Posted by Tish Grier
The jury in a Florida Internet defamation case has awarded $11.3million to a Florida consultant over comments posted on a message board for parents of troubled teens who attended a Costa-Rican boarding school. Susan Scheff, an "educational consultant" who runs Weston-based Parents Universal Resource Experts Inc. won the Sept 19 jury verdict against Carey Bock, who had sought Scheff's help in removing Bock's twin sons from a boarding school in Costa Rica run by Utah-based World Wide Association of Specialty... ›››
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JD Lasica recommends searchers ditch the Google habit in favor of new and improved Ask.com: "First, check out Ask's new, spare home page, with an Ajax-powered mini-directory at the right (go ahead, drag and drop to change the order of the listings). Next, click on Blogs & Feeds, enter a term, and behold the tabs at the top of the results page: Posts, Feeds and News. Nice!" JD also finds the Maps feature "most impressive" and says it "blows" away... ›››
Posted by Tish Grier
Both MSM and the Blogosphere have been buzzing since last evening's announcement of the $1.65 billion purchase by search giant Google of popular video upload site YouTube. In the MarketWatch report on the sale Google will allow YouTube to "operate as a separate entity" with its own employees remaining in the YouTube offices in Silicon Valley. What sold the YouTube guys on the deal was, according to YouTube founder Chad Hurly was ""revolutionary ad program that inspired us." Plus, he... ›››
Posted by Tish Grier
MySpace founder and former Intermix Media chairman Brad Greenspan is demanding that the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Justice Department, and the Senate investigate his allegations that Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp "bilked" investors out of billions of dollars in its $580 billion dollar acquisition of the social networking behemoth. As reported in the Los Angeles Times Greenspan "leveled allegations of insider trading and options manipulation on the website FreeMySpace.com, where he quotes e-mail exchanges that purport to show how Intermix engineered... ›››
Posted by Tish Grier
Tom Abate points to coverage in the Online Journalism Review of the case against freelance journalist an blogger Josh Wolf. Wolf, 24, was jailed on September 22, 2006, on civil contempt charges for his refusal to turn over to a federal grand jury his unpublished video (as well as cameras and editing equipment) of a July '05 anti-globalization demonstration in San Francisco. As Tom notes, OJR's coverage spans the chronology of the case, as well as case law and "the... ›››
Posted by Tish Grier
Taking a cue from Rory Satran's post A Case for Media Integration, Steve Yelvington adds his own observations on what he believes are the "perils of newsroom integration." Satran's analysis highlights such issues as newsroom restructuring and the loss of staff, positioning "print-hardened" top editors" at the helm of an integrated newsroom; and respecting the difference between the ways in which print and online journalists write and work. Steve asserts the importance of keeping the online newsroom separate from the... ›››
Posted by Tish Grier
Vin Crosbie recently attended the second phase of Newspaper Next, an initiative by the American Press Institute and innovation consulting firm Innosight, designed to bring together decision-makers in the American newspaper industry to discuss new ways to transform that industry. What Vin took away from that session, however, left him with the impression that this think-tank is in a "time warp". Breaking down Innosight's two-part strategy for how the newspaper industry should tackle the troubles ahead: "Innosight’s first suggestion was... ›››
Posted by Tish Grier
In a first for the newspaper industry, The New York Times Company recently announced that interactive media pioneer Michael Rogers has taken a one-year appointment as the Company's futurist-in-residence. Mr. Rogers will work as a consultant with the research and development unit in developing new strategies and innovations for Times's online and other products.. Mr. Rogers, former new media exec with Washington Post Co. and Newsweek.com general manager, founded his own consulting firm in 2004, and writes the Practical... ›››
Posted by Tish Grier
Search giant Google, Inc. announced that it has added 200 years' worth of newspaper archives to its Google News search feature. The Google News Archives Search feature takes keywords as well as dates and creates "a timeline of stories on a particular subject over the years." Thus, if one searches for "1969" and "moon launch" Archives will generate a page that lists a full range of stories from major news publications pertaining to the July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 moon... ›››
Posted by Tish Grier
Steve Yelvington, shares some advice on building successful online communities in response to Rob Miller's OJR essay Five rules for building a successful online community. Steve is cautious on Rob's interest in Slashdot as a paradigm: "I think we need to be careful about what we import from Slashdot. It's a remarkably successful website in many dimensions, but let's not get carried away. Slashdot is not a healthy online community. It's not a community at all. A community is where... ›››
Posted by Tish Grier
A preliminary injunction issued Friday against Dave Mitchell, former publisher of the Point Reyes (CA) Light, bars the Pulitzer Prize winner from posting a weekly column to the web-based Bodega Bay Navigator. Marin County Superior Court Judge John A. Sutro's indictment also bars Mitchell from assisting the Navigator in its coverage of West Marin County. The Light's new owner, Robert Plotkin, who purchased the paper from Mitchell five months ago for $500,000, claims that publication of Michell's "Sparsely, Sage &... ›››
Posted by Tish Grier
The super-popular video sharing site YouTube has struck deals with several advertisers allowing them to create "channels" as well as offer addtional advertising from third parties on their channels. The L.A. Times reports that one of the first advertisers, Warner Bros Records, has planned a channel devoted to Paris Hilton's new album. One of its first advertisers, Fox Broadcasting has bought spots on the Paris Hilton Channel to promote the second season of Prison Break. The idea that placing ads... ›››
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Excerpt from Ping Wales:- Unused game equipment can help mental healthPing Wales, UK - 19 hours agoBy Robert Andrews | 17 Jan 2007. Gamers who received brand-new Wii or Xbox360 consoles for Christmas have been urged to donate their... ›››
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Excerpt from E-consultancy - Robert Andrews' Blog:-Talkr, a text-to-speech web service that lets readers listen to written blog posts, has put itself up for sale after failing to turn a profit in two years.Founder Chris Brooks revealed that 2,173... ›››
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Excerpt from E-consultancy - Robert Andrews' Blog:-Google is ramping up its Checkout online payments service with a promotion campaign ahead of a rumoured imminent major development.The PayPal-esque conduit for customer-merchant transactions launched last June after its rival inked an... ›››
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Excerpt from Yahoo! News Search Results for "robert andrews":-Needlework and other grandmotherly crafts evolve into decidedly hip and stylish pursuits thanks to the internet. By Robert Andrews.... ›››
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Across the United States, citizen bloggers and deep-pocketed entrepreneurs are creating town-specific, and even neighborhood-specific, Web sites where the public can read and contribute items too small or too fleeting...... ›››
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Excerpt from Blogging4Business:-The UK Government has come under fire for using a weblog to promote its proposed state pension reforms.-- Delivered by Feed43 service... ›››
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Ad Age today reports on How to Make Effective Online Video Ads. According to a report released by Dynamic Logic all online video ads are not created equal. There are a few things marketers need to be aware of... ›››
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Howard Weaver points to a Washpost piece on newspapers and video, and suggests a "good enough" approach: "... we don't need to be creating 60 Minutes quality television to get in the game. In fact, you might well argue... ›››
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Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed by Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 License.After doing my fair share of preaching on this blog for the last five years, I (Chris) now have firsthand... ›››
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Excerpt from E-consultancy - Robert Andrews' Blog:- Nintendo's Wii and DS Lite games consoles helped boost British retailer Game 's Christmas sales by 15.6% and the group now expects to reap higher annual overall sales as a result. Demand... ›››
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Excerpt from Blogging4Business:-Two groups of people are not happy with Apple's iPhone - developers, who fear (with little basis yet) that the device will not be open to their third-party applications, and Cisco, which is taking the Cupertino computer... ›››
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Excerpt from Blogging4Business:-The biggest PR firm in the world has launched an also-pretty-big report into "the new model of peer-to-peer communications".-- Delivered by Feed43 service... ›››
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I was on the road all last week, and I didn't live-blog a remarkable seminar in Los Angeles for two reasons. One: the usual annoyingly bad hotel wifi connection in the conference rooms. Two: I didn't want to invade... ›››
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"Bread is like life - you can never control it completely. Come to think of it, bread IS life." - Rose Levy Beranbaum, "The Bread Bible""They figured there was this great hunger for connection. That farmers wanted to meet... ›››
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Excerpt from E-consultancy - Robert Andrews' Blog:-Yahoo! has signed a deal with mobile phone network 3 to carry its Go 2.0 mobile service on 3G handsets.The portal announced the new version of its internet search and content application at... ›››
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Excerpt from E-consultancy - Robert Andrews' Blog:-Microsoft is due to release web metrics software that is expected to become a challenger to Google Analytics.The company last night confirmed it was running a closed 'alpha' test phase for a "very... ›››
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Excerpt from Robert Andrews' Blogging4Business posts:-There's an interesting post from Publishing 2.0's Scott Karp over at Blog Herald, and it's all about being your own man.-- Delivered by Feed43 service... ›››
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Excerpt from Robert Andrews' Blogging4Business posts:-Jupiter director and emerging technologies analyst Michael Gartenberg, like his colleagues, has been blogging like crazy from this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and also found time to generate plenty of volume... ›››
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Excerpt from Robert Andrews' Blogging4Business posts:-Proctor & Gamble was bitten last week by the new power of the all-powerful shopper to share product reviews. But this week the consumer goods giant is reportedly due to offer its own social... ›››
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Excerpt from Robert Andrews' Blogging4Business posts:-Here's a great example of how the big boys are tapping people power to make their products look good.-- Delivered by Feed43 service... ›››
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Excerpt from Robert Andrews' Blogging4Business posts:-Have you ever bought something from a store only to walk around town a week later and find it cheaper at a rival retailer?-- Delivered by Feed43 service... ›››
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Excerpt from Robert Andrews' Blogging4Business posts:-More than half of Americans aged 12 to 17 use social networking websites - and most of them are on MySpace, according to a new survey.-- Delivered by Feed43 service... ›››
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Excerpt from Robert Andrews' Blogging4Business posts:-Sounds like tautology, but the question does arise after technology uber-blog TechCrunch launched a message board last week:-"Reader feedback and comments are an integral part of this blog (in fact, any blog in our... ›››
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Excerpt from Robert Andrews' Blogging4Business posts:-Mouthwash is not supposed to turn your teeth brown. So I pity the PR manager at Proctor and Gamble when s/he finds out what's being said by customers to whom the Crest Pro-Health line... ›››
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Excerpt from Robert Andrews' Blogging4Business posts:-It's been this way since time immemorial. Kids grab the hottest new meme quicker than you can think, media spotlight on the buzz tempts adults toward that new space. Then, no sooner have you... ›››
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Excerpt from Ping Wales:- UK students offered cash for open source software Ping Wales, UK - 2 hours ago By Robert Andrews | 11 Jan 2007. British university students are being offered cash incentives to write open source software... ›››
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Excerpt from E-consultancy - Robert Andrews' Blog:-America's top three newspaper publishing companies are looking to team up to offer advertisers a one-stop clearinghouse for buying online adverts.Gannett, McClatchy and Tribune want to form a single gateway, codenamed "Open Network",... ›››
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