Paid Content summarizes a story by Wall Street Journal reporter Emily Steel about the industry that has arisen around  ”persuading consumers to sign up to receive information from marketers, giving up some personal details in the process.”
Now, says Paid Content:
“This past spring, the Federal Trade Commission began looking into charges of false advertising related to [...]

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 Robert Niles of Online Journalism Review has written another excellent article, this one aimed at corporate media managers ondering how to inject some Internet energy into print or broadcast newsrooms. In a piece titled, “Encourage Entreneurship,” he suggests five initiatives culled from various sources, my favorite being:

“Here’s where you encourage staffers to try something new: Reward ‘em if they deliver. And [...]

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 Blogging is supposed to be a conversation, right? So perhaps I stumbled, mouth-first, into a topic that concerns all who write regularly for what. . .  the glory, the exposure, the mission, call it whatever so long as we agree that, for the time being, we don’t write for pay.
Of course that isn’t by choice [...]

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