Andrew Golis

News since Friday has repeatedly emphasized that the government crackdown has focused on sms services, facebook, and other new media platforms. This video calls it “a revolution within a revolution”:

Via Andrew Sullivan.

• Beet.TV: Politico.com Profitable this Year….Has Most White House Coverage, John Harris
  Interesting interview w/ John Harris about Politico's business model.
  (tags: beet.tv new.media journalism advertising video)

• Craigslist Revenue Is Said to Be Over $100 Million – NYTimes.com
  That money is going somewhere, clearly.
  (tags: advertising classifieds craigslist newspaper nyt)
• When innovation yields efficiency « BuzzMachine
  Jarvis argues biz innovation in web 2.0 wasn't about building new revenues for companies, it was about leaving money in customers pockets by creating new efficiencies that allowed consumers to do the same things for less.
  (tags: finance economics buzzmachine jeff.jarvis web2.0 craigslist)
• Bloggasm » May ‘09 political blog readership 53% lower than it was in October ‘08
  V interesting. We seem to be comfortably avoiding the trend…
  (tags: blogging metrics new.media)

• iPhone Users Watch More Video… and are Older than You Think | Nielsen Wire
  Good data.
  (tags: iphone metrics statistics mobile video age nielsen)

Jason Jones has a look at “aged news”:

• Politico Joins Quadrant One 06/10/2009 – MediaPost Publications
  6.3 million uniques for Politico? Impressive.
  (tags: politico new.media advertising)
• Digg’s Amazing Business Model, Explained | paidContent.org
  1.5 BILLION impressions for Digg buttons, with around 10% monthly growth. Jeebus.
  (tags: digg new.media social.networking paid.content metrics)
• Howard Kurtz – True/Slant, a Web Site Mapping a New Connection Between Journalists, Readers and Advertisers – washingtonpost.com
  Huh. Want to hear more about the economics. The piece just seems like a collection of credulous quotes from new media newbies…
  (tags: new.media journalism true.slant howard.kurtz wapo finance advertising)

• Cenk Uygur: The Young Turks Cross Super Bowl Threshold
  "Our show has — and so has online video entertainment. The Young Turks now has 92 million views on YouTube alone. We also have over 250,000 views a day on our You Tube channel (often up to 300,000 daily views)."

  Way cool.

  (tags: young.turks video new.media radio youtube)
• Huffington Post: Liberal Politics, Sexist Entertainment – The Sexist – Washington City Paper
  Ouch.
  (tags: huffpo nsfw sexuality metrics new.media)

• Thinking Beyond the Online Banner
  Nice piece on innovating beyond the standard banner.
  (tags: advertising adweek new.media the.beast)
• Beet.TV: The New York Times Has 60 Million Mobile Views Per Month…2 Million iPhone Apps Downloaded
  Damn. That's for serious.
  (tags: nyt mobile iphone video beet.tv new.media advertising)

• MediaPost Publications Online Classifieds Take Newsprint Down 06/05/2009
  The data on classifieds.
  (tags: mediapost classifieds advertising new.media newspaper)
• Mashable: Why NPR is 'the Future of Mainstream Media' – mediabistro.com: BayNewser
  It's true, NPR is doing a good job w/ it's digital media efforts.
  (tags: npr new.media local mediabistro)

• Air America To Hit DC – mediabistro.com: FishbowlDC
  Good for them!
  (tags: air.america radio mediabistro)
• Digg’s New Advertising Platform; Marketers Pay Based On Diggs | paidContent.org
  Pretty fascinating and brilliant.
  (tags: advertising digg paid.content)