Media - Internet

Yahoo! Inc.'s China Web site warns users they're not allowed to post content that "divulges state secrets, subverts the government or undermines national unity." Yahoo's India site has no such prohibition. Undeterred by China's restrictions, Yahoo, owner of the world's most-visited Web portal, last week paid $1 billion for a 40 percent stake in China's biggest online commerce firm, Alibaba.com...

THE NEW YORK TIMES CAUGHT my eye last week with its short August 5 editorial, "Measuring the Blogosphere." Pegged to Technorati's recent "State of the Blogosphere" report - which said 80,000 new blogs are created every day, with some 14.2 million in existence already -- the editorial essentially conceded the arrival of blogging. While the old Gray Lady's editorial revelation is rather late in the...

Hostilities flared this week between the two best-known blog networks after comScore released a blog readership study that was co-sponsored by Six Apart and blog network Gawker Media. The turmoil highlighted both the problems of panel-based media research and the increasingly high stakes of blog advertising. The report aims to measure the size and characteristics of the blog audience, as well as...

WASHINGTON – Mainstream journalism is running scared. It's watching its audience numbers decline and its public trust numbers drop. Newspapers, magazines, and network television news have been shaken by major scandals. The media have seen the future and it is blogging. Or at least that's the story this year. "Mainstream journalism," however you want to define it, has been under siege so long it's...

NEW DELHI, August 10: It is a classic case of small numbers driving big numbers � barely 5 per cent of urban Internet users in India drive 42 per cent of all online sales. No, things are not as bad as they may sound – two out of every five urban Internet user makes purchases online, and a quarter of the Internet users shop online regularly. Now for the big number � as many as 4.2 million people...

Google has introduced RSS and Atom feeds for its popular Google News aggregation service. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, and Atom are XML-based document formats that alert Internet users to the latest articles or postings on their favorite Web sites via a single feed reader, which can be integrated into an e-mail application or Web browser. Google News users can now subscribe to get an RSS or...

AS WITH SEVERAL OTHER MAJOR publishers, online revenue at The Washington Post Company outperformed print in the second quarter of this year, according to its earnings report released Friday. Last month, both The New York Times Company and the Dow Jones Company reported a disproportionately strong quarter for online revenue. Overall, net income at The Washington Post Company declined 7 percent over...

Earlier this week, Technorati, a Web site that indexes blogs, released its semiannual "State of the Blogosphere" report. It records a steady, and astonishing, growth. Nearly 80,000 new blogs are created every day, and there are some 14.2 million in existence already, 55 percent of which remain active. Some 900,000 new blog postings are added every day - a steady increase marked by extraordinary...

MORE THAN TWO YEARS AFTER Google launched AdSense, Yahoo! today will unveil a beta version of its own network for small and mid-size publishers. Yahoo! plans to invite about 2,000 smaller publishers into the new offering, Yahoo! Publisher Network, before expanding further by the end of the year, said Will Johnson, general manager-vice president of Yahoo! Publisher Network Online. At launch, the...

The newspaper editorial, in its traditional form, is strictly an insider's game: The elite group of writers on the editorial board hash out their opinions, draw their own conclusions and assert their stance in the morning paper. In June, the Los Angeles Times took a bold, though temporary, departure from that model when it used a new technology to open up one of its editorials to what amounted to...