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Sorry for the silence the past few days. Gearing up to migrate to a new platform and have been having some technical issues on the current platform. Very good reading in the lull: A treatise from former Knight Ridder Digital president Tom Mohr on how the online newspaper industry needs to consolidate -- and fast , if not sooner -- to survive And maybe flourish. Here.

YouTube Whistleblower; Meet The New News; Drinking With Bob; More Exploding TV; SND.ies

• Whistleblower who couldn't get media's attention uses YouTube to break his story. Here.


• Drinking With Bob. Aside from production values, is this guy much different than some Fox News commentators?  Here.


• Troll for other news-related sites in this handy list of TV shows available only on the web. Here. (Via BuzzMachine)


• "Patchy results" in NYT's attempts to use ad serving tools to block an online story from overseas readers. Here.


• Richard Roeper on bloggers and online news: "Meet the new news. Same as the old news." Here.


• Society of News Design's SND.ies awards will be announced on Saturday night. Here. Would guess Journerdist will have an update as well.

Facts, Speaking For Themselves

→ Total time people spent watching YouTube since it started last year: 9,305 years

→ Total video views: 1.73 billion

SOURCE: Wall Street Journal (Via MicroPersuasion).

Kibbles 'n Bits | Today's List 'o Links

• Can't get enough nannying, schoolmarming and belittling bloggers, can we? Here. (Via Romenesko)


• Passages: Search beat pioneer Danny Sullivan quits the site and business he founded. Here.


• Bivings Report has 9 10 suggestions on how to improve your newspaper.com. (Via BuzzMachine)


• NYT buys a B2B entertainment data company. Here.  Fool: "An Odd Buy."


• Nick's visual take on Google CEO joining Apple's board (Gapple?):





• NY Times uses ad targeting advertising technology to keep a story about Britain from being seen by users in Britain. Here.


• A documentary on citizen journalism done, naturally, by citizen journalists. Here. (Via Tidbits)


• Yahoo tweaks its 18-th ranked real estate site. Here.


• Jay Rosen's status report on NewAssignment.net. Here.


• Another step in Yahoo's attempt to do the Local Cha Cha Cha: Ability to geotag Flickr pix. Here.


• New sports blog network over at AOL. Here.


• Help Wired edit a story. Here.


• OhMyExpansion: Korean CitiJ play OhMyNews branching out to Japan. Here.


• The Long Tail? It's Crumbelievable! Here.


• One piece of print business has held up just fine against the threat of the  Internet -- coupons. So far. Here.

Online Journalism Awards Finalists Announced

Finalists for the 2006 Online Journalism Awards were annouced today. General excellence categories below; rest of the finalists are here.

Sites with mutiple finalists

USA Today (4)
NY Times (3)
Chicago Tribune (2)
CNET (2)
Lawrence (2)
MSNBC (2)
NOLA.com (2)
Roanoke.com (2)
Slate (2)
Sun Herald (2)
WashPost (2)

General Excellence in Online Journalism (Large)

MSNBC
The New York Times
Star Tribune
USA Today 
Washington Post

General Excellence in Online Journalism (Medium)

New West
Orlando Sentinel
Roanoke.com
Spokesman Review

General Excellence in Online Journalism (Small)

The Center for Public Integrity
Congressional Quarterly
LJWorld.com
Speaking of Faith (American Public Media)

RELATED: AP announces finalists, both online-related, for two internal awards. Here.

Kibbles 'n Bits | Today's Links

• New ABC report to combine online and offline audience. Here.


• New Scarborough report plows that ground, too. See Facts Speaking item, directly below.
  


• Squared will avoid the obvious cliches, matey: Time Inc. kills OfficePirates.com only seven months after the attempted snark began. PaidContent notes even the site's farewell note isn't funny. Here. Or here.


• Google gets patent for "system and method for supporting editorial opinion in the ranking of search results." Here.


• Pluto? Just another startup gone kablooey, Nick says. Here.


• And he cheerily puts himself on his 2.0 bubble screwed list. Here.


• Yahoo kills one of its original content plays. Here.


• Sign of how long we've actually been at this: Jon Dube included "internet ads" in a short list of "old fashioned" ways in which Americans get content. Here.

Facts, Speaking For Themselves

New Scarborough report examines offline and online reach of newspapers and their .coms in 25 markets.  Squared did some cutting and pasting in Excel for you. Below, top, are markets sorted by combined reach -- or "integrated audience reach" as they call it -- and bottom, sorted by duplicated reach, or the percentage who read both offline and online. Full report here (big PDF). E&P story here. Press release, here. PaidContent analysis, here.

Kibbles 'n Bits | Today's Links

• A nifty new river of news for your mobile device, thanks to Dave Winer. Here.


• One in four political consultants who bought online ads said newspaper sites were the most effective. Here.


• Microsoft tries to save face, gets ad deal with Facebook in shadow of Google's mega-deal with MySpace. Here. (Valleywag puts it nicely: "Prom date Plan B").


• A 75-page cookbook for citizen journalism. Here.


• Los Angeles gets a citizen journalism play as the Daily News launches ValleyNews.com. Here


• Mark Glaser looks at the ethics of Mark Cuban's sharesleuth.com project. Jeff Jarvis ruminated recently as well. Here and here. And Cuban on Cuban, here. Guess it'll be a lively ONA keynote. Here.

Quote This

"[T]he signal change of the past 18 months is that there are no pure print people left.... The newsroom is jazzed not only about the power of NYTimes.com around the world as a journalistic instrument but about what the Web can do uniquely as a new medium."

-- Martin Nisenholtz, SVP Digital Operations for the New York Times, in a good Business 2.0 piece on the the philosophical, cultural and strategic evolution of NYT. Here. (Via Romenesko)

Facts, Speaking For Themselves

Percent of the Top 10 fastest-growing web sites in July that include those focusing on user-generated content: 50%. Here.