Monday squibs

Internet reading on a snow day:

• Is It News…or Is It an Ad? According to the Wall Street Journal, more web sites are using in-text ads, including journalism sites such as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fox News. Yikes. Dan Gillmor also has an example, and Paul Conley takes offence at a supposition about B2B publications in the WSJ article.
• Stop the music already. Angela Grant is working her way through entries to the NPPA’s multimedia journalism competition and has a gripe — presentations that play music that the user can’t stop. Note to multimedia producers: interactivity includes a mute button.
• Online Video Begins To Threaten Television. A British study finds time spent watching video online is taken away from the tube.
• Pulitzer board widens range of online journalism in entries. Basically, it seems, that online is now mainstream as far as the Pulitzer’s are concerned. Via Jim Romenesko.