links for 2006-10-16

Monday, 16 October 2006, 17:27

• Business Communicators of Second Life: Reuters Opening Second Life Bureau
  The Reuters web-based Second Life News Center has real-time Linden currency charts, a currency converter (for all major world currencies) and a teleport link to the Reuters Atrium.
  (tags: reuters secondlife second_life)
• BuzzMachine: Paid popularity
  Jeff Jarvis weighs in on the possible effects of the decision by Business 2.0 to pay its journalists a bonus based on the traffic generated by their personal blogs.
  (tags: blogging blogs Journalism magazines)
• New Media Musings: ‘Google News is becoming unusable’
  Several US bloggers are concerned that Google News is returning increasingly poor-quality results.
  (tags: google googlenews journalism blogs)
• Wordblog: Blog of rejected newspaper story brings down trade minister
  An investigative reporter has forced the resignation of Sweden’s trade minister after running a story on his blog that a major paper turned down.
  (tags: journalism blogging blogs sweden)
• Tom Watson MP: Worries from the old media
  The first blogging MP thinks Private Eye, not newspapers’ lobby correspondents, should fear the rise of political bloggers.
  (tags: journalism blogs privateeye politics newspapers lobby)
• New World Notes: Mixed Reality Mondays
  Reuters’ new SL Bureau Chief is interviewed by in-world jorunalist James Au
  (tags: secondlife second_life reuters)
• Contra Costa Times: Job posting fees boost Craigslist
  Craigslist may generate $50m in 2007 sales. Not bad for a company with 20-odd employees.
  (tags: craigslist classifieds)

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