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		<title>I wonder what Dan Finnegan means?</title>
		<link>http://kevinabramson.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/i-wonder-what-dan-finnegan-means/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arulsundaram</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[local consumers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Online Advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local search]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Finnegan, the former head of Yahoo&#8217;s HotJobs property, is quoted in the NY Times today saying this: “Businesses like travel, shopping, music and even HotJobs were all great products, but none were going to make a huge difference in the fight with Google unless we used them to drive the main search business.” HotJobs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinabramson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1933182&amp;post=108&amp;subd=kevinabramson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google News To Reward Updates, Local Sources</title>
		<link>http://kevinabramson.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/google-news-to-reward-updates-local-sources/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Masterman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Online Consumers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Online News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local context]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[news aggregator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SearchEngineLand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SearchEngineLand.com posted today that Google News has updated its algorithm. The two key enhancements: 1) Updates to its &#8220;news cluster&#8221; when a source adds updated or new information to a breaking story. The site doesn&#8217;t simply show the most recent publisher to post a story, but rather rewards the sources that first broke the story. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinabramson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1933182&amp;post=107&amp;subd=kevinabramson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In The End, Content Drives Sales</title>
		<link>http://kevinabramson.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/in-the-end-content-drives-sales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Online Advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Ad Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Traffic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before I wade into this, let me throw out a couple of caveats. Yes, I do work for Internet Broadcasting, but I&#8217;m not in sales. I don&#8217;t have any direct contact with client sales departments, and in fact, most of my experience here (and at my previous jobs), is on the journalism side. But I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinabramson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1933182&amp;post=106&amp;subd=kevinabramson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Recipe for Local News Online</title>
		<link>http://kevinabramson.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/a-recipe-for-local-news-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Ingrassia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Online News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[AP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donna Bogatin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fisher Communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hyperlocal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Orren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NFL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[panlocal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pegasus News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rob Dunlop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SMS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas Lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Daily Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Daily You]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Take a heap of staff stories. Stir in a cup of AP and aggregated articles. Fold in some user-generated content and material from media partners. Don’t forget that pinch of secret algorithm. What you get is Pegasus News, a tasty blend of local news, events, commentary and ads. Mike Orren, former publisher of Texas Lawyer, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinabramson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1933182&amp;post=102&amp;subd=kevinabramson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Coming Consolidation Wave</title>
		<link>http://kevinabramson.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/the-coming-consolidation-wave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Online News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CNN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NY Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yahoo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stateoflocal.com/2007/12/03/the-coming-consolidation-wave/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Singer Mary-Chapin Carpenter once noted that &#8220;sometimes you&#8217;re the windshield, sometimes you&#8217;re the bug.&#8221; And I suspect many local news operations have felt a bit like both in recent years. As print circulation and advertising swoon, the newspaper industry, and news providers generally, have looked for a lifeboat online. And there have been some promising [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinabramson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1933182&amp;post=101&amp;subd=kevinabramson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hearst-Argyle to Resell Google AdWords for Local Advertisers</title>
		<link>http://kevinabramson.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/hearst-argyle-to-resell-google-adwords-for-local-advertisers/</link>
		<comments>http://kevinabramson.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/hearst-argyle-to-resell-google-adwords-for-local-advertisers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Abramson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Online Advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local TV/Web Convergence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hearst-Argyle]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stateoflocal.com/2007/11/30/hearst-argyle-to-resell-google-adwords-for-local-advertisers/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hearst-Argyle announced earlier this week that they will resell Google AdWords across their 26 local TV station sites to local advertisers. Here is Hearst-Argyle&#8217;s press release: (Full disclosure: Hearst-Argyle is a customer and equity investor in Internet Broadcasting) Hearst-Argyle First Television Reseller of Google AdWords NEW YORK, Nov. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ &#8212; In an effort to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinabramson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1933182&amp;post=99&amp;subd=kevinabramson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Very Simple Question&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://kevinabramson.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/a-very-simple-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Online News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Blogging]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stateoflocal.com/2007/11/30/a-very-simple-question/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you consider yourself knowledgeable about the online community in your area? Then answer this question. Name three prominent local blogs and/or bloggers. If you can&#8217;t do that, then you aren&#8217;t nearly knowledgable enough about your local online scene. If you don&#8217;t want to use these blogs as any part of your news coverage, that&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinabramson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1933182&amp;post=98&amp;subd=kevinabramson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have You Hugged A Banner Ad Today?</title>
		<link>http://kevinabramson.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/local-advertisers-have-you-hugged-a-banner-ad-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Abramson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Online Advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Display ads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eMarketer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search ads]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stateoflocal.com/2007/11/29/local-advertisers-have-you-hugged-a-banner-ad-today/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many local advertisers are mesmerized by the glamor of search advertising &#8211; and for good reason. Search offers a direct response vehicle that matches clicks to results, it&#8217;s essentially self-service &#8211; any business can get an ad on Google or Yahoo within minutes, and it&#8217;s hyper-targeted meaning advertisers can reach consumers at the right place [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinabramson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1933182&amp;post=94&amp;subd=kevinabramson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Think Branding, Think &#8216;Being Part Of The Social Fabric&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://kevinabramson.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/dont-think-branding-think-being-part-of-the-social-fabric/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Online Consumers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AOL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[branding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ComScore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telepictures productions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TMZ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Userplane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you&#8217;re a television station, newspaper or radio station, you are probably obsessed with &#8220;branding.&#8221; Which makes sense, if you&#8217;re dealing with traditional media. If your TV station is branded &#8220;News 13,&#8221; well, then you want everything you&#8217;re associated with to be branded the same way. You want your website to be News13.com and you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinabramson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1933182&amp;post=93&amp;subd=kevinabramson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>User-generated only gets you so far</title>
		<link>http://kevinabramson.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/user-generated-only-gets-you-so-far/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Peters</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Online Consumers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Online News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local TV/Web Convergence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Editor and Publisher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Outing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who knew? Good local news coverage that people want to read depends on good journalism. &#160; Steve Outing, proponent of citizen journalism and columnist for Editor and Publisher, shares an excellent cautionary tale about his experience relying on user-generated content to create a business. &#160; The idea seemed solid: Create a site centered on an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinabramson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1933182&amp;post=90&amp;subd=kevinabramson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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