Frederick Wallace

Here’s something that we may or not find revealing but many more people are now making their living from blogging. Here’s a story from the Wall Street Journal: In America today, there are almost as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers. Already more Americans are making their primary income from posting their opinions than Americans working as computer programmers or firefighters.

Here’s an interesting story that I found recently.

I recently wrote a beginners guide to social news websites and this article follows up on that by offering a list of the social news websites you can use to get information and web traffic.

There are a great deal of social news sites on the internet, sometimes too many. Most of them are dormant and are no longer active, largely because they were poorly marketed and hence, never had an active community of users in the first place.

As the battle rages between Australian magnate Rupert Murdoch and Italian President Silvio Berlusconi, Dennis Redmont gives his opinion in the article ‘Berlusconi vs Murdoch; Italy’s real reality TV’, by Jeff Israely, published in Time. Click here to read the entire story.

According to Reuters, layoffs in the United States media are heavy, but don’t come close to the carnage in some other sectors. In the first two months of this year, 7,453 jobs were lost at media companies. Even combining that figure with the 2,183 jobs that were cut from entertainment/leisure, a sector that includes cinemas. But in the worst-hit industry is retail where some 72,727 jobs have been lost so far in January and February.
The data is based on announced job cuts a report released by consultants Challenger, Gray & Christmas which says that In all of 2008, the media sector suffered 28,083 layoffs.