AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Mashable

Zemanta is a Slovenian-based web startup that has developed a very interesting service which, in a nutshell, makes blogging easier and more interesting for you. As of today, it’s available as a server-side plugin for Movable Type and Wordpress, as well as a plugin for both Firefox and Internet Explorer. If you choose the browser [...]

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TechCrunch
There’s no shortage of video sites that let bloggers embed movies into their posts. But until now, bloggers have typically had to rely on others to capture, edit, and upload this content - there hasn’t been an easy way to create your own clips from recently broadcasted media.
RedLasso is looking to change this. The site, [...]

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The Los Angeles Times
I wrote a post last month about the dearth of truly useful guides to the growing mass of video available online. Magnify.net is one of the companies responsible for creating that mass; its platform is home to 37,000 channels of niche online programming, including the Flavor Flav Video Network (”Return of the [...]

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BusinessWeek
Can the fledgling microblogging service become a social media powerhouse to rival giants like Facebook—or will it be gobbled up?
It’s easy to laugh at nonsense on Twitter, the microblogging rage. “My nose is leaking,” writes someone called Zapples, “so imma go to sleep now.…” But I’ve heard lots of similar drivel (and even produced some [...]

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Mashable
WordPress.com, the popular hosted blogging platform, has announced that it has officially partnered with the search and recommendation engine Sphere to bring related content to readers of WordPress-powered sites.
As of this weekend, you will find links to more posts on related topics at the bottom of all English language blogs that are hosted at WordPress.com. [...]

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The Wall Street Journal
Online Tools Help Firms Identify Sites To Pitch Products
Small businesses looking to pitch their products or services to influential blogs have some help these days.
A host of Web sites and free tools are allowing companies to find out who the top bloggers in their industry are, what they are writing, and how [...]

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ZD Net

A newly-launched site called blogs.pi.edu is happy to sell you your own blog with a .edu domain for the low low price of $50. LinkAdage is partnering with the Pickering Institute to sell canonical domain names using the valid pi.edu domain, lending the credibility of a .edu domain to such sites as handbags.pi.edu and [...]

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The Hollywood Reporter
Perez Hilton is getting fit.
That’s evident enough if you’re one of the millions of mostly twentysomething females who make his salacious salon for celebrity gossip a daily destination. Slowly but surely, a slicker, trimmer Perez is replacing the bloated, scruffy version that first rose to fame as Hollywood’s favorite online gadfly. “This summer [...]

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The New York Times
hey work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.
A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are [...]

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The New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.
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Matt Buchanan shows blogs may be a young man’s game.
A [...]

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