The Hindu : Front Page : Post it via Posterous

The Hindu : Front Page : Post it via Posterous

Posterous (http://posterous.com) was started in July 28, 2008 by Sachin Agarwal (30) and Garry Tan (29) with the intention of making blogging as simple as emailing. It was meant for close friends.

Backed by Y Combinator, the prestigious incubator, Posterous has already raised more than $5 million. Preposterous? “No! Simply Posterous,” laugh its creators.

Four Women Shaking Up the Media Landscape - The Daily Beast

Women have made all sorts of leaps and bounds over the last half a century, but a panel on media Saturday offered a frank level of discussion about where things have fallen short.

Arianna Huffington noted that when her website, the Huffington Post, started up five years ago, she found that her male friends were far more likely to embrace blogging than women. “Every man I invited said, ‘yes, of course’ and my women friends were really nervous about blogging unless they were journalists,” she said.

She came to conclude that the reason for this is that “women still have a problem with being judged. Much more than men. And anything we write anything we do is going to be judged.”

Four Women Shaking Up the Media Landscape - The Daily Beast

5 Twitter Metrics Beyond Follower Count - AllTwitter

5 Twitter Metrics Beyond Follower Count - AllTwitter: "Counting your Twitter followers is a mostly fruitless exercise. If you have 50 followers that you’re engaging and interacting with, that’s much better than 2,000 followers who don’t pay any attention to what you have to say. The number of followers you have is just one of many metrics you should be using to measure how effective your Twitter efforts are. We’ve got five Twitter metrics beyond follower count for you to use to better understand your Twitter presence."

The Dirty War: Fall of the corporate media in India | CounterMedia

The Dirty War: Fall of the corporate media in India | CounterMedia: "The western media, unlike the Indian establishment media which till the 1980s and mid-1990s had a quivering semblance of some sanity and impartiality with a faint flickering light of honesty, had no qualms about selling itself to the highest bidder and using the platform to disseminate disinformation and keep dissent under wraps.."

NY Times vs. Bloomberg News: It’s War! - Jeff Bercovici - Mixed Media - Forbes

NY Times vs. Bloomberg News: It’s War! - Jeff Bercovici - Mixed Media - Forbes: "The stated goal of Bloomberg News is to be “the world’s most influential news organization.” That’s unsettling to The New York Times, which currently holds that distinction, or at least likes to think of itself that way."

news.outlookindia.com | 2G: PAC May Summon Radia, Prominent Journalists

news.outlookindia.com | 2G: PAC May Summon Radia, Prominent Journalists: "Parliament's Public Accounts Committee may summon corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and some prominent journalists who figure in the taped conversations with her relating to portfolio allocation in the UPA-II cabinet and the 2G spectrum controversy."

Media Crooks: India's Worst Journalists...

Media Crooks: India's Worst Journalists...: "India's 10-Worst Journalists: In a very 'scientific' poll conducted by Mediacrooks the following were voted the worst contemporary journalists around. Readers have to be warned that this poll was conducted only for the English language media otherwise the list would have been longer than 10 and it would have run into many pages. So here goes.."