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COMMUNICATIONS / PUBLISHING / WRITING NEWS ITEMS ... selected popular items on the internet
To Publish or Not to Publish - September 6/09
Companies need to get more out of social Web sites - September 6/09
Google's Blogger Turns Ten, Offers Presents; Blogger at ten shows no sign of slowing down, but social networks and new modes of publishing could send personal publishing in new directions - September 6/09
Biz360 Adds New Low-Cost, Self-Service Social Media Monitoring Solution to Its Product Line - September 5/09
Are We Witnessing The Death of Journalism? - September 5/09
Tweet for hire: More big businesses hire tweeters - September 4/09
Tips for writing an outstanding query letter - September 4/09
Disney Buys Marvel - September 4/09
U.S.-based Examiner.com buys Canadian citizen journalism website NowPublic - September 3/09
eBay Sale of Skype Is a Win-Win - September 3/09
U.S. Internet providers seek low broadband bar - September 3/09
J school works to incorporate iPods, iPhones - Sept. 2/09
Book Publisher: e-Books Will Be Our Downfall - Sept. 2/09
Even as Twitter and Facebook surge, technopundits debate whether it's time to jump ship; Quitting Social Media - Sept. 2/09
American Media damaging America? - September 1/09
As Internet turns 40, barriers threaten its growth - September 1/09
Germany opposes Google book deal - September 1/09
What future for media and journalism? - August 31/09
University to publish energy metrics via social networking - August 31/09
survey shows social media hitting critical mass for marketers - August 32/09
Take up journal writing to improve your creative skills - August 30/09
Drivers Support Ban On Text Messaging Behind The Wheel + video - August 30/09
FTC Plans to Study Journalism's Woes -- and That's a Problem - August 30/09
Sexting banned in schools: Shouldn't this be obvious? - August 29/09
There are consequences to what we publish - August 28/09
2009 Worldwide Internet Publishing & Broadcasting Industry Report - August 28/09
Microsoft Boosts VoIP With JahJah Partnership - August 27/09
Social Media: Listen first, sell later - August 27/09
Communication Lessons from 'Brand Obama'; use the president's message control strategies to command attention - August 26/09
Don Hewitt's Secrets - August 26/09
Internet speeds vary across USA, leaving a 'digital divide'- August 26/09
The New-Media Crisis of 1949; Network radio's fate has some lessons for today - August 22/09
Memories of Don Hewitt - August 22/09
Mail staff launch 24-hour strike; UK's Royal Mail staff on 24-hour strike - August 22/09
Journalism grads struggle to get jobs - August 21/09
Barnes & Noble To Publish Important Out-Of-Print Books - August 21/09
Bitter pill to digest: How a publishing phenomenon lost its way; why has Reader's Digest, the best-read magazine in the world, filed for bankruptcy protection? - August 21/09
Self-publishing goes digital - August 19/09
TV Pioneer... Created "60 Minutes"... Larry King: "One Of The Great Broadcasting Legends Of All Time" Died (86) in New York - August 19/09
Saving Journalism: Howard Kurtz Is Wrong, Dan Rather Is Right - August 19/09
SELECTED LATEST COMMUNICATIONS NEWS drawn from the most active URL's on the internet; we search Google, Facebook , Youtube , Myspace, Yahoo, MSN, Craigs list,WIRED and TECHCRUNCH for the best news, tips, details and developments to meet the needs of our site reader.
The future of journalism in a wired world - August 18/09
Why Your PC May Be Your Best TV - August 18/09
Facebook Cornering Market on E-Friends; Fight to Own Social Media Heats Up- August 16/09
Courtroom Sketch Artist Develops Journalistic Eye; After 27 years of witnessing significant legal proceedings, courtroom sketch artist William Hennessy said he now considers himself a journalist - August 16/09
Print journalism is a lifeline for those not on the Web - August 16/09
Social media: You have to be there - August 15/09
More Than 170 Dailies Sign On with Journalism Online - August 14/09
Book Publishing: Death or Rebirth? - August 14/09
Self-publisher guide - August 13/09
Los Angeles Times unveils 'cleaner, crisper, more innovative site'- August 13/09
Turning Social Media Into Sociable Media - August 11/09
Facebook buys social media start-up FriendFeed - August 10/09
Julie Powell's Advice For Bloggers; her blog, her book and the movie that came out of it: Julie & Julia - August 10/09
Twitter: Friend And Foe; media outlets use it, and get scooped by it - August 9/09
Twitter’s Tough Week: The Social Media Recap - August 9/09
Why Murdoch, the old media reactionary, is wrong to charge for content - August 9/09
Writing an online profile - August 8/09
Advice on writing from Stephen King still a great resource - August 8/09
SELECTED LATEST COMMUNICATIONS NEWS drawn from the most active URL's on the internet; we search Google, Facebook , Youtube , Myspace, Yahoo, MSN, Craigs list,WIRED and TECHCRUNCH for the best news, tips, details and developments to meet the needs of our site reader.
Writing your own last chapter - August 7/09
No boundaries in brave new world of community journalism - August 6/09
Denial-of-service attack downed Gawker Media - August 5/09
How Google Wave could become the multimedia publishing platform of choice; next month Google Wave goes live to those who’ve signed up to test it out. Why should journalists care? Specifically, B2B journalists? - August 4/09
First-responder Communications Remain Vulnerable; list of vulnerabilities, including antiquated phone lines, incompatibility between jurisdictions and facilities that won’t hold up under natural disasters - August 4/09
A Look Ahead at the Money in the Communications Industry - August 4/09
Google Takes Its Apps Message to the Streets; billboard campaign designed to highlight why companies are 'going Google - August 3/09
Writing a book is a spiritual adventure - August 3/09
Blogging & Webinars, Tools for Online Communications - August 3/09
Writing Careers 101: Resources for Writers - August 2/09
Trust me on the sunscreen (and the future of journalism; debrief from ‘Geeks At The Beach’conference - August 2/09
Journalism isn't dead, it's being reborn - August 2/09
What If: The Non-Profit Media Model - August 1/09
Week in review: Microhoo, at last - August 1/09
Voice communication on the rise; ompiles 2008 data from more than 300 telecommunications companies - August 1/09
Top 10 writing tips - August 1/09
Knowledge Genie Launches Publishing Tool - July 30/09
Social Media Marketing in an Hour a Day - July 30/09
Be More Productive in Microsoft Outlook; learn how to turn off new message alerts, tweak e-mail subject lines, access Twitter from within Outlook, and add a spell checker - July 29/09
The Ten Best Movies About Journalism - July 28/09
NPR’s Digital Makeover; can the mainstream media learn anything from National Public Radio's new look and business plan? - July 28/09
Our choice of communication channels reflects our social webs - July 28/09
Publish and be damned! Goodbye ethics - July 27/09
Have Internet connection, will publish - July 27/09
The world’s most followed Tweeter on Twitter - July 26/09
The “pajama theory”…the key to writing is in having a relaxed mind - July 26/09
The good and the bad of writing; "good writing is almost always hard" - July 26/09
Ashton Kutcher: Twitter will change media; Kutcher, known to his nearly 3 million followers as "aplusk," said that it shows that one individual can have the power to reach as many people in a new medium as a media conglomerate - July 25/09
Is Yellow Journalism the New Color of Content? ; where you sensationalize events through the way you present the facts - July 25/09
Survey of Women Bloggers: Can We Talk?; recent Ketchum survey of attendees of BlogHer '09, the largest gathering of female bloggers in North America, confirms that women bloggers are a growing channel of influence for marketing and public relations professionals to target as key influencers -- but only if communications professionals do their homework first - July 25/09
NEW MEDIA: WILD WEST; we will never recognize journalism and media as being the same again - July 23/09
New-age journalism may need to be reined in - July 23/09
Writing 101: how to write purposefully with a specific message - July 22/09
Adobe releases open source media framework for Flash; announced availability of new open source media framework for Flash that makes it easier for Web developers to make custom Flash-based video players - July 22/09
It's a GREAT old TED talk; Hans Rosling entertains, educates and stimulates with statistics - best 20 minutes you'll spend (forget that it was filmed at at TED conference in Feb/2006, the points are all the more relevant today - July 22/09
How do I write a successful query letter? - July 21/09
The Art of the Sample Chapter - July 21/09
Cronkite's Lesson for Today's Journalists - July 20/09
The writing ego: Do you have one? - July 20/09
Anchor's "sage counsel" will be missed as media grapple with crisis in journalism, he says; Hails Cronkite As Media Critic - July 20/09
Microsoft sues alleged instant-message spammers - July 18/09
Are you in danger of being scalejacked?; amassing a massive audiene is rarely the right strategy - July 18/09
In Our Inbox: Hundreds Of Confidential Twitter Documents - July 16/09
Older posts, meaning older than the ones above (typically more than one month old), have been deleted.  If you missed something . . sorry.  We try to stay current and find that nobody wants to read really old news.

SELECTED LATEST COMMUNICATIONS NEWS drawn from the most active URL's on the internet; we search Google, Facebook , Youtube , Myspace, Yahoo, MSN, Craigs list,WIRED and TECHCRUNCH for the best news, tips, details and developments to meet the needs of our site reader.



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