CNN’s Klein says he fears social networks

At a press event in NY today, CNN chief Jonathan Klein says he fears social networks more than his TV competition. “The competition I’m really afraid of are social networking sites,” he said. “That threatens to pull people away from us. The people you’re friends with on Facebook or the people you follow on [...]

KSTP to launch hyperlocal network in Minneapolis

KSTP (ABC) in Minneapolis-St. Paul is launching a network of 80 – 90 hyperlocal sites in the region. KSTP, owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, is going to use the DataSphere technology – the same platform that powers the KOMO hyperlocals in Seattle. Paul Gaulke, creative services director of KSTP, tells MinnPost:
“A lot of the news that [...]

ABC restored to NYC Cablevision subscribers

A deal has been reached, and ABC is back on in New York City for Cablevision subscribers. As a result, New Yorkers only missed the first 13 minutes of the Oscars (I can inform them they didn’t miss much). Earlier on Sunday, ABC pulled its New York affiliate, WABC-TV from Cablevision in a fight over [...]

IB CEO David Lebow: The Lost Remote Interview

The folks at Internet Broadcasting (IB) have been keeping busy. Recently the company announced that three of its equity parnters were re-upping with the company. This week, we have learned, it will announce a strategic partnership with Mashery, a provider of API solutions, to help its clients extend their services to mobile platforms. We spoke [...]

ABC pulls signal from Cablevision in NYC

Just hours before the Oscars are set to begin, ABC has pulled its affiliate, WABC, off Cablevision in New York City. ABC parent company Disney and Cablevision are in a dispute over how much money Cablevision should pay. Three million New Yorkers are affected by the move. Disney wants Cablevision to pay $1 per month [...]

Notes: Iraq election, NYC bloggers, UK Hyperlocal

Noted, while wondering why I wake up earlier on Sundays than any other day of the week…
NYTimes.com is liveblogging the Iraqi elections
NYC issues press passes to bloggers for the first time. (journalism.co.uk)
Hyperlocal in UK under attack from established paper (AboutMyArea)

Notes: Microsoft Tab, ShatnerSpace, YT Captions

Noted, after watching “Alice in Wonderland” and giving it a C…
Whole bunch of pictures of the Microsoft Tablet at engadget. Coolness abounds.
Shatner creates his own social network at MyOuterSpace.com. A Sci-Fi social network. Could he have owned this space (as it were) if he thought of this years ago, or what? (Geekosystem via Mediaite)
Oscar advertisers [...]

Notes: ProPublica, CNC, WaPo’s $1.99 app

A “reporting recipe” to dig up dirt like ProPublica (Nieman)
Chicago News Cooperative has some impressive talent (AJR via Romanesko)
Index pegs Facebook at $11.5B, Twitter at $1.4B, LR at 2.2 B(eers) (BizJournals)
A year of the WaPo for $1.99? Gotta admit, that sounds reasonable. (PaidContent)
And, to go with this week’s theme of hyperlocal alcohol, enjoy a hyperlocal [...]

The ‘Glue’ that holds together more social networking

There’s another social networking site out there now. That may be a ho-hum way to begin an essay, but stay with me for a moment because the new site does many things well. “Glue” works because it takes a new approach to sharing – that is, the sharing of things you like, in large lists. [...]

RTDNA to FCC: Success comes from reinvention

RTDNA President Emeritus Barbara Cochran speaks at the FCC’s “Future of Media” workshop today, and she brings a message about transformation and reinvention. Barbara uses many examples of the good work that local stations are doing as they transform themselves:
“To continue to provide high quality news for their communities at a time when revenues are [...]

Raycom to add neighborhood sites

Add Raycom to the growing list of companies partnering with DataSphere on neighborhood blog sites. In a press release, the company announced it will launch local sites in 35 towns and cities, using DataSphere’s LocalNet service. DataSphere is hot right now, having raised almost $11 million in funding recently.
Raycom, which owns 46 television stations, [...]

Heaton: ‘Kicking butt with Continuous News’

LR Blogger Emeritus (and my business partner for three years) Terry Heaton writes about why Continuous News is the way to go in his blog entry “Kicking butt with Continuous News.” Continuous News, for the uninitiated, is the publication of news as it comes in, rather than in the traditional style of having a conventional [...]

Notes: Facebook ads, NBC to stay broadcast, WiFiPads

Facebook ads: sometimes, a little creepy (NYT)
Comcast says it has no plans to move NBC to cable. (Ad Age)
AT&T thinks people will favor the WiFi-only version of the iPad and not the 3G version. Or, at least, it really hopes so. (ReadWriteWeb)
Comedy Central pulls “Colbert Report” and “The Daily Show” off Hulu. (Good Morning Silicon [...]

E.W. Scripps blames low online advertising on print

There’s an interesting tidbit to be found in the latest quarterly earnings report from E.W. Scripps. Nieman points out that the company seems to be blaming its lower online ad revenue on its newspapers. Nieman found this telltale quote:
“The decline in online revenue…is attributable to the weakness in print classified advertising, to which roughly half [...]

Video: The State of the Internet

Some amazing stats in here about how we use the internet. Well worth your time.

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.

Liveblogging trials: where do you stand?

Southern Methodist University prof Jake Batsell raises a thought-provoking discussion over at Journalism 2.0, as he presents the pros and cons of liveblogging (or Tweeting, or whatever) a courtroom trial. Batsell presented a case study to his class:
“…examining the Bakersfield Californian’s Web coverage of a quintuple-murder trial in 2007. The young reporter was under pressure [...]

Notes: Patch’s bucks, Twitter local, hyperlocal hooch

Also noted: The Bruins haven’t won a home game since they played at Fenway Park on New Year’s Day. Freaky.

AOL is pouring $50 million into Patch, its hyperlocal effort. (WaPo/TechCrunch)
Twitter adding improved geo-location. (Fast Company)
Teens Into Social Media, Not Newspapers (More insightful than it sounds) (Mediaweek)
Murdoch: WSJ’s New York metro edition to take on Times, [...]

Paid newspaper apps are working in Europe

A sign of things to come? Despite plenty of protest and studies to the opposite, it appears people are willing to pay for digital content from traditional newspapers, as long as the process is easy. AdAge reports that newspapers in Europe are having some success with their apps, something that is likely to increase with [...]

Notes: ABC News, Carlos Slim and OK Go

Noted, while wondering if coffee could be considered “breakfast soup”:

Diane Mermigas: “How to Halt ABC News’ Slide Toward Irrelevance.” (BNet)
Facebook Drives 3X Traffic to Broadcast (sites) Than Google News (ReadWriteWeb)
CNN’s Leon Harris: “An anchorman SHOULD be a journalist!” (Poynter)
Will Carlos Slim buy the NYT? We don’t know. We just like the name “Carlos Slim.”
Finally, [...]

When a $5 CPM is really a $1 CPM

This is absolutely insane. The way online ad media buying is set up right now, there are so many hands in the cookie jar that it’s nearly impossible for anyone to make substantive CPM-based ad money. That’s the premise behind this excellent article at Business Insider, which takes us through the Byzantine process of online [...]