As if the world’s newspapers needed another kick in the teeth from the Internet, along comes this week’s Newspaper Association of America’s annual conference.
In it consulting giant McKinsey & Co. "warned that newspapers could lose $4 billion of ‘highly profitable’
classified revenue by 2007 — or around 20% of newspapers’ 2004
classifieds revenue and just under 9% […]

Man, it’s been a really busy day, but this tops all today’s happenings.  Google took a HUGE step into personalized search today. Here’s a quick breakdown:
Google’s My Search History beta keeps a log of your daily searches and allows you to quickly and easily access the ghosts of searches past.

While this alone is impressive, what […]

The Washington Post’s Robert MacMillan had a nice take on the .jobs domain in today’s edition.
Click here to see the entire editorial (free registration).
In it, he says: Call me old-fashioned, but I think that .jobs might find itself on the
breadline in a few years. The three reasons why? They’re called .com,
.net and .org.
and
There is nothing […]

I’ve been relatively negative and skeptical about the current trend of social and business networking. I think Monster Networking is a disaster, for example.
However, SimplyHired, a new vertical job search engine has added a link to their job listings with a LinkedIn icon enabling users to access people in their LinkedIn network.
Will it be successful? […]

Job boards are increasingly becoming a playground for scam artists to prey on desperate job seekers.
A recent story about a girl who responded to a modeling agency posting on Monster and HotJobs showed up on the wire.
Basically, the girl gave a bunch of money to an agency that promised fame and fortune to the tune […]

The New York Post reported last week that the Wall Street Journal’s online offering had actually outperformed the print publication’s earnings.

According to the article:

The Wall Street Journal Online is signing up
thousands of new subscribers, up 5.2 percent for the quarter, to a
total of 731,000.
But some readers say they’re just switching from buying […]

Human beings are visual animals. So, it’s odd to me that more and more companies don’t show people what it’s like to work at their company with streaming video, opting instead to tell them with words in a job posting.
I mean, does this job posting inspire you?: Nursing assistant.
The growing popularity of broadband should […]