Breaking: Google News doesn’t break tech news "More importantly, it takes far too long for a big, breaking story to hit the main tech page of Google News. That’s likely because Google News is waiting for enough sources to write about it, while Techmeme is comfortable putting a big story on the site even if [...]
When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled "About three weeks ago, Facebook and Twitter ended several weeks of serious talks, in which Facebook was offering to acquire Twitter for $500 million of its stock." (tags: web2.0 facebook twitter social+media acquisition)
Buyout-Depleted 'Star-Ledger' Reassigns Two Journos – To Mailroom "When a newspaper cuts its staff, those who remain in the depleted newsroom become valuable. But as The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J. slowly says farewell to 151 newsroom folks who took buyouts last month, at least two longtime journalists have been reassigned to the mailroom." (tags: journalism [...]
Murdoch to media: You dug yourself a huge hole "My summary of the way some of the established media has responded to the Internet is this: It's not newspapers that might become obsolete. It's some of the editors, reporters, and proprietors who are forgetting a newspaper's most precious asset: the bond with its readers," said [...]
Do newspapers have 6 more months? "So, 50 newspaper CEOs, is there more to the story of what went on behind those closed doors? Because from outside, it’s not looking promising that you’re going to lead a reversal to the slide down that nasty-looking graph. If all that was accomplished at the Crisis Summit was [...]
