links for 2007-12-05

PM Blog audience tries to woo Eddie back

“According to Current, it will package daily vlogs from the Guardian and Salon for TV broadcast – Current TV can be seen on both the Sky and Virgin Media networks in the UK – and create a web-friendly version that will live on Current.com, Salon.com and G

“This newly created role will bring the power of participative journalism to the education profession through a new rapid-fire, round-the-clock blog that will make, lead and shape the education news agenda…”

“News Corporation, parent company of The Times, bought the leading American religious website Beliefnet yesterday in an effort to tap the faith market in a country where 88 per cent of the population say that they pray regularly…”

“I believe it is a very worthy investment of my “free” time to explore the latest interactions of media and technology, or indeed to write this blog when I feel I have something worthwhile to say.”

“The Los Angeles Times has taken a stake in Mixx — a relatively new Digg-style social-bookmarking site whose main claim to fame is that Mike Arrington recently said that people were leaving Digg to go there…”

“News forum Topix seeks to power local conversation in every city in America. It announced Tuesday a deal to provide MediaNews Group with online discussion and article commenting capabilities for each of the publisher’s 61 daily newspapers.”