links for 2006-12-09

Robin Hamman gives a great answer to a student who asks whether he feels blogging is “a valid form of journalism”. He quotes Dan Gillmor, who says, “An equivalent question would be: Is publishing on paper a valid form of journalism? Blogging is simply a p

Attention Company has published research about the attitudes of people who participate in online communities.

Leonard Witt responds to Graham Holliday’s /discuss argument, and links to some other responses.

“four-year-old paidContent draws about 4 million page views a month and his company’s other enterprises attract another three million.”

The Muncie Free Press has been accepted into Google News Can any other citizen journalism sites say that?

Could the major television content producers ever get together to create a “YouTube killer”? And by analogy, the news providers?

Peter Bale, former online editorial director at The Times has joined Microsoft as its executive producer of the UK’s Online Service Group and will be responsible for editorial content on Microsoft online platforms, including both MSN and Windows Live

Josh Marshall’s TPM empire is expanding — into video, it seems.

“Newspaper Web sites are where all the wealthy buyers are – so says a new report from Scarborough Research.”

Craigslist chief exec Jim Buckmaster says the free classifieds site plans to add foreign sites in local languages. But he won’t be charging for ads, to the befuddlement of others at the UBS Media & Communications conference.