Vaughn Ververs on CBS News' Public Eye: "The word of the day is: 'overreact.' As in, bloggers and commentators certainly did overreact to our posting about journalists who blog. … If one reads our entry about journalist bloggers, it's really pretty clear what we were shooting for. Brian stipulated in the opening that the purpose […]

A few lucky early adopters have already cashed in on podcasting.
Podcasting Goldrush Is On [Wired]

The premiere episode of Chris Rock's new sitcom, Everybody Hates Chris, is available online - and not just illegally from P2P torrent sites, but wholly sanctioned by its network in partnership with the sum-of-all-fears, Google.
The implication from Google virtually becoming users' replacement for television is just as scary as the Googlezon/EPIC threat on the future […]

Robert Papper of Ball State University: "Television is still the 800-pound gorilla because of how much the average person is exposed to it. … However, that is quickly evolving. When we combine time spent on the Web, using e-mail, instant messaging and software such as word processing, the computer eclipses all other media with the single exception […]

God laughs at our plans for tomorrow.
Is the "Future of News" Telling Future News? [MediaCenter morph]

"(Reporters Without Borders) media watchdog said it gives people who want to set up a blog tips on how to do so, how to publicise it, as well as how to establish credibility. It also offers advice about writing blogs from countries with tough media restrictions, such as Iran and China."
Blog censorship handbook released [BBCNews.com]

CyberJournalist points out a new service mapping headlines from MSNBC:
Poly9 MSN Virtual Earth application [MSNBC]
This application, while pretty, certainly isn't new; this site is one of my old favorites which has been around for years:
World News Map [MapReport.com]

Lou Alexander gives his spin on the "devil's bargain" involved in publically-traded news organizations. While shareholders' funding at offering was great, in return CEOs and company boards fiscally, legally, competitvely and professionally cannot trim back on profits to better fund newsroom intiatives - especially not in this age of migration from print to new media […]

Quote from Good Morning Silicon Valley: "The first rule of The Google Partner Forum is - you do not talk about The Google Partner Forum. The second rule of The Google Partner Forum is - you DO NOT talk about The Google Partner Forum."
Google Zeitgeist '05 [Google]

Blogver-what? Oh hell no… I think at best it's spam, at worst it's fraud.
No, on second thought, I'm sure: Intentionally confusing readers about editorial content with advertisers' messages is just plain fraud on everyone involved.
Is It an Article, an Ad, a Blogvertorial? [Poynter]
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Spam Blogs [Photo Matt]