To (T)wit...

Some interesting news-stories today...

Public television may be nonprofit and government-sponsored, but it has many of the same problems as commercial broadcasters when it comes to the Web. More and more viewers want to watch “Nova,” “Frontline” and “Antiques Roadshow” online, but the public broadcasters worry that that if everything were available on the Internet, they could lose some of their traditional sources of financing: corporate sponsors, viewer donations and DVD sales. Nonetheless, the public TV stations are taking more risks, and on Wednesday they introduced a fancy video portal at PBS.org/video. You can search and browse among thousands of programs, contributed both by PBS and its member stations. You can watch full episodes, and also search for clips and segments.The site is built on new technology that will also allow users to upload video, make comments and otherwise interact with the site and one another. There’s a lot of programming on the new site, including several years’ worth of episodes of many PBS programs, including “Frontline,” “Nova,” “The American Experience,” the “Newshour With Jim Lehrer” and “Antiques Roadshow,” the highest-rated show on the network. Cooking fans may enjoy a library of the Julia Child shows.
***

"Google’s News Timeline is Useful for Bloggers and Writers" By Samuel Dean, GigaOm. "I’ve covered graphical search engines a few times, and mentioned my favorite one: Viewzi. When done right, these sites can deliver much better ways to sift through a lot of results than a typical Google results page. However, that’s not to say that Google isn’t on the case. While it’s not exactly a “graphical” search engine like Viewzi is, I’m finding News Timeline, a brand new way to search from Google itself, very useful. News Timeline is one of the regular search experiments that come out of Google Labs. What it does is show you news stories in a timeline view, with a choice of daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or even decade-centric views. For bloggers and any other folks working in web publishing, it’s an excellent way to follow important stories over time.