E&P newspaper manifesto; Strib’s sexy vita.mn, Roanoke’s new webcast; CBS goes ESPN; Top blogger sued for libel

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• “Winning Online” — A Newspaper Manifesto from Editor and Publisher
  “It is instructive that after twelve years of the consumer web, not a single example of breakthrough online innovation has emerged out of a newspaper company.”
• vita.mn - Star Tribune’s sexy new arts and entertainment site
  Users can tag, write their own descriptions and lists (I.E. Top ten places to get a milkshake at 4 a.m., ). There’s also pretty extensive user profiles with folks favorites, reviews, etc… Kinda like a MySpace, Wikipedia, Digg, Lawrence.com. The more layers I dig through this, the more I dig it.
• The Roanoke Times: Sports TimesCast
  Roanoke rolls out a new vodcast focused on sports.
• CBS Unit Launches Web Sports Channels
  CBS gets all ESPN on us. “Football and other sporting events from dozens of colleges and universities will be available live over the Internet through a service launching Friday”
• A dog-friendly office can have positive impact on employees, environment
  Amen! Further proof that Asheville may be one of the greatest places.
• Creating Passionate Users: How to get users to RTFM (Read the F-in’ Manual)
  
• Media Brands Look to Combined Print/Web Audits
  “It seems to me that advertisers would benefit from having a similar system to measure the loyalty of a blog’s readership by rolling up unique visitors and RSS subscribers.”
• LOVEPIXEL
  Interesting pixel art world
• ShoeMoney.com / Technorati Top 100 Blogger sued subpoenaed for slander in comments
  This should be interesting to see how it shakes out.
• Nuthin’ But A “G” Thang: Frank Gruber headed to AOL
  Best line: “Somewhat frankly, AOL draws parallels to west coast hip-hop icon Dr. Dre and his lyrics to his 2001 track Forgot About Dre which basically say don’t underestimate Dre, or in this case AOL, because more hits are on the way.”