The Internet is up for a Nobel Peace Prize

Download YouTube videos in one click. Is this legal? What do you think?

In light of our paper, this application doesn't seem like it will be around too long.

"The Federal Communications Commission is proposing an ambitious 10-year plan that will reimagine the nation's media and technology priorities by establishing high-speed Internet as the country's dominant communication network. "

Interesting interview that highlights how we may miss normality when we highlight diversity in reporting.

To make money online, don't ask if you should charge, but rather when to charge and when not to charge.

Might this be an alternative for investigative reporting for web 2.0? Or at least a first step.

The Wall Street Journal will introduce a New York metro section in April, which will compete with the New York Times for advertising dollars.

Columnists are struggling to survive in today's media landscape. At best, they are hanging in there. Only about 20% are actual employees of newspapers rather than free-lance writers. Some columnists are writing blogs and books instead. But, like we mentioned in class last week, it is very very difficult to generate income from blog writing.

The American Society of Business Publication Editors and the Medill School at Northwestern University did a study of B2B editors and found that most didn't have any sort of corporate digital training, but they have to figure it out on their own.

Because of staff cuts, ABC and CBS are relying on journalists who can use digital equipment to produce stories themselves, or just use smaller teams.

because many news organizations don't have automatic filters for detecting plagiarism, it's important for journalists to have rules and guidelines about how to not accidentally plagiarize. Copy and paste features, and referencing blogs and whatnot make plagiarism especially easy, and journalists may not even realize they are doing it.

This article analyzes the positive and negative aspects of web 2.0 journalism.

The Associated Press is creating a strategic business unit to come up with fresh experiences for news on the web, mobile phones, tablets, and e-readers.

Brands and companies aren't necessarily producing real output, but rather just responding and reacting in the social media world. This spreads awareness of their brand, but really means they're producing media rather than products. Interesting thought.

New York Times experienced an upswing in Internet ad revenue. This analyst says they shouldn't get too excited.

FT Press, taking a hint from the twitter/blog/rss trend and came up with a business plan to dice up their best book content into smaller, downloadable formats.

Google will acquire Aardvark, which is Q & A site. This somehow makes Ask.com think that the future of search lies in Q & A sites. Do you agree? I'm not so sure.

The Daily News publisher may run for senate.

President Obama's 2009 stimulus package was the most expensive bill in history, yet received strong media support. This is because the media; ABC, CBS, and NBC cite supporters of the bill 3 times as often as they mention critics, and nearly half of their reports included no criticism about the bill at all!