links for 2007-06-19

• Newspapers Should Embrace Online Aggregators » Publishing 2.0
  Cites the New York Times's 'Times Topics' as a good example of MSM bringing in others' content while simultaneosuly making its content more attractive to search engines.
  (tags: aggregation social_media_optimisation NYTimes)
• Blogging 2.0
  Useful notes on the role and future of blogging
  (tags: social_media blogging)
• Yahoo investors, and others, make noise on the Web | CNET News.com
  Eric Jackson claims credit for deposing Yahoo's Terry Semel using web-harnessed shareholder activism
  (tags: investment investing)
• Swedish Metro to pay bloggers half a cent per page view
  Only after they hit 5,000 page views within a calendar month.
  (tags: monetisation)
• With Blogfusion, newspapers join blogging community
  More of a monitoring aid than an aggregation play but interesting approach.
  (tags: aggregation)
• MediaPost Publications - Biggest Threat to Newspapers Is ... MySpace? - 06/18/2007
  Kids aren't just spending more of their time on social media than traditional, they are also beginning to see it as a soruce of personalised news. The remedy is for major media to get their stuff inside social media.
  (tags: social_media metrics)
• Point of Presence::Your Guide to Micro-Blogging and Twitter
  MediaShift's guide to how to Twitter (and Jaiku) with some great examples of how micro-blogging is being used (including by MSM)
  (tags: social_media Twitter Jaiku howto)