Random Media Notes
10 of the 13 million digital tracks available online failed to find a single buyer last year.
The last issue of the Globe and Mail book section has been published. (via)
The L.A. Times may outsource its foreign and national coverage.
Non-profit news outlets are experimenting with community funding (cultural websites too!).
Here we go: The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun are going to share news coverage.
Layoffs at Rolling Stone. Managing Director Will Dana says, “It was not a matter of cutting the fat.”
Gatehouse sues Boston.com for linking to its site. See also, “a danger to journalism.”
Rupert Murdoch’s biographer: MySpace’s value might go down to nothing. “If you’re on MySpace now, you’re a [expletive] cretin. And you’re not only a [expletive] cretin, but you’re poor. Nobody who has beyond an 8th grade level of education is on MySpace. It is for backwards people.”

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