links for 2007-06-22

Mike Butcher says he is working on a social media reporting project like Ben Hammersley’s “with two entirely independent journalists, who don’t have the BBC’s resources”.

Wot’s this? Lolcats in newspapers!? “I’m in ur newspaper writin mah colum”.

“Yahoo! has acquired US-based college and high school sports website Rivals for an undisclosed sum, to boost its sports publishing and online communities business.”

“The European Commission Thursday cleared U.S. media giants NBC Universal and News Corp. to form a joint venture which will broadcast television and film entertainment over the Internet.”

“Hammersley will file to his personal blog, he will upload photos to Flickr, video to YouTube, post snippets of text to the microblogging site Twitter, bookmark research on the social bookmarking site del.icio.us and network with people through Facebook.”