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Online Women's Mag Double X Launches - Posted May 12, 2009
Way back in November, Slate chairman and editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg told us about the three ladies that would be helming his newest spin-off venture, online women's magazine Double X. Today the co-editors, Emily Bazelon, Meghan O'Rourke and Hanna Rosin, managing editor Jessica Grose (previously from Gawker female-centric blog Jezebel) and publisher Peggy... [FishBowlNY]

Layoffs At Papers In San Francisco and San Diego|Recession Chic At WHCD|Times May Still End Up In Ch. 11|Boston Globe Union Debates Concessions|Google Advertises Chrome - Posted May 8, 2009
MediaJobsDaily: Layoffs at the San Francisco Chronicle and San Diego Union-Tribune. FishbowlDC: A preview of the "recession chic" fashions of the White House Correspondent's Dinner tomorrow night Silicon Alley Insider: Bankruptcy is still a possibility for the Gray Lady Huffington Post: Boston Globe's union held a meeting yesterday to debate a concession plan proposed... [FishBowlNY]

Dr. Nancy Snyderman To Host MSNBC Show|HarperCollins' Revenue Declines|Google Could Save Journalism|CNBC Host Mad Over Kindle DX|Toby Young Hit By Car - Posted May 7, 2009
TVNewser: NBC News chief medical editor, and author of "Medical Myths That Can Kill You," Dr. Nancy Snyderman will anchor an MSNBC midday show focusing on health issues starting next month. GalleyCat: HarperCollins' revenue was down 20 percent last quarter. MediaJobsDaily: Is Google good for journalism? Silicon Alley Insider: CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera is... [FishBowlNY]

Dr. Nancy Snyderman To Host MSNBC Show|HarperCollins' Revenue Declines|Google Could Save Journalism|CNBC Host Mad Over Kindle DX|Toby Young Hit By Car - Posted May 7, 2009
TVNewser: NBC News chief medical editor, and author of "Medical Myths That Can Kill You," Dr. Nancy Snyderman will anchor an MSNBC midday show focusing on health issues starting next month. GalleyCat: HarperCollins' revenue was down 20 percent last quarter. MediaJobsDaily: Is Google good for journalism? Silicon Alley Insider: CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera is... [FishBowlNY]

Five Percent of New Yorkers Support Higher Taxes to Save the NYT - Posted April 10, 2009
One way to save The New York Times would be to raise taxes. But would New Yorkers support that plan? Not according to 100 people polled by New York. While 69 would be okay with a tax increase to support universal health care and 67 said sure to provide better funding for... [FishBowlNY]

Battle of the Twitter Titans? Microsoft and Google Both Express Interest - Posted April 10, 2009
Regardless of the fact Twitter makes no money, and thus far no one has figured out a way to make money from the microblogging service that has saturated the media landscape in the past few months, everyone wants a piece (including Facebook, who recently based their enormously unpopular redesign on Twittery... [FishBowlNY]

Google CEO to AP: Why All the Fuss? - Posted April 7, 2009
Google CEO Eric Schmidt participated in a short Q&A following speech at the Newspaper Association of America convention during which he addressed the AP's decision to crack down on news aggregators.With respect to the Associated Press, we at Google have a multimillion dollar deal with the Associated Press not only to... [FishBowlNY]

Google CEO to AP: Why All the Fuss? - Posted April 7, 2009
Google CEO Eric Schmidt participated in a short Q&A following speech at the Newspaper Association of America convention during which he addressed the AP's decision to crack down on news aggregators.With respect to the Associated Press, we at Google have a multimillion dollar deal with the Associated Press not only to... [FishBowlNY]

Autopilot Email! Or, April Fools From Google - Posted April 1, 2009
April Fools is to Google what Halloween is to The Simpsons. The thing about this year's joke -- a autopilot feature which promises to mirror your own writing style so you never have to answer emails again! -- is that it's not hard to imagine this becoming a reality in... [FishBowlNY]

MSM Wants Google Recognition/Results - Posted March 23, 2009
Perhaps those newspaper folks currently directing their ire at Arianna Huffington may want to reconsider their target in the hopes that she will divulge her company's "mostly secret" Google search-engine optimization tactics. AdAge is reporting that major media companies are pressuring Google to elevate their "expensive online content" to the... [FishBowlNY]

MSM Wants Google Recognition/Results - Posted March 23, 2009
Perhaps those newspaper folks currently directing their ire at Arianna Huffington may want to reconsider their target in the hopes that she will divulge her company's "mostly secret" Google search-engine optimization tactics. AdAge is reporting that major media companies are pressuring Google to elevate their "expensive online content" to the... [FishBowlNY]

Top 2008 News Stories that Don't Begin With 'O' - Posted December 23, 2008
Barack Obama is not the only top story of 2008! Over at The Morning Delivery Bill Lucey has done some digging and uncovered websites such as HuffPo, Salon, and yours truly (technically mediabistro.com) who crowned others the most newsworthy this year (hello Sarah Palin!). You can find his full... [FishBowlNY]

Yahoo's Jerry Yang Steps Down as CEO - Posted November 18, 2008
Looks like at least one chapter of the long Yahoo soap opera has drawn to a close. Jerry Yang, who co-founded Yahoo back in 1995 announced yesterday that he was stepping down from his position as CEO. The move comes after many, many months of wrangling, proxy battling, and... [FishBowlNY]

Is Google Recession Proof? - Posted October 20, 2008
While everyone and his editor is getting canned, it looks as though search engine Google is doing just fine. According to Media Post's Search Insider, "Google racked up an 18% increase in paid clicks over Q3 2007, a 31% increase in revenue, and showed evidence that its costs are being reined... [FishBowlLA]

Does Gawker Have Screen Grabs of Sarah Palin's Personal Email Acct? - Posted September 17, 2008
It looks like John McCain's aversion to the Google may be a good thing after all, or at least something to be envied if you're Sarah Palin. It's been widely been reported that Palin routinely used a private email to conduct state business raising questions regarding government transparency. Well,... [FishBowlNY]

The Rest of the World Not So Thrilled at the Empire of the Google - Posted September 16, 2008
Looks like the rest of the world isn't so thrilled at Google's "ever-tightening grip on internet traffic" and "its unbridled use of online content." Especially when it comes to the proposed Google-Yahoo ad deal. The Times Bits blog is reporting that the World Association of Newspapers posted a note... [FishBowlNY]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted September 16, 2008
Driven: Bob Pool is surprised to learn that there are cab drivers in Burbank with hybrid cars. We are surprised to learn that there are cab drivers in Burbank. Google Monde? The European Union is reviewing the Yahoo-Google deal for antitrust implications there, "adding to recent public criticism from major U.S. advertisers... [FishBowlLA]

Tribune and UAL: When in Doubt Blame the Google - Posted September 11, 2008
You will recall how earlier this week due to some sort of time/date glitch that resulted in an old bankruptcy story getting picked up by Bloomberg News, United Airline's stock plummeted to almost worthlessness before the powers that be realized what was happening and put an end to the madness. ... [FishBowlNY]

The Future of Newspapers: Is the Snake Eating its Own Tail? - Posted August 1, 2008
Here's an interesting little dilemma, in a circle of newspaper life sort of way. Where will Google get its news if there is no more news being reported because the rise of Google News has resulted in the shuttering of all the newspapers that gather the news in the first... [FishBowlNY]

Cuil Runnings: Day Two of the Biggest Search Engine Ever! - Posted July 29, 2008
Yesterday we told you about a new search engine that had just launched, which was being heralded as the best thing since Google. Better actually. And created by a former Google employee no less. Well, apparently Cuil (pronounced "cool") had a less than auspicious start. However, first... [FishBowlNY]

Cuil Runnings: Day Two of the Biggest Search Engine Ever! - Posted July 29, 2008
Yesterday we told you about a new search engine that had just launched, which was being heralded as the best thing since Google. Better actually. And created by a former Google employee no less. Well, apparently Cuil (pronounced "cool") had a less than auspicious start. However, first... [FishBowlNY]

Too Cuil for Google's School - Posted July 28, 2008
There was an article in the recent much-talked about New Yorker that mentioned it was not unusual in the science community for a person to leave his or her academic post in order to go off and "think" for few years before returning with some sort of avant garde theory that... [FishBowlNY]

Too Cuil for Google's School - Posted July 28, 2008
There was an article in the recent much-talked about New Yorker that mentioned it was not unusual in the science community for a person to leave his or her academic post in order to go off and "think" for few years before returning with some sort of avant garde theory that... [FishBowlNY]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted July 16, 2008
50 Cent: Not the rapper, the price tag. In the face of cuts and other awful things, Steve Lopez reminds readers what they're getting for 50 cents: "Although that money doesn't buy you the same-size staff that was in place when I arrived seven years ago, those two quarters still buy... [FishBowlLA]

Yahoo, Microsoft and Google Take it to the Judge - Posted July 16, 2008
If only we could all take our bad relationship complaints directly to a congressional hearing. At an anti-trust hearing yesterday an exec for Microsoft — whose recent proposal to Yahoo was thrown back in their face — "painted an alarmist portrait" of Yahoo's outsourcing deal with Google saying if the... [FishBowlNY]

Lee Abrams Has Us Pretty Well Pissed Off - Posted June 2, 2008
We're used to making jokes about the outside people who come into newsrooms and mess them all up with their complete lack of understanding about what makes a newspaper a newspaper. But we're having a hard time laughing at the latest lunatic musings from Tribune Co. Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams: Then... [FishBowlLA]

Jack Smith Retrospective - Posted April 2, 2008
Veronique de Turenne reminds us that the Huntington is hosting a Jack Smith retrospective, Smith on Wry, featuring the papers of L.A.'s beloved columnist. Idle questions: In the future, will retrospectives be reduced to Google search terms and YouTube categories? ... [FishBowlLA]

GMail Custom Time Fools Dozens - Posted April 1, 2008
Oh those wacky guys at Google-- Gmail custom time stamps. How does it work? Gmail utilizes an e-flux capacitor to resolve issues of causality But they did get a Wikipedia war out of the whole thing.... [FishBowlLA]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted December 4, 2007
Hot Network Mess: Reporter Greg Braxton describes how far BET has to go to undo its image as a bad-taste maker in the black community. What's It Worth? Columnist Patrick Goldstein has a great piece today about the randomness of the price of anything these days (which you can read, for... [FishBowlLA]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted October 25, 2007
Fighting Fire With Fire: Police shoot and kill an arson suspect near Cal State San Bernardino. Another suspect was arrested. From The Blogs: We're going to sound like a broken record, but the LAT breaking news blog is fascinating to read -- with everything from FBI updates on arson investigations to little... [FishBowlLA]

Mark Jen Getting Hitched, Rather Than Separated, Which is Nice, Considering His History - Posted October 9, 2007
Mark Jen, the most famous ex-Googlite, ex-Plaxo as of a few months ago, is getting married to Rose Kwok. Mark is part of the Lunch 2.0 conspiracy. (The next LA one is at Yellowbot.com in Burbank on October 12th.) They're blogging in tandem at RoseandSnail. Jen, while not the first blogger to... [FishBowlLA]

Attributor Asks Google--Where's Claim Your Content? - Posted October 2, 2007
Attributor, the Silicon Valley content-identification service, reminds us that Google promised Claim Your Content back in April, and then September, and still nothing. And while everyone waits, some point out that Google continues to profit from sites with unauthorized copies of original content. AP and Reuters signed up for the content fingerprinting service.... [FishBowlLA]

Google Launches Newsmaker Comments - Posted August 9, 2007
Google, when not aiding and abetting stalkers, will provide a forum for those whom the mainstream media has treated unfairly or fairly or noticed at all. Nate Anderson reports: people or organizations that are mentioned in news stories can submit comments to the Google News team, which will then display those comments—unedited—alongside... [FishBowlLA]

Sundown on Sunset: Tell Us All About It - Posted June 29, 2007
Paris Hilton's interview on Larry King Live brought in 3.2 million viewers; 1.4 million in the adults 25-54 demo, three times King's regular average. And some disapprove. Television Without Pity goes head-first into Rescue Me. Jack McGee butted heads with Denis Leary and tells all. Britney Spears told her mom to get clean... [FishBowlLA]

LAT in 90 Seconds - Posted June 14, 2007
Meee-ow EBay and Google are fighting like sorority sisters. Girls Gone Goree: Jennifer Aniston will produce and star in the Goree Girls, a film based on a Texas Monthly article about an all-girl country band made up of female prisoners. Why not? Her life is kinda like a sad country song anyway.... [FishBowlLA]

LAT in 90 Seconds - Posted March 15, 2007
Dinner and a Show: Here's an alternative to all those summer evenings you won't be spending at the movies. Viacom's Suit Against YouTube: Most illuminating part of the story? Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, speaking to investors last week, said he wasn't concerned about the tough talk. And he made light of... [FishBowlLA]

More Evidence That Google Has Lost Its Cool - Posted February 9, 2007
Two brothers have quit a company that they founded and sold to Google "amid reports of growing tension" between them and the online behemoth, Online Media Daily reports. Chad and Ryan Steelberg last year sold dMarc, an automated radio ad placement company, to Google for $102 million and the promise of future... [FishBowlLA]