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• Link Happy: Are News Sites Contributing To Information Overload?

  PaidContent - 2009-11-02

  By Mercedes Bunz: It was about a year ago, that the media expert Jeff Jarvis proclaimed: ““Links are the currency of the new media economy.”.”But as with every currency, there might be inflation. Nick Bilton illustrates in the upcoming Wired UK that news sites learned that lesson - but...

  Tags: Wired Inc., Word, News Site, Mirror Group, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Currency & Foreign Exchange, E-mail, Internet, Finance, Online Communications, Media & Publishing, Online News, MediaGuardian

• Conde Nast Digital Starts Feeding Video Content To Boxee

  PaidContent - 2009-08-25

  Boxee users will now be able to watch video clips from Wired.com like this one on how to set up a chemistry lab in your house and Style.com, as well as Style.com’s photo slideshows. Conde Nast Digital has become the latest media provider to do a content distribution deal...

  Tags: Wired Inc., Video, Streaming Media, Boxee, Conde Nast Digital, Web Site Development, Corporate Communications, Web Technology, Digital Media, Internet, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Social Media, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Tameka Kee

• Those Wired Digital Layoffs: The Facts

  BNET - 2009-04-05

  One of the nice things about being a gossip columnist, as opposed to a journalist, is that you can trade in rumors while they are hot. Starting mid-week, I followed closely headlines like  Wired.com 'Gutted' in Conde Layoffs. Bad news travels fast, especially online, and even faster...

  Tags: Layoff, Wired Inc., Blogging, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Internet, Human Resources, David Weir

• Media Roundup: Wired Editor's New Gig, Judith Miller as Media Pundit, and More

  BNET - 2008-11-10

  Open-source investigations: the new new journalism -- Journalist David Cohn has launched a non-profit project that raises funds from different donors to complete investigative reports on big topics. Journalists can pitch story ideas, as can the general public. Funds are raised on the project's website, Spot.us, and the finished article...

  Tags: Wired Inc., Media, Funds, Advertising & Promotion, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Marketing, Internet, Karen Steen

• The Publisher and his Chocolate Factory

  BNET - 2008-10-17

  So what, you may ask, did your faithful BNET media blogger do today? He toured a chocolate factory; indeed, the only chocolate factory in San Francisco.  Now, even though we cover a fairly wide range of companies in this space, I bet you couldn't have seen this one coming. ...

  Tags: Wired Inc., Media, Louis Rossetto, TCHO, Advertising & Promotion, Social Networking, Blogging, Manufacturing, Web Site Development, Marketing, Online Communications, Internet, David Weir

• Add Highlighter Notes to Web Pages with Wired Marker (Firefox)

  BNET - 2008-08-06

  Wired Marker is a Firefox extension that lets you highlight sections of Web pages for future reference. Indeed, it's akin to running a highlighter over passages in a book, but with a lot more power. The extension adds a Wired Marker sidebar folder to Firefox. After "highlighting"...

  Tags: Web, Mozilla Firefox, Wired Inc., IBM Lotus Notes, Web Page, Wired Marker, Channel Management, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet, Rick Broida

• Zuckerberg Interview Shows It's a Wild, Wired World

  - 2008-03-10

  Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed on stage at the SXSWi conference by former BusinessWeek journalist and author Sarah Lacy. It didn't go well -- Lacy, who can be a bit of a smarty pants, was channeling her inner David Letterman, asking off-the-wall questions, interrupting Zuckerberg...

  Tags: Jon Greer, Internet, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Public Relations, Mark Zuckerberg, Wired Inc., Web

• Don't Be Shy About Doing Research on Journalists

  - 2008-01-23

  If you were going in to a major sales meeting, you'd want to know everything possible about the potential customer: their likes and dislikes, their career history, their interests, and so on. It would be no-brainer. And the same is true for most other business meetings with important people...

  Tags: Corporate Communications, Marketing, Blogging, Professional Development, Public Relations, Wired Inc., Journalist, Career, Internet, Jon Greer

• Web watch

  - 2007-12-04

  TV *Writers for Late Night With Conan O'Brien, including O'Brien himself, are posting their thoughts on the writers' strike at LateNight Underground.com. More info and photos can be found on the official blog, blog.nbc.com/latenight. *Rainn Wilson appears in a new clip for...

  Tags: INTERNET, PBS, photograph, Pixar Animation Studios Inc., strike, Web, Wired Inc.

• Diller Bets On Simplicity, Divides IAC

  - 2007-11-05

  The highest paid CEO of 2005, Barry Diller, announced today that he will break up his massive media and internet conglomerate IAC/Interactive Corp. into five separate companies. Diller explained the move in a statement: "I've always believed our complexity and many mouthfuls of sentences to explain...

  Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Branding, Internet, Wired Inc., IAC/InterActive Corp., Marketing, Jessica Stillman