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Paying Writers Based on Traffic

It may be a new year, but we’re still talking (well, some of us are anyway) about an old issue: namely, the idea of paying writers based on the traffic they get.
The focus of the debate right now is Gawker, where Nick Denton has apparently started paying his bloggers based in part on how [...]

Denton Himself Takes Over Gawker

According to the one-man investigative team known as Brian Stelter — formerly known as the guy behind the blog TVNewser, who beat the pants off most of the media reporters at the major dailies while he was still in school — the new editor of Gawker is none other than the founder of Gawker Media, [...]

Google Ditches Sexist “Did You Mean”

Once upon a time, if you typed “she invents,” Google tried to tell you it was “he invents.”  This applied to a lot of other queries, as well, and a number of people grew unhappy with these apparent examples of sexism.  Now Google’s programmers seem to have gone in and tweaked the engine, and “she” [...]

MySpace Acquires Photobucket - Now Confirmed

Although the deal has yet to be confirmed by either party, it appears that MySpace did, in fact, acquire Photobucket.  And although the figure $300 million has been mentioned, the terms of the arrangement (assuming such an arrangement exists) remain unknown.
News of this deal first came courtesy of Valleywag, the well-known “tech gossip rag.”  Nick [...]

Marketing Minds Think It’s Great To Integrate

Call it the Minority Report effect on the advertising world, as the Association of Network Advertisers (ANA) has seized upon "Integrated Marketing Communications" as the top concern of some of the most senior marketing executives working today.

Reaching the customer means coordinating an entire marketing campaign so that it persists in its relevancy whenever the customer [...]

No More Moritz On Google’s Board

Michael Moritz will not seek re-election to Google’s board of directors, choosing instead to devote that time to venture capital giant Sequoia Capital.Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founder Sergey Brin bid Moritz adieu with kind words after their long time board member decided not to try for another term once Google’s stockholder meeting takes place [...]