Details of Associated Press search landing pages

A new interview with Associated Press VP Jim Kennedy adds greater clarity to AP’s industrywide content-protection initiative.

What J-School students are reading

Required reading at some schools include Mashable, Romenesko and Wikipedia.

Daily Kos: We can survive without newspapers

Fascinating post from Daily Kos, which categorized  the original source of information for every front page post on the site and found that newspapers were the most popular source of information, but only accounted for about 20 percent.  “In the unlikely and tragic event that every single newspaper went out of business today, we’d have [...]

Basic Search Engine Optimization tips

A great easy-to-understand visual guide to SEO.

Online Journalism Symposium to be Webcast Live Friday

Journalists, media executives, and academics from the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia will discuss the state of online journalism and its future at the 10th International Symposium on Online Journalism, April 17-18, 2009, at the University of Texas at Austin. The symposium can also be viewed live from the Symposium’s site.

CNN Acquires Twitter Account With Nearly 1 Million Followers

CNN tells Silicon Alley Insider that it has has taken control of the @cnnbrk account and its 944,000 followers. The site says CNN didn’t disclose any financial details, but said it’s been working with previous owner James Cox on the account for more than two years.

How to get stock tips via Twitter

StockTwits is “an open, community-powered investment idea and information service. You can think of it as Bloomberg for the little guy and gal. Eavesdrop on what traders and investors are talking about RIGHT NOW or contribute to the conversation and build your reputation and following as a savvy market wizard.”

Twitter coverage of American rescue from Somali pirates

Some impressive Tweeting from ABC News correspondent Jim Sciutto this week from Mombasa after Somali pirates captured Capt. Robert Phillips and then he was rescued. A few highlights…

Bypass Google with Address Bar Searching

Steve Rubel says, “Several sites… are now looking to snatch their traffic back from Google by letting consumers easily execute searches from and curate content on the fly, all from the address bar. Three such sites include AOL’s newly relaunched Love.com, ESPN and IceRocket. The goal is to make it easy to search from the [...]

Cartoon: If Obama Twittered…

A great cartoon…