online stores Princess of Nebraska YouTube streams first full-length film News Challenge Apply for Knight grant by Nov. 1...
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Top Five Week Two Hundred Nine
CNN iReport punk'd False news of Jobs heart attack not a failure of cit-j concept Real-time fact-check Bloggers, NPR, FactCheck.org check debate via Twitter Trusting strangers Study finds social media affects what we buy CBS TV on YouTube YouTube takes on Hulu with full-length shows Slacker takedowns Michael Moore's lawyers want international sharing stopped...
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Top Five Week Two Hundred Eight
Royalty settlement? House passes bill to lower Net radio rates Debates 2.0 Many ways to follow prez debates online AP dropped Spokesman-Review drops pricey AP feeds Social NPR Adds social networking features, open APIs IconDial Free ad-supported Net calls; will it last?...
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Top Five Week Two Hundred Seven
Raja Petra Kamarudin Malaysian blogger sentenced to jail without trial Palin hack suspect David Kernell has apartment searched by FBI T-Mobile G-1 First phone with Google Android unveiled CBS Eyemobile Takes on CNN iReport with iPhone app Comcast throttling Admits to FCC that it targeted BitTorrent...
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Palin email hack Anon group uses Wikileaks to reveal Yahoo mail Napster sold Best Buy pays less than annual revenues Hack the Debate Current TV will run Twitter posts during debate Sticky-note slinkys Coke/Mentos duo goes Post-It crazy (with sponsors) OJR reborn Media site back as blog on Knight Digital Center...
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Project Report YouTube, Pulitzer Center run citizen media contest Wired Wikiwatch Wins Batten Award after building on WikiScanner Archive bites United Stock sinks after '02 story resurfaces on Bloomberg Google ink stains Newspaper archive search shares revenues with papers Sorority Forever LonelyGirl15 actress scores role in MySpace serial...
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Top Five Week Two Hundred Five
Project Report YouTube, Pulitzer Center run citizen media contest Wired Wikiwatch Wins Batten Award after building on WikiScanner Archive bites United Stock sinks after '02 story resurfaces on Bloomberg Google ink stains Newspaper archive search shares revenues with papers Sorority Forever LonelyGirl15 actress scores role in MySpace serial...
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Top Five Week Two Hundred Four
Sarah Palin parodies Fakesters run amok online, including a Twitter feed Post-Gustav panorama USA today photoshot reveals hurricane damage Comcast traffic throttling Appeals FCC order on Net neutrality violations What the Buck? YouTube celeb makes jump to HBO uPlayMe Former Warner exec starts music community...
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Top Five Week Two Hundred Three
Olympic TAMi NBC's multi-platform audience on Monday: 103 million Cyber-attack on Georgia media News site moves to Blogspot after attack TV losing out Mobile, Net use rising; network TV losing to niches iPhone 3G problems Slow connections put 3G name in doubt Huffington Post Chicago Grand 'HuffPost local' experiment begins...
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iPhone 3G Apple sells 1 million phones despite glitches PaidContent gets paid Digital media site bought by Guardian for $30 mil China's 50-cent censors Pays people to leave pro-China comments online Calacanis exits Talkative entrepreneur gives up blogging for email list Polymeme Meme tracker covers subjects beyond tech, politics...
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NBC's Olympic lab Network to measure various media platforms during Games Best Practices for Fair Use Video Center for Social Media outlines ways to keep video legal LA Times online cuts Newspaper's 250 layoffs don't spare online staff Curtailing free speech Private sector reins in online speech more than courts Carnegie-Knight expands Three more j-schools become part of $11...
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Yahoo exec-odus Search execs jump ship as Yahoo, Google make deal Pay-per-quote Embattled AP charges $12.50 to quote 5 to 25 words LinkedIn CashesIn Biz social net gets monster $1 billion valuation YouTube on TV Five ways to see the laughing baby on the big screen Capitol Words The most repeated word in U.S. Congress each day...
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NewsJunk Winer's addictive stream of political news, blogs Newspapers grow? WAN chief: China, India, free papers lead News snacks AP: Headlines, updates more popular than in-depth news E-Edition friction Mercury News offers online edition -- for a fee Student bloggers Mashable, ReadWriteWeb hire college students...
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CBS-CNET Old TV network gets young and tech-savvy Whither Yahoo Microsoft tries side deal; Icahn readies proxy fight YouTube's Citizen News Video hub pushes citizen journalism effort CNN Shirt Select headlines sold instantly on T-shirts MoJo robbed ABC uses pastor vid without credit to Mother Jones...
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Yahoo alone Microsoft drops bid, so pressure's on Yahoo Maker Faire 2008 Burning Man meets a high school science fair Serious games Games used for contests, explaining subjects Nine Inch Nails New album is free, with Creative Commons license Digital IDG 52 percent of revenues online for tech publisher...
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Free Frank Chikowore Blogger/journo jailed covering Zimbabwe elections Music mags maimed Ad revenues move to music sites, blogs St. Louis Beacon Former Post-Dispatch writers go online BorderReporter Solo journo Marizco takes on U.S.-Mexico border Net boom in China Soon to pass number of U.S. Net users...
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Blogging to death Blogosphere on fire over NY Times story Web of Pulitzers Prize-winners using web more than ever Behavioral ad-versity 59 percent don't like ads based on online activity Flickr video Photo site adds video; some don't like it PostaCrime Anyone can post videos of possible criminals...
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State of the News Media Massive study finds more foreign news online All-You-Can-Eat iTunes Apple might offer unlimited tunes with iPods Great Firewall of China Government blocking Tibet news and YouTube Verizon Wireless Wins 700MHz auction, but Google says we all win Big Money Slate plans yet another financial news site...
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You've Got Bebo AOL drops $850 mil for social net Sarah Lacy BizWeek journo skewered for SXSW Zuckerberg chat Disney billion CEO Iger expects $1 billion in online revenues Hulu Slick video site launches, business a problem Alltop Kawasaki's take on top Egos, Journos and Social Media...
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Bankrupt Ziff Tech mag publisher awash in debt Tanya Andersen Lawsuit could hurt RIAA's war on file-sharers Superdelegate Transparency Project Crowdsourcing the Dem superdelegate count Slate Delegate Calculator Run your own scenarios for future contests Allvoices Global community captures, shares news in context...
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Wikileaks Court blocks site, but mirror sites sprout up Josh Marshall First blogger to win prestigious Polk Award MySpace Music Ad-supported service trying to get labels on board Chez Pazienza CNN producer axed for attitude on personal blog Community Cookbook How newspapers are using blogs, social media...
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Digital residuals Writers' strike ends with cut of web ads iReport CNN's citizen media effort spins off, unfiltered Free e-books HarperCollins offers full content, no downloads QuadrantOne Newspapers band together for Yahoo alternative Lessig for Congress Mr. Free Culture to change Washington culture?...
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Twitter-Google mashup Perfect combo to see Super Tuesday tweets Microsoft Flickr? Photo community fights Yahoo takeover Industry Standard redux Mag reborn as online predictions market IgnoreAll Helps you "ignore" Facebook invites Doe 6 Wins court case protecting anonymous speech...
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EveryBlock Data-driven info down to the street level Pay WSJ.com Murdoch nixes free-for-all at Journal site Tribune unblocked Zell lets reporters get YouTube fix Tech skills for journos Tag cloud shows blog, Flash expertise wanted 62.8 million Monthly uniques for newspaper sites; growth slows...
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FOIA reform Bloggers, citizen media to get gov info easier Fair use in video Study shows more legal use of copyrighted vids KYPost.com Online-only news site rises from ashes of paper Arab journo e-training Journalists learn about blogging, video in Beirut Hollywood Disrupted One of many online productions by striking writers...
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Think Secret shut Apple settlement leaves rumor site dead Bubble trouble Richter Scales parody video knocked by photog RIP Al-Moussawi Alive in Baghdad video blogger killed at home Ask Zawahri Al Qaeda's No. 2 will answer your questions Second Life needs third CTO out, usage down for virtual world...
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Opt-in Beacon Facebook backtracks after privacy backlash Flash 9 Video player supports HD; buh-bye to grainy vids? ProPublica Non-profit investigative startup nabs veteran journo Gawker Corp. Editors bail over low pay, grueling work User-generated content To make up 25 percent of entertainment by 2012...
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MoveOn to privacy Political group attacks Facebook over Beacon ads Music biz shrinkage Jupiter says digital sales won't counter CD losses Beatblogging.org 13 news orgs try out social networks for reporters Kindle E-book reader the iPod of books or proprietary flop? Shortsighted panorama UK's Society of Editors disses blogs, digital shift...
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Friend of Microsoft Redmond buys Facebook stake, reviving bubble talk Web 3.0 An immersive, smarter web; will they rename confab? Dismal Merc Inside story on San Jose's newspaper in crisis CNN's Second Life Wants residents to do legwork to cover world IncBizNet Lame name, but good idea as social net for private co's...
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10Questions More time, more voting in video prez debate Anti-piracy database YouTube unveils gambit, while Big Media plans theirs Bloggers unshielded Congress protects journos, pro bloggers only Murky alliance Newspapers might be stuck with Yahoo ONA hokum Confab still heavy on MSM's top-down view...
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Gawker strike Writers fight Evian ad takeover; Denton relents MSM absorbs blogs Newspapers start blog syndication, ad $ sharing MSNBC-Newsvine Citizen media site bought out by news site Clever Commute Citizen email tips on NYC metro train jams Networked Journalism Summit Can the all-star players remake journalism?...
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Myanmar citizen media YouTube a potent place for protest footage Amazon MP3 iTunes rival has lower prices, no DRM Brandfame Finally, product placement for online video! Podcast purge Yahoo kills directory -- bad site or hurting format? 41.5% American kids 3 - 11 that go online monthly...
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TechPresident Politics site wins top Knight-Batten Award Online TV NBC, ABC push more shows online Mobile AdSense Google offers contextual mobile ads Video to the Editor NY Times runs video responses from readers Net vs. sex 1 in 3 Americans give up sex for time online...
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R.I.P. TimesSelect What took so long to tear down the pay wall? The Great Gadfly Blogger breaks stories about casinos in Mass. Facebook with Botox Social networks for seniors get VC funding User-gen agenda PEJ compares Digg, Reddit to MSM stories covered 133.6 million Number in U.S. who watched online video in July...
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Hulu YouTube killer has a name (besides ClownCo) Representative journalism Witt's idea for atomizing news into small groups Vs. mentality Safran says we should all get along at confabs MinnPost Online daily could be next wave journalism 60 percent People who spend same time online as with TV...
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YouTube ads Site tries non-intrusive overlay approach Blogs do journalism?! Rosen blasts Skube with raft of examples HD-DVD Rival Blu-ray format loses out at major studios Rhapsody America MTV, Real take on iTunes in fool's errand 158 percent Growth of Internet usage in UK since 2002...
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Wikipedia Scanner Find which organizations are 'fixing' Wikipedia Silicon Alley Insider Blodget says newspapers are screwed; Jarvis parries ESPN180 Sports site revamps broadband video offering Old guys on Facebook News.com intern grossed out by 'friend' request UK papers in US More Americans read Guardian, UK Times than Brits...
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Free the WSJ.com Murdoch wavers on making Journal site free Google News comments Sources get chance to comment on articles Twittering bridge collapse Service plays early role in breaking news Media fast Students suffer withdrawal during day off e-media Stubborn digital divide 29 percent of Americans not online at all...
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YouTube debate Video questions steal show in prez debate QQ citizen media Chinese ISP enables news from flood zone Uncov Finally, someone cares enough to spoof Web 2.0 The GigaOm Show Blogger blows up big on Revision3 19.6 percent College kids online more than 20 hours/week...
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Pegasus bought Citizen media site bought by broadcast chain Assignment Zero'ed Experiment ends with more lessons than stories Saving Business 2.0 Facebook group aims to keep mag alive Mediabistro payday Media community falls into Jupiter's orbit 9 percent Number of teens who read a newspaper daily...
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Backfence down Citizen media startup folds, but why? Citizen real estate Zillow offers community features, forums China rising Will have more online users than U.S. Time spent New web measurement to replace page views iMeem Media-sharing site settles with Warner Music...
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Jesus phone Awash with hype, but non-believers persist Eric Jackson Activist uses Netroots to take down Yahoo CEO New West FAQ Guide for citizen journalism entrepreneurs Web radio's silence Online broadcasters protest royalty hike Change or die Cincy Enquirer's motto for adding user content...
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Google blinks Cancels eBay party after auction giant pulls ads Widget mania 177 million view embedded video, photos, music NYTVNewser Times hires fab cable TV blogger Blogger booted NCAA nixes live-blogger at baseball game Guardian of transparency Brit paper tops study of news orgs' openness...
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Stating the obvious Newspapers shouldn't blame Google, Craigslist RCTV on YouTube Banned Venezuelan TV channel finds air online CBS-Last.fm Buyout gives broadcaster entree to online music Flickr filtered China blocks photos from Xiamen protest Local Explorer Smart custom maps for DC area...
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Center for Future Civic Media MIT scores $5 mil grant; other Knight winners $16.9 billion Internet ads bring in record haul in 2006 EveryBlock Holovaty leaves Post to start local-info site AdSense for video Google test could be future for YouTube 7iber Citizen journalism effort in Jordan...
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Milblogs live Crackdown on military blogs overblown Freeing debates MSNBC softens restrictions on prez debate video Kenyan poli-blogs Best coverage of Kenyan election on blogs Greatfirewallofchina Find out if your website is blocked in China Joo$t Video site gets $45 million in funding...
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Digg revolt Community forces honchos to allow DVD crack code Milblog crackdown Soldier blogs need oversight before publishing? Cult of the Amateur Unreleased book takes skeptical view of Web 2.0 iGoogle Update of personalized page allows more Gadgets 11th Webby Awards More than 100 websites honored in annual fest...
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Wikipedia Wiki more popular than online buying or dating YouTube ads Will viewers wait through 30-second spots? MSNBC-of-the-Future Checkbox journalism helps you skip overkill stories SD/HSC New acronym for online shoe-leather reporting MapLight.org Mash-up site helps track money and politics...
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Mass murder vlog Va. Tech shooter's videos too hot for TV Google uber alles Giant buys DoubleClick; in deal with Clear Channel Local TV's squeeze Will the networks cut them out with programs online? Web 2.0 voyeurs Tiny percent of YouTube, Flickr visitors upload content Triblocal Looks to citizen journalism to save metro's bacon...
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Civility enforced? O'Reilly's blog code of conduct summarily attacked Principles of Citizen Journalism Common sense guidelines for amateur journos Euro-optimism Newspaper publishers positive about online future Crazy ideas Google wants to buy out 'crazy, cool things' TBO hyper-local Tampa paper lays off 70 in print; plans 15 local sites...
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DRM-free music EMI, iTunes deal means MP3 tracks for $1.29 Online attention spans Surprise! They're longer than those of print readers LonelyGirl15's gum Product placement starts in popular web videos Sources as bloggers Winer says newspapers should decentralize control Topix.com revamp Citizen journo shift aims to un-suckify site...
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MeTooTube NBC, News Corp. make good on threat of MSM video site Crowdsourcing attorney scandal TPM readers pitch in to dig through docs Music's single serving CD sales down 20 percent as digital singles rise Emmy tug-o-war Groups battle for right to award online video shows Webcaster reprieve Royalty Board to reconsider hike for web radio fees...
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Viacom's heavy suit Dr. Evil wants $1 billion vs. 'Do No Evil' GooTube AssignmentZero Pro-am crowdsourcing effort to study crowdsourcing Pay-to-play newspapers Call for paid content up against problem: no one pays Net radio's death sentence? Searls breaks down royalty hike; NPR may fight it Twitter Update your whereabouts; how to use it for good...
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MySpace News Social network plans to bring news to the mix Frontiers of Innovation Research report on MSM's initial community efforts Small papers rule Stronger focus on local news and online experimentation Crogs Name for 'carefully researched blogs' that go beyond rants NewYorker.com revamp Animated cartoons, blogs, and audio, oh my!...
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USA Tomorrow USA Today redesign to tap nation's conversation FirstPerson Another citizen media effort from MSNBC Free Kareem Egyptian blogger sentenced to 4 years in prison UR TV Urban citizen media project for Black Family Channel BitTorrent Tries legal downloads, but might backfire or misfire...
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XM + Sirius Legal hurdles to satellite radio merger -- but do the kids care? Reuters Africa Pioneering site to highlight biz news, blogs from Africa SMS defeats censors Zimbabwe journos get news out by text messages We Media phenom Anderson: 'A phenomenon is not necessarily a business' Audible Magic Could it be silver bullet for GoogTube copyright issues?...
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SoCon07 Southern-flavored social media unconference Wikipedia cash crunch Reports of imminent demise greatly exaggerated eWeek's weak move Uses widely panned IntelliTXT ads 'Timid' News War Viewers want more teeth in Frontline doc User-generated prayers Modesto Bee sets up prayer exchange...
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Jobs anti-DRM Pens open letter against restricted music downloads Facebook Diaries User-generated web/TV show from Comcast Hey ho, let's UGM MSN exec compares user-generated media to punk HBO Online Signs up web talent Amanda Congdon, Hayden Black Innovation in College Media Southern blog follows new media efforts at colleges...
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Biting Apple Mac gossip sites win $700,000 from Apple Pilotless Drone SF Chron podcast of reader's irate call sparks remix A$k a Ninja Comic videoblog pulls in six figures in ad deal Abu Ghraib redux? Alleged army guard talks of gang rape in prison Inside the Editorial Page Rare peek at editorial discussion at WSJ...
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LA Times Web-stupid 'Scathing' internal report says paper doesn't get the web Murdoch 2.0 Rupert: 'we are at the beginning of a great transition' Personal Journalism Owens puts fitting name on nouveau style of journalism The Politico Allbritton tries web + print pub immersed in politics Goodbye Gutenberg Nieman tome is instant bible for future of media...
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Joost Skype founders want infinite TV on all platforms So-called citizen journalism NY Times agog over AmericanTowns hyper-local startup Backfence on back burner Hyper-local citizen media effort craters a la Bayosphere Brightcove breaks bank Huge $59 million warchest to fight online video battles User-generated fluff Researcher glum about user-created video ad revenues...
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iPhone Blockbuster Apple phone has gadget blogs drooling Ink-stained Open Network Gannett, McClatchy, Tribune team on online ad sales Live-blogging Libby case Bloggers get press credentials for hot case Free Kareem DC protest for jailed Egyptian blogger Ikbis Site combines YouTube, Flickr for Arab world...
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Saddam execution video Cell phone video another milestone for citizen media YouTube's Brazilian problem Court orders site shut down over celeb sex video Google's sex blog problem Search engine mistakenly lowers ranking of blogs Turner's incubator Tries not to smother web initiatives; goes for niches Doom for mass-market mags The Long Tail hurts mass-circulation magazines...
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You Time's Person of the Year goes all 'we media' PayPerPost Startup relents, asks bloggers to disclose payments Pay-per-Digg Social news site battling companies paying for placement YouTube journalism Eyewitness news gets around censors via upload site DailySource.org Google News-style aggregation by discerning humans...
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TechCrunched Arrington in blog war over NY Times and Le Web 3 IraqSlogger All Iraq news, all the time from ex-CNN'er Eason Jordan HornyManatee.com NBC lawyers help spawn insta-hit site after joke ABCongdon Rocketboom'er makes soft landing at ABCNews.com YouTube Top 10 AP lists most significant videos of 2006...
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Pilfered paparazzi pix Seven photo agencies sue gossip blogger Perez Hilton Frienemy Word used to describe Google by ad exec Gannett's mojos Mobile journalist experiment leads to hunk-calendar coverage Streaming podcasts No iPod, no problem: just stream it online Valley of the Denton Publisher takes over blog, whacks competitors in petty display...
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Mobile YouTube Verizon offers popular video site with VCast service The Capitol Leader DC pub grabs two WaPo veterans for politics hub ClickStar Startup to use celeb power to sell movie downloads Mags not Web 2.0 Bivings: top U.S. magazine sites falling short Next Chief Yahoo? Not VP Garlinghouse after Peanut Butter Manifesto...
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Project Valour IT Milbloggers raise $200,000+ to give laptops to injured soldiers Heil StudiVZ German Facebook clone tries Nazi humor Valleywag of the finger Blogger wants to get sued; gets fired instead Outside.in Localized blog aggregator found fire in my area Al Jazeera English Pay-to-watch online strategy a loser...
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Comedy Central pulls clips 'Daily Show,' 'Colbert Report' yanked off YouTube BBC wants you! To help cover U.S. mid-term elections Milblogs down Higher-ups crack down on military blogs UTEK Corp. Stock plunges 36 percent after Sharesleuth report Odeo becomes Obvious Podcasting startup's CEO takes charge...
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Adam Reuters Wire service opens bureau in Second Life game DeafRead Key source of protest news from Gallaudet U. Blog crazy at Biz 2.0 Will pay journalists a cut of ad $$ from blogs Web crazy at BizWeek 46 percent of online content original to web Megite revamp Blog aggregator improves, has River of News...
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'From gags to riches' GoogTube deal brings visions of Dot-Com Craze II The Sandbox Doonesbury gets its war on with military stories blog Geek-a-Cycle Type a blog post while cycling in place Podcast explosion News & Politics dominates 80,000+ podcasts JoeApology.com I'm sorry I didn't find this site earlier...
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Verizon TV Telco hires video journalists to be new-media outlet Audiobook revival iPod, download boom pushes publishers to change .mobi Thousands snap up new domain, but why bother? HandsOff43 Pa. blogger finds telco-backed comments proliferate Folly of John Dvorak 'Citizen pro baseball'? Tech pundit whiffs badly...
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Austin Arensberg American in Bangkok shoots newsworthy photos after coup Knight Brothers Challenge Foundation to give $5 million for local online news projects Reuters thinks ahead Helps fund NewAssignment.net and Global Voices NJ sock puppets? Kean aide denies anonymous attacks in blog comments My TV DVRs, streaming shows let viewers be programmers...
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Microsoft Zune iPod-killer due for X-mas; brown is the new black Facebook about-face Backs down on stalking feature, but will open network Human Rights Video Hub Witness.org, Global Voices team up to stem abuses Apple's iTV Can it bridge PC-to-TV divide in living room? Times Reader NY Times' next-gen effort still Microsoft-only...
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LonelyGirl15 NY Times, BusinessWeek, LA Times agog over Bree Internet justice in China Net vigilantism punishes kitten-killer Facebook backlash 50,000+ users want stalker feeds removed iPod over? Youngsters turn away from pricey, closed format Google News goes wayback News archives go back 200 years -- not all are happy...
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Katie Couric's thin twin TVNewser exposes 'fauxtography' makeover Wired wiki Wired News lets readers edit story on wikis NY Times' UK blockade Blocks web access to story due to British laws New news = old news Roeper says OJA finalists come from old media -- duh The blog and chain If bloggers take vacations, traffic suffers...
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Exposing Earmarks Groups band together to find pork in Congress Rivers of mobile news Winer creates aggregated RSS feeds for NY Times, BBC Uth TV Youth-created site includes A Girl Like Me video R.I.P. Tower Records? Music retailer in Chapter 11, but founder might bail it out PayMeToBlog Blogger puts a price on blog posts, images and videos...
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Candidate podcast Challenger in Wash. Senate race out-podcasts incumbent Streaming TV CBS joins ABC showing free TV online with commercials Land of the free Most popular AOL search terms were 'free' and 'new' Alyssa Shelasky Glamour mag blogger's readers vote on her dating moves Voice of consumer People trust blogs, wikis more for product reviews...
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MSM in decline TV, radio, newspapers down; online up Online journo jobs 3 in 10 J-school grads have web-related jobs Altered states for photos Cartoonist has field day with Reuters photo brouhaha Kevin Roderick Blogger expands LA Observed with sports, business Missing treasures Office Pirates video site fails to go viral...
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Time Out for peace Beirut, Tel Aviv editors bond -- then strained -- over conflict Talk of the blogs Columbia Dean's blog-bashing meets Jarvis' counter-Fisk TMZ AOL's gossip site in spotlight after Mel Gibson scoop Mini-Moguls WSJ profiles stars from MySpace, YouTube YouWitness News CNN, MSNBC, Reuters go nutty for citizen video reports...
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Mideast conflict on YouTube Violent videos mix with humor on video site NewAssignment.net NYU's Jay Rosen imagines collaborative investigative reports Arrested Development lives Cancelled TV show finds life (in reruns) on MSN, G4 network Digital Metallica Anti-Napster metal band sees the light; offers songs on iTunes News21 Journo project includes video of band's tour of Army bases...
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Digg this $$ Netscape honcho tries to woo Digg users to stem the tide Neck rub diplomacy Awkward massage from Bush at G8 has blogs wagging Couric's multiplatform newscast New CBS anchor to broadcast on TV, radio, and Net Yahoo Music MP3s Offers songs for $1.99, but as unrestricted MP3s Dennis Hwang Former Google intern gets props for fanciful...
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Broadband Emmys Forget Pulitzers, newspapers vie for online video awards Answer Bono Rocker asks unruly Yahoo Answers forum to solve poverty Animated headbutt parodies French star's soccer no-no re-enacted in videogame clips Fans as baseball manager MSN show, 'Fan Club,' lets fans control minor league club Short shelf life for online news Scientists find nobody reads news after 36...
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RSS Compendium Great list of available RSS readers FeedDemon Nice RSS reader software for Windows, synchs with NewsGator Feed reader roundup TechCrunch compares nine web-based RSS readers Feeds 2.0 Personalized feed reader from Greece still in private beta Bloglines Still a favorite RSS reader for simple interface, fast performance...
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PaidContent gets paid Popular business blog takes venture funding to expand GigaOm gets funding Blogger-journalist Om Malik to concentrate more on broadband blog NYTimes' Screens TV critic takes critical view of online video, mashups Wall Street Journal's screens Public video screens for news -- and ads -- in office lobbies Exposing Katrina fraud Gillmor wonders if citizen media project...
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Dan Rather in HD Former CBS anchor considers show on HDNet YouTube star Brooke Brodack signs deal with Carson Daly Productions Slate turns 10 Pioneer e-zine celebrates with contrary views on contrarianness Walls or no walls? NYT, WSJ consider more pay walls; Huffington decries 'old model' MySpace lawsuit Sued over sexual assault, site toughens rules for teens...
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Irrepressible.info Amnesty Intl. campaign to undermine Net censorship Yearly Kos Liberal blog confab in Vegas schmoozed by Dem candidates Cox blocking Craigslist? Foremski wonders if Cox is breaking Net neutrality Sharesleuth Cuban to start investigative biz blog, but will trade stocks in companies covered Podtech.net Podcasting network hires Microsoft geek blogger Robert Scoble...
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Citizen Journalism Awards Prizes for best photos and video in UK, but what about words? TiVoCast DVR service lets you download Net video clips AllofMP3 Russian site offers cheap music downloads, but trouble looms World Cup on mobiles TV-over-cell on rise in Europe for soccer tourney Google mea culpa on China Co-founder says perhaps 'principled approach makes more sense'...
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Gossip sites win Apple loses appeal in big victory for online journos Unity '08 Internet voting to determine bipartisan third-party ticket Yahoo-eBay hit middle age Net powerhouses make peace, but not in China Amazon Fishbowl E-commerce player tries original content, movie downloads International Citizen Tribune Newspaper syndicates citizen journalism from OhMyNews...
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Top Five Week Nineteen; Net Neutrality Edition
Newmark v. McCurry Net neutrality tussle between Craigslist founder, politico McCurry feels blog-wrath Liberal bloggers gang up on former Clinton press secretary Net neutrality showdown CNET's full coverage, including a House bill passing committee Hardware makers opposed Companies like Cisco, Qualcomm don't want new laws Congress ignoring consumers? NYU prof Siva notes telecom lobbying powerhouse...
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Lance Dutson Ad agency drops suit against blogger after online uproar Alaa blogs from jail Egyptian blogger held for protest in Cairo XM Radio sued Music biz incensed over satellite radio recorder, Inno Text-casts Slate puts text of column on iPods MTV Urge Got the urge for a Windows-only, IE-only music store?...
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Colbert video mania C-SPAN tries to block video online -- nice try Newsroom makeovers WSJ reader expects more 'pretty faces' for reporters on video Treehugger Webzine at intersection of ecology and technology Federated Media Blog network more like dating site for blogs, advertisers CBS Innertube Broadband video network heavy on promo, light on sharing...
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Yahoo Tech Portal goes after CNET with consumer tech site Ad enforcers Phillips invention, Today Show online disable ad skipping AOL 'punching bag' Siklos wonders about AOL's search for a hit e-Rupert Murdoch Buys aggregator, online karaoke site -- Gawker next? MSNBC's The Most TV version of most-emailed stories...um, what?...
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TVGuide goes blog wild Old line mag revamps site with 65+ blogs PocketCaster Broadcast video from your smart phone Patrick 'Patterico' Frey Outs columnist's use of pseudonyms to praise himself Maker Faire 2006 More than 20,000 geek out at adult science fair We Media pre-show blog Four weeks of online discussion precede confab...
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Wikipedia primer Encyclopedia's philosophy: 'Experts are scum' Wikia rising Wales gets $4 mil funding for community wiki site Great Failure of Wikipedia Scathing speech on inner workings of Wikipedia Britannica v. Wikipedia study Nature gives props to wiki; Britannica bites back [pdf] Wikipedia co-founders speak The Register: 'How did anyone ever expect it to work?'...
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Mark Klein Retired AT&T techie blows whistle on Net spying Webaroo Search and read the web when you're not online ABC streaming and free Plans to show four TV shows online a day after airing BlogBurst Syndication service runs blogs in newspapers Citizen cell journos Mobile firm to put cell-phone videos on TV news...
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Customer-created ads Chevy Tahoe debacle just tip of the iceberg MSNBC Mobile Cell news service is ad-supported and free of charge Canceling print NY Times Slate's Shafer likes web redesign, won't pay for paper Newsvine Holy Trinity of news: read it, write it, argue about it Blogswana Ambitious plan for AIDS awareness in Africa via blogs...
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Net neutrality Should Net providers create two-tier service? DealBreaker Gossip blog tweaks Wall Street, from ex-Gawker writer Buy the whole season ABC offers 'Lost' and 'Housewives' season pass Popurls News aggregator of the aggregators 'Got my kids brainwashed' Microsoft CEO Ballmer bans Google, iPods from his kids...
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Clooneygate Huff Post bitten by post Clooney didn't write Mecosystem Idea that marketers consider individuals instead of masses Save the Merc Can newspaper employees reinvent print journalism? Red(lined) America Washingtonpost.com closes conservative blog for past plagiarism 50 million Number of Americans getting news online in typical day...
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1+1=1 Blogger Jeff Jarvis says newspaper buyout 'bad news' Comment is free Guardian's version of Huffington Post groupthink Jason Calacanis Blog emperor to helm Digg-like Netscape redux On10 Microsoft video blog uses -- surprise! -- Quicktime SXSW podcasts New-media confab lets you hear panels, speeches...
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La la Site lets you trade old CDs with others -- legally DriveTime video blog Dashboard view of Ravi Jain's commute to work iKarma Judge someone's reputation a la eBay Wal-Mart's blog love Big retailer tries for better PR via bloggers Blue Plate Special NYU's Jay Rosen charts top blogging newspapers...
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Ricky Gervais Brit comedian wants $1.95 to hear his popular podcast Mystery product hype Apple and Microsoft have underwhelming unveilings Free TiVo boxes DVR service to try giveaway plan to boost subscribers Politico 'journalism' Colorado politicians use YourHub to post glowing profiles Blog Worth-O-Meter Find out what your favorite blog is worth...
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Great Firewall exposed Washington Post looks in-depth at China censorship issues Animated news puppets Failed Yahoo idea leaks out Windmill charger Don't have a plug? Your cell phone's charge is blowin' in the wind Fishwrap rising Newspaper assocation to pay $50 mil to promote dead-tree news TPMmuckraker Liberal blogger Josh Marshall to launch muckraking series...
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NBC takeover at Google Massive video promo on Olympics search Linkology New York mag tries to understand how A-list bloggers make it Office Pirates Buzz builds over off-color joke site from Time Inc. Assignment America Viewers vote online for what CBS will report next Digg Users submit news items; users rate news items...
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Cagle Blog American cartoonist tracks Islamist cartoon firestorm Wisconsin State Journal Madison newspaper lets readers vote for front page story Valleywag Silicon Valley finally shows its sense of humor 'I only watched for the ads' New rationale for millions of Super Bowl viewers Professor Anton Harber Calls out digital divide in citizen media...
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State of the Union Remix AOL and ABC try to include citizens in Bush speech Hoder in Israel Iranian blog-father transcends borders again MTV Uber NY Times swoons over 'quixotic' site for collegians Wikipedia blocks Congress Hill staffers tried to rewrite history Netvibes Customizable home page lets you put it all on one page...
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Deborah Howell Washington Post ombudswoman ignites firestorm Netflix downloads Mail-order DVD company plans digital downloads John Lasseter Creative genius at Pixar becomes go-to guy at Disney for animation Sex.com Domain name brings in $14 million after long saga Net-only media diet Blogger spends one month away from traditional media...
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Google Toast of Wall Street, but Google Video underwhelms Howard Stern on Sirius Satellite radio gets day in sun Million Dollar Home Page Student makes million, but under hack attack Chinese censorship collusion Congress finally takes action against tech companies BlogSafer.org Guide to anonymous blogging in repressive countries...
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