Craigslist adds 135 cities; Why college newspapers have insane readership; Thanksgiving schmanksgiving–Arrested Development is on MSN for free!; Another critic bites the dust (no one notices)

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UPDATE: After exchanging a couple emails with the “‘Potemkin Village’ Redux” column’s author, Tom Grubisich, he’s made the factual correction regarding Scripps ownership of YourHub.com. Thanks, Tom for fixing things.

craigblog: more cities at craigslist?
176 newspapers join Yahoo! Hotjobs, Craigslist unleashes 135 more cities for free classifieds. Interesting timing with the Yahoo/Newspapers partnership announcement, yet no one seemed to note it. The Yahoo deal really seems like too little too late. (via Online News Squared)

Why Are College Papers Being Read? (76 percent readership)
Dan Gillmor, “Here’s one reason. College newspapers are relentlessly local. They cover essentially one thing — the school where they are based — and they often do it well.” There’s been a lot of jibba jabba about how hyper local sites may not have the highest ROI, but one thing newspapers can learn from them is to go local, local, local, local to build passionate, invested readership. Speaking of…

‘Potemkin Village’ Redux - A critical look at citizen journalism efforts
Great follow-up on citizen journalism sites, although I question a couple facts: Scripps owns YourHub? When did that happen? I always thought they were still separate companies. Also, GoSkokie.com is now Skokie Talk at http://skokietalk.info/ it didn’t exactly die, the Skokie Library took it over, which is probably better in the long run than a bunch of college students in Evanston. (No offense to my GoSkokie homies reading this.)

Wikipedia.org is more popular than… (Via Digg)
“Wikipedia is ahead of all English language news and media sites, excluding youtube. Some of the Chinese and Japanese language sites which are ahead of Wikipedia may fall into this category too, though it appears that most of them are portals or search engines.

Pew Internet study on podcast downloading shows users are sparse
“Some 12% of internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they can listen to it or view it at a later time. However, few internet users are downloading podcasts with great frequency; just 1% report downloading a podcast on a typical day.”

61st College Photographer of the Year | Judging Vodcasts
AWESOME. As I’ve said before, I LOVE it when they make the judging available online! Although, Joe Weiss’ voice for the first 30 seconds of his intro sounds remarkably like mine. It really freaked me out. (Via Seth Gitner)

Arrested Development now on MSN video
::drool:: Thanksgiving schmanksgiving. HOLD ALL MY CALLS.

CBS says YouTube is helping ratings
“Many of the clips are from CBS’ Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show, and the network says ratings have risen 5 and 7 percent respectively since the YouTube deal began.”

News and jobs for journalists :: How to: Get to grips with RSS in three minutes
Should be required reading for every reporter in every newsroom.

A dying breed..(paid) movie critics by Roger Moore
Arts critic notes industry friends getting pwnd by outsourcability/wireability. (Via Romenesko)

‘Social network’ for newspapers to launch next month
Cauthorn is back and I can’t get enough.

The New Haven Independent: Community-dedicated, hyperlocal, online reporting
Nice lede: “Newspaper companies beware! The journalists you are increasingly willing to let go may come back to haunt you. In today’s Internet world, all it takes is a little budget and a lot of ambition.”

“It’s counter productive and a waste of time to focus on rights recovery”
Cauthorn: “Let’s create a brand new product that is smarter than the existing products because no one is ever going to win and recover rights from Google. That’s like saying you’re going to monetise linking - it’s unrealistic.”

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