Mashable!:
Back in August, The Huffington Post asked their readers to help identify the top game changers across 10 different verticals to “honor and celebrate people who are using new media to reshape their fields and change the world.”Today, after 1.7 million votes, the top 10 has been revealed, and our own Pete Cashmore has made th (Read More)
Online-content News - Congoo:
Twitter Founder and Others Bemoan News Corp. Chiefâ??s Idea News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, whose company owns Fox, MySpace, the New York Post, Boston Herald and more, is getting an earful from opponents. (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Layoffs were rolling out at the AP this week, resulting in the losses of at least 71 employees covered by the New Media Guild.
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WebProNews Feed:
The Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) has launched the Online Media Legal Network (OLMLN) that will offer free legal advice to online journalists and bloggers.Lawyers participating in OMLN will provide smaller online publishers with free and reduced legal help on a broad range of issues, including business formation and gove (Read More)
Mashable!:
David Spinks is a graduating senior in NY that is utilizing the power of social web communities to pursue a career in social media/marketing. He authors a blog at DavidSpinks.com.There is an almost overwhelming number of options on the social web for businesses to create and participate in communities. You hear a lot about (Read More)
Online-content News - Congoo:
New research by the Boston Consulting Group suggests that readers will pay for online content In the study conducted, 48% of British and American consumers were shown to be willing to pay a few pounds. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
According to a new Forrester survey, almost 80% of Internet users in the US and Canada would not pay for access to newspaper and magazine websites. Those users who would consider paying for content are mostly interested in subscriptions. Only a very small number of consumers is interested in making micropayments (3%). The s (Read More)
: It's got to be good. I wouldn't pay for the news output you get from tabloids, or some magazines. I realize that investigative journalism has to be paid for of course, and I'd be willing to pay for a good quality source, that deals with relevant pertinent issues of the day - but not something that's full of trivial gossip, and discussions about celebrities day to day movements. I also like to see something that fair and balanced, and gives me the news, and allows me to draw my own conclusions. I don't need a news comic with sensationalist sound bites.
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Ken Auletta, author of "Googled: The End Of The World As We Know It," just spent a year soaking up the lessons of Google. After finishing the book, he also wrote an addendum in which he lays out the 25 things you need to do to build a kick-ass new media company.Read the rest of this story »See Also:Answers To 15 More Google (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Reader engagement with blogs has changed dramatically over the last three years, primarily because of the rise of online social networks, according to new numbers released by analytics firm Postrank today. Postrank published an analysis based on metrics for signals like comments, trackbacks, shared links and online bookma (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
We've added a couple of more events to this week's events guide. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events guide is a weekly feature here on ReadWriteWeb. We publish it every weekend, a (Read More)
Obsessable News Feed:
News Corp will move its sites behind pay walls, hoping to change the rules of the new media game. Will that save traditional media or seal its fate?Jonathan Miller, chief digital officer of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, said that News Corp will remove its web properties from Google listings within "months or quarters." (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Vook is a new company that's come up with a method for blending text and premium video to create an interesting mobile multimedia experience around popular literature.It combines the (relatively) old skool readability of a Kindle with the engagement of a YouTube series, all wrapped in the delicious flavor of a usable, inter (Read More)