Sunday afternoon fun. There’s more.

Facebook’s incredible growth is proving irresistible for some unsavory marketing. In what was dubbed last week as “Facebookgate,” a college guide may have used Facebook Groups, fake accounts, and “savvy understanding of some behavioral dynamics inside Facebook,” the blog Inside...

Is that you? I took this free personality test. I’m not sure it nailed me; I guess those that know me would have to weigh in, but it’s fun … and I expect it’ll be viral. (via Jay Rosen)

As I’ve noted before, Twitter is a unique communication service that just may be the best innovation in breaking news in the last couple of years. Here’s Loic Le Meur on the Denver Continental plane fire last night. A guy...

There’s a chorus of sorts at this holiday season bringing tidings of things to come. The theme of these messages is that newspapers, TV stations and magazines are not doing enough to save themselves by radically rethinking their businesses. Slate...

From the Bivings Group’s new look at “The User of the Internet by America’s Newspapers.” As we look at the current state of the American newspaper industry, it appears that improving websites is a crucial component for newspapers to weather...

This month’s Carnival of Journalism assignment is tough. Dave “Digidave” Cohn of Spot.Us suggested we make “New Media Predictions for 2009” and that we might be even so bold as to try to make positive New Media predictions. Now that’s...

A Christmas tale for journalists.

My hunch is that the Internet may well - and soon - bring us an utterly scary reduction of traditional content models that is somewhere in the neighborhood of 1:5, i.e. if you keep relying on the old ‘disconnected’ content...

Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich saves newspapers? Updated: Well, maybe not. The public is not going look at the Blaggy scandal and slap itself on the forehead in recognition of the threat posed to democracy by shrinking newsrooms. The public...