Danish newspaper Avisen is allowing citizen journalists’ stories to appear alongside journalists’ stories on the homepage of avisen.dk. To contribute, wannabe journalists create a profile and set up a blog on the website. Whether a user-generated piece makes it to the homepage is determined by its popularity

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Steve Rubel on some developments at Netvibes which point towards further development of the widget movement.

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Here is a useful list of the “Top 25” Web 2.0 search engines. Looks like some really interesting implementations using mash-ups and AJAX.

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Steve Rubel points out Forbes Web Celeb 25 list of the internet famous – which also includes lists of the “Almost Famous” and the “Unintentionally Famous“

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Lifehack has some useful tips for journalists (or, indeed, anybody) who wants to keep on top of trends.

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Steve Rubel has the story that CNet is mandating that all its journalists reply to posts on their stories on the site. He applauds the move, seeing this as a sign of the way journalism is going, but he also points to the possibility of the site being gamed by unscrupulous PR professionals.

According to Podcasting News Nielsen Analytics has released a report saying internet video has now reached critical mass and is ready for mainstream advertising.

“Programmers have the opportunity to create new revenue models to benefit content owners and their affiliated stations,” said Larry Gerbrandt, general manager and senior vice president of Nielsen Analytics. “Such ad-supported models are uniquely adaptable to the broadband environment and are potentially superior to existing models because they can take full advantage of the digital environment. With broadband streams, for example, fast forwarding through commercials can be disabled making it more likely the consumers will watch the spots and possibly interact with them.”

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Following its acquisition by Yahoo! in a deal rumoured to have been worth $10m, MyBlogLog has added integration with Flickr, another Yahoo! property. How long, muses the 901am blog, before del.icio.us integration follows. “Are we seeing the rise of the blogosphere’s version of MySpace right before our eyes?” it asks.

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Josh Norem, an former editor for Maximum PC magazine, lists his take on the relative strengths of magazines and the web – and the web wins. Nothing very new in the arguments, but obviously it struck a cord as it’s on the front page of Digg.

I missed this piece from paidContent.org which quotes an EU study saying the market for online will explode in the coming years.

The study anticipates revenue growth related to online content will amount to $10.7 billion (8.3 billion Euros). This estimate represents a 400 percent leap from where the continent stands today.

The PDF of the study is here.

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