IDG TechNetwork Expands

There are millions of bloggers out there, so as a portion of the whole, 100 individuals don't make for too impressive a group.  Relatively few bloggers are relevant to the IDG TechNetwork, however, and sealing deals with 100 of them makes for a decent start.

More Americans Look Online For News

The majority of Americans (67%) say that traditional journalism does not provide what Americans want from their news, a new We Media/Zogby Interactive poll shows.The survey found that more than half of Americans (70%) think journalism is important to the quality of their communities but 64 percent are dissatisfied with the quality of journalism in their communities.

Short-Form Videos Linked To Movie Revenue

If less than ten percent of the world's population demonstrates an interest in something, "something" may suck.  Or it might just not have caught on yet, and a new white paper expresses this opinion of short-form video clips for mobile devices.

YouTube Plays With Higher Resolution Clips

The average YouTube user isn't likely to stumble across them, but an ongoing test appears to be spreading higher-quality versions of some videos throughout the site.  All that's needed to access the clearer clips is the addition of six extra characters at the end of a URL.

More Employers Monitoring Workers Internet Use

More than one-fourth of U.S. employers have terminated employees for misusing email and one third have fired an employee for abusing the Internet according to the 2007 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey from American Management Association (AMA) and The ePolicy Institute.Twenty-eight percent of employers who have fired a worker for email misuse did so for violation of company policy (64%); inappropriate or offensive language (62%);…