If Twitter Charges, Users Would Pay: Survey

Author and investor Guy Kawasaki posted a poll today asking, "How much would you pay to use Twitter?" Surprisingly, about 50% said they would pay some amount, the majority thinking the service worth $5 per month.

David Frum domain-squatted

David Frum recently left NRO (see New York Times story, seeded here, and Frum's NRO blog), not long after Chris Buckley's departure and endorsement of Barack Obama. He announced the upcoming group blog New Majority, which is scheduled to go online over Inauguration Weekend:

Contextual Discussions - The most important feature of cyn.in

The best thing about collaborating via comments is the fact that the comments always remain attached to the content (or the context) of the stuff that you were working on. Its always search-able and reference-able by any body else that is interested in or joins the team.

Montana Journalism Review: Ethical issues between blogging and journalism

I wrote and originally published this article for a print journal back in 2006, but as a new Newsvine member, I thought it would be appropriate to republish it here now, since in so many ways, Newsvine seems to enact the very things I am writing about below.

Arab Bloggers Size Up Obama

Barack Obama's election in the United States has fired imaginations around the globe, perhaps nowhere more than in the Middle East, where people wonder how the future president's approach to the Arab world will differ from that of his predecessor.

In a twitter age, even layoffs are on the company blog - International Herald Tribune

SAN FRANCISCO: During past downturns, layoffs were mostly a private affair. Big companies tended to issue vague press releases filled with jargon about "downsizing," and start-ups often gave people the pink slip without telling the world anything at all.