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Great news for the everyone over at SimplyHired. I have been impressed with SimplyHired ever since Dion Lim showed me a .ppt of their overall “plan”. Congrats to Dave, Dion, and Gautam and this surely is an investment play for Rupert(News Corp.) as he continues to digitize his old media business and create sand boxes [...]

McClatchy bought $6.5 billion in dead trees with their purchase of Knight Ridder last month. Bambi Francisco of MarketWatch interviewed, “Christian Hendricks, who will oversee the combined company’s Internet operations and some 500 staffers (before layoffs)”
The following are some online strategies for McClatchy regarding their purchase of Knight Ridder.
From the article:
Take a look at some [...]

Great post by Matt McCalister from his experience with a publisher at the Syndicate Conference.

I was speaking with a publisher of a big media company at the Syndicate Conference in San Francisco and sharing my excitement over the Open Content session with the Washingtonpost. His first question was, “Where’s the revenue model?” I [...]

Whew, Jeff Jarvis really wants his feed stats from the readers.
Stats, stats, stats, that is what it is all about. Jarvis is more forthcoming than most.

Why do I care? Because I have an ego. Because I want to see how much RSS I serve and learn about it. Because I want to see how [...]

From the Newspaper Index
‘We are getting the whole organisation ready for a digital future,’ said Simon Waldman, director of digital publishing at Guardian Newspapers, whose Guardian Unlimited site is by far the most popular British newspaper online site. Within ’six to seven years’, the group plans to dedicate 80 per cent of its time to [...]

Fascinating stats via Susan Mernit’s Blog………
AOL press release –aka survey–on IM behaviors has some notable nuggets:

Two-thirds(66 percent) of teens and young adults (ages 13-21) say they send moreIMs than emails, up from 49 percent last year.
Teen boys (55 percent) are more likely to have parental rules about IM use than are teen girls (50 [...]