The New York Daily News reports:
Television will have to wait: Mayor Bloomberg is launching a $100,000, five-week Internet advertising blitz aimed at recruiting tens of thousand of volunteers, the Daily News has learned …
The campaign currently has 6,000 volunteers, and it’s aiming to recruit a record 50,000.
(Thanks to Kari Chisholm at Politics and Technology for pointing out this article.)
Another company targets video search, this time overseas: Autonomy has just signed a joint venture with China Netcom Broadband (CNCBB), one of China’s biggest internet companies with more than 110m subscribers. The pair have agreed to create a service that will allow Chinese consumers to search for news and video clips from 25 local and…
PaidContent: “American Public Media Group (APMG), parent company to Minnesota Public Radio, has invested almost $1 million in the for-profit, Boston-based Gather.com. The new venture is a social networking website devoted to creating an online community of public-radio listeners.”
Interesting tidbit from PaidContent: The Virginian-Pilot–the largest daily metropolitan newspaper in the state of Virginia, has launched a standalone video site called HamptonRoads.tv. The site has local (both professional editorial and user-generated video) and national video (AP video feeds) and will funnel video to its local websites, HamptonRoads.com and PilotOnline.com.
MediaPost reports: BUZZ-TRACKING FIRM UMBRIA WILL UPGRADE its Buzz Report, which tracks conversations about brands on blogs and message boards, by offering users more refined demographic information and an enhanced method for dealing with blog spam. Buzz Report, which monitors about 11 million blogs and 100,000 public message boards, already analyzes posts to determine writers’…
This one I just don’t understand. Tom Foremski takes Technorati to task over at Silicon Valley Watcher for a pay service that allows corporations to track their coverage in the blogosphere. He writes: "I was surprised by how aggressive Technorati was in its pitch because it has a very good standing within the blogging community,…
Akamai offers this fun little tool that shows volume of traffic to news sites around the world. It’s more fun than useful, but Akamai could add value to it by trying to pinpoint the news stories that are causing upward fluctuations. For example, at 6:45 PM ET tonight, it showed Australian news traffic was 200%…