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Beet.TV: Interactive Games Drive 10X Increase in Video Viewing for "PBS Kids"

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:44:27 -0500

Now that the PBS Kids site PBSKids.org is generating more than 9 million unique video visitors each month, the public broadcaster is going to start pursuing online ad deals.

In addition, PBS is using its popular kids site to test new technologies for ad and game insertion, the broadcaster's' [...]

Online Media Cultist: Blog Focus: YouTube to Charge for Streaming TV?

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:56:35 -0500

I can't mark the exact moment when I made Hulu one of the regular stops during my web-drenched day, but I do know that it was sometime around two years ago. While I'll certainly stop by YouTube to check out the latest UGC meme or dig up some video [...]

MediaShift Idea Lab: 2008 Knight News Challenge Winner Launches Open Media Foundation

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:16:32 -0500

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Open Media Foundation Launches in Denver**
Deproduction, a Denver-based nonprofit media and technology organization has reorganized as the Open Media Foundation. The nonprofit media and technology organization was founded in 2003, offering media and technology training and services to nonprofits and individuals in the Denver Metro Area. In [...]

Online Media Cultist: ABCNews.com Lags Competition on Online Video Features

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:41:55 -0500

With the news today that MSNBC.com is now offering embeddable video players as part of its product offering, ABCNews.com clearly falls behind the pack as the only major U.S. television news organization to not offer embeddable video online.

Let’s recap.

CBS News: Yep.

Watch CBS News Videos Online

MSNBC: Yep.

Visit msnbc.com [...]

Social Media: How to advertise your business on Facebook

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:54:00 -0500

A step-by-step guide — excerpted from Survival Guide Chapter 6: Social Networking

Here is part 6 of the series I will post [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: AOL's news service plan blurs journalism and advertising

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:44:22 -0500

In preparation of its spin-off from Time Warner, AOL has put the final pieces in place for its innovative news creation and searching system.
AOL CEO Timothy Armstrong wants to make AOL a top producer of digital content, a tall order for the struggling 25-year-old company [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: The future is (e) paper!

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:13:20 -0500

On November 27th color electronic paper and quasi-flexible black and white e-paper made its French debut from Tebaldo, a trend observer and high-tech company, AFP's MediaWatch reports.
"Spectacular! Impressive!" Beams the enthusiastic reporter covering the unveiling. While certainly technically remarkable, e-paper remains an experimental [...]

Online Media Cultist: The New Online Media Cultist

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:56:34 -0500

Number of comments: 4

A few weeks ago, I finally decided to do something about the fact that tagging on Online Media Cultist had been broken for some time. And that led to a general tinkering and design reboot session that has resulted in a fairly significant change to the way [...]

Journerdism: 10 Incredible interactive audio experiences

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:22:09 -0500

Really cool stuff here [...]

Smart Mobs: (BLOG) RED - One Color Unites Us

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:44:22 -0500

(RED)™ is a simple idea that transforms our collective power as shoppers into a financial force that helps those affected by HIV in Africa. To date, $140 million has been generated and 4 million people have been helped through Global Fund programs that (RED) supports. [...]

Beet.TV: Fox-backed Digital Shop 15 Gigs Prepping Web Shows for TV

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:37:16 -0500

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Fox Television Studios' new digital shop 15 Gigs is looking to ink deals with creative shops and Web producers as part of its mission to incubate Web talent for television.

In this New Media Minute, I explore the digital studio's approach, including how the company's strategy varies from other network-owned' [...]

Smart Mobs: Top Words of 2009

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:18:41 -0500

The Global Language Monitor has announced that Twitter is the Top Word of 2009 in its annual global survey of the English language. Twitter was followed by Obama, H1N1, Stimulus, and Vampire. The near-ubiquitous suffix, 2.0, was No. 6, with Deficit, Hadron the object of study of CERN’s new [...]

MediaShift: FTC Should Consider Policy Reform to Support Public Media 2.0

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:45:18 -0500

It's been a busy season for prognosticators who examine the intersection of public policy and media. Today will be particularly hectic for them, as journalists, bloggers, public broadcasters and policy wonks pack into a session at the Federal Trade Commission to ponder, yet again, "How Will Journalism Survive" [...]

Martin Stabe: currybetdotnet: Don’t put Johnston Press on trial over their paywall experiment

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:40:13 -0500

Martin Belam: "At the minute, Johnston Press have some sites giving away free ad-supported content, some sites have content snippets urging users to buy the paper, and some sites are charging a subscription for access. Essentially they are doing an A/B/C test of their entire business model online for three [...]

/Message: Arianna Huffington: The News Has Become Social

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:21:00 -0500

Indeed, the future of journalism is to be found, at least partly, in the rapidly growing number of people who connect with the news in a whole new way.

News is no longer something we passively take in. We now engage with news, react to news and share news. It's [...]

/Message: Slenderizing: /Message Goes Micro

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:10:00 -0500

This blog was starting to feel a bit stodgy in its layout, so I have shifted to one of the new 'Micro' templates that Typepad offers, and junked the margin. Now it's a lighter weight, more 'tumblish' sort of thing.

One large shift in my flow: I am going to simply [...]

Beet.TV: Beet.TV: Live Streaming from Washington, D.C (@4p.m. ET)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:59:10 -0500

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Please join us for the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable from 4-6 ET today, December 1.

5:24: Bye Beet.TV viewers! We're signing off on live blogging, but you can keep watching!

5:23: Some of the most successful' [...]

The Local Onliner: Local Onliner Honored in the ‘Top 50′ Analyst Blogs

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:52:19 -0500

Technobabble is out with its annual ranking of analyst blogs. I don’t always rank well in these types of analysis, probably because of my off-center focus on local media and services. Most analyst blogs are focused on hi tech.

But this year, the ranking system [...]

Beet.TV: MSNBC.com Targets Facebook, Blogs, Launches New Emeddable Player -- Could Have Giant Hit with WH "Crashers" on Today Show

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:27:29 -0500

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MSNBC.com today introduced a new embeddable player in a move to increase consumption of news video to other locations, notably on Facebook.

The new player comes in three different sizes, making it usable on a variety of Web pages and social networks.

The features allow consumers to share clips from NBC [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Bringing obits into the 21st century

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:22:29 -0500

The newspaper world is slowly becoming more and more digitalized, but one section of the newspaper that most publishers neglect when going digital is that of the obituaries.

Northwestern University's Medil School, reported by Editor & Publisher, newspapers still dominate the world of obituaries, [...]

The Praized Blog: My Lady Gaga Twitter Experience

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:07:46 -0500

I attended the kick-off of Lady Gaga’s World Tour on Friday night at Centre Bell in Montreal (for those who don’t know her, she’s a rising star in the pop world, you can read more on Wikipedia). The evening allowed me to generate some interesting insights on real-time media, real-time search and mobile [...]

cnewmark: One step towards fixing news media (via Jeff Jarvis, Marissa Mayer)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:00:00 -0500

Hey, Jeff Jarvis has something big here at Buzzmachine.

I want to suggest abandoning the article for the constantly updated topic page (a la Wave). The problem with an article online is that it has a short half life and gathers few links and little ongoing attention and [...]

MediaShift Idea Lab: The Challenge for Non-Profit News Organizations

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:54:20 -0500

Non-profit status is often cited as an exciting new option for struggling local news outlets. ProPublica, MinnPost, and the Voice of San Diego are inspiring examples of non-profit startups, while the Christian Science Monitor, NPR and other organizations are all long-standing examples. It's' [...]

John Battelle's Searchblog: Can Someone Please Do Annual Search Lists on Jan 1?

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:42:00 -0500

Number of comments: 6

I never did understand why everyone releases the "top Searches of 2009" with one month yet to go. It's as if nothing happens in December. Anyway, here are the sites:

Bing.

Yahoo.

Google.

[...]

yelvington.com: Thinking about a paywall? Read this first

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:39:29 -0500

If you're thinking about charging for content, this high-quality infographic could save you from making a big mistake:

What is this? It's the general shape of your typical newspaper website's user behavior over the course of a month.

This is a not a graph that your typical Web metrics' [...]

/Message: VCs Don't Know What The Hell They Are Doing

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:22:00 -0500

The average return on venture capital investments for the year ending June 30, 2009, was -17 percent, according to figures released by the National Venture Capital Association in October.

via @pkedrosky, www.xconomy.com

I could do this job a lot better than most of the mooks I have met working as VCs [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: US newspapers still profitable

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:21:50 -0500

Good news out of Texas today. According to the CEO of the Texas Observer, Carlton Carl, even amid the copious layoffs and budget cuts, most newspapers in the United States are turning a profit.
The Texas Observer is, funny enough, a bi-weekly not-for-profit political news magazine.
Despite the [...]

Micro Persuasion: What To Watch In 2010: Social TV

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:50:11 -0500

Although it's been years in the making, 2010 is poised to finally be the year that social networking and TV will converge, allowing consumers to connect through their big screens. My latest Forbes.com column addresses what to watch for in the coming year. (Note: [...]

Beet.TV: News Alert: YouTube's Olivia Ma, Others to Speak at Beet.TV Roundtable Today at 4:00 ET

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:00:40 -0500

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WASHINGTON, DC -- Olivia Ma, news manager at YouTube, will be one of the media luminaries to speak at today's Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable here in Washington, D.C. See the list below:

Check out the Webcast from 4-6pm ET, right here on Beet.TV or on our Livestream channel.

Olivia [...]

Reflections of a Newsosaur: Journicide: A looming, lost generation of scribes

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:00:00 -0500

Number of comments: 25
Vanishing employment opportunities and shrinking freelance compensation threaten to wipe out a substantial percentage of the next generation of professional journalists. This journicide, to coin a term, is not merely going to be difficult and disappointing for the affected young people, who mostly will move on to find rewarding careers [...]

CyberJournalist.net: Power struggles brew as newspaper newsrooms converge

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:57:04 -0500

E&P’s Joe Strupp reports that as newspaper newsrooms “combine online and print operations into single entities, power struggles are brewing among many in charge. More and more as these unifications occur, it’s the online side that’s losing authority…. online supervisors nationwide are seeing their resources — and influence — shrink [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Figueiredo from Portugal's i: print is crucial for becoming a strong media brand

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:49:32 -0500

Martim Figueiredo, editor-in-chief of Portuguese daily i, explained to a WEF panel on the future of the newspaper vs the future of the newspaper that currently, the newspaper is crucial to i's goal of becoming a strong media brand. "We believe that paper'" [...]

BuzzMachine: Compare/contrast

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:00:17 -0500

Number of comments: 10

Tweet: Compare/contrast Rupert Murdoch on the internet (and me) then and now.

In 2005, Rupert Murdoch gave a rousing speech to the American Society of Newspapers Editors calling on them to listen to digital natives. Yesterday, his deputy, Les Hinton, gave a speech to the World Association of Newspapers in India [...]

BuzzMachine: First, do no harm, government

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:24:32 -0500

Number of comments: 4

Relevant to today’s FTC workshops (read: hearings) on the “survival” (their word… I would have said “rebirth:) of journalism in the internet age, Geoffrey Cowan and David Westphal issue a good set of principles for government involvement (read: meddling or support):
First and foremost, do no harm. A cycle [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Dubai blocks Sunday Times over "insulting photo montage"

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:20:37 -0500

The Sunday Times was banished from Dubai news stands earlier this week amidst accusations that a graphic depicting the emirates ruler sinking in a sea of debt, was an insult.

"The Sunday Times was not distributed today," an official from the United Arab Emirates [...]

Smart Mobs: DARPA Network Challenge for smartest mob

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:04:39 -0500

This contest, which begins on December 5th and will award $40,000 to the first smart mob to locate 10 red balloons, is now posted on the Pentagon website:

To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: The future of newspapers: the past?

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:59:23 -0500

In an iconic scene, Mahfuz Anam gave the World Editor's Forum attendees a persuasive, passionate speech illuminating the errors of newspapers and the keys to turning it around.

Anam, who is editor and publisher of The Daily Star in Bangladesh, stated that "we are killing consumers" [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Guardian editor shares investigative stories

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:55:29 -0500

Paul Johnson, deputy editor-in-chief of The Guardian, shared some examples of in-depth, investigative stories the paper recently published that drew resources from social networking sites and eyewitness reports while speaking at the World Editors Forum Panel: "Future of Journalism vs. Future of the Newspaper.

In one case," [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Final Boston Globe union reaches agreement

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:39:09 -0500

The final holdout labour union of The Boston Globe has approved changes to its labour contract similar to those that it rejected this past June while its parent company, New York Times Co., was threatening to sell or shut down the paper, reports Editor [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Balding: 'We must solve the digital payment issue'

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:28:30 -0500

The newspaper business model is powerless to compensate for falling print ad revenues, and the problem is not going to go away. The print model cannot and will not migrate to the Internet, where there is a "revenue black hole," in which 76 percent of all online revenues go to Google [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Times of India editor: newspapers should be analytical

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:13:43 -0500

Three months ago, the Times of India launched a new weekend edition of its publication called the Times of India Crest.

Editor in chief, Jaideep Bose, said the Times looks for pieces that are eccentric, unpredictable and engaging to address the needs of a [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Financial Times accused of writing advertorials

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:01:46 -0500

The Financial Times is looking into accusations that advertisers have paid for articles to be written as editorial in its business specialist magazine publishing division, the Guardian is reporting.

The investigation was prompted by a letter sent by the National Union of Journalists [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Societal role of newspapers and new media technologies kicked off Opening Ceremony

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:22:54 -0500

The new trend of newspapers using new media technologies kicked off the opening ceremony today.
T Venkattram Reddy, president of the Indian Newspaper Society, discussed the economic downturn the newspaper industry is facing.
He said that by introducing new media, the internet has revolutionized newspaper publishing; however, the internet will [...]

Matt McAlister: Links for 2009-11-30 [del.icio.us]

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:00:00 -0500

Volunteering for SW Radio Africa | Help | guardian.co.uk
it is humbling to remember that, in the UK, our greatest worries about the future diversity of media revolve around the funding models that support it. By contrast, in Zimbabwe, Gerry Jackson's independent radio station was literally closed at gunpoint [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Pakistan editor-in-chief accpets Golden Pen Award

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:56:49 -0500

The editor-in-chief of two Pakistani newspapers received the Golden Pen award today at the WAN-IFRA 2009 World Newspaper Congress - World Editor's Forum.

Najam Sethi, editor-in-chief, of Pakistan's Daily Times and Friday Times accepted his award Tuesday, December 1, in Hyderabad, India at [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Pakistan editor-in-chief Najam Sehti accepts Golden Pen Award

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:56:49 -0500

The editor-in-chief of two Pakistani newspapers received the Golden Pen of Freedom Award today at the WAN-IFRA 2009 World Newspaper Congress - World Editor's Forum.

Najam Sethi, editor-in-chief of the Daily Times and Friday Times accepted his award Tuesday, 1 December, in Hyderabad, India,' [...]

PJNet Today: Clay Shirky in Journalism Things Will Get Weirder

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:47:04 -0500

Clay Shirky’s prognostication for the future of journalism:

“Things are going to get weirder before they get saner.”

And he adds:

“In real revolutions things get worse before they get better. .. One of the bad things I think is going to happen is, I think civic corruption is just [...]