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Jason & Matt Talk About Twitter's Downtime, Ben Stein and G.I. Joe On The Menu - Posted August 7, 2009
Today on the media- bistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast, hosts Jason Boog of GalleyCat and AgencySpy's Matt Van Hoven scanned the news for the day's biggest media headlines. The denial of service attacks on Twitter, Facebook and other sites yesterday was the biggest story of the day, since it crippled many of... [FishBowlNY]

Trying To Find A Business Model That Works - Posted July 17, 2009
Last night's panel produced by Mediabistro.com and sponsored by Demand Studios focused on finding a business model for news on the Web but -- like most panels of its kind -- no real conclusions were reached. The panel was moderated by BusinessWeek columnist Jon Fine, and featured (in photo from left to... [FishBowlNY]

The Best Mags On Twitter - Posted June 3, 2009
Paste magazine needs assurances that Twitter is more than just a waste of time, so its set about compiling top 10 lists of the best microbloggers out there. Yesterday, the magazine released its list of the top 10 magazines to follow on Twitter. Topping the list are Wired (@Wired) and Good... [FishBowlNY]

Tribune Papers' D.C. Bureaus Shack Up|Planting Flowers Where The News Used To Be|Al Roker's Jury Duty Twitter Faux Pas|NYT Works To Pioneer New Digital Ads|American-Statesman Loses Buyer - Posted May 29, 2009
FishbowlDC: The LA Times, Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun (Tribune's Washington Bureau) might all be moving to the Scripps bureau office. FishbowlLA: A good use for all of those empty newspaper boxes: planters for pretty flowers. WebNewser: Al Roker Tweeted himself into a corner when he posted pictures from his trip to jury... [FishBowlNY]

Menu: Did NYT Miss A Chance To Break The Watergate Story? - Posted May 26, 2009
Our new FishbowlNY editor Amanda Ernst joined the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast this morning. Did the New York Times have the Watergate scandal tip even earlier than Woodward and Bernstein put the pieces together for the Washington Post? So says a Times article. We'll discuss the implications, as well as a... [FishBowlNY]

MediaBistro Alums Publish Book|FNC Producer Starts A Fight|NY Times Reporter Recounts Personal Debt Crisis | Washington Gov. Talks About Saving Papers|Times Twitters - Posted May 15, 2009
GalleyCat: mediabistro.com alums have published a humorous design book. TVNewser: Fox News producer Chad Pergram had words with a photographer at a D.C. press briefing. New York Times Magazine: Times economics reporter Edmund L. Andrews writes about his own struggles with sub-prime mortgages and massive credit debt in this Sunday's magazine.... [FishBowlNY]

WSJ Implements New Conduct Rules For Twitter - Posted May 14, 2009
So it turns out that Twitter can be very helpful to journalists, whether they're promoting their own work, seeking sources or just looking for what everyone is talking about. In fact, it's the perfect way to find out what everyone's talking about. But it's no surprise that media companies like News Corp.... [FishBowlNY]

Twitter News Of The Day - Posted May 12, 2009
Social media monster (or whale?) Twitter is getting a lot of ink today. Here's what people are talking about (in 140 characters or less): Traffic Leader: Thanks to Oprah, Ashton Kutcher and CNN, Twitter scored more unique visits than The New York Times and WSJ.com last month The Future of Television Journalism?: On... [FishBowlNY]

Twitter News Of The Day - Posted May 12, 2009
Social media monster (or whale?) Twitter is getting a lot of ink today. Here's what people are talking about (in 140 characters or less): Traffic Leader: Thanks to Oprah, Ashton Kutcher and CNN, Twitter scored more unique visits than The New York Times and WSJ.com last month The Future of Television Journalism?: On... [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]

How Much Are Your Social Media Connections Worth? - Posted April 9, 2009
So you have a huge number of followers on a specific social media platform. Congrats. Now what? Well, we've all been led to believe that followers=money. But is that true? PaidContent's Tameka Kee takes a look at what that's actually worth. Kee argues that having hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter... [FishBowlNY]

How Much Are Your Social Media Connections Worth? - Posted April 9, 2009
So you have a huge number of followers on a specific social media platform. Congrats. Now what? Well, we've all been led to believe that followers=money. But is that true? PaidContent's Tameka Kee takes a look at what that's actually worth. Kee argues that having hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter... [FishBowlNY]

Twitter Bucks Trend, Goes on Hiring Spree - Posted April 6, 2009
Maybe Twitter knows something the rest of us don't. The company, which doesn't yet pull in any revenue, is hiring! A lot. Also? They appear to be offering benefits. Maybe this is a preamble to a Google takeover? (The post says "We are well-funded and... [FishBowlNY]

What Does Your Twitter Flock Look Like? - Posted January 29, 2009
Are you a Twitterer? Want to get a sense of who is in your Twitter flock, so to speak? Give this is whirl. It's an application called Twittersheep, the brainchild of @nickbilton, @tedroden, and @myyoung, which produces a world cloud based on your followers. Here's what ours... [FishBowlNY]

Hacking in 140 Characters or Less! - Posted January 5, 2009
Someone is hacking Twitter! We noticed a warning on our Twitter page when we logged in this morning and it turns out other, far more bolder faces, may have been taken for a bit of a twitter ride. WebNewser has more info, but it looks like Britney Spears (y'all!),... [FishBowlNY]

The Shorty Awards: It's Not How Long It Is, It's How You Phrase It! - Posted December 16, 2008
While we're on the topic of Twitter, which we seem to be more and more these days, we thought it might be a good time to re-draw your attention to the Shorty Awards (particularly since it appears to be increasingly important to people on our Twitter feed). Here's the deal:... [FishBowlNY]

The Media is Dying, 140 Characters at a Time - Posted December 15, 2008
So, at one of the media parties we were at over the weekend we found ourselves attempting to explain Twitter to a fellow party-goer (it's always nice to be reminded that not the entire world, or even most of it, spends their time contemplating these things). Anyway the best analogy... [FishBowlNY]

Not Too Many Saying Yahoo! To Yahoo!: Layoffs Started Today - Posted December 10, 2008
Yahoo! in California went through with its quasi-announced layoffs today. Hundreds of people were shown the door by security guards (1,500 throughout the state; 200 in L.A.), complete with Christmas gifts in their arms and tears in their eyes. Generally, even though they were being laid off and truly pissed off at... [FishBowlLA]

Twittering Mumbai: Citizen Journalism Gets One Step Closer to the Mainstream - Posted November 30, 2008
Not that long ago people were scoffing at the use of Twitter as viable tool for journalism. Well maybe not so much anymore! The terrorist siege in Mumbai over the weekend has proven once again how useful the mirco-blogging platform can be for reporters. Both the Times and... [FishBowlNY]

Twitter: Bringing You the World 140 Characters at at Time - Posted September 16, 2008
Remember how for a while there everyone was complaining about how magazines were shortening their articles in order to keep the reader interested and we were all in the process of developing the attention spans of four-year-old because of MTV or the like? Well the future has officially come to... [FishBowlNY]

When the Twitter Goes Too Far - Posted September 12, 2008
We are big fans of the Twitter. According to Patrick Gavin, our FishbowlDC comrade in blogging, the Twitter may have had its coming out party during the conventions (we suspect Patrick may have been the one throwing it, actually). But all good things must cross the line eventually. ... [FishBowlNY]

WGA Strike Snippets of News - Posted November 5, 2007
The WGA members seem to be worried about their public image. Maybe if they start the picket lines before 9 (like when the Teamsters go to work), the strikers might be taken more seriously. And lose the lattes and the Blackberries. United Hollywood suggests there'll be chaos. They wish. We stand... [FishBowlLA]

Everyone's A-Twitter - Posted March 15, 2007
There's always that One Big Thing that everyone's talking about at SXSW. It was only after we got back and started reading the coverage that we realized one biggie was new music service Slacker, which we didn't hear a thing about. Honestly, it would have been impossible to hear anything over... [UnBeige]