Nov
20
Items of note from out of the ether:
- Yahoo to share online advertising with newspapers. News of a new deal between the online giant and a number of newspaper chains, providing some relief for the print beasts. Jeff Jarvis offers his take (The yahoos and Yahoo), as does Vin Crosbie (Hundreds of American Newspapers Surrender) and Dan Gillmor (Yahoo’s Partnership with Newspapers). Seems to me this agreement is a temporary, transitional one at best, helping both sides through this messy stage in the reinvention of newspapers.
- ‘Potemkin Village’ redux. A year after stirring up a hornet’s nest of slapback, Tom Grubisich revisits a number of citizen journalism sites to find things a little — but not — improved. Sure to raise a fuss.
