Svårt lyckas med underhållningsshow på nätet

Shows on Web Have Been More Miss Than Hit - Los Angeles Times: "For the big Internet companies, their 'hits' have been e-mail, Web search, instant messaging and other services that keep people coming back regularly, said advertising executive Jeff Lanctot. Now, they are trying to build even bigger audiences with video programming.

Few of their efforts have resonated, however, with the Web's notoriously fickle taste makers.

Most clips that do become sensations never make a dime. A video of two Chinese students lip-syncing to American pop music became as widely e-mailed as any clips created by traditional media."

Allt fler sökare

MediaPost Publications - Search Use Grows 39% - 03/06/2006: "WEB USERS CONDUCTED A RECORD 5.7 billion searches in January, marking a 39 percent increase from last January's 4.1 billion, according to new data from Nielsen//NetRatings. Search activity in January also increased by about 12 percent from December, when users conducted about 5.1 billion search queries. "

PR vinnare när mediernas trovärdighet ifrågasätts

NYO - News Story 3: "?In a world where we don?t have a belief in a single source, you don?t have a Walter Cronkite anymore. P.R. is the discipline on the rise,? said Richard W. Edelman, president and chief executive of the public-relations firm Edelman.

?P.R.,? he said, ?plays much better in a world that lacks trust.?"

Amazon vill sälja teve och film över nätet

Amazon Considering Downloads - New York Times: "Amazon.com is in talks with three Hollywood studios about starting a service that would allow consumers to download movies and TV shows for a fee and burn them onto DVD's, according to three people briefed on the discussions."

Fortsatt kraftig ökning av annonsering i nättidningar

MediaPost Publications - Online Newspapers' Q4 Ad Revenues Soar To $552 Million - 03/13/2006: "However, the real growth came on newspaper Web sites, where spending continued to show double-digit growth--with a 32.5 percent increase over the same period the previous year, for a total of $552 million. It was the seventh consecutive quarter of double-digit online increases, the NAA reported. For the full year, ad spending on newspaper Web sites jumped 31.5 percent, reaching a new record of $2.0 billion. "

Supersmala tevekanaler på nätet

As Internet TV Aims at Niche Audiences, the Slivercast Is Born - New York Times: "Perhaps more interesting ? and, arguably, more important ? are the thousands of producers whose programming would never make it into prime time but who have very dedicated small audiences. It's a phenomenon that could be called slivercasting."

Som blaskigt öl?

Economist.com | Articles by Subject | Blogging: "JOURNALISM is like making beer. Or so Glenn Reynolds says in his engaging new book. Without formal training and using cheap equipment, almost anyone can do it. The quality may be variable, but the best home-brews are tastier than the stuff you see advertised during the Super Bowl. This is because big brewers, particularly in America, have long aimed to reach the largest market by pushing bland brands that offend no one. The rise of home-brewing, however, has forced them to create ?micro-brews? that actually taste of something. In the same way, argues Mr Reynolds, bloggers?individuals who publish their thoughts on the internet?have shaken up the mainstream media (or MSM, in blogger parlance)."

Taggning fungerar inte riktigt bra - än så länge

How can tagging be more useful? | News.blog | CNET News.com: "That means, the panelists and audience members argued, that while tagging offers the promise of fully contextual content, it can still be too hard for users to find what they want, or to re-find something they've bookmarked or manually tagged. "

USA:s bäst bloggande nyhetstidningar

The Best Blogging Newspapers in the U.S.* | Blue Plate Special: "Fifteen undergraduates in journalism, two grad students, and one professor set out to determine--by our lights-- the top blogging newspapers in the U.S. among major dailies. We found six standouts, two honorable mentions and some wacky blogs. Number One in our eyes: the Houston Chronicle. By a mile. "