I am a professional, do not try this at home
Making Online News, a scholarly and serious new book, claims that “the more relevant bloggers become in terms of audience and...
Read MoreHow to measure audience across media? NBC loves TAMi.
Meet TAMi, an index that measures audience across media platforms. NBC unveiled the index yesterday to tout the reach of its Olympics...
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Olympic sport: NBC vs. the Net in “digital whack-a-mole”
Days into Olympics coverage, NBC continues to wrestle with unexpected competition. The network paid $894 million for exclusive rights to...
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Examiner sighting: Now you can be one and make mom proud
Amid whispers that it will close or merge its stealth Washington operation, The Examiner chain of free-distribution newspapers (DC,...
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Veep by text-message? This time they may get it right.
Who can forget the front page of the New York Post about this time four years ago? You remember, the screaming headline that proclaimed...
Read MorePrivacy bill looms as web firms acknowledge customer profiling
In what could lead to an online privacy Bill of Rights, several Internet and broadband companies have acknowledged using...
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Voices emerge from conflict in Georgia; Internet sites silenced
Amid the conflict near the Black Sea, come new voices describing the situation on the ground. WordPress has a posted a page with blogs...
Read MoreThe Post gets around to our post
Four days after Andrew’s post about Launchbox Digital’s efforts to seed promising start-ups in the Washington area, The...
Read MoreChina revisited, at least in 1421
Geoff Wade points out that Gavin Menzies’ works have been debunked firmly and repeatedly at an “exposed” site. So Menzies,...
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Beyond MSM, many views and images of China and Olympics
Like many of you, I’ll be glued to the tube for the Olympics and fresh glimpses of the world’s oldest civilization. Fortunately, there...
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China: A view from the back of a galloping horse
Much of the world will form opinions about China from the legions of mainstream broadcasters and journalists descending on Beijing for the...
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Rising: Journalism from everywhere, funded by nonprofits
Two related announcements today from a U.S. journalism institute reflect the changing nature of how journalism is produced, distributed and...
Read MoreWi-fly: Airlines finally connect. Kinda.
Just when you vowed never to set foot in a commercial airplane again, the carriers go ahead and do something like this. First, fifteen...
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Why wemedia.com? Why now? Why us? The eggs
A long time ago we helped give We Media its name, so a lot of people ask why it’s taken so long to launch a blog about it. Others ask a...
Read MoreChutzpah: Why Craig can’t save classifieds
In an open letter to craigslist, Steve Outing asks its founders and operators to help save the newspaper industry from itself. My...
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