Leslie Moonves, the CEO of CBS (you know, where David Letterman is) spoke about the company’s plans for strengthening their position. Apart from a Star Trek destination in popular online world Second Life, CBS will also air YouTube content before the Super Bowl.

In a campaign called “15 Seconds,” CBS will run a short video made by a Youtube user before the Super Bowl football game on Feb. 4, Moonves said yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Youtube will host a contest to broadcast at least one user video on CBS each quarter.

The program is part of an effort by Moonves to link CBS with new media companies such as Youtube in the minds of viewers. CBS already sells TV episodes on Google, the most-used Internet search engine, distributes programs on Apple Computer Inc.’s iTunes and streams ad-supported episodes on company Web sites.

Bloomberg has the whole story, and some other things that Moonves spoke about to further strengthen CBS.

Originally posted on January 10, 2007 @ 5:19 pm

Time Magazine’s homepage, Time.com, just got relaunched with a cleaner design. Not perfect if you ask me, but decent enough.

We’ve given the site a long-overdue face-lift, and you will find a sharp, dynamic, constantly updated news site within a new but familiar red border. You’ll see more space to show off our world-class photography, our superb writers and columnists, and now you can start your day by checking our news blog, The Ag, which smartly aggregates and summarizes the most important stories from daily newspapers and blogs around the world.

The Ag is what I think is interesting, since they’re pushing it pretty hard on the site.

The Ag is the work of Time’s Matthew Yeomans, an early-rising journalist based in Cardiff, Wales. Yeomans scours his bookmarks and RSS feeds every weekday morning and writes a digested version of the best stories from hundreds of the world’s great newspapers and blogs, giving you all the news you need to read without reading all the news.

A clean, straightforward look of The Ag, easy access to social bookmarking sites and RSS subscription as well as links to the other Time blogs makes The Ag look like a great idea. And it probably is. Time seems to have understood that media is changing, and if you want to survive online you need to deliver a great product.

Via journalism.co.uk

Originally posted on January 8, 2007 @ 12:47 pm

I did not see this one coming…

New media publishers like the b5media contribute to Glam’s interactive channels and features, offering brand advertisers a targeted way to reach the engaged and passionate audience of the blogs in their network. Glam Media reaches more than 8.6 million global unique visitors a month, and is a top 10 women’s property, according to comScore Media Metrix.

Basically, part of the b5media network will join the Glam Network to further the reach for fashion and lifestyle interested women. This is bound to be a huge deal for the b5’ers, since they most likely will earn a piece of the dollar cake that this new highway to the readers offers.

Congratulations are in order I’m sure, but I would still like to know more about the deal and what it means for b5 in the long run, and its affected bloggers.

Originally posted on January 10, 2007 @ 4:19 pm

Drupal might not be as widely used as WordPress in the blogosphere, but it is used. Also, it has quite a following for setting up more traditional web pages. It’s a better pick than Joomla if you ask me, but that’s just my opinion from a glance.

The updates, which are labeled 4.7.5 and 4.6.11 (both branches are supported), fixes bug tracking issues and repairs two security vulnerabilities, so it’s a recommended update. Go fetch.

Originally posted on January 7, 2007 @ 9:09 am

BBC (you know, the British Broadcasting Company) lets its viewers participate via webcam or a 3G phone:

Do you want to Have Your Say live on air on News 24, BBC World TV or on the BBC News website?
You can use your webcam or 3G phone to broadcast your views to the nation, or even the globe.

There’s a special webcam software download to make this work, and a dedicated number to dial if you want to share your views via a 3G phone. The phoning solution won’t work outside of the UK, but there’s no reason why the webcam one won’t as far as I can tell.

Now, all you brits out there, start telling stories, but don’t use profound language or endanger yourself. Terms and tips on the site.

Originally posted on January 8, 2007 @ 7:00 am