Scoble Exit Creates Opportunity

If true, this news from SiliconValleyWatcher.com would certainly be an interesting development in the area of online news aggregation. Silicon Valley Watcher has learned that Moreover Technologies, the San Francisco-based news aggregator, will announce within the next few days that it has been acquired by a much larger multi-national company. The announcement is expected by…

Steve Rubel labels the latest activity of "swarms of citizen journalists … mobilizing to settle scores" as "vigilante journalism."  It’s an apt name for the phenomenon and it will be interesting to see how the debate moves on this. Frankly, I’m torn.  Bloggers certainly have the write to "kvetch" (as BL Ochman woud say), but…

ConsumerReports.org has hit the 2 million subscriber mark.  This article discusses how they achieved it. [via PaidContent]

Google News: The End of News Indexing As We Know It? is Google cutting secret deals with European publishers? (tags: copyright) The Value Of Aggregating Content disaggregation vs. aggregation — where are we headed? (tags: Aggregation media) Newspapers need to go hyper-local to survive echoing my argument that most newspapers can only differentiate on local…

Mike Manuel republished on WebProNews a piece he contributed to Global PR Week 2 last week that is worth a read by anyone who collaborates on projects on a regular basis. Collaboration. I hate this word, it’s overused, especially in the PR industry. I should know, I work for a PR agency and my job…