WSJ.com to expand free content, keep paid model

Rupert Murdoch told a crowd in Davos, Switzerland that WSJ.com would expand its free content offerings - but would still charge for “really special things.” He didn’t say exactly what those things are - but did note that the price would likely go up.

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BBC blog admits they don’t know what’s going on

Thursday BBC Worldwide announced a deal with MySpace.com that brings content from the BBC to the huge social networking website. Apparently the editorial team at BBC News didn’t know, and on the same day ran a story about how hard it is to delete your profile from MySpace. Bad timing? Sure. But this blog entry on BBC’s technology blog made me, well, LOL. It called the irony of the timing:

A good way of proving a) how impartial we are and b) how no two parts of the BBC know what each other is up to.

The new MySpace page does look nice though. There are lots of videos, although no videos from BBC News. Also, the videos are able to be embedded onto external sites. A feature we at LostRemote love.

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KPIX launches local blog aggregator

The CBS5.com team in San Francisco along with new hire Brittney Gilbert (formerly of WKRN fame) have launched Eye on the Blogs, a local blog and blog aggregator. “It’s a weblog about blogs in the Bay Area,” writes Gilbert in her first blog post. “Any blog produced within the Bay Area that I can find will be added to our blogroll, as well as the aggregator, in the hopes of making this a one-stop source for self-published online content.” Read B&C’s blurb about the launch here. Clearly, I’m a big fan of this, because I launched CitizenRain.com last year, Seattle’s blog aggregator. Unlike CitizenRain, Eye on the Blogs is wrapped in CBS5.com’s branding and navigation.

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YouTube to soon allow mobile video uploads

In an upcoming feature, YouTube says it will make it possible for 3G-enabled cell phone users to shoot a video clip and upload it directly to the site. In other words, YouTube is enabling a wireless video army — a development that should be of immediate interest to TV news operations.

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ESPN mobile site beats ESPN.com

Whoa, I just heard about this a couple weeks after the fact. During the NFL playoffs for a day in the first week of January, ESPN’s mobile site racked up more page views than ESPN.com itself. This folks, is a watershed moment. “We’re having extraordinary growth on ESPN.com’s NFL pages, but we’re also seeing extraordinary usage with mobile devices as well,” said Ed Erhardt, president-ESPN ABC Sports customer marketing and sales, calling mobile “a big part of the future as it relates to how fans are going to consume sports.”

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