In his post entitled 10×10 View of the News, Micro Persuasion author Steve Rubel points out a very cool new web site built on top of RSS feeds of International news sources, named 10×10. Rather than integrating it with Google…

After the news got whispered around The Kelsey Group Interactive Local Media 2004 conference all day Wednesday, the SBC and BellSouth decided to announce the formation of a joint venture and the JV’s acquisition of YellowPages.com on Thurs. cvs. Fri.…

Well folks, I apologize. Just as soon as I had finally settled into The Kelsey Group’s Interactive Local Media 2004 conference and /paid/ for my WiFi access (idea: this would be a great sponsorship opportunity for next year’s conference), Blogger.com…

Just a quick apology for the lack of posts the past few days. Wednesday and Thursday, I’ll be at Kelsey Group’s Interactive Local Media (i.e., Local Search & Directory) conference; my intent is to blog it as real time as…

Mike over at TechDirt notes that Doubleclick has put itself up for sale. Interesting news, given that FastClick announced a $75MM round today. It’s also a bit surprising, given that the company recently acquired Performics (which included buying Tribune Interactive’s…

SocalTech.com announces that Fastclick raised $75M in their latest round (noteworthy due alone to its size these days, but especially interesting given that the company was bootstrapped w/o VC dollars and is thought to already be profitable). Congrats to John…

I recently had a chance to talk with Michael Bazeley, a journalist at Knight Ridder’s San Jose Mercury Times. Today, Michael, along with partner Matt Marshall, launched SiliconBeat: News about tech money and innovation The blog’s a bit bare for…

JD Lassica notes Steep circulation drops at LA Times, Chicago Trib and attributes it to people “turning away from newspapers and toward online media”. Agreed.

Steven M. Cohen announces Feedster Hacks “Feedster Hacks is a weblog and directory for the various hacks that have been created with Feedster (Hence the name). My hope is to collect all of the useful, fun, and even oddball hacks…

This isn’t specifically about Netflix, but as it may impact their business, and I’ve been using them as a bit of a case study, I’m going to continue to track the trends impacting their business. This News.com article announces that…