When anchor icons quit, itâs news
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Soon, you wonât be able to tell the network newscasts without a scorecard or recognize the anchors unless theyâre wearing name tags.
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Doc: "A year from now every newspaper will have a newsriver." I think so too because: 1. The idea is so compelling and 2. It's so easy to implement. Thanks so much to Doc Searls for writing a great evangelical piece about the power of rivers. The stream is turning into a current, and soon really will be a river.  It&#185;s so weird to see rivers show up in Facebook, and Twitter is just a big river of all the people you&#185;re following. The idea is actually a descendent of the teletype terminals that used to be in the movies (and for all I know in actual newsrooms). The news would be printed on scrolls of paper, and when a new story would come in it would push all the older stories onto the floor. You could catch up on the news by scrolling back through the news. Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Katherine Hepburn did it. We&#185;ll all be doing it soon enough. And it really helps to get other people singing the song, esp from within the hallowed halls of Harvard. The more attention we get focused on it, the more other developers will tune in. And what may not be so clear from the narrative is that this project got its start from a meeting I had with some technical people at the Times last week in NY. Like most organizations, it's not of one mind, there are people who are scared of what comes next but there are others who know that the Times has to change. By opening up their internal data to me, all kinds of interesting stuff can happen. We've been here before. The Times are the unsung heroes of RSS, without them it never would have solidified, with the publishing industry falling in behind the Times. It was this consensus that created critical mass for RSS 2.0 in 2002 and 2003. I really hope some of this stuff feeds back into the Times support of RSS. And as you have seen, there are now lots of new opportunities in user interface for news. This is what I do, when I'm in my "flow" -- we're there now again, with a new toy to build and then play with, every day.  Betsy Devine: "Dave Winer has been improving the New York Times for as long as I&#185;ve known him." Phil Windley: "With more sources, who are themselves continuously updating, the keyword river could be as dynamic as you&#185;d want it to be."
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Blogs and the Web may hurt or change newspapers.
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ABC News is ending a digital television experiment it began with last summer's political conventions.
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Plus: Bloggers battled by viral storm. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Rumors about another press release purveyor are flying off the presses.
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Users will be able to receive news alerts and information via IM.
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A word game that has proved hugely popular with Facebook members could soon disappear.
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Could this be an end to broken links? New software replaces and updates links on Web pages.
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Views you can use to get clues on the news.
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Netscape Navigator, the worldâs first commercial Web browser and the starting point of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1 after a 13-year run.
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InfoWorld - Banners hanging atÂ Macworld ExpoÂ on Monday read, "2008: There's something in the air," suggesting wireless news to come in CEOÂ Steve Jobs' keynoteÂ Tuesday morning.
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Also: New modular Hummer 'more animalistic,' 'eco-friendlier'. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Plus: Golden nano-artwork unveiled. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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The social news site is mulling changes to the way the stories on its front door are promoted and ranked in response to charges of abuse, a move that may cost it its most loyal and enthusiastic contributors.
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A look at how network news divisions have dealt with charges of faulty reporting:
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Sept. 9, 2004, will be remembered as a paradigm-shifting day in media history. That was the day the &quot;blogosphere&quot; took down CBS News.