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• As U.S. Media Jobs Slashed, Online Media Takes Another Step Into the Spotlight

  This process will play out over a number of years, but we can safely say now that online media ain't no fad.

  News by Eric Berlin — on Jan 26, 2007

• MyBlogLog Integrates Flickr Features: Is A Social Networking Powerhouse For Bloggers On the Rise?

  I think Yahoo! senses they have a winner on their hands, and will nudge MyBlogLog into a position to be the defacto "MySpace for Bloggers."

  News by Eric Berlin — on Jan 24, 2007

• Does Google Search Dominate Your Blog?

  The simple answer is stick to the basics... and then hope that the Google Love in the end outweighs the Google Evil.

  News by Eric Berlin — on Jan 23, 2007

• Social Networking Blog Mashable Seeks to Pay Its Readers to Write Good Stuff

  If Mashable manages to harness the skills, intelligence, and research powers of its own readership, look for other ambitious and growing sites to try something similar.

  News by Eric Berlin — on Jan 20, 2007

• Blog Traffic At Top U.S. Newspapers Explodes As Mainstream Media-Blogosphere Convergence Continues Breakneck-Like

  People are reading them blogs. More than ever before, many probably don't even realize it.

  News by Eric Berlin — on Jan 18, 2007

• Netscape Represents the Future of News

  The future of news sites will comprise three kinds of content, which will be mixed and matched and meshed together in all kinds of dizzying ways.

  News by Eric Berlin — on Jan 16, 2007

• SponsoredReviews: A New Assault on the Blogosphere's Credibility

  The question is: how will the blogosphere defend its credibility in the coming days?

  News by Eric Berlin — on Jan 15, 2007

• Reuters Blogs: Where New Media Touches the Wire

  Reuters.com, a place to meet all your daily blog-read needs?

  News by Eric Berlin — on Jan 11, 2007

• What's Your Favorite Go-To Downtime Site?

  From Google News to Fark, from Drudge to Reddit, everyone needs a place to go when the post-lunch coma starts to set in.

  Opinion by Eric Berlin — on Jan 10, 2007

• MyBlogLog Gets Acquired By Yahoo! And It Was Good

  A new front in stimulating communication and networking comes in the form of MyBlogLog-style widgets, and Yahoo! was all over that.

  News by Eric Berlin — on Jan 09, 2007

• Finding Blogging Focus

  It's a fascinating game: how to do something you love (writing and the online medium) while finding people that will come along for the ride.

  Opinion by Eric Berlin — on Jan 08, 2007

• Free WiFi Coming to San Francisco While Pasadena Waits Nobly, Impatiently

  A landmark development in lowering the digital divide?

  News by Eric Berlin — on Jan 07, 2007

• Can Feedburner's StandardStats Lead the Way to Better Internet Traffic Ranking?

  A common definition of site traffic coupled with a standard way to measure all of the ways that people view Internet content may open the door to a better way to rank Internet traffic.

  News by Eric Berlin — on Jan 05, 2007

• Mochila, AP Stories, and Avoiding the Company of Sameness

  Don't get hoodwinked by the promise of extra revenue. It isn't what you got into the blogging for.

  Opinion by Eric Berlin — on Jan 05, 2007

• TechCrunch's Michael Arrington Announces Web 2.0 Companies "I Couldn't Live Without"

  While most of these services didn't exist two or three years ago, they really are indispensable to the daily life of many web users as 2007 dawns.

  News by Eric Berlin — on Jan 02, 2007

• The House of Digg Produces New Offspring: Internet TV Venture Revision3

  Traditional TV should take note, and start getting nervous quick-like.

  News by Eric Berlin — on Sep 28, 2006

• MeeVee Dishes Personalized TV Listings Via Widgets

  It's a natural fit for a company like MeeVee to produce a widget that can be installed on social networking profiles and blogs.

  News by Eric Berlin — on Sep 25, 2006

• The World Gets Flatter, My Internet Gets Broker, And Google Gets More Big Brotherer

  When I was a kid it was "I Want My MTV." Today, I want my WiFi!

  News by Eric Berlin — on Aug 16, 2006

• Fearing the Future: New York Times Goes Negative On Netscape

  Change is hard. Just ask The New York Times.

  News by Eric Berlin — on Jul 18, 2006

• YouTube Does Deal With NBC, e-Street Cred Increased All Around

  This is something akin to Universal going to Napster in 1999 and saying, "We want to do a cross-promotional thing, cool?"

  News by Eric Berlin — on Jun 28, 2006