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Update: The weekend transition from NowBreaking.com to LostRemote.com went well, and we’re back in business. The folks at LaughingSquid (our new host) have been great, responding to tech support emails in mere minutes. Sure beats Earthlink. For bloggers who have linked NowBreaking in the last few weeks, my apologies as many of the links will, ahem, break, since I’ve switched to a new story naming convention.
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Some thoughts from Turner Broadcasting CEO Phil Kent on CNN.com and the Pipeline subscription video service: “I don’t know that the retail subscription for video news is going to be a huge business. I think most people believe they’re entitled to get enormous amounts of news for free, and they can find enormous amounts of news for free. But we attach advertising to a podcast, and we sell that. We can put video advertising on the site. We intend to make money one way or the other with all of these.” Kent said he hasn’t “seen anything as good” as Pipeline on the web, and the service is still in its early days.
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A quick glance through YouTube finds a few videos from people filing their thoughts on the travel chaos on Thursday. These two were fortunate to make it through a delay, The Chronicle Telegram shows the scene at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, a gentleman named Ross C. Brown talks about the hand luggage security changes in a video diary, while me… fed up 
is an… odd bit of work.
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The Globe and Mail has a solid roundup of some of the different ways people used the web to tell the story of the terror plot disruption. Among the most popular tools was Flickr. (Via CyberJournalist)
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It’s always good to take a step back and review old vs. new thought in convergent media, especially when “new” becomes “old” so fast. Mark Glaser succinctly goes through trends in oldthink vs. newthink in his latest column. One example:
Oldthink: Forcing people to register in order to read a news site or watch a video service, and then inundate them with targeted advertising.
Newthink: Letting people view a site without registering, and serve up targeted ads based on the interests of that person — a.k.a. behavioral advertising.
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XM has cut a deal with Alltel Wireless to deliver some of its commercial-free stations to Alltel cellphone customers for $7.99 a month. The deal is similar to one Sirius made with Sprint last year.
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The managing editor and assistant managing editor of CJRdaily.org, the web component of the Columbia Journalism Review, have resigned, protesting the school’s decision to cut the site’s budget in half. From the NY Times: “(Columbia J-school Dean Nicholas) Lemann said he was faced with the same quandary confronting most news organizations today — how to pay for an online staff when the site is free to readers.” Suggestion, courtesy of the consulting arm: Kill the magazine and invest in the website. (Free reg. req)
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