Pogue Recounts Days of Tech Without Power

Like many this past week who were without power in the State of Connecticut (due to last weekend's storms that hit the region), The New York Times' technology columnist David Pogue had to make due with what he had at his disposal. Unlike most Nutmeg State residents, Pogue still had to review technology products and produce videos for CNBC and the NYTimes.com.

In a post on his blog Pogue's Posts, he recounts how in his time without power, he was able to do a review of a Jawbone bluetooth device, how he charged his gadgets and how his ability to use a cellphone as a modem was essential.  

Pogue's Posts (NYTimes.com)

Lehmann Joins New Yahoo News Blog

Bookforum editor Chris Lehmann, who also used to write for The New York Observer, has recently joined Yahoo News as the managing editor of a new news blog currently in development called The Newsroom. The blog, which plans to fully launch later this year, joins the highest trafficked news site on the Web, as Yahoo News has 42 million unique visitors a month. 

Media Mob (The New York Observer)

Shine and the Stripped Down World of Online News

In a recent feature article in The New York Times, Brandon Holly, the editor in chief of Yahoo's Shine, a Web site for women, talked about some of the differences between running a online news site as opposed to when she was the editor in chief of Jane, the young woman's magazine formerly published by Condé Nast. 

Besides the fact that she now works from home in Brooklyn and deals with most of her staff remotely,  she no longer enjoys the perks of a top office at Condé, which included a expense account, front rows at fashion shows and invitations to high profile Hollywood parties. 

The New York Times

Observer's Media Mob Blog Relaunches

Earlier this week, The New York Observer relaunched on its Web site the "Media Mob" blog with the new name "Media Mob With Koblin and Gillette."  The blog features the NY focused media news from the paper's media reporter John Koblin and new media reporter Felix Gillette.

FishbowlNY

Associated Content Benefitting from Citizen Journalism

Citizen journalism site Associated Content is growing and continually profiting. In a recent interview with eConsultancy, CEO Patrick Keane explained that for the past 5 years, revenues have grown 100% year over year and that in the past year, the site has had over 300,000 registered contributors, who publish about 10,000 new pieces of content weekly.

Keane credits this success to content that targets very specific groups and is easy to find online. According to Comscore, Associated Content has16 million unique visitors monthly, with 90% coming through search.

eConsultancy

NY Times Partners with News Aggregator Fwix

The New York Times and its related properties will begin offering news links and excerpts from a network of news sources from Fwix, a news aggregator startup, which, according to The Financial Times, bills itself as a "local online newswire."

The publication adds that the deal will help The Times and its other titles supplement traditional news coverage and cover more local news. 

Fwix was founded in 2008 by Darian Shirazi, a 23-year-old former software engineer at Facebook and Ebay.  The company is backed by $2.5 million in funding from BlueRun Ventures, an early investor in PayPal, the online payment system.

The Financial Times (subscription required)

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Maria Bartiromo To Speak at March 31 Event in NYC

Maria Bartiromo's new book 10 Laws of Enduring Success, in which she analyzes how we define success i.e. how we get it and how do we keep it?, will be available at the end of this month.

On Wednesday, March 31, SobelMedia will be hosting an event dubbed "An Evening with Maria Bartiromo: 10 Laws of Enduring Success" from 7 PM to 9 PM at The Samsung Experience at Time Warner Center, located in Manhattan's Midtown neighborhood.

More information on the event is available here.

Sobel Media

[Editor's Note: Trylon SMR, publisher of NYConvergence, is a promotional partner of SobelMedia.]

Fandango to Scan Mobile Tickets at Angelika

Fandango is launching a new service allowing users to purchase tickets online and then send them to their cellphones via text or multimedia message. The bar code on the cellphone will then be scanned onscreen at the theater, thereby circumventing at-home ticket printing.

The service is being put into effect in select markets including New York and Somerset County, New Jersey. Among the participating theaters are the Angelika Film Centers. 

The Hollywood Reporter

Emmis NY Premieres New Video Series on Hot97.com

Radio broadcasting company Emmis NY, which runs the NY hip-hop FM station Hot 97, recently produced and premiered a new reality show on the station's Web site.  Working with Gen2Media, a video technology company, Emmis premiered The Wizards NYC on February 24, a docu-series about DJs.  Below, you'll find a trailer for the series.

RBR.com

Seed's Coming Out Party at SXSW

At this year's SXSW,  Aol has used  the event to officially test out Seed.com, its new content aggregator/journalism/freelancer Web site led by former New York Times tech journalist Saul Hansell. 

Seed has solicited freelance writers to contribute articles for its music site Spinner , namely to cover the more than two thousand bands that will play this week at the festival.  

Tech Crunch 

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This Week's Media and Tech News Wrap-Up

NYConvergence

This week, NYConvergence paid attention to the news coming out of several conference that took place in the city, including Digital Hollywood Summit, OnCopyright Conference, and the Publishing Business Conference & Expo.  We also noticed several NYC companies getting ready for the SXSW festival.

In other digital-media technology news this week:

• free103point9 announced its NY state grant winners
• Cantor Fitzgerald launched a futures market for movie box office receipts 
• Eyeblaster filed for a $115 million dollar IPO
• Twitter helped a messenger recover his stolen bike
• Sex.com got foreclosed
• NYTimes.com announced its book review as a separate e-readers product
• WNET continued its work on its new UWS studio
• Time Warner Cable opened up access to its underground cables
• The MTA installed new LED signs in the A and C subway lines
• Cablevision customers got back WABC after the Oscars started

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