Your Mom gets murdered; Newspapers need to use WordPress for blogging, drop MovableType; The Disruptors–Industry Innovators

• Quad-City Times & Lee Enterprises murders Your Mom
  “Your Mom is no longer online!” First they cut the print circulation, now they’ve beheaded the Website for Your Mom, a print/Web youth publication/hub a bunch of us Medillians helped create several years ago.
• What’s on TV? Soon, the Internet
  “Right now about 4 million homes have connected multiple-entertainment devices but by 2010, Parks estimates that number will be 29.9 million — or 36% of all broadband-connected homes.”
• Why every newspaper should go with WordPress for blog software
  “Currently traffic is averaging 90000+ unique visitors and 150,000+ pageviews per month. This is much more than the previous site, but I guess there are more posts to crawl now than before and Wordpress is more SEO optimized.”
• ‘TimesSelect’ Nears 200,000 Web-Only Subscribers on 1st Anniversary
  “Since it launched on Sept. 19, 2005, the paid service has drawn 198,690 users who do not subscribe to the print paper, but pay a special online fee for access.”
• Old school drug parody for a video game store
  I learned it from watching you! (Via MetaFilter)
• Further proof that newspapers need to move to WordPress (or atleast away from MT) “My curt goodbye to Movable Type”
  “If you’re thinking about starting a blog, avoid Movable Type. If you’re on Movable Type now and still have a small number of posts, get out while you can. If you’re on a big Movable Type blog—I can pick you out because you fall asleep in your cha
• The Disruptors: 11 Innovators That Will Change EVERYTHING
• User-generated responses used by Journerdism to improve the reader experience
  A 10-question, 60 second survey determines the fate of the website!