Media - Internet

As he treks around Pennsylvania this summer exploring the state's storied past, history buff Robert McCreary is keeping a blog -- an online journal that anyone with access to the Internet can see. The Chalfant resident isn't doing this just for fun. He's being paid $3,000 plus expenses by the Pennsylvania Tourism Office. By offering a glimpse at the online diaries of McCreary and six others as...

It doesn't take much to get Mahmood Al-Yousif's juices flowing, to get him steamed at the latest moves by the Ministry of Information (MoI) in Bahrain. Al-Yousif, 43, is the first prominent blogger in the tiny archipelago in the Persian Gulf and runs a technology company there called Computer Point. After the MoI announced it wanted all Web sites and blogs to register with the government, Al...

A Seattle-based company is, for the first time, making it possible to explore the local history of small town America with the convenience of an internet search. SmallTownPapers, Inc. provides cutting-edge, digital archive technology used by major corporations, universities and the government to the country's smallest newspapers in an effort to preserve and make accessible the rich history...

Vienna, Va. – Nearly one in three Internet users (29 percent) read an online newspaper in March 2005, representing a total audience of nearly 44 million people, according to a new report by Nielsen//NetRatings’ for the Newspaper Association of America. The data, which takes into account both home and work Internet usage, shows a 3.1 percent increase in unique audience in March to Newspaper Web...

Google has plans that will dramatically improve the results of internet news searches, by ranking them according to quality rather than simply by their date and relevance to search terms. The ambitious system is revealed by patents filed in the US and around the world (WO 2005/029368) by researchers based at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California. At the moment the company's...

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PUBLISHERS, ADVERTISERS, and readers that at one time sustained news companies is now obsolete, according to Neil Budde, the founding editor of The Wall Street Journal Online, who was hired by Yahoo! as its news director in November. Budde spoke to OnlineMediaDaily Thursday about Yahoo!'s revamped news site, and the company's role in the evolving news business. "The days...

When I had the temerity to poke around Nick Denton's weblog business model in the pages of Business 2.0, the Gawker Media impresario responded with an entry on his personal weblog that dismissed my findings as a "blog fantasy." My contention that Denton, who had founded and flipped companies before, wasn't just indulging in a hobby and might someday sell Gawker to the highest bidder seemed to...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released 20 pages of files on President George W. Bush to an activist blogger who sought the president’s records under a Freedom of Information Act request last summer, RAW STORY has learned. The release, which comprises two threats made against the President in 2001 and 2003, is scant. It includes letters from the U.S. Secret Service to the FBI forensic...

You don't exactly fancy yourself to be the citizen journalist type. But there you were on Academy Awards night, out near the red carpet with your digital video camera in hand right as one of the celebs lost it and started beating up an unruly fan. Somehow, this scene was out of sight from the pros and you got the shot, crystal clear and brimming with epithets not suitable for prime time. So now...

"Is Yahoo! a threat to the business model of traditional news organizations? Yeah!" Quoted on the Wall Street Journal, Paul Grabowicz, director of the New Media program at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism may not be exaggerating. Over the past six months, Yahoo! News has topped every online news site in unique visitor traffic. Agreements with approximately 100...