New Year's bullets

• CyberJournalist.net's top 2004 stories
• Jay Rosen is posting on the top ten ideas of 2004. I'll note at length once the cycle of posts is complete.
• Meantime, his nephew, Zack (a veteran Deaniac) gives some advice to the Greensboro crowd re: a blogging community.
• Friends in Houston #1: Kevin Whited directs us to some Journalism 2.0 reporting on a gulf coast blog. Good stuff, whith just the voice we're planning on using to deliver news big and small.
• Friends in Houston #2: Also just became aware of The Lone Star Times, a Houston site that also seems to "get it" in terms of content voice.
• Rex Hammock hopes we're not on the verge of a "dot blog" boom/bust cycle. (And if anyone is putting "tens of millions" in a blogger business, I've got some newsprint in Dallas to sell 'em.)
  UPDATE: I mis-interpreted the allusion in Rex's post, which makes much more sense if you read the first comment on this post.)
• Phllip Meyer: We need to keep genuine journalism alive long enough for the successful media entrepreneurs of the future to find a way to capture and sell the influence that traditional media are abandoning through their cost-cutting strategies. Those who understand the influence model and apply it to the new, more specialized marketplaces could start to look very much like journalism's philosopher-kings of the twentieth century. (Via Bob Stepno.)
• Is Yahoo! watching you outside of Yahoo!?
• WSJ on stealth advertising.
• And the difficulties of measuring online traffic.

Comments

[Rex Hammock]

To clarify my "tens of millions" comment referenced above. I did not say anyone was investing tens of millions in a blogging business. I was referring to the majority owner of a certain "blogger" company that sold it for stock to a certain pre-IPO search engine company. When that certain search engine company went public, that persons resulting share value is estimated (by certain people who know) to be valued in the "tens of millions." So, you are corrrect. No one is "putting in" tens of millions in blogger companies. But at least one blogger company person has "taken out" tens of millions.