YouTube Goes Bigger but Stays Shorter

There is a fine line when it comes to user generated content, the social web, and copyrights. Recently, Twitpic revised its terms of use to make it clear that users own the rights to the images they upload on the site.

The New York Times reportedly spent $40 million to create a paywall in an effort to earn revenue from its online content.

Did you know that this week is National Newspaper Week? Don't worry---most people had no idea.Despite the fact that National Newspaper Week has nearly passed (it ends tomorrow), the majority of Americans probably have no idea that it even exists.

A new study called The Paradox of Blogging and Content Marketing by Percussion Software reveals some interesting information about companies, blogging, and missed content marketing opportunities.

A new study by PR Week and PR Newswire (via TechCrunch) reports that 52% of bloggers included in the survey consider themselves to be journalists (up from one-third of surveyed bloggers in 2009).

Flowtown created an extremely cool blog post with a graphic that showed the "most-shared" news sites as well as how those sites are shared, who the biggest influencers of those sites are via Twitter, and what stories they're sharing.

We truly live in an online social world! August 12, 2011 marks the 30th anniversary of the debut of the IBM Personal Computer at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.

The 2011 edition of the top-selling dictionary in the United States, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, adds 150 new words, including several popular social media terms.

Mashable.com is leading the call for social awareness and charitable giving with the Summer of Social Good initiative sponsored by Zappos.com and MailChimp.com and benefiting four charities: The Humane Society of the United States, Oxfam America, WWF, and Livestrong.