In Race for Gossip, TV Shows Turn to Blogs
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Competition to publish the nastiest, most breathless and up-to-the-moment celebrity gossip has always been fierce, but the Internet has pushed it to a new level.
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Blogs have shifted the balance of information online, argue experts, and they are here to stay.
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Secrets are at the center of a number of ad campaigns, a trend inspired by the growing preoccupation with celebrity gossip.
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Your weekly dose of gossip from the land of soap stars.
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Those talking heads on TV may be profiting by front-running.
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As blogs have gained a wider audience some publishers have started paying attention to them as a source for new writing talent.
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Something about NBC anchors and bloggers just does not click.
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By RANDY MYERS  In the no-holds-barred blogosphere, every voice can be raised. But not everyone cares to listen.  Some visit blogs for updates on political chicanery, others to hear about a hot restaurant, movie, celebrity or technogadget.
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Robert Cox wants to bring some professionalism to the blogosphere.
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Fans of the popular U.S. TV show "Desperate Housewives" may be dying to discuss last night's episode, but the odds are that their friends and co-workers watched something else.
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'Everyone's a critic' takes on new meaning when Internet fan sites and blogs enter the mix.
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With talk shows returning to late night without their writers, is it time to dust off your favorite gags and submit them to the networks? In a word, no.
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A blog about television news run by a 21-year-old college student has become a virtual bulletin board for the industry.
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In March 2002, I made a bet with Martin Nisenholtz about the relative importance of weblogs and the New York Times. I was and am a blogger, and Martin worked then, as he does now, for the Times. For the actual terms of the bet, read the piece on the LongNow site, and a story I wrote to announce the bet. A few comments.  1. It seems now is the time to decide who won the bet, if either of us did. 2. The world that I hoped would come about did not. While blogs have broken many stories, they have not, in general, turned into the authoritative sources I hoped they would in 2002. When the blogosphere resembles journalism it's often the tabloid kind.  3. I wouldn't mind losing the bet. That is, I wouldn't mind if the Times fully embraced the web, and I suspect Martin wouldn't mind if blogs rose to the quality of the Times. 4. If the bet had been held a year later, it seems there would be a pretty good chance that Martin would have won the bet because they recently took down the firewall at the Times, allowing search engines to index the full content. In the past, articles would remain visible for a couple of weeks then you'd have to pay money to access them. I believe they have a special deal with Google and other crawlers that allow them to get past the membership wall. For most of 2007 the Times articles were behind the firewall, and were less likely to be pointed to (which is how they rise in rank at Google). 5. It certainly is fun to speculate, but the decision about who won belongs exclusively to the Long Now Foundation. They have to decide who determines what the top stories of 2007 are, and imho they should consult with search experts to determine how to do the queries. Apparently it makes a difference how you do it.  But ultimately it's their decision. 6. Whether Wikipedia has more or less results seems to be a sidebar to the bet, which only talks about blogs and the Times. 7. Another interesting sidebar is rich media. In 2002, before podcasting had taken hold, before YouTube existed, it would have been hard to forsee the story of the South Carolina beauty queen, or the Don't Tase Me Bro guy. Questions about the future are always framed in the context of the past. Did the question Martin and I asked have any value in 2007, or did it just say something about the world of 2002?   Update: Paul Boutin who arranged the bet, apparently in conjunction with Google (I didn't know this) in 2002, weighs in.
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Politically charged drama, comedy, and reality fare is coming to network and cable TV.
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Internet bloggers have drawn blood  and American journalism may never be the same.
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The early success of âTMZ,â a new syndicated TV show based on the popular Web site of the same name, shows just how valuable the celebrity news niche has become.