Facebook Rumors

I got an interesting e-mail today from MediaPost's Just an Online Minute… blog.  Today, Wendy Davis reports that Facebook is working on setting up profile pages tailored to music groups, which is how MySpace gained traction, and allowing users to differentiate "friends" based upon professional and personal circumstances — a la LinkedIn —...

Friday’s Five: Top Misconceptions by Newspapers Online

After all the work I've done on newspaper websites and talking with a group of newspaper publishers last week, I realize that I get asked the same questions quite often.  There are some common misconceptions in the newspaper industry regarding the Web, and I'd like to take this opportunity to highlight and correct these typical mistakes. ...

Washington Post Local Blog Directory

I noticed a new addition to the great library of resources on washingtonpost.com this afternoon.  It seems they've added a local blog directory.  It includes some useful features, like searching according to neighborhood, keyword, and tag.  They also display the most recently updated blogs, and offer a new feature for people to tag their Flickr photos "wpblog"...

New York Press Association Fall Meeting

I spent the weekend up in Boston, MA at the New York Press Association's fall meeting. It was a great conference attended by publishers of all sorts of newspapers in New York State.  It was a diverse group of people–from seasoned Web veterans to those just getting their newspaper websites started....

Does FoxBusiness.com have blogs?

Overnight, FoxBusiness.com launched to preview Rupert Murdoch's long awaited answer to CNBC — the Fox Business Network, which launches in two weeks.  The site is in promo phase and looks nice. 

It claims to have blogs for each featured on-air personality, but I'm not sure if that is the case. ...