It’s not even a year since the triumphalism of Jeff Jarvis’s Google ‘reverse engineering’ book ‘What Would Google Do?’ hit the book shelves, but it seems an age ago now. Full Article at ZDNet

Jeff Jarvis has a pithy rant against corporate fussiness over how their names get spelt. Apparently, "AOL" has just become "Aol." with some hoohah about the importance of the period, or full stop as they may or may not allow us Brits to call it. Full Article at Johnnie Moore's Weblog

Murdoch's Google gambit shakes up the blogosphere. The Financial Times reports that Rupert Murdoch is in talks with Microsoft to remove his news empire, which includes the Wall Street Journal and Fox News, from Google's search listings. Full Article at Inc.

Jeff Jarvis: "Murdoch himself says that Bing and even Google couldn’t afford to pay all content providers. And for what? For linking to them and giving them value? Full Article at Martin Stabe

When pitching to VC’s, entrepreneurs hype the heck out of their ideas, years of experience and management teams. But I’ve never heard of anyone touting their luck or connection to God. Full Article at TechCrunch

Early in the hour, Tom asked Michael, who recently wrote a biography of Rupert Murdoch, for his inside take on what’s going through Murdoch’s mind: MICHAEL WOLFF: I think he’s raging against the dying of the light, actually. Full Article at On Point

Amid the rhetoric over how to support the business of journalism, the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism has taken a plunge by creating models of what a news network on the Web might look like with hard, if optimistic, numbers. Full Article at E-media Tidbits

Audio of this show will be available by 3pm ET. Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown. Jeff Jarvis blogs at Buzzmachine.com. Full Article at On Point

On the most recent episode of This Week in Tech, Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Baratunde Thurston, and John C. Dvorak wondered why Yahoo! would delete all the data from its recently discontinued Goecities service rather than keeping it backed up somewhere. Full Article at Surprisingly Free

As local newspapers fold, the entrepreneurial “hyperlocal” publisher has become a new accidental career path for many journalists. Full Article at Journerdism

Jack Balkin invited me to be on a panel yesterday at Yale’s Information Society Project conference, Journalism & The New Media Ecology, and I used my remarks to observe that one of the things up for grabs in the current news environment is the nature... Full Article at Clay Shirky

Citizen journalism takes advantage of the idea of the general population that because "someone is tweeting from the ground that that is the unfiltered truth that the media is somehow going to mess up... its just rumor that happens to be able to be... Full Article at Editors Weblog

As you might imagine, it’s quite a switch to go from criticizing Google from the outside to being on the inside. Full Article at The Noisy Channel

Please note: comments that are inappropriate or promotional in nature will be deleted. E-mail addresses are not displayed, but you must enter a valid e-mail address to confirm your comments. Are you a registered Geekzone user? Full Article at Geekzone

A “hypercamp” dedicated to New Business Models for News was held yesterday in New York City by The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, lead by Jeff Jarvis of MediaBuzz. We weren’t there – wrong coast- and nothing is on the site yet. Full Article at The Local Onliner

Right now Jeff Jarvis and CUNY are hosting their “New Business Models For News” conference which attempts to wrangle with wild, runaway world of new-old media every year, financed by the burgeoning bank of the link economy. Full Article at Mediaite.com

The future of news lies in ecosystems according to Jeff Jarvis. In his latest blog post,he argues that in an ecosystem-based economy, companies benefit,they find efficiency and growth,by working collaboratively. This will be achieved through 1. Full Article at Thoughts of Nigel

TechCrunch columnist Paul Carr took to New York’s public radio station WNYC yesterday to discuss the pros and cons of citizen journalism in the context of breaking news. Full Article at TechCrunch

"The Internet makes it possible to communicate directly with those once known as recipients - readers, listeners and viewers - and to take advantage of their knowledge. Full Article at Robin Good's Latest News