Media - Internet

NEW YORK -- The New York Times' Web site is blocking British readers from a news article detailing the investigation into the recent airline terror plot, turning its Internet ad-targeting technology into a means of complying with U.K. laws. "We had clear legal advice that publication in the U.K. might run afoul of their law," Times spokeswoman Diane McNulty said Tuesday. "It's a country that doesn...

The difficulties of hiring people who know how to create, sell and measure internet advertising are limiting the pace at which marketers can shift money from traditional media to hot web properties such as MySpace, YouTube and other video sites. According to advertising and media industry executives, one of the biggest obstacles towards even more rapid growth in the online advertising industry –...

The Japanese version of South Korean Internet news service OhmyNews was launched Monday, featuring articles from "citizen reporters" on topics ranging from politics to entertainment. "If our network grows to feature tens of thousands of citizen reporters, it could help shed light on various problems and issues that need to be addressed in Japan," said Shuntaro Torigoe, editor in chief of the...

Korean Internet companies picked the boom of online advertising and increasing overseas sales of Korean-made online services as the two biggest issues of 2005. In a year-end report, the Korea Internet Corporations Association said that the Internet is encroaching on traditional newspaper, magazine and radio-television advertising coverage, accounting for almost 10 percent of the market. Online...

WASHINGTON - The only thing my wife loves more than picking through someone else’s junk at a garage sale is selling her junk at her own garage sale. Unfortunately, her idea of holding a garage sale consists primarily of me dragging her junk — often items she purchased in someone else’s garage — into our driveway. Invariably, this ends with her standing guard all day, pocketing $42.25 and me...

What is the most influential Internet news outlet in South Korea? Opinions may differ but based on visitor numbers, it is Naver, the green Internet portal with some 15 million visitors every day. Around six million people read news articles via Naver's news service daily, according to Internet research firm Ranky.com. Its news sources include over 80 media outlets, including newspapers, magazines...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Digital properties may be VC darlings, hot on Wall Street and coveted by advertisers. But try telling that to Dave and Jean Bretzlauf, 57-year-old accountants in a well-to-do-suburb of Denver. Dave has an iPod but no idea what a podcast is. Neither is familiar with RSS. And while they read the online versions of their local papers, they also subscribe to Rocky Mountain News...

Nielsen/NetRatings' list of the "Top Ten Fastest Growing Web Brands" in the U.S., released last week, contains plenty of the usual suspects--that is, companies that barely existed a year ago but now draw millions of eyeballs a month. Yahoo!'s (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) Flickr? Check. PartyPoker? Sure. News Corp.'s (nyse: NWS - news - people ) MySpace? Of course. Then there's the Associated...

Blogger Anthony Citrano is on the hunt to purchase an add-on car navigation system before he takes a cross-country trek from Massachusetts later this year. Rather than relying solely on information found on several manufacturers' Web sites, Citrano is getting feedback from consumer-generated content on blogs and wikis. "I went to the companies' Web site for the technical stuff, but what meant more...

TEHRAN, Iran - Sayeed Habibi considers himself a marked man. The reason: his Internet blog that challenges some of the policies of Iran's theocracy. He predicts that someday - perhaps soon - he'll be taken to prison and his site will be shut down. "And another voice will be silenced," said Habibi, a 34-year-old postgraduate and an unofficial elder statesman for student-led activist movements. "I...