Roundup
By Jason Turbow on Nov 20, 2009 02:00 PM
San Francisco's community-funded journalism project, Spot.Us, has appointed a managing editor for its Los Angeles-based expansion, LA.Spot.us. Anh Do was formerly vice president of Nguoi Viet Daily News, the larges Vietnamese-language newspaper in the U.S. She’s also spent 12 years at the Orange County Register, as well as stints at the Dallas Morning News and the Seattle Times.
Those on the Continent can now tweet. In French. This follows versions already out in Spanish and Japanese.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has been talking about the potential for premium commercial accounts for the better part of a year. He did it again yesterday, and even though he didn’t offer much in the way of new information, people still paid attention.
YouTube is rolling out an automatic captioning program that it hopes will one day automatically provide voice-recognition-based captions for every uploaded video, for those who want it. Initially the service will only be available in English, on videos from 13 partner channels. (Users can currently manually add captions, but only a small percentage choose to do so.)
Anil Dash, co-founder of Six Apart (parent company of TypePad and Moveable Type) wants to create a new set of online tools to help scientists and policymakers identify urgent policy issues and come up with answers to them.
By Jason Turbow on Nov 19, 2009 02:00 PM
Valleywag says that morale is so bad at Google's New York office, that of 14 employees profiled by Business Insider, "more than a third are said to be eyeing an exit."
Diggnation visited New York City. Laughing Squid has pictures.
Menlo Park-based TechMeme raised hackles when it added a human editor to its formerly all-automated tech-news aggregation system. Now, says TechCrunch, it's added three more, bringing the total number of employees to six.
By Jason Turbow on Nov 18, 2009 02:00 PM
KPFA-FM host and anchor Andrea Lewis died of a heart attack Sunday in San Francisco at age 52. She started at KPFA in 1999 after stints as editor for Mother Jones magazine and Pacific News Service, but with no radio experience. The Chronicle offers more details.
Local newsman and founding member of the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club George Golding died at 84. SFPC has more.
AllTHingsD says that months after Yahoo made a huge splash over its deal with Microsoft, it's apparently ready to sign on the dotted line.
Valleywag offers pictures of Twitter's new San Francisco office, along with what can be considered to be kudos for the designer, Sara Morishige, wife of company co-founder Evan Williams.
By Jason Turbow on Nov 17, 2009 02:00 PM
Responding to Craigslist only 14 years after it was founded, the San Jose Mercury News is now offering free classified ads to its readers.
Nieman Journalism Lab points out that not only is the new issue of McSweeney's making a statement about what newspapers can be (it'll arrive in the form of a broadsheet called San Francisco Panorama), but it's questioning the notion of whether daily newspapers must really be outdated the moment they're printed. "This is a dutifully crafted product that's got 'collectible' written all over it," writes Mac Sloucum. "With Panorama, perhaps we're seeing the broadsheet format, with its hundreds of pages and multiple inserts and various content forms, re-imagined as a sort of long-form, luxurious physical good. It's not just a frame-worthy memento. It's the leather-bound first edition of the newspaper business."
The U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism has launched its third hyperlocal site, Richmond Confidential.
The Next Web points us to Fake Whale, a site that lets you impersonate the tweet stream of anybody. "You merely enter in the name of the Twitter user, add in some mean text, and FakeWhale pulls in their image and background to make it feel authentic." Have at it, pranksters.
By Jason Turbow on Nov 16, 2009 02:00 PM
Barack Obama said over the weekend that he's never used Twitter -- which came as something of a surprise to the 2.6 million followers of his account.
Craiglist came out with an app exclusively for the Blackberry.
Wired tells us that Time is considering Twitter as its Person of the Year.
The Defamer reports on various celebrities and pseudo-celebrities who have endorsement deals for their Twitter accounts.
Business Insider offers a 29-photo spread on Google's New York office. (Via Valleywag.)
By Jason Turbow on Nov 13, 2009 02:00 PM
Current TV journalist Euna Lee, who gained worldwide attention when she was imprisoned by North Korea in March for crossing into their territory from China, has signed a memoir deal with Broadway Books. "The World is Bigger Now: A Memoir of Faith, Family and Freedom" will detail "her 140 days of imprisonment, her ongoing interrogation and her efforts to protect her sources and the subjects of her reporting," says The New York Times.
Facebook is solving the world's problems, one at a time. Most recently: A Harlem man proved that he wasn't at the scene of the crime because he was busy updating his Facebook status. When the Palo Alto-based company confirmed that the update indeed came from his computer at the time he said it did, the judge dropped the charges.
If Facebook can get someone off the hook, Twitter can get someone snagged. Actress Emmy Rossum divulged yesterday that she met beau (and Counting Crows frontman) Adam Duritz via Twitter.
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark has been appointed to the advisory board of the Wikimedia Foundation.
By Jason Turbow on Nov 12, 2009 02:00 PM
Hearst Corp. might not have money to maintain its staff at the San Francisco Chronicle, but according to the New York Post it has $1 billion saved up for media acquisitions, and, says PaidContent, "may have decided that now is the time to dive in."
YouTube is experimenting with pre-roll ads that users can avoid simply by clicking a "skip this ad" button. The theory behind it, according to MediaMemo, is that the site can collect performance data for ads and subsequently charge more for those that people choose not to avoid.
The Nieman Journalism Lab gives us the first look at what it calls the draft logo for the New York Times' Bay Area blog.
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Valleywag offers new pics from the set of the Facebook movie, The Social Network, in which Jesse Eisenberg, as company founder Mark Zuckerberg, "just wore an endless series of gray hoodies."
By Jason Turbow on Nov 11, 2009 02:00 PM
Writer/director Kevin Smith, the guy responsible for Clerks, Chasing Amy and Dogma, will also be responsible for leading a Q&A presentation at Macworld 2010, it was announced. Smith will share his perspectives on storytelling, the film industry, the use of technology to create great art and what it takes to survive in the world of independent filmmaking. The session is scheduled for Thursday, February 11, 2010, at 2 p.m. at San Francisco's Moscone Center.
Rich Lieberman reports that although KGO radio is in good shape, its parent company, Citadel, which owns numerous ABC radio holdings, is close to bankrupcy.
The Wi-Fi Body Scale -- a scale that comes complete with wireless connection to send your weight and body fat stats to your Web page or iPhone -- has now added Twitter capabilities. What better diet motivation could one ask for than to have one's weight broadcast to one's friends every time one steps on the scale? (The guess here is that people will simply stop stepping on the scale, or get a new one altogether.)
By Jason Turbow on Nov 10, 2009 02:00 PM
Yesterday we offered news of Google veep Marissa Mayer being named one of Glamour's women of the year. It didn't take Valleywag long to rain on her parade.
Valleywag also offers the first glimpse of Justin Timberlake as Facebook's "founding president," Sean Parker, in the upcoming Facebook movie.
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington took a moment yesterday to go all Dear Abby on us.
Gawker has a picture of the presses in action for The Chronicle's first glossy run.
By Jason Turbow on Nov 09, 2009 02:00 PM
The Hollywood Reporter analyzes TV writers' frustration with having to consider YouTube as they create.
Melissa Jordan has left her position as senior editor for recruiting and training at the San Jose Mercury News to become senior Web producer for BART. PoynterOnline has more.
First, Fernando and Greg found new gigs. Now, the program director for recently flipped (and formerly gay-themed) Energy 92.7 (KNGY) has landed at Clear Channel. Don Parker has been named operations manager for Clear Channel's seven San Francisco-based stations -- Star 101.3, 98.1 Kiss, KKGN-AM Green 960, 103.7 The Band, KMEL, KNEW-AM 910 and Wild 94.9. (Via San Francisco Peninsula Press Club.)
Previously
11 a.m. Roundup: Google's Meyers No Fan of Morning Radio | SF Weekly on WSJ's Bay Area Debut: 'Eh' | New Heir to Google Throne -- Literally
11 a.m. Roundup: First Shots from Facebook Movie | KCBS' Price Calls it a Career | Valleywag Notes Arrington's Anger
11 a.m. Roundup: Hearst, Other Heavy Hitters to Market Magazines | Google Digs Big Bird | Not Everyone Hooked Up this Halloween | Savage on Make
11 a.m. Roundup: Chron in Bed with Merc . . . Sort Of | Second Japanese Newspaper to Close | Google Worth Exactly as Much as Apple
11 a.m. Roundup: Full of Win Happy Hour | Arrington: Bad Facebook Move | Valleywag: Bad Arrington Move
11 a.m. Roundup: Examiner Goes Canadian | U2 on YouTube | New Yahoo Homepage a Hit
11 a.m. Roundup: Bay Bridge Media Coverage | Pot Critic for the Chron? | Twitter's Message-at-Sea Service | Wired Editor Has Left the Building
11 a.m. Roundup: Chu Visits Googleplex | Twitters Early Days | Google's Even Earlier Days | Sergey Brin, Tech Geek
11 a.m. Roundup: Facebook's New Look | Brin, Williams on Video at SF Conference | Brin Gives Big | Icahn Steps Dwn
11 a.m. Roundup: Brin Didn't Make Offer for Twitter | Teens: 'We Like Facebook' | Oakland Local Gets Pub | Tribute for Filmmaker Strand
11 a.m. Roundup: Chronicle to Unveil New Arts Section | BANP Seeks Leadership | Facebook's Sandberg Speaks in SF | Google Founder Likes His Device
11 a.m. Roundup: Twitter CEO Discusses Revenue. Again. Also, Not Building a House After All | Yahoo Revenue Down, Profits Up | Google's Bold Smartphone Step
11 a.m. Roundup: Beet.TV Joins NBC | U2 on YouTube | The Original Balloon Boy | Treasure Island Music Fest Wrap-Up | Fernando & Greg Surface on iPhone Ap
11 a.m. Roundup: Twitter Goes to Japan | Ex Owner Anschutz Profiled | Merc Columnists' Latest 'Why We Matter' Entry | NYT Recognizes Litquake
11 a.m. Roundup: YouTube Earns Some Dough | Google's Street View Trike | Ev Williams' New Digs
11 a.m. Roundup: Local Umbrellas, RIP | Eye Catching Photog Blog | Google Gets Even Greener
11 a.m. Roundup: Myth Busters Take on Swine Flu | A Story Told in Tweets | Digg to License Ad Functionality
11 a.m. Roundup: Twitter Moves | Go Yodel for Yahoo | Learn to Write on Twitter
11 a.m. Roundup: Twitter Engineer -- I Don't Heart SF | Media All Over Quake Anniversary | Punk Rock Resurgence
11 a.m. Roundup: YouTube's New 'Yay Us!' Logo | Twitter Goes Down. Again | Google's Streamlined Interface, and How to Get It
11 a.m. Roundup: PopMechanics Hearts TechCrunch | Google Gets Sexy | Schmidt Not Yet Tweeting
11 a.m. Roundup: Hearst Involved with New e-Reader | Google Goes Barcode | What Local Execs do to Slow Down
11 a.m. Roundup: Facebook Gets Emotional | Twitter Corporate Services Nigh | Google Goes all Minimalist on Us
11 a.m. Roundup: Chron/SFGate Policies at Odds? | Facebook Goes Latin | Pirate Radio in S.F. | Yahoo Pushes Presence in India
11 a.m. Roundup: Public Press Revamps | Goolge Goes Gandhi | No Award for You!
11 a.m. Roundup: It's Official: Zuckerberg Really, Really Rich | Timberlake Disappoints TechCrunch's 'N Sync Fans | Mercury News Columnist Gets Huge Response | Online News Ass'n Conference Starts Today
11 a.m. Roundup: Brugmann Weighs in on BANP | Examiner Soars in New Rankings | Craigslist Outage a Blow to Peddlers of Crap
11 a.m. Roundup: Google Dominates Online Video | Twitter Boss Not Fond of Ex | Digg's Talent Drain
11 a.m. Roundup: Facebook No Place for Repenting | KRON Ditches One Saturday Newscast, Adds Another | YouTube Gets Green Day Back | Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Around the Corner
11 a.m. Roundup: Twitter Users Like Ads | Inside Facebook's London Office | New Tell-All About the Making of Google
11 a.m. Roundup: Beware Doctors Who Tweet | Photos from 140: The Twitter Conference | KPFA Holding Elections
11 a.m. Roundup: SF Supes Officially Endorse Gay Radio | New Staff at Oakland North | Newsom Likes Twitter. Like, a Lot
11 a.m. Roundup: Yahoo's New Slogan | KCSM Loses Funding | SF's Big Book Sale
11 a.m. Roundup: Google Redesign Undertaken by People Unaffiliated with Google | The Great Facebook Sexuality Test | Pirate-Speak Comes to Facebook
11 a.m. Roundup: Twitter's Dorsey Speaks, Throws | SF Weekly Stands up for the Giants | Michelin Guides Tweet | Twitter Disrupted | Facebook Users, Behave
11 a.m. Roundup: Fernando and Greg Live to Broadcast Another Day | Record Twitter Traffic for VMAs | Who Tweets? Moms!
11 a.m. Roundup: Office Consolidation Among Peninsula Papers | Steve Perry Not Believing in Dodgers | To Tweet or Not to Tweet About Complex Matters of National Importance?
11 a.m. Roundup: Obama's 'Jackass' Remark Mistakenly Tweeted | Stockton Radio Station Pulls Kanye West from Rotation | The Latest Event from The Rumpus
11 a.m. Roundup: Oh No You Didn't Put That Next to Steve Jobs! | One-Man Classic Literature Marathon | Art Mag Release Party
11 a.m. Roundup: Ads on Twitter | Bay City News Service Founder Dies | Paid Content on the Future of Google News
11 a.m. Roundup: MTV Tweets | Google's (Slightly) New Look | Recession Taxi Rolls On
11 a.m. Roundup: Fringe Festival Opens | Remembering Sydney Kossen | Ad Man Tells Us, 'Print Makes it Real'
11 a.m. Roundup: Twitter's Dorsey Takes to the Diamond | Kevin Smith Tweets . . . and Tweets . . . and Tweets | How to Perform a Hysterectomy, in 140 Characters
11 a.m. Roundup: Why Work for Facebook Friends? | Beware Social Media Scams | Kevin Smith Tweets. And Tweets. And Tweets.
11 a.m. Roundup: Examiner's Creative Headline | Seibel's Wildlife Encounter | YouTube U.K. Back to Playing VJ | Digg Takes Steps Against Spam
11 a.m. Roundup: Social Media Gets Ads | Brits Like Twitter More than MySpace | Google on the Hunt
11 a.m. Roundup: Bartz Rallies the Troops | Facebook Moving in on Paypal? | Google + Sony = the First Step Toward Chrome's Global Domination
11 a.m. Roundup: Social Media Gets Truly Social | Apple Event Slated for September | The Uber-Remote
11 a.m. Roundup: iPhone-in-China Details | KQED Drops Nationally | Twitter Conference Set for LA
11 a.m. Roundup: User Age no Concern for Twitter Founder | Hot Moms Run . . . or do they? | iPhone to China
1 p.m. Roundup: Twitter Tracks Clicks | Ramsey Obit in WSJ | People Like Twitter. They Really Like It
11 a.m. Roundup: Twitter Haters Hate Twitter | Flickr: Deleting Machine | Twitter Gets Fat on Google's Brains
11 a.m. Roundup: Intern to Thank for New Facebook Functionality | Craigslist: Buy People's Junk in More Places Than Ever | No Facebook IPO in '09
11 a.m. Roundup: Turns Out Twitter Wanted FriendFeed, Too | New Unit Chair at Merc | Facebook Users can now Automatically Tweet Updates
11 a.m. Roundup: Google Investments Pay Off | Hurley Enjoys the Roar of the Engines | Mayoral Fantasy Football
11 a.m. Roundup: Female News Pioneer Passes | Twitter Brews its Own | iPhones go Boom? | Twitter-based Hunt Earns Tickets
11 a.m. Roundup: Apple Keynote Rumored | iGoogle Goes Social | Kids Still Wholesome
11 a.m. Roundup: The Newest Tweet | Target of Twitter Attacks Speaks Up | Blanket Coverage of Bridge Shooting
11 a.m. Roundup: Clear Channel Loses Big | Facebook Earns NBC Preview | Literary Death Match in S.F.
11 a.m. Roundup: Energy 92.7 Sold | Scribd's Downswing | New Chron Ads: Really?
11 a.m. Roundup: Digg Ads Online | Farewell to Subscription Cards | The Greatness of Local News
12 O'clock Roundup: Another Chronicle Death-Watch | Google Steps Out of Radio Business | ESPN to Employees: No Tweets for You
11 a.m. Roundup: Paula Tweets: No More Idol | Twitter, Facebook Users Get Their Own Phone | Release Party for Elliot's Adderall Diaries
11 a.m. Roundup: Google Profits Keep Rolling | NFL: No Twitter for You | Google Newspaper Archive Now Officially Gigantic
11 a.m. Roundup: To Tweet, or not to Tweet? | When Good Tweets go Bad
11 a.m. Roundup: MLB Taps Twitter | New Yorker Gets Savage | New Logos for Yahoo-Microsoft Entanglement | Twitter Leaves Guardian Scratching Head
11 a.m. Roundup: Killion Leaves Merc | Twitter Brand Building a Success | Sacto Guild Approves Cost-Saving Measure
11 a.m. Roundup: Hearst Leases Printing Press Space | Apple Nixes Google Voice | No Crocs for You!
11 a.m. Roundup: Heat at the Jewish Film Fest | Merc Loses Branding | PostSecret Tweets
11 a.m. Roundup: WNBA Tweets | YouTube Stats Now Available to Anyone | Sex-Trade Book Release
11 a.m. Roundup: SF Creme Brule Man Tweets in Times | Google Goes all Superhero | SF Weekly: Examiner Editorial off the Deep End
11 a.m. Roundup: Yahoo HotJobs on the Block | Yahoo Revenue Up | Soapbox says Bye Bye | Facebook Video Views Up
12 O'Clock Update: Dilbert Creator Loses Voice | Reznor Stops Tweeting | All of MLB Now on iPhone
11 a.m. Roundup: Pitt Goes Wired | Spot.Us in NY Times | Leadership Shift at AAJA
11 a.m. Roundup: Chronicle Going up to $1 | KCSM Drops PBS Affiliation | Facebook at 250M Users
11 a.m. Roundup: SF Indie Fashion Profile in SFBG | Giants' No-Hitter Rebroadcast | Novel Released on Twitter | KBWF to Host Kenny Chesney Pre-Concert Concert
11 a.m. Roundup: Russians Make Move to Increase Facebook Share | Ex-Merc Photog Dies at 55 | TechCrunch Speaker-Fest
11 a.m. Roundup: SF Silent Film Fest Kicks Off Tonight | Dolores Park Movie Night Temporarily Canceled | Comcast Expands Programming
11 a.m. Roundup: Vigil Today for Lee, Ling | Su.pr's New Twist | Pandora Fees | Salvadore Update
11 a.m. Roundup: No 420 for Local TV | Today's Date is Special!
11 a.m. Roundup: Chon: Now Smaller Than Ever! | SF Weekly Columnist Officially Funny |
11 a.m. Roundup: DOJ Google Book Investigation | Islamic Clerics Against Facebook | Allen & Co. Sun Valley Media Confab
11 a.m. Roundup: Bing Adds Tweets | Wikimedia Gets $300K Grant | Twitter is Thiiiiis Big
11 a.m. Roundup: White House Taps Local Startup | EveryBlock Releases Source Code | MNG's Pioneer Press Layoffs
11 a.m. Roundup: Michael Jackson Dominates on Facebook | Young Women and Their Phones | The Pre Destined to Bomb? | Centenarians on Twitter
11 a.m. Roundup: It's Michael Jackson, not an Attack | Jazz Benefit for KCSM | Zuckerberg Pulling "a Gates" on Twitter?
11 a.m. Roundup: Wikipedia Disputes re: Michael Jackson | Facebook Dangers for Political Candidates | Ling/Lee Vigil
11 a.m. Roundup: TechCrunch on South Carolina's Moral Woes | Samantha Ronson FB URL Up for Sale | SF Committee Approves Film Rebate Extension
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