Mixed Media, a blog from Portfolio, reports that according to Nielsen BookScan data Gawker’s book The Gawker Guide to Conquering All Media has only sold 242 copies since it went on sale earlier this month. Mixed Media says BookScan reports on about 75% of all book sales. Of course, the tracking service only accounts for about 75 percent of book sales, by its own admission, so you can add another 81 units to that total. Still, it’s probably somewhat fewer copies than Simon & Schuster’s Atria division was hoping to sell when it acquired the total in what I’m told was a $250,000 deal. Especially when you consider all the free promotion the book got on Gawker.com, to what was presumably its target audience. Books like Gawker’s book that are of interest only to those in the blogging and media industry probably only sell about 5,000 to 10,000 copies at best. It isn’t the kind of book that could ever sell 100,000 copies. Even so it is clearly underperforming for its niche. Maybe they will see a pickup in sales with this negative press. Posted in Blogging Industry News Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

TwitterPoster Offers Mosaic of Twitter Influence
A website called TwitterPoster is a mashup created from Twitter that provides a visual representation of the degree of influence of Twitterers. Those with more followers have larger images on TwitterPoster. TwitterPoster’s website says it was inspired by The Million Dollar Homepage and tagclouds. Each Twitter avatar in the mosaic is linked to the Twitterer’s profile The image above is a screenshot from TwitterPoster US. There are also versions for Canada, Germany, Australia, France and several other countries. The main website at twitterposter.com shows a worldwide mosaic. Posted in Twitter Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

The Kremlin Wants to Control the Blogosphere
The Washington Post reports the Kremlin is seeking more control and influence on the Internets and in the blogosphere. The big downside of the Kremlin seeking to influence cyberspace is that they will pollute it with a one-sided pro-Kremlin point of view. In a lengthy article published online last fall, three Russian rights activists argued that a strident, vulgar and uniform pro-Kremlin ideology had so permeated blogs and chat rooms that it could only be the result of a coordinated campaign. Putin’s allies in the online world acknowledge that the Internet represents a challenge to the status quo in Russia, which has, since Soviet times, relied on state-controlled television to influence public opinion across the country’s 11 time zones. Kremlin allies are also buying up media website and blog portals. Allies of the Kremlin have also begun buying some of the companies that have helped make the Internet a bastion of free expression in Russia. Gazeta.ru, long the country’s most respected online newspaper, was sold in December to a metals magnate and Putin loyalist. And last October, Sup, which is owned by Alexander Mamut, a tycoon with ties to the Kremlin, bought the rights to develop the Russian-language segment of U.S.-based LiveJournal. The segment, with half a million users, is Russia’s most popular blog portal. “Mr. Rykov is pro-Kremlin. Mamut and Sup are pro-Kremlin. The social networks are all being bought by pro-Kremlin people,” Ruslan Paushu, 30, a popular blogger who works for Rykov, said in an interview. “Everything’s okay.” The Washington Post article also mentions the possibility that Russia is considering its own seperate Internet and that they are studying how China’s government censors ideas in cyberspace. Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, special adviser to the chairmen of the Internet Governance Forum, a group convened by the United Nations, said some Russian officials he has spoken to are considering a separate Internet, with Cyrillic domain names, and appear to be studying China’s Internet controls. It’s obviously fine to have government websites (like kremlin.ru) explaining the government’s positions but it is scary if the government is buying up web media properties and considering all kinds of nefarious methods in order to control cyberspace. Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

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