Yahoo! snaps up Flickr
Yahoo!’s corporate development team has been busy as it extends its services for photos, tagging and blogging, with the acquisition of Flickr. Announced via Flickr’s blog (on a Sunday afternoon – there’s nothing in Yahoo’s…
Guardian advertises RSS feed on its RSS feed
The Guardian Online’s feed, has a post today highlighting the fact it has RSS feeds. Err…
Advice for corporate blogs
The Washington Post has advice for corporate blogs, many of which are dry and dull: "Repositing marketing materials on a blog is a waste of time," said Rebecca Blood, author of "The Weblog Handbook: Practical…
State of the Media
Ian Lipner highlights a great resource from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism about the State of the US media. This is a fantastic resource detailing trends in newspapers, cable TV, network TV, local…
State of the Blogosphere
Dave Sifry has published the second of two great posts about the State of the Blogosphere. This one highlights the number of posts over time, and Dave interestingly links spikes in the number of posts…
Online readers: Not Ever Willing to Spend
The New York Times today has a long feature about the challenge facing news publishers with declining print revenues, and increasing numbers of free-ride online readers. How do they monetize this traffic? If they charge…
Tim Draper: interview
The San Francisco Chronicle interviews Tim Draper of VC firm, Draper Fisher Jurvetson today. Q: Where is the industry now, having come out of that whole experience? It’s gone through a number of really tough…
UK papers: Does form affect content?
Peter Cole, a professor of journalism at Sheffield University, analyzes the impact The Daily Mail is having on other UK dailies, in today’s Independent on Sunday. The ‘Mail’ is on a charge at the moment,…
Ruling against Apple bloggers
Wired: A judge on Friday ordered three independent online reporters to divulge confidential sources in a lawsuit brought by Apple Computer, ruling that they were not protected by the First Amendment because they published trade…
London, baby
I’m about to jump on a plane to London so next week’s news will come from the other side of the pond. Meantime, our friends at the IBD Network are looking for emerging Consumer Technology…