“Member communities,” or social network sites, are now more popular than using e-mail among the worldwide community of Internet users, according a new report from The Neilsen Company.

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Yahoo’s new CEO Carol Bartz reiterated her company’s commitment to working with newspapers during a private reception Monday for Newspaper Consortium executives attending the Newspaper Association of America’s MediaXChange conference.

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Attendance may be weak at the NAA MediaXChange conference in Las Vegas, but all the exhibitors we spoke to agreed: It’s worthwhile being here. Already. The quality makes up for the poor quantity.

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Hundreds turn out for the NAA’s reconfigured “MediaXChange” conference in Las Vegas.

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Gabriel Bouchard, former VP & GM of Monster Canada, has been announced as the new president of Workopolis, Canada’s biggest job site—four days after Patrick Sullivan stepped down. 

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When my brother called at 7:30 AM, I knew something was wrong. How social media is being used to cope during difficult times.

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Facebook has announced a number of changes which will affect both users and marketers. Most significant: Business “fan” pages now have their own status updates, a move aimed at stealing some of Twitter’s thunder.

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EBay’s coming after classifieds hard. EBay’s announcement that may change Kijiji’s name to EBay Classifieds presents yet another challenge to newspapers trying to hold on to its own classified revenue. Don’t believe for a minute that this is a test limited to two markets. 

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Dave Morgan, who was involved with newspapers and new-media seemingly forever, is launching a new company to help television companies improve their promotional advertising.

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“The currency of the medieval village was rumor, lies and slander, which is where democracy could return,” Stephen Hume writes, if “old media” news gathering organizations can’t find a way to generate adequate revenue in “the freeloading culture of the blogosphere.”

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A new report from Nielsen says that Internet viewers spent 15 percent more time watching video online in Q4 08 than in the previous quarter. That puts cable providers in a new media Catch-22. They make their money on pumping network programming to the TV, but they also provide the Internet pipe to the home. 

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Facebook today relaunched its classified Marketplace, intent on capturing the essence of the social-networking experience without ticking off millions of its users in the process. Built by Oodle, the new feature not only borrows Facebook’s best technology, but the social consciousness of Facebook’s fans.

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How far can Twitter mania go? Doctors at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit have now live Twittered a surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from a man’s kidney.

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Hearst partnership with user-generated content site Helium aims to cut costs by drawing from Helium’s pool of freelancers. The site has amassed 1.2 million articles since its launch 2 years ago.

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Hilary Schneider of Yahoo says its newspaper alliance is “core to Yahoo’s future” and is strongly backed by Carol Bartz, Yahoo’s new CEO.

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The closing of the Rocky Mountain News in Denver provides a rare glimpse into the numbers behind the collapse of classified advertising at just one (well, two, sort-of) major metro --- and its impact on the entire business model.

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Lorna Borenstein is out at Move.com. The company has announced that its current president has has decided to leave the company effective March 13, 2009.

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Great sessions and surprisingly strong turnout this week for the Inland Press Association Key Executives Conference in San Antonio. Today we look at some innovative thinking at Rust Communications.

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Two quotes from Bill Watson of the Pocono Record and Doug Franklin of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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An article in today’s AdAge puts the source of today’s newspaper woes not on the economy but on the newspapers’ owners.If you analyze newspapers’ earnings, you’ll find that most are still making money and even decent margins. It’s the debt that’s killing them.

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