Media

NEW YORK — Dana Perino, former White House Press Secretary to President George Bush, thinks that President Obama's use of online video for his weekly addresses is "great." 

Gordon Crovitz, former longtime publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has partnered with Steven Brill and Leo Hindrey to create an e-commerce company for news publishers to charge for content. 

John Battelle, a pioneer in publishing who was the first publisher of WIRED and the Industry Standard, has been running an ad agency for blogs and other niche publishers called Federated Media.

The "metabolism of news production at the Wall Street Journal has gone way up," says Almar Latour, managing editor of the Wall Street Journal Online in this interview with Beet.TV

CARLSBAD, Calif — One of the most talked about sessions here at D: All Things Digital was Wednesday's one-on-one on stage conversation between Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz and co-executive editor Kara Swisher. 

CARLSBAD, Calif — Bing, the new Microsoft search engine debuted here yesterday, is different.

CARLSBAD, Calif  — Thomson Reuters today announced this morning here the All Things Digital conference,  that CBS Interactive has become the first corporate customer to integrate its semantic Web publishing platform. 

CARLSBAD, Calif — Jill Sobuble, the singer-songwriter who had a hit back in 1995 with Clueless with the songs "I Kissed a Girl" and "Supermodel," was a hit as the opening act for the "D: All Things Digital" conference last night.

CARLSBAD, Calif — After their on stage chat with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, Biz Stone and Evan Williams did this interview with MarketWatch's Therese Poletti. 

CARLSBAD, Calif — Rupert Murdoch, News Corp CEO just gave the the welcoming speech to the D: All Things Digital conference getting started tonight. 

SAN JOSE —  Cisco has long been known as a business-to-business giant, but with several new initiatives on its docket the company is expanding into new business and consumer sectors.

Kara Swisher, veteran newspaper reporter with the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, now co-head of Dow Jones' AllThingsD, knows how to get the  her interviewees chat. 

The Huffington Post, long a bastion of liberal thought and discussion, is becoming a forum for number of Republican thought leaders and operatives, Politico reports.

Pando Networks, the New York-based peer-to-peer provider, which is working with broadcasters including NBC, is now working with major game publishers to distribute big files as big as 6GB, we have learned.

NEW YORK  — NBC’s local media division plans to launch its local broadcast Web sites this summer, including one in New York.

We are huge fans of the Washington Post's innovative use of online video.  The paper has been on the forefront of the industry's use of online video.   

We read the expansive Mediabistro Q&A with Larry Kramer, entrepreneur/editor, media visionary.  In the post published today, he addresses a number of topics including the evolution of the newsroom, regional news coverage and the challenges for mainstream media to navigate the extraordinary period of turmoil.

Publishers and authors are stepping up their game when it comes to online video and book promotion.

The third annual CNET Webware awards are out and YouTube and Justin.tv are among video-related companies among the 100 winners. Other video-related winners are Amazon Video on Demand, Hulu, Ustream and Vimeo.

Manhattan-based health information network HealthiNation has quadrupled its ad revenue on a year-over-year basis and has seen its monthly traffic grow more than seven times in some cases.