Mediagazer: Why blogging still matters (Mac Slocum/O'Reilly Radar)

Tanzina Vega / Media Decoder:

Internet Advertising Revenue Increases — Advertising revenue on the Internet just broke a record, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. — Revenue for the first half of 2010 was $12.1 billion, an 11.3 percent increase over the same period last year.

Discussion: IAB, TechCrunch, Adrants and Search Engine Land

Internet Ad Revenues Break Records, Climb to More Than $12 Billion for First Half of '10 — Search Remains Strong, Digital Video Soars as Display Gains Momentum—Double-Digit Growth in Online Advertising Is Back — The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PwC US today released …

Discussion: rbr.com, paidContent, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Business Wire, VentureBeat, Kirk LaPointe's … and Soup

Robert Feder / blogs.vocalo.org:

Time for Tribune to clear the air on foul management — ← Chicago in the national news: 10/12 … Authors — blogs.vocalo.orgis proudly powered by WordPress — Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS). — Yashfa ver. 1.7 created by WP GPL — Just another day at the naughty, bawdy frat house known as Tribune Tower.

Discussion: Romenesko

Discussion: Media Decoder, Romenesko, Tower Ticker, The Wrap, LA Observed, The Wire and Gawker

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Ad.ly Promises to Get More Celebrities, Pitching More Stuff, In Your Facebook Feed — Facebook has a big ad business. But its display ads tend to get ignored by the overwhelming majority of its users. — Ad.ly says it can fix this, with a time-tested method: Celebrity endorsements.

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Beet.TV

Brian X. Chen / Epicenter:

Futurist Nick Bilton Sees Media's Destiny: Storytelling — With smartphones, computers and tablets bombarding us with more data than we could ever ask for, it's difficult to get a clear vision of what the future portends. But maybe we're already living there.

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Veebeam Raising $6 Million For Wireless Video Sending — Veebeam, a gadget-and-software combo which transmits video from computers to TVs, says it has raised the first of a two-tranche, $6 million second funding round. — The money was led by Amadeus Capital Partners, Intel (NSDQ: INTC) …

Discussion: VentureBeat and NewTeeVee

Mac Slocum / O'Reilly Radar:

Why blogging still matters — We tend to get caught up in the latest tech ideas or gadgets, which is understandable since a lot of this stuff is undeniably interesting. But from time to time it's worth surveying where we are and where we came from; to consider how the tech landscape …

Discussion: broadstuff

Joe Pompeo / Silicon Alley Insider:

AOL Patch Responds To Recent Plagiarism Incidents And Ongoing Employee Woes — AOL's hyperlocal venture, Patch, is now well into an expansion phase that by year's end will bring to 500 the number of community news websites in its network, thereby making Patch the “largest hirer of full …

Discussion: Lost Remote and WebNewser

rbr.com:

Tribune Company announces settlement with creditors — It looks like Tribune Company now has a deal with its creditors on a reorganization plan for the company to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The new plan was negotiated by the court-appointed mediator and covers claims from both …

Discussion: MediaPost, The Wrap and Broadcasting & Cable

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

Demand Media Lays Out Some More Details About Its IPO — Demand Media still isn't saying how much it expects to raise in its initial public offering, but it is providing some more details about how it expects to use the proceeds. In a new filing with the SEC, the company says it will use …

Discussion: WebNewser

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:

HP Scandal Sucks in New York Times Columnist Over Conflict of Interest — Another reputation smeared in the Hewlett-Packard/Oracle slag-fest. Turns out Joe Nocera (pictured here)-the New York Times (NYT) business columnist who penned that scathing piece on former SAP chief and incoming Hewlett-Packard …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Talking Biz News, Felix Salmon, Silicon Alley Insider, BoomTown and Financial Times, more at Techmeme »

Toronto Star:

On the eve of rescue, trapped miners get media training — With as many as 2,000 journalists waiting for them on the surface, the first thing they asked for was media training. — Their rescue is not scheduled to begin until late Tuesday night, but the 33 men trapped in a collapsed Chilean mine …

Discussion: Media Decoder, TVNewser, Online NewsHour, Inside Cable News, CJR and Facebook

Eric Deggans / National Sports Journalism Center:

Legacy of Brett Favre-Jennifer Sterger story could be future of sports media ethics — Since I started in this game a few decades ago, one element has surfaced as an often-overlooked essential of the journalism craft. — Your word, especially to sources, must be gold.

Discussion: Romenesko

Abe Peck / Smart Journalism. Real Solutions …:

The Third Way to Media Success — Northwestern University researchers look to link editorial talent with audience experiences to get an elusive Web-era result — loyal readers and viewers. — SHARE AND ENJOY: — Media users now sup at a cornucopia of choice.

Discussion: Romenesko

Austin Carrmon / Fast Company:

Twitter Crushing Facebook's Click-Through Rate: Report — What is the most effective way for marketers to spread their message online? Facebook? Twitter? Company blogs? Email? — According to a new report by marketing firm SocialTwist, Internet sharing trends have shifted heavily …

Discussion: TechCrunch, MediaPost, Lost Remote and New Media Age

Keach Hagey / The Politico:

Does HuffPo refuse to link to Gawker? — Deep into Ben McGrath's largely sympathetic profile of Gawker Media impresario Nick Denton is an awkward encounter between Denton and Jai Singh, an old acquaintance from Denton's time in San Fransisco who had recently started at the Huffington Post.

Discussion: Soup and Runnin' Scared

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