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Apple's Newsstand a boon to publishers News Corp's The Daily benefits big Nearly half of Americans watch online video Equivalent ad dollars still a ways off Ads coming to WordPress blogs Federated Media partners to offer service Google+ will support pseudonyms Realizes some have legitimate reasons for anonymity Netflix comes to Android tablets Service now on 700 devices...
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iPhone 4S sales break records Maybe not so underwhelming after all Amazon cuts out publishers Goes directly to authors, cutting out middlemen Knight ups News Challenge contest Will offer three rounds a year Media companies worst at Facebook questions Missing out on critical engagement? The journalist behind Tumblr's boom Former Newsweek editor Mark Coatney as 'secret weapon'...
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Pandora: Popular, but far from profitable Mobile ads are no cash cow E-book loans at libraries up 200 percent Kindle allows e-lending, contributes to growth Newspaper keeps pay wall up during flood Focus more on making money than serving community AOL aims to be AP of video Editors Room offers embeds of 250,000 news videos College papers dabble in...
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Netflix nixes Qwikster, stock plummets Also, how video services stack up Google+ traffic off 60 percent Fall-off after huge 1,200 percent spike; should we care? Twitter nabs trademark for tweet Lawsuit settled out of court Phones, tablets account for big Net traffic comScore: devices drive 7 percent of traffic Google leaks WikiLeaks data to government Feds got volunteer's Gmail...
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Top 5, Oct. 6, 2011: R.I.P. Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs dies, the web mourns Mashable's roundup of remembering How Jobs made the nerd cool Under Jobs, Apple shaped our cultural psyche Without Jobs, Apple could lose lead Analyst: 'It was Jobs' Apple, not Apple's Jobs' NYTimes takes submissions of tributes Project highlights how Jobs put the personal into personal computer Obama, Gates, Zuckerberg on Jobs' death Obama:...
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Apple underwhelms with iPhone 4S Better chip, camera, voice-commands, iCloud NPR hires new CEO from Sesame Street Stays in the public media family Yahoo, ABC News ink content deal Sharing stories, producing video web shows Hyper-local publishers form trade group AOL's Patch is pointedly missing Amazon, Apple differ on tablets Amazon wants you to buy content, Apple wants you...
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Will cable operators go a la carte? Lost a million customers last year Social-bookmarking site Delicious relaunches Website has new ownership and look 80% of congressional members on Facebook Will they use it to engage millennials? What is the future of the internet? Filters and curation will be vital Parents big on social gaming Neilsen: 76 percent of them...
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Amazon unveils Kindle Fire Low cost Android tablets undercut Apple on price Netflix finally gets good news Acquires new steaming deal with DreamWorks Zynga's profits down 95 percent Is the social gaming giant ruined? Tumblr beats Wikipedia in pageviews Tops 6.5 billion views last month Pew: Mobile secondary for news Most use phones to check the weather...
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Facebook unleashes Timeline, social apps Wants to become your personal newspaper Twitter introduces political ads Mitt Romney is one of the first advertisers Pandora re-launches in HTML5 Removes music listening cap U.S. 26th for Internet speed South Korea and Romania top the list 16,000 teachers using Skype Skype in the Classroom gives social network for educators...
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Netflix loses 1 million subscribers Customers angry over price increases, split into 2 companies Google+ out of beta Goes for mainstream audience amid stories of its death Google adds original content to YouTube Alternative to cable TV? WSJ launches Facebook app Every user an editor on WSJ Social Berkeley J-School hires Spot.Us founder David Cohn will research online business...
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Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft join for ad plan Partnership competes with Google Facebook launches subscribe button You can "follow" profiles without being friends YouTube adds built-in video editor Allows quick fixes without re-uploading the video WSJ adds to live video programming Three hours of newscasts each weekday Twitter rolls out promoted tweets Ads can appear from brands you don't follow...
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Boston Globe launches pay wall site Will charge $3.99 per week for non-print subscribers Time spent on social networks soars 22.5 percent of time online goes to social sites Tablets the answer for newspapers? Philly papers offer subscribers $99 Android tablet Authors' Guild sues over book digitization Effort to block digital lending at universities Small-town newspapers thriving Sports, obituaries,...
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Google buys review site Zagat Officially enters the original content market Huffington Post publishes e-books Site will release two titles this month through BookBrewer No more simultaneous streams on Netflix More than one stream will cost you After 10 years .xxx domain approved New extension will be for adult content Microsoft pushes for changes in patent law Senate votes...
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TechCrunch editor wants editorial independence CrunchFund leads to dismissal from his own blog Google discontinues 10 products Fast Flip, Aardvark, and Desktop will all close Does using HootSuite lower your EdgeRank? Study: 3rd party apps decrease fan engagement Will Amazon's rumored tablet test Apple? The tablet could be unveiled in a few weeks Groupon goes into education business National...
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DOJ blocks AT&T/T-Mobile merger Lawsuit cites anti-competitive movements Facebook to launch music platform Partners will include Spotify, MOG and Rdio Hulu makes international debut Starts video service in Japan Adult use of social media rises Only 5 percent in 2005, now 65 percent 92 percent of journalists use LinkedIn Reporters can connect easier with sources...
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CNN buys iPad magazine Zite News app goes for reported $20 million to $25 million Hurricane Irene knocks down pay walls NYTimes and Newsday free during storm weekend Paid-for-post programs gaining popularity Marketers paying for blog posts, tweets Walmart finds success with movie downloads Vudu is the 3rd largest streaming service Blocking social media grows revolutions Study shows blocking...
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Steve Jobs steps down Iconic leader of Apple will be hard to replace Romensko, Jack Shafer depart Poynter columnist in semi-retirement; Shafer laid off at Slate Calls stutter during earthquake Text and Internet held up just fine Social media causes teen drinking? Study: Internet users more likely to drink, use drugs Facebook crests 1 trillion page views Site also...
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BBC News: We may use photos posted on social networks Will post without permission only in 'exceptional situations' News sites using Facebook comments see high return Higher quality discussion, more referrals for articles First printed social media magazine released Social Media Monthly to offer media news and analysis Wasting time online boosts productivity Refreshes workers after long periods of...
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Google acquires Motorola Mobility Deal gets a whopping $12.5 billion White House joins Foursquare 14,000 already following Obama Quick response codes for smartphones growing 14 million Americans scanned codes in June FTC busts app maker for collecting kids' email addresses Broken Thumbs Apps will have to pay $50,000 AP and Google announce new scholarship $20,000 to six students in...
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911 will soon accept texts, videos, photos Change will allow faster response E-Book sales up more than 1000 percent Between 2008 and 2010, total revenues also grew Cable TV loses 193K subscribers last quarter Online streaming and economy to blame Twitter drops retweets and mentions folders Adds new username and activity tabs Amazon launches web-based Kindle Cloud Reader Bypasses...
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Blackberry, not Twitter, fueled the fire under London's riots Protesters used BBM chat to communicate Tablet makers have a better shot against iPad In UK Apple controls 80 percent of all tablet sales in US NYTimes launches beta620 Site features experimental projects from Times developers 200K people sued for allegedly sharing material online BitTorrent users targeted in lawsuit Even...
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Facebook switches to TV-style metrics Nielsen rolling out online system based on TV's gross rating points Yahoo ups clicks with algorithm that predicts what people want Clicks increased by 270 percent White House gets LinkedIn Allows users to submit questions on job creation Who has the most engaged followers on Twitter? NYTimes has the largest but least action-oriented following...
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Murdochleaks, a WikiLeaks-type site for News Corp. Whistleblowers encouraged to submit tips of wrongdoing Amazon Prime doubles film selection Deal will add movies from NBCUniversal Instant Streaming Anonymous comments endangered? Many hyper-local sites will require use of real names When are mobile app users most active? Mobclix study says late afternoon and evenings Missouri bans teachers from friending students...
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Facebook launches guide for businesses Manual will help companies with marketing tools Storify wins top Knight-Batten Award All 2011 award winners announced Android, Apple lead in smartphones Nielsen: RIM Blackberry is down to only 20 percent Fox delays free streaming 8 days Must authenticate as pay TV subscriber to see it early Nook for iPad has 175+ magazines Titles...
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NY Times ranks as 'most social' company NetProspex: Local TV stations tops on Twitter Noon best time for Facebook posts Reader study gives news orgs tips on engagement Media consolidation may help local news FCC study: Cross-ownership boosted some news coverage Side-by-side comparison of streaming services How Netflix, Hulu, Amazon stack up Sidestepping Apple to avoid 30 percent cut...
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Phone-hacking probe may widen to other tabloids Panel created to investigate British newsrooms. iPad revenue supersedes Mac Apple reaches mobile milestone in 15 months Netflix for news Scribd site offers library of news for subscribers Spotify grabs $1 million per ad campaign Launch sponsors included Coke, Chrysler Time experiments with pay wall Magazine offers new digital/print subscriptions...
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Murdoch denies knowledge of phone hacking Also gets pie in face from live-tweeting comedian Borders closes all remaining stores 399 stores shuttered, 11,000 workers laid off Twitter drives 4X more traffic than you think Why referrals aren't the end all, be all CNN, HLN to stream live Viewers will still need pay-TV subscription BBC's social media guide for journalists...
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Netflix hikes rates, splits streaming, DVDs Will users defect to other, more affordable services? Spotify launches freemium music service in U.S. Ad-supported service offers vast libraries of music Android Market expands to e-books, videos Google redesigns Market's user interface Translating user interaction to revenue How much is a user worth? It depends HuffPo fires writer for over-aggregation AdAge column...
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Smartphones take over Pew: One third of all Americans own a smartphone Newspapers still rule in rural America Community and rural papers still own the franchise on news Court overturns FCC decision Decision called sweeping victory for the public interest Nook Color leads e-reader sales Overall, tablet sales slip as iPad underperforms Patch takes national ads So much for...
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News Corp. shuts News of the World Guardian goes full-bore on phone-hack scandal; tweets pressure advertisers Facebook and Skype take on Google+ with video chat No group video chat yet on Facebook; what it all means for TV Google+ swallows up Blogger, Picasa brands Search giant will rename them: Google Photos, Google Blogs StumbleUpon usurps Facebook for referrals In...
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Zuckerberg most followed on Google+ Is it because he's more handsome than Google founders? How News Corp. screwed up MySpace 4 lessons from the social network's fall Zynga eyes $1 billion IPO FarmVille parent grew revenues 392 percent last year Everloop creates social network for kids Why privacy is the biggest issue in catering to kids China has its...
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Google goes social with Google+ Will Google's "stream" be the new news feed? Specific Media buys MySpace Justin Timberlake gets in on $35 million deal Smartphone sales overtake feature phones Nielsen: 38 percent of mobile consumers own a smartphone Rockmelt raises $30 million for social browser Accel, Khosla join Andreessen Horowitz in investing Google invests in display ads Search...
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Supreme Court to review FCC indecency policy High court will rule on whether it violates First Amendment Twitter for Newsrooms launches Service offers journalists primer on social reporting Amazon jumps into ad networks E-commerce giant uses your data to target ads HBO Go app takes on cord-cutters Cable channel to celebrate 3 million app downloads E-reader sales jump ahead...
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Mobile as a savior for local advertising? Study: In 4 years, 70 percent of mobile ads will be local Best Buy wades into online music Could Music Cloud beat Apple to the punch? Rowling to launch site to sell Harry Potter ebooks Author previously refused electronic releases Go Google yourself How to manage your personal search ranking Barnes and...
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ICANN approves top-level domains .car, .bank, .brand coming to a browser near you Spotify raises $100 million, valued at $1 billion International expansion on tap, Facebook eyes service for music plans Internet kills anonymity Once thought to breed anonymity, now no one goes unidentified on the web Social networking sites flock to kid set Advertisers aren't following Nieman Report:...
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Pandora IPO raises $235 million Money-losing company valued at $2.6 billion Pew: Social media users have more friends Users also half as likely to be socially isolated TV use growing; web video growing faster Mobile video shows strongest gains? Digital subs could be boon for mags PwC says revenue will grow faster for mags than papers How Netflix won...
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Who won GOP debate? Facebook knows New Likester service adds up "likes," shows Romney ahead Borders may close 51 stores Chain does have two possible bidders HuffPost surpasses NY Times traffic Pay wall holding Times back? Apple's iCloud faces naming lawsuit Arizona company says name claimed in 2005 This American Life beyond broadcast New website to focus on stories...
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Facebook pushes facial recognition EU data regulators already launching probe of software All TV online in 2 years? Execs say 75 percent will be online and on mobile Twitter builds sales force In Q1, big ad share came from auto industry AOL's newsroom bigger than NYT AOL, Patch and HuffingtonPost combine for 1,300 staffers IRE absorbs DocumentCloud Investigative journalism...
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#Weiner's Twitter scandal Photo was meant to be DM; Rep. doesn't blame social media Will smartphone kill the PC? Phone sales now outpace those of PCs FT sticks it to Apple Puts focus on "web app" for tablet rather than App Store YouTube may end music piracy Site takes away incentive, but still takes money from music industry ShareThis...
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Zuckerberg: All media should be social Facebook won't do music or TV, but social could revolutionize them Twitter in row over judge's super-injunction Tony Wang says site will hand over user info Glenn Beck plans web channel Tagline: "The Truth Lives Here" YouTube continues staggering growth Site boasts 3 billion views a day, up 50 percent from last year...
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Cable companies prepare for disasters Create disaster plans to keep broadband, cable lines up iPad is for boys, Nook is for girls Barnes & Noble's Nook Color making gains with women Who owns your Twitpics? Deal with World Entertainment News puts that in doubt NBC looking for non-profit news partners Network hopes to replicate Voice of San Diego partnership...
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LinkedIn IPO soars Values business social network at more than $8 billion NY Times launches weekly TV show Online video goes old school Tablet use still only 5 percent Devices still a long-term investment for media YouTube launches congressional Town Hall Lawmakers debate, then viewers vote on winner Schmidt opposed to anti-piracy law Search giant will challenge Digital Economy...
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Patch expands for 2012 election Huffington wants Patch to be on "front lines" Bing leveraging Facebook in search Results will now include friends' "likes" Columbia launches New York World Aims to do accountability journalism about NYC Average Twitter user is young, white, female Still only 10 percent of all people use Twitter Kindle readers don't mind online ads Amazon's...
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Google unveils cheap Chromebook No software, just quick web access, apps E-book sales soar HarperCollins exec says hardbacks are getting cannibalized WSJ distributes iPhone 4 for reporters Device now standard for WSJ and NYT reporters NY Times pay wall stops traffic NYT has lowest traffic share in a year Twitter's personal nature Pew: 72 percent tweets are personal; 62...
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Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion Biggest buyout yet for software giant WSJ launches own WikiLeaks SafeHouse site has security issues; could turn in tipsters Obama's jokes go viral Correspondents' Dinner speech gets more views than Bin Laden speech HBO Go a hit app More than 1 million downloads but requires HBO subscription Drudge Report still king PEJ says...
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Hearst, Conde Nast cut deals with Apple Apple backs down, will share data on iPad subscribers AOL profits dive 86 percent Subscriptions, overall ad sales down; display ads up Patch bows Local Voices Blogging platform lets citizens write for free just like at HuffPo Web traffic down during Royal Wedding TV-watching sucked users from the Internet Fake profiles proliferate...
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Situation Room pic goes viral White House picture on Flickr has 1.5 million views Ownership of TVs falls Cord-cutters could be to blame, Nielsen finds Twitter buys Tweetdeck TechCrunch says price is between $40 million and $50 million YouTube partners with Storyful Will push more breaking news on the CitizenTube channel Mobile ads get noticed Plus, 9 out of...
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Facebook launches Send button This time takes on 'Email to a Friend' button iPhone tracking is persistent Even if you turn off location services on phone, WSJ finds KQED's pledge-free stream Pay your $45 pledge, and listen online without begging A crisis in spectrum? Broadcasters might have to give way to cell services Storify launches Curating service might charge...
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BusinessWeek's iPad app launch Free for print subscribers; $2.99/month otherwise Comedy Central ♥ Twitter Makes big promo push for Comedy Awards show Facebook vs. Twitter for journos Facebook takes more effort, gives bigger pay-off SF Chron building woos startups Square joins social entrepreneurship collective, digital art gallery Florida Twitter battle Governor's communications manager, press have it out online...
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Google adds +1 button Social feature to compete with Facebook's "Like" Subscribers up at UK Times 60 percent increase in 4 months; enough to offset lost ad revs? Tech giants bet on cloud computing Amazon follows Apple and Google into cloud content race Facebook unifies mobile website Developers can now create apps for all handsets Google wins April Fools'...
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Amazon debuts cloud music service Google also testing streaming music feature Facebook testing chat ads Meanwhile, advertisers giving up on Myspace More media mergers likely? Investors warn of social media bubble Google + MasterCard = mobile payments One of many trying to merge credit cards and phones Reporter sued for writing about Righthaven Copyright trolls suing Ars Technica freelancer...
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Journalism Online sold to printer RR Donnelly buys 2-year-old pay wall provider AOL/HuffPost wants pro journalists But CEO Armstrong still focused on brand Google launches digital mag in U.K. "Think Quarterly" is mostly a branding exercise App sales count towards circulation Auditors to begin counting digital editions Starbucks adds new content Economist, ESPN, Marvel join in-store network...
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AT&T and T-Mobile merger Consumer groups, some law makers opposed U.S. manipulates social media Also signed deal to fund BBC World Service AOL reorg begins Some sites shuttered, others to integrate with HuffPost NPR hosts bash management Call for a more vocal defense of public media Setback for copyright crusaders Righthaven loses case over reposting of article...
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NYTimes bows pay wall plan Doctor crunches the numbers; plans start at $15/month Did AOL's layoffs break the law? Also facing questions on Patch deal with Newark mayor Obama pushes Net privacy bill EU also revamps data protection laws, threatens legal action How blogs changed journalism Felix Salmon: "blog reporting can iterate" and "geek out" Conde Nast, Slate win...
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Japanese rely on social media Tweets, video inform public; Al Jazeera informs world Facebook gets into daily deals "Social network also plans to team up with Hulu IE9 offers do-not-track tool Microsoft's browser is first to include privacy feature Online news beats paper Mobile, social networks big winners in State of the News TechCrunch bristles at AOL oversight Refuses...
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NPR CEO resigns Digital-minded leader forced out after hidden video House moves to block Net neutrality Tech subcommittee votes to overturn FCC rules AOL laying off hundreds CEO promises to hire more at HuffPo LinkedIn gets into news curation Recommendations based on stories shared in a user's network Karl Rove on viral campaigns GOP strategist predicts 2012 elections will...
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Facebook movie rentals Taking Apple-sized 30 percent cut of fees Fallows loves new media Gawker model is working; get used to it YouTube swallows Next New Networks Gets video producer, making Google more of a media co. FT's data-fueled profits Pay wall pioneer pinpoints user preferences Slate revenues up big Slate Group sites' ad revs up 33 percent in...
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What pay walls mean for journalists Less exposure; what's good for publishers is bad for writers AOL's new strategy Bet big on celebs, keep investing in hyper-local Conde Nast raises app prices No more discounts as price rises for GQ, Vanity Fair apps How the iPad2 could be better If it was lighter, faster, and cheaper Digital media trends...
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Jobs unveils iPad 2 Thinner, two cameras, same battery life and price Facebook upgrades Comments Will tying comments to profiles end social media pollution? Bloomberg View raises ethical questions Billionaire mayor's digital empire moving into opinion Salon refocuses on cultural news Deal with Newser failed, but traffic up Q&A sites find users, not ads Quora and others still searching...
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Massive layoffs at TBD Big blow to hyper-local model, journalism innovation YouTube to stream live sports? But NHL denies reported involvement Magazine app awards Latest category added to prestigious National Magazine Awards Media following telecoms Content, like services, being unbundled by the web 'Do Not Track' for kids Bill spurred by Facebook's lack of privacy...
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Al Jazeera online stream Still the best way to follow Middle East revolutions Amazon takes on Netflix Launches streaming service with little content so far New jobs require Facebook log-in ACLU sues over invasion of privacy Newspapers embrace online video Stream more content than broadcast news websites News orgs learning from startups Work transparently, experiment, and take notes...
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Google offers sub service One Pass challenges the App Store, Journalism Online Yahoo deals for newspapers? May launch Groupon-clone for content partners Rolling Stone, Atlantic contest Winning band lands mag cover spread, record contract NYT seeks 'modern contract' Newspaper Guild fights digital justification for changes Study questions hyper-local traffic 55 percent of the visitors neither local nor loyal...
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Next Issue toast? Magazine consortium fails to live up to expectations HTC intros Facebook phones Run on Android, but fully integrate Facebook features Apple unveils iPad subscriptions Publishers owe 30 percent for App Store sales Google to filter content farms Chrome plug-in to remove them from search results Mainstream media drives Twitter Trends led by legacy media, not popular...
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Shakeup at TBD Shift from web-first to TV-driven news organization Time turns back on Apple Subscriptions to tablet versions available on HP devices Twitter: tech bubble barometer? Loss-making site brought in $45 million in 2010; valued at $8-10 billion Boston Globe's augmented reality Smartphones unlock animated features on arts guide cover Net neutrality prof joins FTC Hired to work...
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AOL buys HuffPost for $315M Reaction to the deal was very mixed Facebook friends Congress But legislators continue to investigate it Gawker redesign launches Denton explains new simplified, visual layout Yahoo plans personalized content Will tailor news based on past searches and preferences #demandaljazeera Network using promoted tweets to stoke interest...
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Social media sparked Egypt protests? Somewhat, says Evgeny Morozov; Gladwell weighs in The Daily launches NY Times plans social, tablet-only rival News.me AOL still losing money Company plans to double content output, emphasize video Northwestern's innovation lab Collaborative project between Medill, engineering school Reddit: 1 billion monthly page views People.com hits same milestone, likely first time for a mag...
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Egyptians crowdsource search for missing Plus, journalists using social media to report on Egypt Super Bowl ads go social But Twitter, Facebook campaigns can be risky Flickr fights for survival Facebook, budget cuts threaten photo service Fired Gawker ed hired at Atlantic Wire Gabriel Snyder will boost aggregation, hire 15 writers Tea Party active on social media Pew: Democrats...
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Cable news loses State of the Union Twitter was go-to place for #SOTU commentary Amazon backs long-form journalism Begins selling 5,000- to 30,000-word Kindle Singles Mobile apps: $15B in 2011 Market will nearly triple in size Zuckerberg's Facebook page hacked Coincidence? Facebook offers encrypted log-ins WikiLeaks to meet with press, public Plus, Localeaks launches for small papers...
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NYTimes.com + app = $20/month? Along with pay wall, NYT partners in Ongo aggregator Google cracks down on content farms Could hurt Demand's IPO, AOL's Patch MinnPost breaks even Annual revenue up 18 percent at non-profit news org The newsonomics of The Daily Investment in Murdoch's iPad paper equivalent to a movie Verizon sues FCC Telecom challenging Net neutrality...
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iPad users prefer ads over paid apps Study found 86 percent will watch ads for free content Company suing commentors Adds to docket of copyright cases against publishers AOL launching Flipboard-killer Editions expected to pull content from across the web Two big sites paying bloggers Seeking Alpha, Bleacher Report to share growing revenue Kids play apps before learning to...
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Goldman backtracks on Facebook But Facebook's ad revenues skyrocket Publishers frustrated with iPad Lack of subscription options dampening sales MySpace for sale News Corp may spin off site if no buyer found Metered pay walls work? Journalism Online says papers only saw small drops in traffic, revenue Celebs cash in sponsored tweets Fewer ads bought in news orgs' Twitter...
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Mobile broadband to surpass wired broadband 1 billion mobile subscribers globally; smartphone adoption key RSS via Facebook? The Independent offers personalized subscriptions on Facebook Assange's 'insurance files' WikiLeaks founder claims to have dirt on Murdoch, U.S. broadcaster Trouble at TechCrunch? Michael Arrington lashes out at AOL sister site Engadget Jay Rosen on Twitter How it's changing news, advertising, and...
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iPhone comes to Verizon Long awaited partnership becomes reality in February Steve Jobs at launch of The Daily? News Corp.'s iPad-only mag to debut Jan. 19 Web data outpaced privacy laws Gov't secretly subpoenaed Twitter for WikiLeaks info FT Tilt goes for pay model Financial Times aims for pay niches Google to cripple content farms? Competition means Google must...
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Quora is on fire Social Q&A site popular with tech crowd is taking off Former HuffPo CEO hired by Glenn Beck Will run Beck's new conservative aggregation site Internet news gains on TV Net is top news source for 18- to 29-year-olds What makes a hashtag hot? Twitter offers definitive guide to hashtags ProPublica accepts ads In bid for...
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A Google digital newsstand? Drumming up publishers for iTunes competitor Facebook tops Google as most visited Site had 8.9 percent of all U.S. Internet visits Renaissance for long-form writing? iPad, Longreads website a boost to the form Paid content more popular Two-thirds of Americans buy digital content; same percent shop online Trouble for RSS? Anecdotal evidence suggests fewer using...
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iPad editions won't save mags Sales of single edition mag apps drop as novelty wears off New tablet competitors coming Motorola, Dell, Acer, RIM debuting tablets in 2011 Public opposed to Net neutrality regs 54 percent opposed to regulating Net, 21 percent support FCC Buying spree online Pew survey finds mobile apps, games most common purchases Pictures on Twitter...
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SEC eyes Facebook stock buys Agency looks into whether company needs to disclose financials Protest over open-records proposal In wake of investigations, Texas A&M wants to punish journo profs 4chan suffers cyber-attack WikiLeaks defenders' chat room closed due to DDoS Debating 'Do Not Track' NewsHour face-off between FTC, IAB HGTV using Examiner.com for promotion Pro-am content increases HGTV's social...
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2011 to test conventional news wisdoms Examines pay walls, Patch, and public media in 2011 Newspapers streaming more video Papers outdo broadcasters as streams grew by 50 percent Demand Media IPO delayed Company trying to spread cost of content over 5 years IAC content farm Writers Network will not rely on algorithm for story selections Wall Street trading on...
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FCC considers Net neutrality rules Both sides unhappy with new rules Online ad spend rises Passes newspaper ads sold for first time Do Not Track coming to Firefox Microsoft also planning privacy controls; advertisers worried Foursquare adds photos, comments Service plans ad upgrade in early 2011 Blogging has peaked? Pew finds social networking taking its place for youth...
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Will tablets kill newspapers? Print subscribers more likely to cancel after buying iPads Users don't like targeted ads Younger Internet users are more receptive Twitter adds content partners More media viewable in new preview pane Facebook wooing Big Media Wants to handle registration for Time Warner, Verizon Journal Register's open newsroom Newspaper's new strategy includes open story meetings...
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Time spent online equal to TV Time spent on Net grew 121 percent in 5 years The Atlantic in the black How an online strategy brought financial turn-around Reuters takes on AP Adding entertainment, sports coverage to compete with AP HuffPo to turn first profit Traffic second only to NYTimes.com in news category Gulf oil spill dominates Twitter Was...
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WikiLeaks supporters fight back Anonymous takes down sites of Mastercard, Visa, PayPal NYT pay wall coming soon Boston Globe to follow in second half of 2011 Pulitzer shifts on multimedia Entries can include text, videos, databases, or interactives Meet the 24-year-old CEO of Tumblr Forced to apologize for recent site outages Eight percent of Americans on Twitter Pew: More...
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Google eBooks now on sale French publishers also planning a digital newsstand News Corp: Times UK paywall working Subs soon will make up for lost ad rev Are apps money pits? Audiences currently too small to support design Facebook remakes profile page Design encourages more sharing, less privacy How Wikileaks has woken up journos Internet upending established social order...
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Google to buy Groupon? Some wonder if $6 billion offer is too high Salon seeks print partner Pioneering site lost $15 million in past 5 years Virgin launches iPad mag Project is an interesting idea, poorly executed Geo-location for news orgs Targeted content and ads may increase revenues PETA protests DKNY Protesters flood Facebook page with negative comments...
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Steve Jobs + Rupert Murdoch Apple working with News Corp. on tablet-only paper Facebook traffic skyrockets Hitwise says site accounts for 1 in 4 U.S. page views Hispanics more receptive to online ads Majority still don't like or remember them, though FCC may enforce Net neutrality New Congress will likely fight Internet regulations AOL builds out content, ads CEO...
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MySpace integrates Facebook Strategic decision is symbolic victory for Zuckerberg Twitter calculates reputation scores Secret formula used to customize Who to Follow feature Will Verizon end mobile neutrality? Considering differential data pricing for new 4G network California strengthens political disclosures New and old media disclosure requirements harmonized Black Friday marketing gets social Target takes to Facebook and Twitter for...
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Facebook gets into email New message system integrates email, chat, and SMS Newsweek, Daily Beast merge Magazine's online team fights to save Newsweek.com NY Times integrates print, online Web teams now report directly to news editors Who's idea was the HuffPost? Democratic consultants sue Arianna, claiming concept was theirs Online privacy boost Obama creating new privacy office, pushing for...
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Next Issue Media snubs iPad Publishing consortium launches issues only for Android Can libraries lend e-books? Piracy could destroy market for digital literature Can companies take your Twitpics? Haitian photographer suing AFP over photos posted to Twitter FCC probes Google Did Street View illegally gather personal data? How much is a Facebook ad worth? Site attracting more ads but...
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Google takes aim at Facebook Blocks import of Gmail contacts GOP used online ads to tip key races Won at least 40 of 50 seats where web strategy was used Publishers get more from Kindle Royalty rate raised to 70 percent from 30, competing with iPad Google rolls out Instant Previews Search to include optional snapshots of results Wired...
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Facebook Deals challenge Groupon, Foursquare Facebook Places users can now get coupons Nonprofit journalism success story Year-old Texas Tribune tops readership and revenue expectations Google goes local with Place Search Business reviews and contact info organized on a Google Map Digg brings back Bury button Will it be enough to revive the flagging social news site? Location based services...
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Google sues the government Dept. of Interior accused of favoring Microsoft The Times U.K. struggles with paywall Has 105,000 customers paid for content Why Twitter is testing ads in HootSuite? To try it on a mobile platform, says new CEO @DickC Glam Media to overtake AOL Lifestyle network growing faster than news portal Foursquare makes voting social Can it...
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Wireless networks under stress Smartphone sales outpacing network improvements Google gives $5 mil for news innovation $2 million to Knight, the rest for international efforts e-Newspaper use up WSJ most popular, followed by Detroit Free Press MySpace goes niche Site redesigned to focus on "social entertainment" Intel launches editorial site Free Press to host tech stories from freelance writers...
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The end of print textbooks? Colleges push cheaper e-textbooks; students wary Google gives $2 million to Knight Half will go to News Challenge winners Eric Schmidt on StreetView AllThingsD says he's crossing the creepy line National Journal's radical digital redesign New focus on free, timely online analysis Digg buried by publisher High profile exec departs, along with layoffs...
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News Corp. axes digital newsstand Didn't get support from other publishers Newspapers reach 61% of online audience 103 million American adults visited newspaper sites in Sept. One-third of iPad owners don't get apps But Nielsen study finds most willing to pay for content HP launches Slate tablet Most powerful (and pricey) iPad competitor lacks wireless connectivity Foursquare keeps adding...
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Don't blame digital media Rising online traffic not linked to fall in newspaper circulations Traffic bait overrated? Engaging news more valuable than fluff Internet keeps spreading 2 billion people, 30 percent of population, online by end of '10 Facebook promises privacy fix Third party apps were secretly sharing data with advertisers How much is a tweet worth? About 43...
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Microsoft 'Likes' Facebook Bing searches to include "Liked Results" from friends Public radio's online expansion Four leading stations to add 300+ digital journalists The rise of Tumblr Simple blogging service signing up 30,000 members a day Skype integrates Facebook News Feed tab allows users to call or text friends directly News of the World's pay wall Murdoch's tabloid paper...
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New Yorker gawks at Nick Denton Gawker founder talks about journalism's future Twitter's push into ads Service proving to be great for driving message, clicks Intelligent Life is first iPad-only magazine Economist's cultural quarterly now available FT sells $1.6m in app ads Print now accounts for 40 percent of paper's revenue Radical changes to Net addresses New web addresses...
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AOL and Yahoo to merge? Investors like the idea and AOL's CEO is interested iPhone 4 coming to Verizon WSJ says it's coming in Q1 2011; AT&T to take a hit Motorola sues Apple all over Suit mainly takes aim at the iPhone Facebook Groups launches Zuckerberg says it fixes one big problem with social nets College Humor gets...
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iPad adoption booms Research firm calls it success of unprecedented proportion #newtwitterceo Twitter grows up with Dick Costolo as CEO, Ev steps aside Campaign ads for mobile, web Candidates running sophisticated ads online, but not on Twitter Pre-emptive opt-out Ad group creates opt-out feature to fend off Fed regulation Green stamps for social media Future Friendly campaign rewards consumers...
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Lifespan of a tweet Study finds most retweets happen within first hour A decade of blog-based media Om Malik reflects in wake of TechCrunch sale Newspapers invest in Ongo News aggregator/sharing site raises $12 million from NYT, WaPo, Gannett Questioning personalization Study finds not everyone wants personalized news experience Abrams on path to profits Publisher of Mediaite to launch...
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AOL buys TechCrunch Price could be $25 million to $40 million with earnout Gladwell knocks Twitter Doesn't believe social media can do social good Online publishers optimistic Report from AOP find revenue rising, apps on fire Denton down on Twitter Gawker honcho says Twitter "too elite"; profile of Gawker's ad sales whiz Community news summit Block by Block event...
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New Forbes.com Redesign of site comes with launch of Forbes 400 list Remarkable iPhone review A blind person evaluates the device, future of accessibility News parasites That's what former WaPo editor Len Downie Jr. calls HuffPo, others SixApart, VideoEgg merge Create new company, SAY Media Future of the book As envisioned by IDEO...
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AOL's Patch goes to J-school Partners with 13 journalism programs Hoder could face death penalty Global Voices reports on fate of Hossein Derakhshan 10 ways journalism is being reinvented New report from International Press Institute Digg trying to recover Falling traffic + unhappy users = trouble Real-time journalism Lessons learned from the #Discovery hostage incident...
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New Twitter Dual column display, media embedding and other features Knight-Batten Awards handed out Winners include ProPublica, Longshot, Ushahidi Apple taking a big cut? Mercury News: Apple wants 30 percent of subscriptions 60 Minutes extended online New site, 60MinutesOvertime.com, to feature additional content Design and the News Lessons from former NYTimes.com design director Khoi Vinh...
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Americans consuming more news Pew offers numbers; Gawker breaks them down The Local East Village launches Site includes Virtual Assignment Desk How social media will fit with journalism Mashable provides detailed overview RSS dead? Bloglines shut; Google Reader still strong; Ingram says RSS is evolving Local media funding from Knight Foundation pumps $3 million into local media experiments...
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Google Instant launches Will new search product kill SEO or just change it? Amazon buys Amie Street Purchase of online music store results in it being shut down Guardian launches science blogs New blogging network is "a completely new model" for Guardian The future of reading Wired's Jonah Lehrer weighs in Heavy traffic at Gawker Media Meanwhile, Tumblr has...
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'Liked' news stories in Facebook Searches show news stories listed by number of 'Likes' FT adds new paid site New niche site focuses on pensions sector From viral vid to Billboard hit How the "Bed Intruder Song" went from local news to smash hit News orgs tracking traffic More newsroom attention being paid to analytics Three music startups to...
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The value of pay wall subscribers Analyst says subscribers worth 25 percent of print subscribers Patch's payroll AOL estimated to be spending $45 million a year on new hires Apple vs. Google in music Apple releases iTunes 10 and Ping; Google readies music service In defense of links Rosenberg's three-part series; read parts two and three Personalized news A...
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NYT integrates Facebook Months ahead of pay wall, deepens social aspects of site Social network in iTunes 10 Music software from Apple to include Ping network AP and Google renew deal Agreement extends deal from '06; now more of a partnership Gawker launches WikiLeakLeaks Project will give Wikileaks the Wikileaks treatment Hoax tweet prompts suspension WaPo suspends Mike Wise...
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Gmail calling Free phone calls via Gmail to phones in U.S., Canada Serendipity lost As Google replicates serendipity, some media outlets will be losers Another e-revolution Tim Carmody looks back to 10 reading revolutions before the e-book SEO rules Once a term like "Ground Zero mosque" is popularized, websites are stuck with it Daily deals for dummies Tips on...
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TBD taps Ushahidi D.C. site maps metro problems using crowdsourcing app Twitter's chief revenue officer Twitter hires former Fox Interactive exec to lead monetization Failfaire for journalism? CJR writer wants more ways to learn from other people's mistakes Seth Godin goes solo Best-selling author says he will publish his books directly Digg's second act Journalism lessons from Digg's significant...
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Facebook Places checks in Social network launches location feature; privacy worries begin Gannett goes back to school Company launching hyper-local high school sports sites A brief history of print CUNY prof C.W. Anderson gives annotated outline Gawker leaves roots New strategy shifts from blog to destination site Copywrong Why copyright laws need to be changed...
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Hulu eyes IPO Would value company at $2 billion but IPO market might be soft Wired editor declares web dead Chris Anderson explains difference between web and Internet Patch plans big expansion Hoping to launch 500 sites by next year; plans raise many questions When stories go viral Village Voice writer explains her experience New battle for Apple vs....
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Web ads work Forbes CEO believes in ad-supported online content J-school worth it? Columbia Journalism grad explains why she still thinks it was the right choice Bookfuturist manifesto Writer points to middle ground between "bookservatives" and "technofuturists" Net neutrality battle Facebook and IAC oppose policy suggestions from Google and Verizon Yahoo's new toy Former employee suggests strategy for recently-acquired...
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TBD launches Politico's hyper-curating, local sibling Demand Media files IPO Numbers show 25 percent of revenue from Google Don't be too evil Google and Verizon surprise with plan that reduces net openness; Jeff Jarvis' take Netflix, EPIX team up Pact enables Netflix to show EPIX movies on its streaming video offering Before regulation, definitions Security expert presents taxonomy for...
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Hearst taps Demand SF, Houston papers add Demand Media content to sites Hyper-local hyper-gripes AOL Patch editors complain of long hours, minimal support Advice to mags Jeff Jarvis lists 8 suggestions for magazine companies Shield bill excludes Wikileaks House bill rewritten so site won't get journalist protections Machines to replace designers? Yelvington sees algorithms taking the place of layout...
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Newsweek's second chance Magazine sold to Sidney Harman, an audio magnate Tumblr on the rise Increasingly utilized by news orgs alongside Twitter, Facebook WikiLeaks tries social payments Will use Flattr micropayment system to monetize content No e-books allowed New York coffee shop bans e-readers, computers Gawker stalker TechCrunch bashes site for paparazzi pics of Mark Zuckerberg...
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The $139 Kindle Cheaper versions of e-reader aim to take it mainstream Netflix proves model Continues to make money while paying studios for content Flipboard's iPad bet Startup sees media salvation through app Anonymity vs. transparency Do WikiLeaks docs deserve scrutiny for lack of context? Trust comes easily Surprising report on how digital natives perceive online sources...
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Copyright law changes DMCA interpretation rules jailbreaking legal Data-driven journalism WikiLeaks' Afghan docs typify this trend in news Condé Nast moves away from ads Plans to make more revenues from charging for print, digital Le Monde in trouble Fight for troubled French paper has political implications Electronic anthropology Frédéric Filloux discusses "digital natives"...
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CUNY degree blurs roles Graduate program will teach journalists business essentials Twitter plans data center Company's Fail Whale an endangered species? AOL targets fall campaigns New ad hub guns for politicians' mid-term ad dollars Y2K redux Current Net protocol system will run out of addresses in a year Journalist or blogger? Mashable writer gives 10 distinctions between them...
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Sign of the Times U.K. paper's pay wall makes site lose 90 percent of traffic E-books outselling hardcovers Amazon CEO also says iPad threat overblown Uneasy partners Wired examines Apple's history with AT&T Information overload Study shows social networks score low in user satisfaction Google's social strategy Simply a means to improving search?...
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Paper charges 99 cents to comment One-time fee + real name lets you comment at Sun Chronicle Dead cat bounce for newspapers Doctor says newspaper co's will do well compared to past declines Old Spice, new media Ad icon sends personalized videos to followers Bollinger wants gov help for media Columbia U. president makes case for journalism as public...
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Tweet sinks CNN editor Octavia Nasr leaves network after sending controversial tweet Time.com's print wall Newsweekly removed full length print stories from website Arrington slams objectivity TechCrunch founder says more journalists should give opinions Watching World Cup without TV service Bilton follows action, commentary on social networks, Internet Cashmore tells all Mashable founder talks mainstream success to Bloomberg...
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The future of MySpace ads Arrington adds details to WSJ report on MySpace replacing Google ads New models blend editorial + retail Groupon, Gilt create community shopping shaped by editorial Results of Ben Franklin Project Journal Register's ambitious project included free tools, interactivity Examination of London Times pay wall Thoughts on how paper could improve its community-based news Clay...
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Hulu Plus pay service debuts $9.99/month service has expanded content library on iPad, iPhone Google enhances news experience Google News redesign adds social elements, more 'shareability' Zell thinks PDFs are the future Tribune Co. honcho expects end of home delivery, replacement by PDFs TechCrunch.TV launches TechCrunch began broadcasting on web-only station this week Finland mandates broadband Residents of Finland...
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Gawker widens scope As blog has grown, so have the targets of its famous snark Best blogs of 2010 Time magazine picked its favorite blogs of 2010, plus some overrated ones Le Monde's next chapter Frédéric Filloux examines rebirth of French daily The economics of free AdAge looks at how Bleacher Report, HuffPost embrace different biz model How Knight...
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YouTube prevails vs. Viacom Court rules YouTube protected by "safe harbor" of DMCA Media execs bullish on mobile Ernst & Young report finds digital payoff still elusive Gourmet reborn with app Conde Nast uses magazine's brand and content Cuban tries JunketSleuth New 'sleuth' site will watch government travel expenses Social media = trust Companies garner more trust by using...
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Google's Newspass coming? Service would help publishers charge for content Big losses on social networks Losses on acquisitions of Bebo, MySpace, others top $1.5 billion Bloomberg.com touts being free Relaunches with live feed from TV channel Why Kindle will prevail Om Malik says it will win the e-book wars WordPress founder on future of blogs Matt Mullenweg also talks...
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Bebo sold by AOL Gets less than $10 million vs. paying $850 million for it 2 years ago Knight News Challenge winners Projects focus on data vizualization, revenue generation Google, Demand on collision course? Google patent could lead to direct competition YouTube adds editing Cloud-based video editing enables trimming, mixing videos Gatorade's social media center Its impressive "Mission Control...
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New public-media platform NPR, PBS, APM, PRI and PRX join forces to share and extend content News Corp. goes shopping Buy Skiff e-reader platform from Hearst; stake in Journalism Online Old vs. new media content Paul Carr looks at AOL, Yahoo, Associated Content, HuffPo MTV to hire Twitter Jockey The "TJ" will represent the channel on Twitter, be paid...
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AOL hires journos Reorgs content division for "content-first" strategy Yahoo, HuffPo in deep partnership HuffPost to provide content for news, women's section Millennials and news AJR says millennials are huge opportunity for news orgs Digitized Library of Congress Photo essay and inside look at how it's done Link love How major news orgs handle hyperlinks...
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iPhone 4 Better battery, camera, videoconferencing, and more Nielsen going public Biggest media IPO in a while FiveThirtyEight moves to NYT Times begins hosting the blog, Nate Silver to contribute to paper, magazine Online-only Christian Science Monitor Detailed piece about the paper's experiment Zuckerberg grilled at D8 Mossberg and Swisher put him on the hot seat...
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Apple sells 2 million iPads Mashable lists 10 must-have apps Man behind WikiLeaks Julian Assange profiled in the New Yorker Are links bad? Nicholas Carr calls them "tiny distractions...textual gnats" Thinner, bigger Kindle coming? Reports surfacing of next-gen device Online buzz, ratings differ Social media chatter doesn't equal big ratings...
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Facebook revisits privacy Simplifies controls, satisfies some, but mixed reviews elsewhere Bay Citizen launches New non-profit news source for Bay Area 5 business models for news Mashable cites pay walls, meters, ads, others Atlantic delays biz site Had planned to launch business news site GigaOm's engaging app Allows app users to contact journalists directly...
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NYT's leaky pay wall Metered model will keep paper in "open web" Publish2 launches News Exchange Hopes to disrupt the AP with online news exchange PEJ compares traditional, new media Researcher finds social media, MSM have different agendas Newspaper site traffic surges Visitors up 15 percent in top 25 markets since start of year HDTV leads to more watching...
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Google TV unveiled Partnering with Sony, Intel, Logitech on web-to-TV offering Yahoo buys Associated Content Deal pegged at $90 million; details from Yahoo VP Guardian's Reader Club Guardian Extra priced at £25 per year, free with print sub True/Slant getting bought? Report suggests site could raise more financing or be sold NYT editor moves online Move puts Jill Abramson...
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Mediagazer leaderboard Lists top 100 outlets mentioned on Mediagazer 200 transformational moments Poynter lists big moments in journalism history Startup tips Lessons from Civil Beat and TBD 5 online video predictions The view from a YouTube manager McDonalds of local news A look at Main Street Connect's ambitious plans...
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How to save the news Fallows looks at Google's role in helping news biz Future of location in news How WSJ's moves on Foursquare could change the game Mags sell print via Facebook Time Inc. working to enable print subscription sales 3 things missing from J-schools Social media skills, community engagement and analytics FT's iPad app Looks like "a...
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Reuters Insider launches Video service like a YouTube for the finance world Texas Tribune at 6 months 5.3 million page views since November launch HuffPo focuses on business Site wants ads from big brands, more revenue Non-profit news a dead-end? Bill Wyman gives case against non-profit sites Sports Illustrated's digital growth Unique visitors, revenue on the rise at SI.com...
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PolitiFact expands to Texas Plans to franchise its fact-checking model Social media drives big traffic Is Google's influence waning? Google to sell e-books Expected to begin in June or July Journalism Shop expands L.A. freelance service matches journos to outlets around U.S. Newsy gets funding Startup gets $2 million, releases iPad app...
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New Yorker's online evolution A conversation with its first web editor Strategies for handling comments What HuffPo, Economist, others are doing Twitter is a news service So says Korean study Patch moving to DC area Will it compete with TBD.com? Test your news diet Slate feature lets you see how diverse yours is...
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PostPolitics.com launches WaPo tries Politico killer with Chris Cillizza at helm How news orgs use Facebook New social plug-ins already driving traffic Financial Times unveils video hub The FT video hub highlights popular videos, editor's picks Sulzberger on NYT pay model Honcho outlines plan at shareholder meeting Gizmodo to sue police? iPhone prototype leads to police raid that may...
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Insight into nonprofit news Report from recent roundtable discussion at RJI WSJ partners with Foursquare Journal stories are available as tips when users check in Online news in Italy Nieman Journalism Lab provides an overview Mashable in print Content to be syndicated in Metro International papers OpenFile.ca prepares to launch Local collaborative news site to cover Toronto...
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Pricey Honolulu Civil Beat Full access costs $19.99/month; Omidyar's welcome message Facebook announces changes Introduces Open Graph, launches closer integration with news sites Trust and fact-checking online Craig Newmark says successful news orgs will "build a culture of trust, largely by checking facts" MediaBugs launches Site helps readers report errors, get corrections from Bay Area news orgs Reuters revamps...
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Gizmodo's iPhone scoop Apple employee lost prototype; Gizmodo paid $5,000 for phone New York's tech entrepreneurs New York mag profiles companies "trying to overthrow old media" Bloomberg's site redesign Business Insider gets sneak peek; talks about pay wall strategy ProPublica profiled by WaPo Howard Kurtz notes its relationships with partners AdAge shifting to metered model Non-subscribers can access three...
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Allbritton's new D.C. site launching soon Info still scarce, but Steve Buttry offers some details Latest from ASNE conference Advice and insight from Jim Brady, Ken Doctor and Journalism Online Felix Salmon dishes on business blogging Says business blogs offer "Attitude, links, wit, expertise, voice ..." Dawn of a "post-scroll" era online? New Gawker design hints at what's to...
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Promoted Tweets First phase of ads on Twitter come in sponsored results in searches New media rising at Pulitzers Mark Luckie highlights the best at 10,000 Words Schmidt tells papers to think mobile Google CEO spoke at ASNE conference NewsTilt launching Y Combinator-backed platform aims to help freelancers online HuffPost digs into food, arts Two new verticals launch on...
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iPhone OS 4 multi-tasks Also includes iAd platform, social gaming, app folders, iBooks The Wrap vs. Newser Battle over aggregation; The Wrap sends cease and desist letter Columbia journo-programmers University offers combo engineering and journalism degree USA Today uses Demand Media Paper's website to feature travel content from Demand Wikileaks in the spotlight Site's release of airstrike video drives...
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Apple sells 300,000 iPads Total includes pre-orders. Users get 1 million apps, 250,000 e-books HarperStudio shut down Experimental imprint ends after two years Financial Times a "perfect digital model"? Guardian examines paper's web, subscription, cover price strategy Traffic up at TPM Audience up 79 percent thanks to social media; company hires COO Resurgent AOL Ad Age cites charismatic CEO...
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Times of London pay walls Will charge £1 per day, £2 per week; called pathetic by Jarvis iPad for every student Seton Hill to give freshmen iPad plus MacBook Non-profits not worthy? Mutter thinks they can't save news industry; Salmon questions math NYT TimesCast Daily afternoon video report on what the paper has in the works Yahoo Publisher kaput...
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Gothamist sold to Cablevision Price roughly $5 million; Felix Salmon breaks down the sale Newsroom of the future Must emphasize collaboration, corwdsourcing, social media Robot journalist Researchers in Tokyo invent robot that asks questions, searches for info iPad to change the world? Wired's Steven Levy thinks it will change computing Slate talks paid apps Weisberg says keep content free,...
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Google stops censoring in China Says it will route traffic to uncensored site in Hong Kong FT.com strengthens pay wall No free articles for unregistered users NY Times launches daily video Daily feature TimesCast will appear on homepage Facebook generates return traffic Hitwise: Facebook traffic more loyal than from Google News Americans combine Internet, TV 60 percent of TV...
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SXSWi keynote debacle Umair Haque responds to criticism, shares his key takeaways Here comes Google TV Teams up with Sony, Intel to bring web apps and content to TV Facebook passes Google Was most visited site on web last week News ventures blossom in Seattle A look at some of the most notable online outlets HarperStudio rethink What's next...
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PEJ's State of News Media report Highlights six trends for reinvention; CJR examines key numbers Media talk at SXSWi Notes from The Future of Context and Online News of Tomorrow panels The new Digg CEO Jay Adelson details lengthy redesign process AP to launch iPad app Part of strategy to "revolutionize this [news] space" Why CoPress shut down Co-founder...
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CNN fears Facebook CNN prez said Facebook friends "are trusted sources of information." Inside Bay Area News Project L.A. Times spends time with team launching startup Google's economist talks newspapers Tells them to "experiment, experiment, experiment" and engage with readers Writer's view of Demand Media Freelancer tests how system really works Can pay walls and free content co-exist? News...
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Mediagazer launches Techmeme site aggregates media reporting Tumblr's growth spurt Site hits 1 billion monthly page views; expected to start generating revenue Apple airs first iPad ad Aired during the Oscars Google to mix Latitude + Buzz? Could show Buzz conversations taking place near a user The Ebert Club Movie critic's premium club offers private discussions, select tweets...
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Peek at NewsLabs Aims to help freelancers earn money, drive traffic to stories Financial Times expands pay model Will offer weekly pass and day pass options to readers, use PayPal Viacom leaves Hulu Yanks The Daily Show, Colbert Report as of next week AOL betting on Patch Expected to pump $50 million into hyper-local initiative Yahoo's content strategy VP...
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Conde Nast iPad mags Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair, New Yorker, Glamour coming in April NYT coming to screen near you Paper's content on video screens in coffee shops, airports in 5 cities European papers' paid content Ad Age details lessons learned by European initiatives News consumed on multiple platforms New Pew study details how news becomes portable, personalized, participatory...
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Google execs convicted in Italy Verdict related to user-submitted bullying video Yahoo partnership with Twitter Includes content-sharing; better deal for Twitter? Spotify financing TechCrunch reports streaming music startup raises cash Wemple joins Allbritton's DC startup Washington City Paper editor on board for soon-to-launch site HuffPo religion section Follows launch of college section on Monday...
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Inside AOL's content strategy Trying to build newsroom of the future, AOL keeps hiring Walmart buys Vudu Reportedly paid $100 million for online movie service Rewritable textbooks Macmillan launches DynamicBooks; allows instructors to edit digital editions NY Times, NYU partnership Site will cover NYC's East Village; Jay rosen offers details AP imagines siteless web Steve Rubel calls strategy "visionary"...
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Google tweaks Buzz Responds to privacy concerns, admits flaws in testing Gawker acquires Cityfile Cityfile founder Remy Stern becomes editor-in-chief of Gawker Phone giants take on Apple Announce WAC as alternative to App Store, with AT&T and Verizon Microsoft reboots Windows Mobile Launches Windows Phone 7 Series at Mobile World Congress Google can't find book reviews Poor formatting and...
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Google Buzz Integrates social sharing features right in Gmail Facebook referring news traffic Sends more people to news sites than Google News Real spins off Rhapsody Joint venture with MTVN will become independent company A buck an hour? David Carr looks at the Demand Media content model Thinking beyond the banner Jeff Jarvis says hyper-local sites should go beyond...
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News orgs test Twitter ads Austin paper, HuffPost try paid tweets and comments Engadget disables comments Tries to stop 'trollish' anti-iPad behavior AP, Yahoo renew deal Google and AP still in talks for Google News deal Facebook as news reader Site suggests using service to follow news, updates First test of AOL Seed Aims to pay $50 per interview...
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iPad mania Jobs finally unveils tablet; let the bashing begin Texas Tribune gets micro-donations Non-profit raises $4 million from 1,500 individuals who "donated average of $98" Conde Nast iPhone apps take hold GQ app purchased 6,641 times in Nov., over 12,000 times in Jan.; revenue not the point, says Folio AOL acquires StudioNow Company helps with online video, expected...
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NY Times pay wall coming? New York mag says yes; billionaire NYT investor Carlos Slim in favor of idea Google puts phones on hold in China Launch of mobile phones running Android delayed because of Google China hack Xbox as entertainment hub Microsoft looks to offer streaming movies, cable and other content via device Washington Post drama Story in...
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Google reconsiders China censorship After hack attack of dissidents' Gmail accounts, search giant reconsiders policy Google News holds AP stories Companies negotiating new licensing agreement Local news under microscope PEJ concludes newspapers drove new info in study of news in Baltimore The Daily Caller Tucker Carlson's new website employs 21, funded with $3 million CES attendance up CNET picks...
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Google intros Nexus One New phone made by HTC, runs Android and is available unlocked for $529 Politico brings in $20 million PaidContent estimates 2009 profit at $1 million Studios study digital portability Looking to enable digital downloads to be shared on multiple devices, while still protecting copyright Skiff e-reader unveiled Includes wireless access from Sprint, price unannounced Financial...
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Fast food content? TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Jarvis weigh in on 'content farms' Google phone Company plans launch of own handset next year Amazon's exclusive e-book deal Will sell Stephen R. Covey book; drops price for some e-books Saul Hansell leaves NYT for AOL Hansell will help AOL in controversial content platform Paramount's video clip service Sells snippets of films for...
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Hulu for magazines Conde Nast, Meredith, Hearst, Time Inc., News Corp. plan digital newsstand Google's real time search Company speeds up its crawling of the web Vevo Universal, Sony, EMI create hub, powered by YouTube CNN invests in Outside.in Puts $7 million into hyper-local aggregator German plan to save papers Top publisher Springer pitches "one-click marketplace solution"...
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Google News without News Corp. Gawker tests what it would look like, finds "impact might be quite minimal" AOL's algorithm editors WSJ outlines AOL's automation of editorial process Huffington, Murdoch, Steiger speak at FTC event Arianna Huffington shot back at Murdoch, Steiger talked about loss of papers Twitter as Walter Cronkite MG Siegler examines Twitter's role in the world...
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Mixed messages on paid content 48 percent would pay for online news; Forrester finds 80 percent would stop reading Slate retreats on DoubleX Stand-alone women's site folded into Slate, DoubleX publisher leaves Ken Auletta's "media maxims" 25 lessons about media companies, from "Passion Wins" to "Every Company is a Frenemy" YouTube's citizen journalism service NPR, Politico, HuffPost and SF...
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Murdoch snubs Google News Corp. may remove sites from Google; go ahead, says Google Google buys AdMob Purchase gives it foothold in mobile ad space Shakeup at Washington Times Three top executives let go, economic woes cited Metropolitan Home folds December issue of magazine will be its last NY Times to prune blogs? Bill Keller addresses newsroom about cuts,...
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Texas Tribune launches Non-profit news outfit delivers reporting and data Quitting over pay wall Saul Friedman quits column over Newsday's charge for access Politico's DC site Recruits Jim Brady, former editor of Washingtonpost.com DVRs help ads? 46 percent of viewers still watch commercials on DVR Esquire's augmented reality December issue cover gets animated when held in front of webcams...
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U.S. newspaper circ continues to fall Weekday sales down 10 percent from last year. The Awl charts the drop Eisner's web video company receives backing Canadian media firm takes stake in Vuguru, founded by Michael Eisner Dealing with the real-time information onslaught What Huffington Post, other media companies are doing Apple tablet a go? NYT editor said paper is...
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NY Times cuts 100 jobs Read Keller's memo; The Reconstruction of American Journalism Detailed report and recommendations from Leonard Downie, Jr. and Michael Schudson Barnes & Noble unveils e-reader The Nook will cost $259, have color screen 5 billion tweets Twitter hits benchmark, 3.4 billion tweets sent in last six months Tracing the news New York Mag walks back...
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AP's Tom Curley talks the future of news Remarks in Hong Kong spark criticism and analysis Twittering an audiobook Neil Gaiman, BBC team up to create story from 1,000 submitted tweets Obama vs. Fox News White House steps up criticism of cable network, experts weigh in NYT cancels subscriptions Paper's metro desk ends magazine and newspaper subscriptions, will invest...
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FTC eyes blogger payola Steps in to regulate product reviews, testing Conde Nast cuts Closes Gourmet, Cookie, Modern Bride and Elegant Bride mags Eric Schmidt on newspapers Says Google has a "moral responsibility" to help industry WaPo, Bloomberg partner Create joint content syndicate; Post ends arrangement with L.A. Times Upbeat ONA Nieman Lab summarizes Friday tweets and Saturday tweets...
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CNN's pay iPhone app Charges $1.99 for streaming, news alerts, updates, iReport features Newspapers exit bankruptcy Three companies emerge from Chapter 11; Star Tribune searching for publisher Death of newspapers illustrated Mint.com produces detailed, depressing infographic WaPo's social media guidelines Prevents journos from talking about newsroom activities, competitors Facebook poll threatens Obama Poll asked "Should Obama Be Killed?"; story...
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FCC's new Net rules Genachowski sets out principles for Net neutrality, launches OpenInternet.gov Andrew Sullivan drives subs Blogger asks readers to subscribe to Atlantic; sales double Trouble for J-grads Only six in 10 graduates from '08 got jobs in 6 to 8 months Katie Couric's web show @katiecouric debuts with Glenn Beck interview Spot.us LA Crowd-funded site expands from...
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Fast Flip Google works with publishers on online news viewer Bing's visual search Structured search uses thumbnail images, requires Silverlight Journalism Online expands Steven Brill's initiative signs 1,000 media outlets, takes 20 percent cut Michael Moore nixes newspapers Says "we're in the last year of reading the daily newspaper" Steve Jobs returns Brings video to iPod Nano...
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Examiner buys NowPublic Citizen journalism site reportedly fetches $25 million Google gives in to Europeans Offers concessions to publishers over Google Books NewsCore News Corp launches newswire from all company properties; NY Post debuts site Battlefield San Francisco NYT and WSJ bring localized editions to Bay Area Problems with David Pogue? NYT public editor probes tech writer's conflicts, Snow...
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Skype sold eBay sells 65 percent share in company for $2 billion The trials of Craigslist Wired gives detailed look at business and founder, offers facelift ideas The '$400,000' Katrina investigation Years of reporting led to expensive NY Times Mag/ProPublica story NFL changes social media policy Allows Facebook and Twitter before and after games; one player isn't happy Young...
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Wikipedia adds editing Increased oversight of articles tested on German site News Corp. consortium Wants to bring publishers together to charge for content, mobile NYT crowdsources CIA docs Asks readers to help annotate online documents; off to slow start The Slatest New aggregated list replaces In Today's Papers Snow Leopard New Apple OS pounces on August 28...
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MSNBC.com buys EveryBlock Data aggregator funded by Knight; Adrian Holovaty explains deal HuffPost Social News Uses Facebook Connect to create "digital water cooler" on site New business models for news CUNY grad school details four models for a new news ecosystem Reader's Digest files for bankruptcy Company plans to swap debt for equity, details exit plan NPR iPhone app...
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Gawker rip-off of WaPo? Post writer gets angry about excerpting content; Gawker fires back Eric Schmidt steps down Google CEO resigns from Apple Board Acting cyber-czar resigns Top Internet safety official Hathaway steps down for "personal reasons" AP's wrapper Associated Press fights content free-riding with plan to charge for quotes Who reads e-readers? Forrester finds guys love e-readers, future...
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Tweet your Senator Obama creates Twitter, Google Maps mashup to push health care reform Citizen photo of Gates Photo of Henry Louis Gates in cuffs brings in $4,000+ for Demotix, photog Blog with Integrity Mommy bloggers hope to avoid regulators by policing product placements AT&T drama with 4chan Telco says notorious site blocked for DOS attack on customer Internet...
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Apollo 11 radiocast NASA streams entire Apollo 11 mission audio online for moon landing anniversary TwitCam Livestream launches new Twitter broadcasting service YouTube Mythbusters YouTube replies to accusations it scares investors, has no profit model Tweeting the news David Brewer looks at rewards, risks of reporting in Twitter-sized chunks Jewel vs. NSA EFF lawsuit against telecom immunity gets first...
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Cyberbully verdict overturned Judge throws out jury verdict against Lori Drew Pirate Bay sale Swedish gaming exec hopes to sell ad space on site UK's top spy exposed Wife of incoming M16 head posts private info to Facebook Mediaite Abrams launches site with Power Grid; Shafer wants firewalls 4chan vs Twitter Internet pranksters game Twitter trending topics...
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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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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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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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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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Teaching online can be so great, but the workload vs. pay has not made sense for me as an adjunct, and I think it's an illusion when colleges think that they will be somehow cheaper. You really have to BE there, reading, commenting much more than in a f2f course.
