links for 2007-03-03

The BBC has struck a content deal with YouTube… Three YouTube channels – one for news and two for entertainment – will showcase short clips of BBC content.

“Google may be frustrated in efforts to strike comprehensive deals to put videos from major media companies such as NBC or Viacom on YouTube, but it is signing up hundreds of smaller media partners, The New York Times reported on Friday.”

Robert Niles: “By dismissing blogs as ‘parasitic,’ newspaper journalists make themselves blind to the opportunities that blogging, as well as independent Web publishing in general, offer to both the newspaper industry and newspaper journalists.”