Jay Rosen’s New Project: Beat Blogging
I’ve been meaning to mention this before, but Jay Rosen, the brains behind NewAssignment.net and its various spinoffs — including OffTheBus, the citizen-journalism political reporting venture with Huffington Post — has a new project that he told me about when we met for a drink while he was in Toronto for the Online News Association conference (he told the conference about it too).
Product Sellers Should Focus On Online Reviews
More people are looking to online reviews, which are having a significant impact on their purchasing decision.
Socialtext Gets $9.5 Million And New CEO
When a company gets a new CEO, it can be a good thing or a bad thing, but when the new CEO was educated at Harvard and MIT, and worked at Adobe and Cisco, it’s probably a great thing. Even better since the new CEO – Eugene Lee – is getting a fresh $9.5 million to play with at Socialtext.
ESPN Programming Now In Microsoft Xbox
Microsoft has partnered with ESPN to bring college basketball and other programming available for download to its Xbox 360 video game console.
Hollywood Writers Strike For Internet Dollars
Film and TV writers are striking for the first time in almost twenty years after the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers were unable to reach an agreement.
Yahoo Launches Social Site For College Grads
Due to the arrival of OpenSocial, it felt like social networking had reached a new stage of development; Facebook stood alone, but other companies began to march under a single flag. Now, however, there’s another “loose” contender called Kickstart.
Google Analytics Drills Down Site Search
A new feature from Google Analytics shows how website visitors search on a site once they have arrived.
Google Wrestles With EU Privacy Discussion
Privacy considerations for Internet users suffer from a lack of a global standard, leaving it to companies to try and figure out what they should be doing.
Mark Cuban Cites Trust As Facebook Edge
Real people make the treasure trove of information on Facebook the real draw for developing on its platform, which Mark Cuban believes gives it an edge over Google’s OpenSocial conglomeration.
What Would a Non-AP World Look Like?
In a previous article I wrote that the AP is dead, killed by blogs and aggregation. A reader named Chip asked, "And then what? So if AP is dead, what about the content creators?
This discussion was prompted by a speech by the CEO of AP here.
Chip continued,