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SheGeeks.net Here's what video comments look like on one site It seems the video social media service Seesmic is already fulfilling its potential to become "the next Twitter" -- insofar as...

CNet.com Was buying this popular tech news and reviews site a good deal at $1.8 billion? The Associated Press just reported: "CBS Corp. is buying CNet Networks Inc., an online news and...

Jacob Bøtter, via Flickr (CC license) According to a new survey, newspapers have lost considerable status in Denmark. New Danish research emphasizes the trouble that newspapers are in. On...

Pablin 89, via Flickr (CC license) One clue you may be in a Digerati town: geeky graffiti Where the Digitally Savvy Things Are (Advertising Age): "To find the biggest concentration of...

All kinds of media, mainstream and otherwise, are abuzz today with coverage of yesterday's major earthquake in China and its aftermath. Here's a quick roundup of some of the most compelling citizen...

twitter.com/casperodj After today's major quake in southern China, many China-based Twitter users became an important primary news source. Earlier today I got a worried message from a...

Paul Bradshaw, via seesmic.com Paul Bradshaw posted a video asking how journos could use Seesmic. (Click to watch the video and view responses.) I've been playing with Seesmic once again....

nypost.com When an Israeli court said Israeli media couldn't cover an investigation of Ehud Olmert, the NY Post broke the ice. In Israel, police are investigating Prime Minister Ehud...

I saw the future last week. The NewsTools 2008 unconference drew about 150 people who are thinking about, working on, or living the future of news and journalism. Much of NewsTools, the latest...

Dieselboii, via Flickr (CC license) Public records aren't what they used to be... In today's Watchdog Tipsheet from the Society of Environmental Journalists, Joseph A. Davis reports on a...

nytimes.com The New York Times offers a series of country-specific news aggregators. What's the point? Recently Chinadev asked me if I would allow them to post content from the RSS feed of...

Cursed Thing, via Flickr (CC license) What do you do when online comments get nasty? Today, Bill Densmore of the Media Giraffe Project is on a panel called "What to do when blog comments...

washingtonpost.com WashingtonPost.com recently applied sports-style "bracketology" to the popular TV show Lost via an online game. (Character Desmond Hume won.) Many media organizations...

Today I'm at the Newstrust 2008 conference at Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. -- along with fellow Tidbits contributors Michelle Ferrier and Maurreen Skowran. Several people here, including...

iReport.com Could sites that accept contributed "citizen journalism" content become a vehicle for advocacy? In the many academic discussions about "citizen journalism," few consider how it...

journalismenterprise.com Here's how two European newspaper sites stack up in this interactivity index. Over the past couple of weeks I've been turning the Online Journalism Blog into a...

Ynetnews.com Israeli columnist Sever Plocker's recent analysis of the flaws of U.S. media could cut both ways. As if the U.S. news business needed any more beating about the head and the...

iStockPhoto Most of what I do is help journalists and news orgs wrap their brains around the Internet. Generally I enjoy that work. Lately, though, I've been getting quite aggravated at...

Carepages.com Social networking services like CarePages are becoming an increasingly important part of the health news and info landscape. On Wednesday the California Health Care...

ReefRaff, via Flickr (CC license) Some attempts at translation just don't work. Today, Kory Kredit (director of marketing at AdOn Network) offers an intriguing pop quiz in Media Post:...