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Profit Centers

BizBash | July 2, 2009

The Atlantic has been doing "salon" dinners for years with advertisers, journalists, policy makers, and Atlantic editors.

Twitter followers 'can be bought'

BBC News | July 2, 2009

You can now buy Twitter followers for the bargain price of $87 per 1,000. Better rates I assume for 100,000 user block.

DoubleClick's new benchmark report on online advertising is good - but it could have been great | Blog | Econsultancy

econsultancy.com

there are around 700 advertisers worldwide who “routinely buy online display advertising”, compared with the 1.5 million companies who buy search keywords

Jay Rosen of NYU on the Ethic of the Link

YouTube | July 1, 2009

"Here's a newspaper, put it online...kept them from imagining an ONLINE NEWSPAPER"

Shownar

BBC | July 1, 2009

A rather cool BBC site that tracks online conversation about their shows, and formulates a ranking based on the amount of buzz the particular episode is generating.

Amazon Taps Its Inner Apple

Fast Company

Jeff Bezos is trying to do to book publishers what Steve Jobs of Apple did to the music industry. With its iPod and iTunes Store, Apple carved out a largely virgin market so fast that it was able to wrest control of the digital-music distribution system and thus dictate what the record labels could do.

Twitter: Michael Jackson Is Dead. So Is Jeff Goldblum. | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

All Things Digital

Twitter and old media are complementary, and the former certainly has less value without the latter.

Newspapers started small, cheap and with different standards | Howard Owens

howardowens.com

James Gordon Bennett, Horace Greeley, E.W. Scripps and Joseph Pulitzer were not just earlier versions of Woodward and Bernstein. They were entrepreneurs, visionaries and risk takers who experimented and explored the capabilities of new technologies with a goal of meeting readers needs and growing audience.

Michael Jackson's Death Triggers Massive Surge In Internet Traffic As Fans Mourn Star

Sky News | June 26, 2009

"So many people wanted to verify the early reports of Jackson’s death that the computers powering Google's news section interpreted the surge of 'Michael Jackson' requests as an automated attack."

'Simpsons' Draws Higher Rates on Web as Ads Target Loyal Fans - Bloomberg.com

Bloomberg News

Television programs such as “The Simpsons” and “CSI” are for the first time commanding higher advertising rates at Web sites including Hulu.com and TV.com than on prime-time TV.

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