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Some mini-Tidbits from around the Web today:
Second Life I-Reports: Your news of a virtual world (CNN.com): CNN takes "I-Reports" citizen journalism to second life tomorrow (Nov. 13). "We are ready to invite the world to join us in Second Life. In case you're wondering why CNN is doing this, we prepared a little welcome video."
Are Reporters Doomed? Continued (Web 2.Oh...really?): "They seem to think that journalists should still run the show, safeguarding the "values" family jewels. But when I look at the new media landscape I see important journalistic creations that frankly no wordmaster could have conceived. To name three..."
Social Ads Or Social Networking Nightmare? (Search Insider): "The information that's useful to a marketer may be even more useful to a criminal or a cop. The young people who form a large share of Facebook's user base may not be overly sensitive to privacy concerns, but they surely understand this basic fact."
Text Messaging: New Revenue for Radio (Hear 2.0): "Radio is no longer about selling ads. It's about leveraging our audience relationships so as to connect listeners with clients profitably. No matter how that's done. Radio stations and programmers owe it to themselves to investigate text messaging." (Listen to the interview.)
18 Months of BBC Blogs, Part 1 (BBC Internet Blog): "The BBC Blogs Network has been running for 18 months. This provides a good opportunity to give you some insight into what we've been doing, how we think our efforts measure up, and where we might be headed in the future, editorially and technically."
NUJ may get "first full-time blogger" member tonight (Press Gazette Blogs, Fleet Street 2.0): "The U.K. National Union of Journalists may tonight admit its first member to list 'blogger' as his job title: Conrad Quilty-Harper, who is a freelance contributor to Engadget, the widely-read gadget blog ultimately owned by AOL."
