Layoffs Ripple thru Online Social Media, Electronic and Print Publishing

January started off with a continuing drumbeat of bad economic news, with even hot internet-based information and social media not immune to layoffs. On January 15, the Press Democrat announced that OReilly Media would lay off 14 percent of its workforce or about 30 people.

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Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and co-author of Mosaic, sits down with John Battelle, founder and chairman of Federated Media publishing at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.

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CNET is reporting that tech-focused advertising network Federated Media (which sells advertising on our behalf) is looking for a new round of financing.

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In 2005, when Silicon Valley entrepreneur Michael Arrington started TechCrunch, his popular blog on Internet startups, he saw it mainly as a chance to indulge his obsession with young technology companies.

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Newsvine, a "participatory news" site that allows people to write articles, link to mainstream news stories, discuss the news, and earn money by writing their own ad-sponsored columns, is now owned by MSNBC.com.

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The stodgy old media industry has a rule that newspaper reporters, and TV news hosts, shouldn't trade on their public trust to endorse products.

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Federated Media Publishing, the ad network run by John Battelle, has lost one of the most popular sites it repped, and another may also leave the stable.

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Influx Of Ad Campaigns Thrills Newsvine

Seattle P-I reporter (and friend of the 'Vine) John Cook had a note in his blog last week entitled "Lack of Ads Concerns Newsvine". The post was written after our unveiling of the Newsvine Earnings page and subsequent explanation of progess made on the advertising front.

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Google tests a killer marketing tool

Seeking Alpha founder David Jackson noted yesterday that Google has just launched a cost-per-action ad service, and John Battelle, author of "The Search", has noted the implications of the service as well (that is notable since John has his own ad network, FederatedMedia.net).

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Newsvine Turns on the Ads

With this weekend's release of the first paid advertising campaign on the site, Newsvine moves a step closer to its goal of creating an equitable, self-sustaining, news-minded community.

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Unblocking Newsvine

You use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer. It's okay, there's no shame in that, we all know you're hip – you're jiggy with it.

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Something's happening to the right side of the page...

I have absolutely no information, no facts, no theories, no conspiracy theories, no tea-leaf readings. Nostradamus has said nothing about it, nor has Jeanne Dixon, and, as far as I know Keld has not written an article about it.

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