The Media Drop

Gee, I guess it sucks to be Ann Coulter this week, huh.
[Thanks, Alex!]

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If there’s one YouTube video you watch today, it has to be the call for entries for the Austin Chronicle’s Bacheloser contest. Austin, of course, is the city that ABC’s latest Bachelor, Brad Womack, hails from. When people said that the alt-weeklies looked at different goings on in an alternative way, they were most certainly […]

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Okay, so how did we miss this, TV-heads? Back on 10/4, MeFi had a great post pointing to the J! Archive, a huge compendium of “Jeopardy!”-related bits. You know you want to spend the next four hours there.

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Nine albums by George Harrison are now going to be on sale digitally, the BBC reported on Wednesday. iTunes is to be one of the vendors through which the albums can be purchased.

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Whether or not the “rights” of the photo Valleywag’s Owen Thomas is discussing here are at issue or not, at least we know that Reuters reads Engadget enough to snag some photos that the site used and republish them with their own item on the same topic.
Wow.

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On Tuesday, Lost Remote’s Cory Bergman wrote about the fact that there weren’t any more photos showing up all over the Drudge Report. Bergman was discussing the rights issues, but there’s a whole different issue that at least one of the commenters over there discussed - hotlinking.
The fact of the matter is, Matt Drudge has […]

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FishbowlLA reports Tuesday that Betsy Morgan is joining The Huffington Post as CEO. Morgan was previously an SVP at CBS Interactive.

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According to Variety’s Josef Adalian, Britney defender Chris Crocker has scored a TV deal to do a “docusoap,” whatever that really is.

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When it comes to codes of conduct, ethics, and people being ever-so-stalwart to dig and dig into what people are doing and saying, the blogosphere has its serious ups and downs. But while the Web’s semi-disorganized yet sometimes-really-organized ways have left people to do much of the decision-making to themselves and the organizations they are […]

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Oregon Public Broadcasting is opening up its source code in a way by asking anyone within its community to become a source of the media outlet. They’re teaming up with American Public Media to launch what will be called the Public Insight Network®, and will handle things in a different manner than what we’ve traditionally […]

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