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Colin Walker » Running with the pack?
Yesterday, Michael Martine of Remarkablogger posted the concept of using a ‘blog pack‘ to enhance the promotion of your site. A blog pack is a group of bloggers who set up an ‘alliance’ to cross promote each others sites by way of comments, links,

Home | Spot.us
Community Funded Reporting"Spot Us" is a nonprofit website that allows an individual or group to take control of news in their community by sharing the cost (crowdfunding) to commission freelance journalists to write important, or uncovered...

DigiDave | Journalism is a Process, Not a Product: My Next Assignment, Hopefully A Lifelong Contribution to Journalism
The journalism blogosphere has matured over the years. We are no longer in a state of pure panic. Surely the news industry has issues it needs to figure out, but I like to think we are self-aware and moving forward. There is a strong community of people w

YouTube Offers Ad Placement in Soon-to-Be Popular Clips - ClickZ
YouTube has begun offering advertisers the ability to pair their in-video ads with videos the site believes are on their way to becoming viral hits.

Off topic: The facade of objectivity | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
For me–a tweener in this blogger-meets-journalism world–there’s another long-time rant sparked by this overblown back and forth between Wired and TechCrunch. The rant: The facade of objectivity. The best thing about blogging is that you generally ca

EXCESS COPYRIGHT: Watching Getty Images Watching Canadians
Getty Images is demanding exorbitant amounts of money for what appear to be trivial infringements at the most in the case of which I am aware, and the demands are far in excess of what any Canadian court would ever likely award even after a trial.

Metrics: Trouble in Online Adland - GigaOM
The overall trends you pick up from the report are not that surprising. For instance, the improved monetization of small web sites is because they have more focused content, which presents more targeted advertising opportunity.

Dailymotion's Kate Burns on monetising UGC | E-business Briefing | E-consultancy.com
Excellent interview dealing with aspects of User Generated Video, advertising and associated business models

Tomim. M&E Strategy & Technology
Craig Dwyer's site and blog

Royal Television Society - Bazalgette talk re. Boggle
Ideas for public sector broadcasting and Boggle - a publicly funded online service with content produced by museums, cultural organisations and individuals