Media - Internet

SAN FRANCISCO - Like thousands of other Web sites, EDN.com relies on Google Inc. to handle a lucrative piece of Internet advertising _ the briefly worded links that produce revenue-generating clicks by targeting each individual reader's interests. The relationship has been profitable so far, but the managers of the technology Web site believe they could be making even more money if Google's system...

On January 2, The Wall Street Journal Online posted a story with the headline: "Green Beans Comes Marching Home." It happened to be an article about the Green Beans Coffee Co., which serves overseas U.S. military bases, opening its first cafe in the United States. Let's say you were interested in the subject but didn't know the Journal had written an article on it. You might type into a search...

The prevailing online business model for newspapers is to provide free access to their Web sites and then generate all of their online revenue through advertising. Now, one of the prominent exceptions – the Financial Times of London – may be considering changes to its online subscription model. The Pearson-owned Times typically provides only a limited selection of free full-length articles at FT...

NEW YORK - Internet users are taking avidly to sites that let them label photos, movies and blogs with their own descriptive tags, providing a major new way of organizing information online, according to a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The December survey, released Wednesday, found that 28 percent of Internet users have tagged content, and 7 percent have done so on a typical...

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Times Editor James E. O'Shea unveiled a major initiative Wednesday morning designed to expand the audience and revenue generated by the newspaper's Web site, saying the newspaper was in "a fight to recoup threatened revenue that finances our news-gathering." O'Shea employed dire statistics on declining advertising to urge the Times' roughly 940 journalists to throw off a...

(IFEX-TMG) - Hosting the United Nations-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunisia, a country where repression of human rights - in particular freedom of expression - is rampant, remains controversial. Kofi Annan, then Secretary-General of the UN, stated that the holding of the WSIS in Tunisia offered "a good opportunity for the Government of Tunisia to address various...

New York, January 18, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomed the public disclosure today that leading Internet companies are in talks with human rights organizations, including CPJ, investors, and legal experts to draw up a code of conduct for technology companies that would safeguard the right to free expression and privacy of Web users. The talks began last year but were not...

The nation's three largest newspaper publishers are gearing up to sell advertising jointly on their newspapers' Web sites, believing their survival depends on seizing new online revenue. Gannett Co., McClatchy Co. and Tribune Co. are planning to offer advertisers one-stop shopping for display ads on Internet sites. The goal is to attract big advertisers such as car makers and phone companies that...

NEW DELHI: Even amid growing concern over cyber security, hacker groups defaced at least 340 Indian websites during November 2006, up from 244 sites targeted during last month. This takes the total number of Indian sites (government and non-government), that came under attack by hackers in the first nine months of the year, to over 4,000. Almost half of the websites targeted during November were...

Digg continues to crack down on users who plant phony stories on behalf of marketers, recently deleting a user who posted a story about a company that offered to compensate him. The news aggregate site, which allows users to play editor and decide the value of a news story, deleted the user account belonging to Karim Yergaliyev, one of Digg's top-rated users. Digg spokesman David Fonkalsrud, who...