Can struggling newspapers adopt alternative business models to survive? MediaShift’s Mark Glaser thinks so. He offers ten insightful tips, from “crowdfunding” to “multimedia ads.”

Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society has released 12 free white papers as part of the series “Media Re:public: News and Information as Digital Media Come of Age.”

Jonathan Miller is not a candidate for the CEO job at Yahoo and isn’t pushing to buy the company, according to a report from Bloomberg.

If you lost your glasses, would you post an ad on Craigslist or a flyer on a street corner? What if you were Craig Newmark?

Micro-blogging sites are going increasingly vertical. Now here comes StockTwits, a two month-old site that lets you track messages on Twitter about public company stock performance.

LinkedIn said CEO Dan Nye is resigning after less than two years at the helm, the Wall Street Journal reported. Nye will be replaced by LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, the paper said, adding that the reasons behind Nye’s departure were unclear. The Reuters story is here.

With the emerging social Web all about claiming your true network identity and managing your public reputation, MySpace is now encouraging users to show their real name on the site. 

Andy Fisher, retiring president of Cox Television, makes some interesting points about television stations that apply similarly to newspapers: They’re still good businesses. 

Six Apart, the company behind blogging platforms TypePad and Movable Type, has jumped into the social application and micro-blogging fray with a new product dubbed “Motion.”

The Pew Internet and American Life Project has outdone itself this year. Over 1,000 Internet activists, builders and commentators taking part in the “Future of the Internet III” study have weighed in on how the Internet will look in 2010. Read on for the main takeaways from the 138-page report.

George Irish, one of the principal architects of the Newspaper Consortium --- and one of the first senior newspaper execs to truly “get it” when it came to the impact of interactive media --- is retiring. Steve Swartz will succeed him.

The AIM Group / Classified Intelligence is looking for a great sales exec. If you know anyone (or if you’re interested), please see our post and apply or pass it on!

Small-market newspapers are well positioned for growth in online classifieds, if they position themselves and their sites correctly.

The Davenport, Iowa-based Lee Enterprises said yesterday that it faced several potential default triggers on its debt and that it has notified the SEC that it will delay filing its annual report until Dec. 29

Analysts from eMarketer weigh in on how the next year in online marketing, e-commerce, social networking and more will unfold. Here’s a quick overview.

Do you spend too much time on social networking sites? Feel like you’re wasting a good part of your day updating your status? An irreverent and hilarious new Web site will tell you just how bad you’re doing.

Facebook is opening a new sales office in Paris with Damien Vincent joining as employee number one.

The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News are considering a plan to curtail home delivery of the papers, and reduce some daily issues while encouraging readers to move online. 

Conrad M. Hall, president and CEO of Dominion Enterprises, is stepping down as of January 2009. His successor has not been announced yet.

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