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WSJ.com Frees Its Opinions

The Wall Street Journal Online took another step toward opening to the web by merging its opinion content with OpinionJournal.com into one free site.

Denton Himself Takes Over Gawker

According to the one-man investigative team known as Brian Stelter — formerly known as the guy behind the blog TVNewser, who beat the pants off most of the media reporters at the major dailies while he was still in school — the new editor of Gawker is none other than the founder of Gawker Media, the secretive and unpredictable Nick Denton himself. Stelter says he has it confirmed through several sources.

Excelsior! Marvel Launches Digital Comic Archive

The comics industry has suffered through years of flagging readership and lower demand for titles, but Marvel may have powered up a way to a resurgence for their work.

Profitable Niche Publishing Business Models

Via TC, I discovered IBM released a report on how the they think the $550 billion global ad market might change in the coming years. The predictions look bleak for most ad agencies and traditional media gatekeepers, but good for niche publishers who have a solid stream of attention:

Build Links While Publishing Your Full RSS Feed

Many bloggers have been touting the benefits of publishing your full blog or site’s full RSS feed. In fact, they have been talking about it for a long time. But did you know that most likely even if you are publishing your full RSS feed you are not taking advantages of its link building benefits?

Yahoo Enhances Ad Traffic Quality

A new option for Yahoo's advertisers allows them to have better control of where their ads appear on Yahoo's Publishing Network.

Barnes & Noble.com Gets New Look

Barnes & Noble.com has received a redesign along with several new features including Barnes & Noble Review, which will focus on interviews with authors, reviews of new books, music and movies.

AskCity and Entertainment Publishing

AskCity is the best platform for any kind of local search within no time. And now it will also bring a smile on your face as it will even save your hard-earned money. To know how, one has to enter IAC sister company Entertainment Publications, Inc, which is known as a company that puts out the annual Entertainment coupon books.

Study: Google Would Raise DoubleClick Prices

The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) released an antitrust analysis of the proposed Google and DoubleClick, and suggested the deal would harm DoubleClick's display ad clients.

Selling Information Will Become a High Touch Industry

Newspapers Going Free The NYT just went free and likely the WSJ will follow. Once something goes free it is hard to start charging for it again - just ask Prince.