The Miami Herald editor Tom Fiedler delivered an edict to newsroom staff this week that from now on all staff will be expected to write equally for on and offline media. The memo is worth a read.
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User generated riches
MIT’s Advertising Lab points out the rapid rise of advertising on user-generated media, which it says is slated to reach $50M in 2006.
Reuters opens up to blogs
Jeff Jarvis blogs in BuzzMachine about a deal which will see Reuters include blog content in times of large, general interest events such as elections.
Windows lauches Scholar competitor
Microsoft has launched a competitor to Google Scholar – Windows Live Academic. “We have built several features designed to help you rapidly find the content you are searching for including abstract previews via our preview pane, sort and group by capability, and citation export”, says the intro on the site.
Yahoo! maps add satellite imagery
Yahoo! has added satellite imagery to its map service, joining MSN and Google. Yahoo! is still the only one to offer live traffic information, though.
Straight to mobile phone
An Anglo-Italian five-piece band is set to make an entirely different kind of record next month when it launches Britain’s first single that can only be bought by cell phone on the mobile network of “3”.
Journalists and SEO
Jeff Jarvis deals with the issue of journalists writing for search engines. He acknowledges that it is an issue which causes mixed feelings, but comes down strongly on the side of writing for the search engines.
Google buys new search algorithm
Listening to your blogs
A new service called Talkr will take any RSS feed and convert the text to speech so that you can subcribe to the resulting stream as a Podcast. How’s that for convergence?
Jobs zeitgeist
Recruitment site Jobster publishes a weekly jobs zeitgeist which shows the most popular job types, those that are growing the most and those which are falling in popularity the most. Simple but effective.