The New York Times reports that Ask Jeeves, the fourth largest search engine firm, has been acquired:IAC/InterActiveCorp, the Internet company headed by Barry Diller, is close to an agreement to acquire Ask Jeeves Inc., the…
Back from the UK and a chance to use the jet-lagged early hours to make some further adjustments to Morgan McLintic on PR. I’ve started to use some more descriptive categories such as Media, Blogging,…
Yahoo!’s corporate development team has been busy as it extends its services for photos, tagging and blogging, with the acquisition of Flickr. Announced via Flickr’s blog (on a Sunday afternoon – there’s nothing in Yahoo’s…
The Guardian Online’s feed, has a post today highlighting the fact it has RSS feeds. Err…
The Washington Post has advice for corporate blogs, many of which are dry and dull: "Repositing marketing materials on a blog is a waste of time," said Rebecca Blood, author of "The Weblog Handbook: Practical…
Ian Lipner highlights a great resource from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism about the State of the US media. This is a fantastic resource detailing trends in newspapers, cable TV, network TV, local…
Dave Sifry has published the second of two great posts about the State of the Blogosphere. This one highlights the number of posts over time, and Dave interestingly links spikes in the number of posts…
The New York Times today has a long feature about the challenge facing news publishers with declining print revenues, and increasing numbers of free-ride online readers. How do they monetize this traffic? If they charge…
The San Francisco Chronicle interviews Tim Draper of VC firm, Draper Fisher Jurvetson today. Q: Where is the industry now, having come out of that whole experience? It’s gone through a number of really tough…
Peter Cole, a professor of journalism at Sheffield University, analyzes the impact The Daily Mail is having on other UK dailies, in today’s Independent on Sunday. The ‘Mail’ is on a charge at the moment,…