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Google moves beyond text ads with acquisition

New York Times
Published: April 14, 2007
Google reached an agreement today to acquire DoubleClick, the online advertising company, from two private equity firms for $3.1 billion in cash, the companies announced, an amount that was almost double the $1.65 billion in stock that Google paid for YouTube late last year.

Newsrooms turn to programmers to lead Web initiatives

MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Web Focus Leads Newspapers to Hire Programmers for Editorial Staff | PBS
Finding Solutions WithinJohn Robinson, editor of the Greensboro N.C. News & Record, expects to eliminate a newsroom position — it might not be a reporter — in order to hire a programmer, and hopes to find someone with journalism experience as […]

Three major pieces of work to accomplish at n-r.com

I must admit, it’s been quite a struggle to get up to speed with the various, generally incongruous, pieces of managing what is collectively known as the News & Record Web sites.
We market jobs/careers, shopping, autos and homes differently and that makes for a tough sell to advertisers and users alike.
There are three […]

Search, research, reference all rolled into one tool. But is it useful?

I’m going to be adding lots of things to the blog to test, to evaluate to ascertain whether they make any sense for the user or not.
This evening while surfing, I was looking at The New York Times site again and came across a feature they’re using from Answers.com. “Answers” include dictionary and encyclopedic references […]

In the beginning, you learn from your mistakes

After two years of News-Record.com’s last redesign, we’re in the midst of another. I’ll probably reference the changes we’re making as we continue down this road, but for now, I think I’ll say this: The first redesign came at a time of great change, of moving to a new content system, and probably wasn’t the […]

Starting from scratch and learning as I go

Welcome to Web Management@Ramblin’ Prose.
This is my way of learning. I’m new to Web operations management. The pace is fast, the curve is steep, but I’m having fun.
I began in September, moving out of print content. But my fascination with Web technologies began in 2003 when I started Ramblin’ Prose. Just like I remade my […]