"Made-up bullshit still drives huge traffic, if it’s marketed right."

"[There is] a whole category problem with online journalism: people with no understanding of it, and with no understanding of how useable media comes about and comes to be trusted, can airily and condescendingly claim a company "gets it" just because they

"Journalists in America routinely keep quiet about the travel plans of government officials to Iraq and other hostile regions. …"

CNN producer sacked for blogging hits back: "CNN fired me, and did it without even a thought to the power that I might wield as an average person with a brain, a computer, and an audience."

"CNN this week will enter YouTube territory with the launch of iReport.com, a new Web site built entirely on user-produced news."

"The Wall was invented by Jeff Han, 32, a computer scientist who for several years tinkered with the idea of creating a touch-sensitive display monitor. Han … left [NYU] last year to start New York-based Perceptive Pixel, which markets the device."

"The most recent–and seemingly unlikely–election coverage team is CBS News and Digg, … Under the partnership, political stories from Digg will appear in a box on the politics section of CBSNews.com."

"This week I have started a series of posts looking at the Web 2.0 features of 24/7 TV news websites. I started with the English edition of the Al Jazeera site, and the BBC News site. I’d like to finish this week’s posts with a look at CNN."

"The midday spike in Web traffic is not a new phenomenon, but media companies have started responding in a meaningful way over the last year. They are creating new shows, timing the posts to coincide with hunger pangs."

"The title of most-visited online news site continues to be a hotly contested, with CNN, Yahoo News and MSNBC all vying for the throne."

Daniel Terdiman: "The biggest problem, it seems to me, is that CNN is going to be asking all these residents to compete directly with a slew of very well-established Second Life bloggers and reporters."