Andy Plesser

Earlier this week, authorities in Iran blocked YouTube along with several other sites and mobile networks.  For YouTube, the crackdown has been highly effective, with traffic dropping by 90 percent.

Tremor Media, the New York-based online video advertising network, has one billion video impressions and 135 million unique video viewers in its network according to Jason Glickman, CEO.

Staci Kramer over at paidContent has a story up about a big shake-up at the Huffington Post, with veteran publishing executive and VC Eric Hippeau replacing Betsy Morgan.

Reuters, the giant global news and information company, is expanding the offering of its content via mobile with the launch of an iPhone application and an application for Nokia's OVI store.

Politico.com, the Washington-based, online news organization created by former Washington Post staffers in 2006, will become profitable this year, says John Harris, editor and co-founder, in his interview with Beet.TV.

Michael Wolff, who has written a much talked about book about Rupert Murdoch and the rise of News Corp, sees MySpace in a downward spiral. 

As the lights go out today on analog television broadcast as part of the long-planned transition to digital, frequencies in several markets carry television signals to mobile phones.

Paula Deen, "America's best southern cook" has expanded her sizable television presence with a new online video reality cooking show produced by EQAL, the Los Angeles-based video production company best known for creating lonelygirl15.

In the era of Twitter and Facebook, having an individual blog is essential as it is "yours,"  says Anil Dash, the chief evangelist for SixApart, the big San Francisco-based blog software company.

Dow Jones reports this afternoon that the U.S. Justice Department has requested information on the proposed settlement for Google Book Search. 

Neal Shapiro is longtime network news producer and former president of NBC News, now President and CEO of WNET/Thirteen, the flagship PBS station in New York.

Matt Marshall, editor and CEO of VentureBeat, the authoritative technology and finance blog, is gearing up for his first year as co-producer of DEMO, the 20-year-old tech conference. 

TypePad, the popular blog platform owned by San Francisco-based SixApart, has become integrated with VOX, allowing TypePad users easier interface with Twitter, Facebook, and other social media.

Eric Schmidt CEO is not too impressed with Microsoft’s new Bing search engine, dismissing it as another search engine effort that Microsoft makes “every year.”  This in a Fox Business Network video just posted.

SAN JOSE, Calif –  We read the today's annual report on global web traffic from Cisco and the dramatic rise in video file traffic on the Internet. Stacy Higginbotham over at GigaOm has an analysis, as does Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch. 

Over the past year, the Wall Street Journal Digital Network has passed both MSN Money and AOL Money & Finance to become the second biggest site among the top 15 Financial News & Information Sites tracked by The Nielsen Company. Yahoo! remains the leader.

Consumption of news on mobile devices is on the rise.  At The New York Times, there were 60 million mobile views in April, nearly double the number from April 2008.

On Tuesday, Warner Brothers will release the newly expanded Woodstock film on Blu-ray and DVD to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the festival. 

The New York Times has internally developed, in collaboration with Palm, an application for the new smart phone called the Pre.

Reports out today on the downturn in online advertising for Q1 must not come as surprise to most publishers.