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[Tradutor] According to Real Clear Politics, The San Francisco Chronicle is one of ten newspapers in trouble.  The total list in order from “still alive” to “almost passed on” is: 10. NY Daily News9. LA Times8. St. Paul Pioneer Press7. Chicago Sun-Times6. Detroit News5. San Francisco Chronicle4. Miami Herald3. Philadelphia Daily News2. Rocky Mountain News1. Seattle Post-Intelligencer The San Francisco Chronicle, at number five, may cease to exist if management and union can’t get together on an adjustment...

[Tradutor] Julia Allison’s exploits are regularly covered by the online publications Gawker and Valleywag, who complain that she wants attention, then give her the attention in the process. Why? She’s a great example of self-promotion. I wrote about Allison a while back in this tongue-in-cheek take on her search for White Guys at tech parties. In the age of Obama I think she got the hint and started paying attention to men of color too, a good thing. But why is Gawker so taken with her? Regardless of the reason,...

[Tradutor] More at SFGate.com: “(01-13) 12:17 PST SUNNYVALE — Yahoo Inc. plans to name former Autodesk CEO Carol Bartz as its new chief executive, according to a published report, ending a two-month high-profile search for the struggling Internet giant. She will replace Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s co-founder, according to a Wall Street Journal article published online today. Yang said in November that he would step down after 17 months at the helm. Yahoo declined to comment. Autodesk said it had no information. Bartz could not...

[Tradutor] I was just informed today, Saturday evening January 10th, 2009, that BART is holding a “community meeting” on Sunday, January 11th, which is tommorrow, from 2 PM to 4 PM at 101 Eighth Street, the Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter in Oakland, off Lake Merritt BART. More at Oakland Focus Blog. ...

[Tradutor] “Phishing” is the act of sending a “safe” looking email that asks you to give out sensitive information: your username and password. That practice has found it’s way to Twitter. Here’s what you should do if it happens to you. ...

[Tradutor] Hey everyone!  I just joined this really cool site called “12Seconds.tv” where you can make a video comment in just, well, 12 seconds.  Here’s my first post: Happy New Year! on 12seconds.tv 12Seconds is a lot like Twitter, but a video version.   The idea is to give video updates of what you’re doing or the news, or whatever.  It’s push button easy to do and perfect for on-the-go vlogging.  Check out my channel! (Don’t know what’s up with my photo not appearing,...

[Tradutor]  I just read at TechCrunch , and then at his own blog, and with some dismay, Seesmic founder and entrepreneur Loic Le Meur’s call for a “Search by Authority ” feature on Twitter based on the number of followers a person has. I have to say that call is — to be blunt — 1) way off-base, and 2) very self-serving. I’ll take the second assertion first. Le Meur has as of this writing 15,196 followers on Twitter. Do you for a moment think that he would dare dream of such...

[Tradutor] Happy Holidays! I’m Zennie Just saying ‘hello’ to the Seesmic Community! After months of thinking about doing it, I finally did it: contributed a video on Seesmic.com , Loic Lemur’s video conversation venture, featuring my friend Cathy Brooks, who was one of his first staffers.I remember when Cathy was totting around a laptop showing Seesmic at work; that was last year, 2007 at a STIRR Founder Hacks Meetup! Wow, how time flies! ...

[Tradutor] Report: Small online news sites more proven than large ones » VentureBeat: “The report uses long tail economics to show how small sites can do well by achieving greater distribution among a niche readership. Because operating costs are so low, these sites can still manage to be successful despite lower rates of advertising revenue. The report describes the revenue model for independent blogs and news sites and it offers, as an example, a news site with 1 million unique visitors a month which generates $1.5 million in...

[Tradutor] Interview: New NYT.com GM Denise Warren: Tip-toeing Into Aggregation With Guarded Optimism | paidContent.org: “As if heading advertising for the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Media Group wasn’t tough enough in this climate, Denise Warren is taking on the role of GM of NYTimes.com as the site fends off increased challenges from competitors and the economy. Warren has been chief advertising officer of the NYT Media Group for three years and has been with The New York Times Company for 20 years.” ...

[Tradutor] Look who’s into New Media: The Pope and the Vatican. h2onewscrossmedia is the organization that uses the cell-phone-based live streaming online service called Qik.com. According to TechCrunch, they have more views than Ashton Kutcher! Here’s a video from their stream page: Robert Scoble shared his thoughts with TechCrunch: As Qik’s first user, I find the service very cool, but I find that more and more I’m moving away from it for a few reasons: 1. cell phone video is cool at first, but then you keep finding...