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• Fwix Aggregates Local News, Compensates Bloggers, Filling a Void

  BNET - 2009-12-04

  In the ongoing debate over the future of the media business, especially when it comes to news, the extremes tend to dominate, and not just ideologically. "The future is hyper-local." "The future is global." "Algorithms can do it all." (Google News.)...

  Tags: Google Inc., Journalist, Advertisement, Extremes, Blogger, Fwix, Blogging, Internet, David Weir

• Blogger Follows: Craig Calls Out the "Urban Myth" that He Hurt Newspapers

  BNET - 2009-11-06

  In a kind of "Follow Blogger Friday," we call out two small items that you may have missed, one of which quotes Craig Newmark saying that the idea that Craigslist damaged newspapers is an "urban myth." by David Weir

  Tags: Myth, Blogger, David Weir

• FTC Cracks Down on Bloggers Who Take Perks (Take Two)

  BNET - 2009-10-06

  After posting my earlier report on those proposed new FTC rules this morning, I've had an opportunity to review the actual document available both in HTML and as a PDF issued by the commission. I'm no lawyer, but this document is so long and sweeping in nature...

  Tags: Commission, FTC, Advertiser, Blogger, Blogging, Sales Force Management, Internet, Sales, David Weir

• Hacker Delivers Mixed Bag of Internal Twitter Docs to Blogger

  BNET - 2009-07-15

  TechCrunch got one of those gifts yesterday that every journalist dreams of -- a cache of 310 internal documents from Twitter that includes business projections, product plans, project pitches -- and also personal information about company employees, including co-founder Evan Williams and his wife. Thus, this is...

  Tags: Document, Journalist, Hacker, Twitter, Blogger, Michal Arrington, Internet, Hacking, Blogging, Branding, Security, Marketing, David Weir

• FTC to Probe Bloggers Who Take Money to Hawk Stuff

  BNET - 2009-07-03

  The Federal Trade Commission FTC is drawing up guidelines that will allow it to investigate bloggers who promote products, as well as the companies that pay them to do so, when such conflicts of interest are not disclosed to readers. The agency also will investigate any false claims by the...

  Tags: FTC, Twitter, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, David Weir

• What Do Women Want? More Social Media.

  BNET - 2009-05-21

  Not so long ago and not very far away, mainstream journalists could bash bloggers as a lower life form. The public hadn't really showed up or weighed in yet. Today, however, that era seems as distant as the days when there were still mainstream journalism jobs and other luxury items...

  Tags: Social Networking, Women, Social Media, Blogger, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, David Weir

• Saturday Morning's Links to Top Bloggers

  BNET - 2009-03-14

  Every now and again, it's time to give a shout-out to other media and technology bloggers for the great work they are doing. I still hear so much complaining about bloggers from various people -- journalists included -- that I have to wonder whether they actually are reading any blogs......

  Tags: Google Inc., Blogger, Blogging, Internet, David Weir

• New Media Index Contrasts Blogs & MSM

  BNET - 2009-01-30

  The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism PEJ is widely considered one of the most authoritative efforts tracking the quality of journalism in mainstream media, but until today, it has not been able to provide a similar service for bloggers, social media sites SMS, or other user-generated content...

  Tags: Media, Blogger, Pew Research Center, PEJ, Blogging, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, David Weir

• NY Times, Washington Post, CNN Partner with Bloggers

  BNET - 2008-09-25

  It seems almost like yesterday that we were reporting on the State of the Blogosphere, courtesy of Technorati's new report. (It was, in fact, the day before yesterday.) Meanwhile, new deals seem to be popping up everywhere between mainstream news companies and blogging networks. The New York...

  Tags: New York Times Co., Washington Post Co., GigaOm, CNN, Syndication, Blogger, Tolles, Blogging, Internet, David Weir

• More Followup on Google's Vision for the Future of News

  BNET - 2008-09-19

  Our posts this week about the ideas that Google executives are advocating for helping news sites build better business plans have stimulated quite a bit of conversation, only a fraction of which appears as "comments" following each of our posts. Many people, for whatever reason, prefer to just send me...

  Tags: Google Inc., Vision, Post, Blogger, Blogging, E-mail, Web Site Development, Internet, Online Communications, David Weir