Seattle Post Intelligencer story on X-AOL exec and NYer Jon Sack’s move to leader of Mforma: Schuler recruited him out of retirement. Explaining the move to Mforma, Sacks is quoted as saying”The most interesting part of this for me is that there are 1.9 billion cell phone handsets in use everyday. To me, that is… Continue Reading

Had lunch last week with Topix guys Rich Skrenta and Chris Tolles at their beautiful Palo Alto offices (like, above the trophy shop). The conversation ranged from work focus post-acquisition to the legal issues around packaging up feeds. For those who are interested in learning more about this very nimble company, some info from the… Continue Reading

A quick analysis of a day’s worth of Google News data to see what news entities were most frequently quoted and where their data originated demonstrated that the sources Google often lists as their point of origin frequently redistribute stories created elsewhere, often by Reuters or the AP , and licensed to the news entity.… Continue Reading

X-AOLer Shawn Hardin’s joining Yahoo! in Santa Monica as VP for content operations, a spot parallel to the one that MSNBC’s Scott Moore just started. Susan sez: Saw an LA friend last night who wondered what news honchos like Craig Forman and Neil Budde might feel about all the layers of management being added to… Continue Reading

J-Lab awards first citizen journalism grants. Om Malik: Yahoo News is so vanilla. Jay Rosen: News people…Can they migrate across the chasm? (Susan sez: I think many can…but can their companies?) Anthony Townsend: One of my favorite researchers/thinkers is joining The Institute for the Future–and moving to the West Coast. Global Voices: For an international… Continue Reading

Fellow Bay area blogger Christian Crumlish is looking for work, and he’s posted a note about his search. If you have job leads for writing/editing/project management spots, Xian is interested…check him out.

Nate Eliott: ‘ Google, which absurdly still claims that its sole mission is to “organize the world’s information,” is officially turning its crappy text-ad network into a crappy banner network.” Susan sez: Yep, welcome to the world’s largest advertising platform.

Brian Russell of AudioActivism has some detailed notes on the Mobile Media conference. It’s been a good day so far, with lots of discussion from the attendees, the best part of the event, in my opinion (not that the speakers weren’t good–they were.) More at morph as well.

Rich Gordon muses on Google’s Trojan Horse aspects: “But I find it interesting that Google is going to help advertisers publish ads on other sites (with graphics and animation) that they wouldn’t allow on Google.com. I suspect that advertisers will find it appealing to be able to go to Google and buy richer forms of… Continue Reading

Mobile Media talk, Lucy Hood, SVP, Fox on mobile initiatives and programs: “The ability to deliver 1:1 personalized content when and where you want it is the promise of mobile media.” Buzzwords to watch: Mobisode–video soap opera series for phones– 24 Conspiracy–downloadable 1 minute episodes. The series runs in parallel to TV show 24. Also,… Continue Reading