Media - Internet

TUNIS (AFX) - A world summit on the Internet is heading for a showdown over online governance, amid attempts to shift the balance of power away from the US. Delegates from some 170 countries gathered in Tunis yesterday to start a final attempt to break their three-year deadlock on the issue, said Agence France-Presse. Preliminary negotiations are not expected to be completed by the time the summit...

America Online Inc. and Microsoft Corp. yesterday announced separate deals with news organizations to add new video features to their Web services, developments that underscore how more mainstream media channels are going online. America Online's news channel, AOL.com, will feature CBSnews.com content and video on its home page. Separately, Microsoft's MSN and the Associated Press announced a...

This is going to drive the wedge further between bloggers and those who think not everything about blogs, bloggers, and blogging is right. Leading advertising magazine, Advertising Age, has alleged that its online poll about blog-reading at work was hijacked by bloggers directed to its site by blogging site Gawker.com. A report on AdAge.com, the online version of Advertising Age, said on Monday,...

Corporates need not ignore what blogs and bloggers at their own peril. IBM has introduced a new software solution that will enable businesses to make sense of the explosion of information from emerging social networks on the Web to deliver new insight into brand reputation and customer, competitor and public opinion about their company. BLOG WATCHER: IBM's new software will make it easier for...

Pajamas Media, a new blogging venture designed to bring together top online writers, journalists and commentators under a single umbrella, on Monday announced it has expanded its operations to include regional offices in the Los Angeles and New York. BIZ TIME: PajamasMedia.com The organisation also strengthened its advertising and sales team with the hiring of Tom Troja, vice president of...

Web logs are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective. Their potent allies in this pursuit include Google and Yahoo. Gregory Halpern knows how to hype. Shares of his publicly held company, Circle Group Holdings, quadrupled in price early last year amid reports that its new fat substitute, Z-Trim, was being tested by Nestlé. As the stock...

American teenagers today are utilising the interactive capabilities of the Internet as they create and share their own media creations. Fully half of all teens and 57 per cent of teens who use the Internet can be considered content creators. They have created a blog or webpage, posted original artwork, photography, stories or videos online or remixed online content into their own new creations...

The number of blogs on the internet is doubling every five months, according to blog-tracking site Technorati. The total is now around 20 million, with around 1.3 million posts made each day. Most are no more interesting than overhearing another person's telephone call, but there are exceptions that can have a remarkable impact. An example was posted on a Monday evening by Windows guru Mark...

A growing number of Canadians consider the Internet a very important source of information, even though less than half of them consider it accurate, according to a new survey. The survey was conducted by the Canadian Internet Project (CIP), a research organization that studies the role of the Internet in society. IT released the results of the survey Wednesday, and compared them with data from...

Time Warner today posted an 80 per cent increase in profits, boosted its share buyback plan to $12.5 billion from $5 billion, and confirmed it was in talks over its AOL internet arm with "a number of strategic partners". It had already been a busy week for the media conglomerate. Separately, the company today said its Time Inc unit had received a writ from a federal grand jury in connection with...