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HEADLINES FOR NOVEMBER 2006
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 27 NOVEMBER 2006
Date/Headlines Source
Trends
With cloudy forecasts mounting for many media companies...  
Media Industry Outlook Is Negative for 2007, Fitch Ratings Says Bloomberg
Barron's: Google shares set for fall Reuters via CNET News
Bad News for Old News: And Seven More Things to Look Forward to in 2007 Media Post
Others with less baggage and more focus on user-generated content eye more hopeful prospects...  
Media companies to see bright '07, Merrill Lynch's Cohen says Reuters
Million Dollar Homepage Becomes Multi-Million Dollar Homepage TechCrunch
A November reign for new media The Hollywood Reporter
For major media companies trying to nail down the online equation effective leadership is at a premium...  
Seeking Executive to Tame the Digital Future The New York Times*
NBC Universal Ad Chief to Leave WSJ Online*
Google remains the bogie for others to chase - a bogie that's expanding markets as it focuses its products...  
Google is the Boogeyman...? eWeek
Yahoo Declines to Help Google in Authors Guild Lawsuit eWeek
NC county gets Google restraining order BusinessWeek
Google's Content-Sharing Deal Helps Ease Belgian-Press Dispute WSJ Online*
Google's ambitions going mobile CNET News
Next: Google, the bank? IT Wire
GoogTube Dangling Nine-Figure Sums To Media Companies; Cross-Company Rival To YouTube? paidContent.org
Adieu to Google Answers Google Blog
Yahoo aims to make the largest "walled garden" of all time...  
Yahoo! enters brand land Netco builds 'brand universe' Variety
Yahoo! News to Offer BBC News Video BusinessWire
Why Yahoo Likes Newspapers SearchInsider
Why Yahoo is Backing Away from RSS Micro Persuasion
Microsoft's vision of becoming a technology-enabled content company is hobbled by weak platforms...  
Microsoft Officially Announces Vista and Office 07 - Web Briefly Mentioned Read/Write Web
Microsoft's Zune Falls Off Sales Pace For Media Players WSJ Online*
User-generated content plays are getting more sophisticated as the "good stuff" gets harder to find...  
The Content Aggregators and the Fat Belly GigaOM
Spokeo Aggregates Social Networks And Blogs TechCrunch
Amazon goes UnSpun with Ruby on Rails 37 Signals
Henneberger Hired as HuffPost Prepares to Offer Original Reporting Editor & Publisher
Has Digg peaked, gone out of fashion? The Blog Herald
Yahoo Quietly Launches Mobile Social-Networking Service InformationWeek
Holotof - Crowdsourcing Creativity Read/Write Web
And increasingly it's user-generated content that's gaining the respect of sophisticated audiences...  
Experts rate Wikipedia's accuracy higher than non-experts Ars Technica
Bloggers Leading Mainstream Journalists in Transparency MediaShift
A Blogger Who’s a Court-Approved Journalist The New York Times*
User-generated Sites Define This Era of the Web Read/Write Web
Online video deals are booming but few are really confronting the challenges of distribution control...  
Could BitTorrent Inc. be the new model for file-sharing legitimacy? Zero Paid
BitTorrent cuts online video deals The Mercury News
Reuters Summit - Media giants to hunt for next YouTube in 2007 Reuters
Google: 'iPod will hold all the world's TV in 12 years' Silicon.com
Walmart Bundles Digital Downloads With Physical DVDs TechCrunch
YouTube's Doppelganger Forbes
With broadband mobile Web access looming the structure of licensing deals is coming into question...  
Mobile Deals: Missing the Big Picture Washington Post
Cellphone Carriers Let Others Sell Mobile Content to Users WSJ Online*
The Return of Branded Entertainment: Old-School Sponsorship From a Digital-Era Company The New York Times*
The Imminent Demise of the Page View Micro Persuasion
silicon.com launches bespoke service for mobile devices Silicon.com
News organizations that push for successful online operations are thriving, but consolidation continues...  
Judge Issues Restraining Order in Bay Area Newspaper Sale AP via Editor & Publisher
Monster joins forces with four newspaper companies BtoB Online
Daily Mail’s Online Revenues Double paidContent.org
What would techies do with a newspaper? First, they'd make it all digital USA Today
More open approaches to intellectual property are challenging premium licensors...  
Congress readies broad new digital copyright bill CNET News
British Copyright extension a no-go: BPI reacts The Register
UK artists instinctively choose Creative Commons BoingBoing
Zune, Creative Commons Don't Mix Wired News
The future of fun: Digital rights get more flexible PC World Canada
Note to Western countries: your days of online dominance may be numbered...  
Look East to See the Future of the Internet The Seoul Times
Digital gorillas flex muscles in China China Daily
'New, old media can grow together' China Daily
In other major trends in content this week...  
Panel urges tighter rules for science publications The New York Times via IHT
VNU Said to be in Major Workforce Reduction FOLIO: Magazine
Media group to release grip on PR Newswire The Times of London
A Career Change Shows the New Importance of Data Collection The New York Times*
Belgian court to mull over Google case until January Reuters
Online video 'eroding TV viewing' SmartMobs
Best Practices
Profitably Running an Online Business in the Web 2.0 Era Dion Hinchcliffe
Podcasting And File Sharing: How The Web Is Transforing Itself Robin Good
Social Bookmarking Services And Tools: The Wisdom Of Crowds That Organizes The Web Robin Good
Futurist: To fix education, think Web 2.0 CNET News
Publish And Perish: The Challenges of Archiving Forbes
Google: To Government and Beyond! New publication focuses on emergent ways to use Google PR Leap
The Presence of Magazines on the Internet The Bibings Report
Feed publishing best practices Niall Kennedy
Developing Attractive Location Based Service Pricing Strategies to Increase Uptake, Usage and Revenues PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Business Blogs And The Business Of Online Publishing: Survey Provides Useful Insights Robin Good
Home Alone? How Content Aggregators Change Navigation and Control of Content Digital Web Magazine
Wikis: New Cultural Model? Linux Insider
Why Aggregation & Context and Not (Necessarily) Content are King in Entertainment paidContent.org
Cool Tools
Blastfeed Filters Your Feeds Micro Persuasion
Microsoft gathering millions of photos for Virtual Earth 3D IT Wire
Google: no ads and compact UserStyles.org
Web Swamii Provides Online Guidance TechCrunch
Enterprise Server from NewsGator, Harnesses RSS Content Delivery Web Site Host Directory
BlogMonitor: Seek, Sift, Sort, Report Data Mining
Digital Content Distribution Made Easy: Web Widgets Bring New Life To Your Blog - Video Guide Robin Good
World's heaviest USB flash drive Engadget
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Mark Logic Helps Bowker Successfully Navigate Dynamic Publishing Market MarketWire
Experian CheetahMail and SimpleFeed Partner to Bring RSS Technology and Services to Customers PR Newswire
CanWest MediaWorks Inc. Delivers News and Blog Content from Newstex PR Newswire
BitTorrent Secures $20 Million in Venture Capital American Venture Magazine
Yale Library and NovoDynamics(R) Sign Research Agreement for Arabic Content PR Newswire
Society of Interventional Radiology Selects Elsevier as New Publisher of Official Journal PR Newswire
ANA, Yahoo! announce content partnership BtoB Online
Houghton Mifflin to Be Sold to Ireland's Riverdeep Bloomberg News
Alacra, Inc. and the Economist Intelligence Unit Partner on Country Snapshots PR Web
Twenty of the World's Top Blog Networks Engage FeedBurner for Advertising Services MarketWire
StrandVision to Distribute DataCall's Live Feed Packages: Ensures Copyright-cleared Content PR Web via Yahoo! News
TEMIS Powers Thomson Scientific ISI Web of Knowledge Indexing PharmaLive
ALM and American Bar Foundation to Collaborate on Research on Legal Profession BusinessWire
Reality Digital Partners With Key Resellers to Expand Presence of User-Generated Content Platform Red Orbit
Products, Markets & People
Wolters Kluwer Health Launches PubFusion(TM) 2.0 Publication Management for a Range of Industries BusinessWire
LexisNexis to Host Data for Law Firms WebHosting.info
Volantis Announces Next-generation Mobile Content Storefront Solution BusinessWire
StreetIQ.com Expands Business Podcast Coverage With New Website MarketWire via MSN Money
Elsevier Announces New Journal for 2007 WebWire
Apex Advisory Board to Chart Global Initiative to Inventory Newspaper Archives of Developing Nations PRWeb
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 20 NOVEMBER 2006
Date/Headlines Source
Trends
As the Web builds into a mature money-making medium...  
Growth In Websites Reached An All Time High In 2006, ISPs Thriving Playfuls.com
Internet ranks No. 2 for science news AP via Post Intelligencer
New York Times Co. ad revenue down 4.9% in October Media Groups Rose 29.4% BtoB Online
Investors bet on channels that can find improved online value...  
Private equity sees more value in old media than stock market MarketWatch*
Yahoo moves to build a broader base of mainstream content providers...  
176 Newspapers to Form a Partnership With Yahoo The New York Times*
Yahoo-Newspapers: More Details: Search, Local Listings Included; Co-Branded Online paidContent.org
But with pressures on its bottom line there's no guarantee that more partners will bring profitability...  
Yahoo internal memo urges major shake-up, job cuts Reuters
Yahoo: Time to Kill Off Flickr, del.icio.us and Other Web 2.0 Brands Read/Write Web
Yahoo, Saved by the Bell GigaOM
Yahoo-Newspapers: Conference Call: Why Yahoo? Timelines, Plans, Etc. paidContent.org
As context rights trumps content rights for profitable online and offline plays...  
Google tops $500: Could Internet Powerhouse Net Too Much Control? The Mercury News
Google gains again, still leads pack in online search BtoB Online
Google As News Archivist Search Engine Watch
Google Book Search has a new way to browse books Google Blog
Google Integrating Blog Posts Into Search Results Boyd Creative
Google Mapping an Offline Course The New York Times*
The Web may yet become the platform that trumps all platforms...  
GoogleOS: What To Expect Read/Write Web
Playing catch-up with Google at Microsoft CNET News
U.S. Courts puts the responsibility for libel firmly in the hands of publishers and not intermediaries...  
Court: Web sites not liable for libel committed by third parties The Mercury News*
As Belgian courts decide whether search engines are violating copyright laws...  
Belgian Court to hear Google-newspaper fight Seattle PI
YouTube is becoming a channel of choice for online video but turning its position into profit is a challenge...  
After One Month, CBS Content Among Most Viewed Videos on YouTube PR Newswire via EarthTimes
Revenue crunch looms for YouTube and friends The Australian
YouTube generation may find their online past coming back to haunt them OnRec
Scholarly publishers are trying to play the open source game but skeptics question their payment strategies...  
EPS report gets mixed reviews: Critics say scholarly publishing report is biased Information World Review
Social content poses aggressive challenges to intellectual property rights...  
Worm closes Second Life Gamespot News
Investing time and money in virtual worlds TechMeme
Second Life Will Save Copyright Wired News
Universal Music Sues MySpace Claiming Copyright Infringement WSJ Online*
The Spam Farms of the Social Web Niall Kennedy
But builds value in venues where original user content brings its best traits forward...  
Enterprise Blogging Software Proliferates InformationWeek
Blogging and user generated content on the web is already having an impact on business: Research FinFacts
Wiki Opens for Corporate Org Charts Micro Persuasion
Erasing Divide, College Leaders Take to Blogging The New York Times*
Ah, to be rich enough to enjoy content just for the sport of it...  
Welch Group Considers Formal Bid for Boston Globe WSJ Online*
In Web World, Rich Now Envy the Superrich The New York Times*
In other major trends in content this week...  
Alexa can be injurious to your wealth GigaOM
Top 10 Worst Internet Acquisitions Ever Bellwether
Ads 2.0: Beyond the repurposed TV spot CNET News
Content is king lesson lost on Microsoft and Zune IT Wire
Wikipedia Ban Back On In China Web Pro News
Q: When is a news article not a news article? A: When it’s paid to be read Vermont Guardian
Without Jason, Weblogs Inc Will Lose Its Edge Micro Persuasion
OriginalSignal Relaunches With Big Changes TechCrunch
Web 1.0 Undead Rise: AGLOCO TechCrunch
Best Practices
Media: The Characteristics Of The New Media Landscape Robin Good
Is Mesh a Problem for MuniFi? GigaOM
Monetizing Citizen Media: How Newspapers Can Profit from User-Generated Media Presstime
Wikinomics -- Forthcoming book by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams Corante
The Semantic Web is About Helping People Use the Web More Productively Minding the Planet
Using a Wiki: A Textbook Case eWeek
How do you build a successful internet business? Download Squad
Cool Tools
A Human-Powered Relevance Engine For Internet Startup News Matt McAlister
KnowNow and Automattic Offer Enterprise-Class Blog Authoring and Intelligence Tools KnowNow
AboutUs.org: A free directory about every domain in the world that anyone can edit Aboutus.com

WebSideStory Announces Analytics-Driven Web Content Management

 PressZoom
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
MidOcean, Wasserstein to be Co-Owners of Prism/Penton Merger FOLIO: Magazine
Elsevier Announces New Publishing Partnership With The Russian Academy of Sciences WebWire
Mergers and Acquisitions: Completed Deals by Yahoo, Microsoft & Google Shumla.com
Thomson Financial and The Associated Press Announce News Partnership PR Newswire via Charlotte.com
Answers.com Adds Human Insight From Yahoo! Answers PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Products, Markets & People
LexisNexis(TM) Introduces New Opportunities for Law Firms to Showcase Capabilities on Martindale.com BusinessWire
CyberOptic Group Announces First Online Media Distribution Platform for Small Businesses ThomasNet
Flickr introduces Guest Pass and updates Flickr Mobile Lifehacker
Dow Jones Newswires Unveils "Tomorrow’s News Today from Capital Markets Report" BusinessWire
Amazon Associates New Innovations to Help Website Owners Enhance and Monetize Their Content PressZoom
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 13 NOVEMBER 2006
Date/Headlines Source
Trends
As online advertising becomes a here-and-now source of major revenues...  
IAB: Internet ad revenue surpasses $4 billion in third quarter BtoB Online
Internet ad potential underestimated - Yahoo CEO Reuters
Media companies seeking cash from online content push their hierarchies closer to the action...  
Time Warner's Parsons Defends Decision to Keep AOL Web Unit: Worth $26 Bilion in a Few Years? Bloomberg News
It’s Official: Jon Miller Out, Randy Falco In As Chairman and CEO, AOL paidContent.org
Ross Levinsohn Resigns as President of Fox Interactive Media, to be Replaced by Peter Levinsohn paidContent.org
Jason Calacanis Says Adios to AOL TechCrunch
While Google pushes for an increasingly non-hierarchical  view of publishing...  
Is Google worth its weight in gold? CNET News
Google sees professionals outdone by Web amateurs Reuters
Google CEO: Free cellphones for all, with ads CNN Money
Google Enterprise strategy: 'Death to the hierarchy' ZDNet
University of Virginia Joins Google Book Search Library Journal
And wrestles to defend its new YouTube acquisition from friends and foes alike...  
Google Closes YouTube Acquisition TechCrunch
Google saves $200m for YouTube legal issues FT.com
Video Venom: Popular Posters in Search of Cash Revolt Against YouTube New York Post
Huh? YouTube Sends TechCrunch A Cease & Desist for Video Download Tool TechCrunch
Mark Cuban courts YouTube foe CNET News
Analytics of user-generated content are seen as the next hot wave, but is the "Web 3.0" label a weak fad...?  
Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense The New York Times*
The Road to the Semantic Web Read/Write Web
Semantic Web 3.0 sanity check Danny Ayers
Don't Believe The Web 3.0 Hype Publish
Web 2.0 isn’t dead, but Web 3.0 is bubbling up ZDNet
IBM Assists in Development of Open and Standard Content Analytics Software EContent Magazine
OurSpace: A Post-Search World? OMMA
Meanwhile the "Web 2.0" paradigm is beginning to form the core of many major publishing ventures...  
First Web 2.0 IPO, Xing? GigaOM
Reuters takes stake in Pluck, to syndicate blogs Washington Post
Hearst, The McGraw-Hill Companies and Pilot House Invest $10 Million in Gather.com' s Social Media SIte BusinessWire
New Web 2.0 NYC City Guide launches PR Web
Mashups Coming Fast and Furious GigaOM
Pressures on profitability in scholarly publishing favor innovators who can adapt to changing markets...  
Reed's education arm disappoints The Guardian
Ongoing crisis in academic-journal pricing is the focus of recent colloquium Stanford Report
Open Access resources could mean journal subscriptions cancelled Information World Review
John Wiley to buy Blackwell Publishing BusinessWeek
U.K.'s Pearson Tests The Group Dynamic For a 'Wiki' Book WSJ Online*
Private equity deals for major media properties raise concerns about ownership consolidation...  
For Wallflowers, a Time to Dance The New York Times*
Reader's Digest Agrees to be Sold in Biggest Consumer Deal of the Year FOLIO: Magazine
Investment groups buy Clear Channel Richmond.com
Gannett May Be In Hunt For All—Or Part—Of Tribune paidContent.org
Mobile content begins to gain a business environment more in line with Web content...  
Coping with Convergence: Local Search Meets Mobile and WiFi Search Engine Watch
Yahoo Ties With Vodafone UK To Deliver Targeted Ads; Discount For Watching Ads paidContent.org
Microsoft Plans Free, Ad-Supported WiFi iMedia Connection
News organizations are trying to move rapidly to a new online-first publishing profile, but its legacies endure...  
The future of newspapers The Independent
Building Newspaper 2.0 Hyaline Skies
Gannett retooling its news-gathering efforts Business Courier
Stoll out to convince publishers: Google News is friend, not foe Online Press Gazette
The need for more sophisticated intellectual property management catches up to user-generated media...  
New Online Service Creates Copyright Registration Service and Marketplace for User-Generated Content BusinessWire
'Second Life' faces threat to its virtual economy CNET News
MySpace to Launch Enhanced Copyright Protection Tool to Provide  Easier, Faster Content Protection BusinessWire
In the end we all wind up where we belong...  
Q&A with Amanda Congdon: The video blogger has parlayed her success into deals with ABC and HBO BusinessWeek
Nick Denton to Write ValleyWag Bambi Francisco
Michael Wolff reconciles with the internet ValleyWag
What kind of dog has earplugs, wireless and a radio...?  
CNN+Zune=No Love... Can I show you my new iPod Shuffle? Spicy Gadget Roll
In other major trends in content this week...  
About.com: The King of SEO Read/Write Web
Google introduces customized home pages for groups Reuters
Google Maps adds click-to-call Download Squad
Why is RSS not catching on in U.K.? Edu Blogs
What Bill Parcells Taught Me About Social Media Micro Persuasion
China allows full non-political access to Wikipedia The Boston Globe
Al-Jazeera aims for no 'accent' in English USA Today
TiVo to knit Internet, living room closer together Ars Technica
Nielsen to Launch Video-On-Demand Measurement Service PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Best Practices
Five Critical Factors that Make Corporate Blogging Go Micro Persuasion
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft partner to help webmasters standardize search engine submissions Macworld via Yahoo! News
The farce behind 'Digital Freedom' CNET News
The Long Tail, the Long Term and Your Blog Micro Persuasion
Blogwild! - A Great Resource for New Business Bloggers TechnoSight
Judging the Best Weblogs in the World at The BOBs MediaShift
Social Media is not Mass Media GigaOM
LibraryThing Creates World’s Worst Recommendation Engine Mashable!
The Low-Down on Mash-Ups e-Commerce Guide
Cool Tools
Listen to podcasts on your cell phone--or any phone Download Squad
System 'spots multimedia content' BBC News
Tele Atlas MultiNet 2006.10 Next Generation of Global Digital Map Database The Auto Channel
AOL Instant Messenger 6.0 Goes State of the Art TechCrunch
BrainKeeper Launches Enterprise Wiki EContent Magazine
Apple in deal to let iPod videos play on planes Reuters
Google Spiffs Up Private-Label Tools News Factor Network/Yahoo
ContentWatch Releases New Internet Filtering Appliance BusinessWire
ZapTXT's New RSS Alert Service Ensures Web Users Never Miss a Crucial Piece of Information PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Fleck Offers Zero Friction Web Annotation TechCrunch
New Google Checkout features Download Squad
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Microsoft Offers Digital News Video Through The NewsMarket for Zune and Vista Announcements MarketWire
LexisNexis Selects Autonomy for its Superior Foreign Language Support via Competitive Procurement PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Alacra, Inc. to Provide Standard & Poor’s Credit Research in the Alacra Store PR Web
ProQuest and Safari Books Online Renew Partnership EContent Magazine
Microsoft and Sprint Partner on Mobile Search CIO Today
United Business Media Sells Backbeat Books for $2.2m PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo! buys Bix.com for content rating and compo know-how PC Pro
TechTarget to Team with Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council to Provide Quarterly IT Research BusinessWire
Brainshark Announces Platform Integrated With Salesforce.com BusinessWire via TMCNet
TiVo, ICM in Content Pact AdWeek
InfoUSA buys Rubin Response Services BtoB Online
The New York Times Selects Trumba to Power its Online Automotive and Career Event Calendars PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Endeca Partners with Clarabridge to Unlock Value from Business Intelligence Investments BusinessWire
Products, Markets & People
ALM’s Law Firm Inc. Magazine Announces Plans to Increase to 10X Annual Publishing Frequency BusinessWire
Hoover's to Expand Private Company Coverage for the Top 250,000 Private Companies in the U.S. PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
LexisNexis Risk & Information Analytics Enhances Capabilities of Health Care Fraud-Fighting Tool BusinessWire
Prospero's TalkBack to Provide Commentary on All Website Content: Videos, Photos, Editorial, Products PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services Unveils New Compliance Services for Consumer Protection Law BusinessWire
E-learning recruit develops LexisNexis tools Information World Review
ALM’S Law Journal Press Announces Publication of ''Information Security Law: Control of Digital Assets'' BusinessWire
Comtex Names Chip Brian Chief Executive Officer PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
ShopWiki Relaunches For the Holidays Mashable!
ArchiVal National Geographic Map Reproductions Available Online Directions Magazine
Adobe offers enterprise rights management tool IT Business
Sale of ProQuest unit gets US antitrust approval Reuters
Date/Headlines Source
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 6 NOVEMBER 2006
Trends
As owning context becomes more important than owning content...  
Google… the OS for Advertising GigaOM
Google to Try Selling Advertisements for Newspapers Washington Post
Turn to Launch Hybrid CPA Ad Network TechCrunch
Brands Produce Their Own Shows The New York Times*
Media companies rush to reinvent their business models to conform to an online-first world...  
Gannett overhauling papers for 24-hour, new media Reuters
Clash of Cultures Exacerbates Woes For Tribune Co. WSJ Online*
Amid Changes, Time Magazine Shifting to Guarantee Total Audience for Print And Online paidContent.org
Time Magazine Slashes Rate Base, Raises Newsstand Price FOLIO: Magazine
Online newspapers and the 2006 election: bland ambitions? USC Annenberg OJR
And begin to learn how to succeed in online publishing...  
Old Media and New Media: Friends, Not Foes BusinessWeek
AOL says portals are passe CNET News
AOL Executives See Evidence of Success in New Approach, Taking Share from Yahoo's Ads Washington Post
AOL Tests New Ajax Feed Reader Micro Persuasion
The voice of the audience is becoming the voice of major publications as user content takes charge...  
Mainstream Media To Start "Crowdsourcing" Slashdot
New York Times Chairman Sees Using Citizen Journalists SmartMoney.com
Collective Intelligence Drives Web Companies' Growth Internet News
The Digg Economy: Socialist Bookmarking The Blog Herald
But the power of user-generated content is just beginning to take a more full form and scale...  
Blog Usage Statistics And Trends: Technorati's State Of The Blogosphere - Q3 2006 Robin Good
Web 2.0 potential unmet, say experts CNET News
Under Construction: The foundation is still being laid for Web 2.0. Information Week
@ Web 2.0: Meeker’s State Of The Internet: Time For Video Monetization - Presentation Slides paidContent.org
OpenSourcing Yourself, Are You Ready? Slashdot
Monetization of weblogs puts more pressure on mainstream editors to play the same game...  
Sorrell To Analog: It's Time To Read The Writing On The Blog Media Daily News
Get Paid To Blog - ReviewMe: A Better PayPerPost TechCrunch
Live Blogging the U.S. Mid-Term Elections MediaShift
Blogburst: Now Get Paid to Blog Mashable!
Editors call on Google for share of Net profits The Herald
Yepic.com Launches Web 2.0 Marketplace for Bloggers to Sell Premium User-Generated Content PR Web
Memo to press release companies: corporations are looking at more efficient channels for fair disclosure...  
SEC Chief Suggests Blogs for Corporate Disclosures AP via Chron.com
SEC chief posts to CEO blog CrossBorder
Search is transforming into a concierge-like service providing analysis and sophisticated aggregation...  
Best Bet on Growth in Search, Content and Web: Answers.com HipMojo.comF
Disruption Opportunity: Beating Google at Their Own Game Read/Write Web
Is This the Next Generation of Search? Library Journal
A Closer Look at Google OneBox Results Search Engine Watch
Track Amazon Book Trends with TitleZ Micro Persuasion
Wink Launches Social Network Search for MySpace, Bebo, LinkedIn Mashable!
As governments begin to confront the cost of scholarly content licensing open access gains momentum...  
Open Access publishing in European physics gains momentum Innovations Report
Lords call on EU to back self-regulation for new media publishers Hold the Front Page
When you're one of the top 15 Web destinations you're bound to take some flak...  
Study Finds Google Favors Wikipedia Micro Persuasion
The Six Sins of Wikipedia The Conservative Voice
Over a 100 Wikipedia articles contain plagiarized content, claims critic Earth Times
The battle for online intellectual property rights is moving more towards deal-cutting than litigation...  
Google CEO denies rumor of YouTube legal reserve Reuters
Google Reveals Copyright-Infringement Suit Against Its Video-Sharing Service InformationWeek
Google warns Australian copyright laws could cripple Internet ABC Australia News Online
Microsoft Strikes Payment Deal for Music with Universal The New York Times*
Fear of a 2-tiered Internet Toronto Star
The next generation of content users is off and running mobile - and content is chasing to catch up with them...  
MacArthur Foundation Launches Five-Year Study of Online Media's Impact on Modern Youth BusinessWeek
Domain Name Registrar, dotMobi, Surpasses 200,000 CPU Review
On The Convergence of Email and Chat (Google and Apple Get It) Social Web Design
Verizon, YouTube Aim To Bring Web Videos To Cellphones, TV WSJ Online*
Getting local content right is a key factor in making portals more appealing to focused audiences...  
Thompson: BBC may pay for content from regional newspapers for local coverage Online Press Gazette
Topix Raises $15m More for Local News Search TechCrunch
Citizen Kane had fun this these quaint old toys, why not us...?  
Billionaires Fight to Buy The Los Angeles Times The New York Times*
Los Angeles Moguls Said To Offer Bid for Tribune WSJ Online*
Los Angeles Paper Ousts Top Editor The New York Times*
In other major trends in content this week...  
Amazon Wants to Run Your Business BusinessWeek
VNU Business Media to Break Into Six Operating Groups FOLIO: Magazine
Wasserstein & Co. denies report it is seeking sale of ALM BtoB Online
Nielsen Delays Commercial Ratings AdWeek
Primedia Earnings: Revenue, EBITDA Up Slightly, Net Income Declines Sharply FOLIO: Magazine
A Conversation with Mark Cuban Micro Persuasion
Privatization 'Tsunami' Sweeps Old Media Advertising Age
The 'Long Tail' of technology information Innovations Report
Best Practices
New Media Journalism: How Professional Reporters Are Being Influenced By The Internet Robin Good
Developing Thought Leadership Content Web Ink Now
W3C Proposes Widget 1.0 Standard Micro Persuasion
Google says: "Take your data with you!" Download Squad
XML Topic Maps for organized data TechTarget
Is DRM Good Or Bad For Consumers? PC World
The Habits of Highly Effective Web 2.0 Sites Dion Hinchcliffe
Ontology of Folksonomy: A Mash-up of Apples and Oranges Tom Gruber
Rebooting HTML for the Semantic Web InfoWorld
Cool Tools
Microsoft Launches 3-D Maps For Web Search Reuters via Information Week
Get lost! Google Maps Mobile with GPS Integration Google Blog
MapLib.net: Google Maps-ify your big images Download Squad
The More the Merrier: Google Base Bulk Upgrades Ecommerce Guide
An MIT physicist sees future of tech CNN Money
New third-party Sitemaps tools from Google Google Webmaster  Blog
Powerset - applying natural language to search Data Mining
Adobe to donate script code to Mozilla CNET News
WikiMatrix: Compare them All WikiMatrix
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Answers.com Acquires FAQ Farm: Wiki-based Site Offers User-contributed Questions and Answers Answers.com
Thomson Scientific And PartMiner Form New Partnership WebWire
VNU BME Expands Reach of Lead Generation Solution KnowledgeStorm Europe BusinessWire
Pluck Raises $7 Million PE Hub
TechTarget India and the Indian Express Group Announce Strategic Partnership for Targeted IT Media BusinessWire
infoUSA Acquires Rubin Response Services, Inc. BusinessWire
NAVTEQ Agrees to Acquire Traffic.com PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
AOL buys financial news and information company Relegence Corp AFX via Forbes
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