MoveOn’s PBS Petition Nearing 1 Million
BL Ochman reports:
MoveOn.org, which was seeking 500,000 signatures on a petition against proposed Congress’ cancellation of funding to NPR and PBS, has now reached almost a million signatures.
PayPal Joins Micropayment Parade Robin Good: “PayPal is extending its micro-payments service to support online commerce of low-cost digital content. The digital content to be covered by the new PayPal offering will include news articles, video games, online greeting cards, mobile phone content, and music.” White Paper on Micropayments PaidContent points to a white paper…
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Florida Trend carries a lengthy profile of Jimmy Wales, the man behind perhaps the most successful consumer generated media site, Wikipedia. he website is among the 100 mostvisited on the internet, according to the web-traffic analysis firm Alexa. The firm reports that Wikipedia is the 58th-mostvisited site globally, compared to a 69th-place ranking for About.com,…
The SEC has nailed an Estonian investment bank and a couple of hackers for sneaking into the Business Wire press release distribution system to find out which public companies would be making significant announcements in the near future. They then bought stock or sold it short for a profit. Since the start of this year,…
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…