Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Four major newspaper chains and 26 newspaper companies have formed a massive, online advertising network.
The move comes as print revenues have flattened out, local advertising had flatlined for the last two years and keyword and search revenues become the engine for online ad growth. More and more, newspaper chains have ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
I was told that this application -- Windows Live Writer -- was superior for bloggers on the go. The main benefit: I can write and save the draft, and when I'm back online, everything gets uploaded.
If I'm guessing, this is a Silverlight application (no Air here) as it offers the ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
This sent along from Chris Graves at The Cincinnati Enquirer. There's a new website launching that will cover global news. Of course, it's funny that they don't list the URL -- but I guess that's just an oversight.
A group of veteran foreign correspondents, including The Boston Globe's Charles M. Sennott ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
I'm working on a story for ECT News right now about a new report by the Project in Excellence in Journalism research organization. The State of the News Media report is enlightening, and quantifies much of what the digerati have been discussing.
But there's even more that we don't discuss, such ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
I'll be moderating this panel today at 10 am, which means I won't be live blogging it. However, I'll be taking notes while I roam the audience, so expect an update soon after the panel concludes.
So I'm a little bit later on this than I had hoped, but the panel ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
This is a really cool little aggregator. It's...well...live news cameras from around the country.
Here's how I found this. Two folks Twittered it earlier this evening. I had my Tweetr3 desktop application fired up. The Obama speech (HOUSTON 1) was being streamed, and I can only imagine that it's live.
I had ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
A new research poll found that 70 percent of people believe traditional media is out of touch and nearly 50 percent of people now rely on the Internet to get their news.
The story doesn't clarify exactly what going to the Web for information means, though, which makes it impossible to ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
I'm looking at comScore's Top 50 properties for Jan 2008. I'd link directly to them, but it's impossible because it's a Flash pop-up. However, I'll give you the rundown:
Yahoo: 184 million uniques
Google: 134 million uniques
Microsoft: 119 million uniques
AOL: ...
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