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Shout Out To Round One of Sponsors

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I’ve made an executive decision not to run Google Adsense. Number one it’s not really effective. Number two I don’t like it for this type of project. However, I do have to pay the bills including me spending roughly 4 hours a day or more on this site. And Thord spending roughly something similar in his spare time. I’m looking for 4 sponsors. Most like we will run 4 125 x 125 ad blocks in the sidebar or something of a similar nature. I’m looking for long term advertisers. What do you get?

For $500 a month you get:
In Post Advertising 4 “Sponsored By” Slots A Week.
Very Visible Sidebar 125 x 125 Spots
1 Mention A Week in Our Upcoming Podcasts.
RSS Ads To Our Growing Subscriber Base of Roughly 500.
Discounts when paying for multiple months in advance.

It’s a powerful way to reach a group of professional and non professional folks in New media and professional blogging.
Feel free to contact us using our Contact Us Form.

Originally posted on January 15, 2007 @ 3:38 am

Today on 901am

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You may notice a “901am version 1.1” has been unveiled. I personally would like to thank a few people including Chris Pearson, of Pearsonified for his late night work to get this completed. He got this out way ahead of schedule. When I mean way ahead of schedule I mean way ahead. Ok, I blackmailed him. But he got her done. The other person to thank is the person who provided me with the information. :)

Whats in Store
Podcast: I’ve been working behind the scenes on getting some stuff ready to be able to start podcasting. I know everyone loves to hear my voice. Soon enough you will be able to listen every single day.

Weekly Podcast: Definetly going to have a more weekly oriented show where we go more indepth into some discussion about New media.

Educational Material: I’ve started pounding away at creating some cool open source educational material for new media producers and educators.

Sponsors: We are openly seeking sponsors. A cool stat to note this month we are headed towards 300k pageviews pretty hard.

Originally posted on January 16, 2007 @ 3:32 am

Scripps to shed old media properties?

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scrippsScripps is seeing high growth profits in its new media properties while its traditional profit market, its newspaper division is sluggish.
New media growth is on the rise at record paces as more and more advertisers are heading online instead of towards traditional print. The profit margins for producing content online are much higher than having a traditional print division.

More and more I think traditional print companies will be shedding there print divisions this year and heading more towards an online approach.

Media company E.W. Scripps Co., increasingly focusing on its growing cable television and Internet-based businesses, is taking a hard look at the future of its sluggish newspaper operations.

Scripps management told analysts at a conference in Las Vegas this week that the company is considering options for its newspaper division and didn’t rule out a sale or spinoff. That news drove Scripps’ stock to a new 52-week high with analysts saying investors would respond well to some type of separation of the newspaper division from the company’s higher-growth assets.

Scripps owns daily and community newspapers in 18 markets, but its highest growth is in Scripps Networks – including HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, Fine Living and Great American Country – and Scripps Interactive Media – including online search and comparison shopping services Shopzilla and uSwitch.

Source: Centre Daily

Originally posted on January 13, 2007 @ 2:29 pm

NYTimes discovers hyperlocal news

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The New York Times has just discovered hyper local news coverage.

BEFORE the days of the printing press, town squares served as the main forum for exchanging community news and gossip. Now comes the virtual town square. Across the United States, citizen bloggers and deep-pocketed entrepreneurs are creating town-specific, and even neighborhood-specific, Web sites where the public can read and contribute items too small or too fleeting for weekly newspapers. Suburban towns across the greater New York area are joining in, giving residents a new way to avoid traffic snags, find a lost dog or just vent about a local hot-button issue.

While I think there are some real awesome ways to use hyperlocal news, and some great ways to monetize this type of thing. I’m a bit suprised because well I would rather read about regional issues than what’s going on in my neighborhood.

Originally posted on January 14, 2007 @ 8:37 pm