McLean, Va. - Mixx, an online social news start-up that allows users to submit news stories, vote on their favorites and view the most popular on the site's front page, said on Wednesday that it has forged a key partnership with CNN. Under the deal, users of CNN.com will be able to add CNN headlines and articles to Mixx's platform through "add to" Mixx buttons on CNN.com story pages.

A colleague forwarded me a fantastic article from Ad Age "It's Web 3.0, and Someone Else's Content is King". The article is worth a read for anyone in the content business. The author, Matthew Creamer, suggests that Web 3.0 will be about monetizing the web's openness and points to examples in the news business of websites aggregating other people's content for profit. Are content aggregators in fact growing in popularity? The author cites Michael Wolff of Newser: "The space is heating up". According to internet usage data, is it?

Atlanta - Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) CNN plans this week to launch iReport.com, a new site that will feature citizen journalism photos and videos submitted by CNN viewers. CNN said it has received over 100,000 submissions since launching its iReport feature in 2006, including nearly 10,000 in January alone, but has used less than 10% of all submissions in its broadcasts or on its website. Unlike the iReport submissions that CNN has utilized thus far, the content uploaded to iReport.com site will be not be subject to fact-checking.

CNN and YouTube hosted a Republican debate yesterday, and Hillary Clinton’s campaign has emerged as the hot topic.  It happened when retired Brig. Gen. Keith Kerr, whose affiliation to Clinton was unknown, stood and asked the candidates, “why you think that American men and women in uniform are not professional enough to serve with gays and lesbians,” Politico reports.  According to a press release from the Clinton campaign, Kerr was named co-chairman of the New York senator’s National Military Veterans group this month.

New York - Time Warner's (NYSE: TW) CNN Worldwide on Wednesday announced plans to "significantly increase the number of correspondents worldwide," as part of a multi-million dollar investment that will include the creation of a London-based digital production unit. The new unit will work alongside the television operation, and "produce and feed the rapidly growing number of new platforms that CNN services globally."

Espoo, Finland - Nokia announced on Tuesday that it has signed deals with CNN and six other video producers to provide content for distribution on its mobile devices. Joining existing partners YouTube and Reuters in providing content to the Nokia Video Center are CNN, IBN News, Jamba, Sony Pictures, RooftopComedy, ROK and Versaly Entertainment. The video will be compatible with Nokia's Nseries devices, including the Nokia N95.

Fairfax, Va. - TrafficLand, an online aggregator of live traffic video, on Wednesday announced a deal to deliver real-time traffic camera content from dozens of markets for broadcast use on cable news giant CNN. The agreement gives CNN the ability to select live video streams from thousands of traffic cameras nationwide and insert them into CNN programming. TrafficLand's 4,000 cameras in more than 50 markets cover day-to-day traffic conditions and often capture newsworthy incidents and weather related events.

New York - Time Warner's CNN cable TV news network on Thursday announced it will end its 27-year relationship with the Reuters news service, opting to cut costs and instead focus investment on its own news-gathering, Reuters reported.

Los Angeles - After "scheduling conflicts" threatened to limit the Republican version of a CNN and YouTube-sponsored presidential debate to just three candidates, a new date has been set for late November and both Rudy Giuliani and John McCain have committed to participate, Variety reported.

New York - The CNN/YouTube Republican presidential debate may be rescheduled, to accommodate candidates including Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney who have said they can't make the event currently slated for Sept. 17 in Florida, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Washington - Republican presidential hopefuls Sen. John McCain and Rep. Ron Paul are the only two GOP candidates to have signed on so far to participate in the GOP edition of CNN and YouTube's presidential debate, the Washington Post reported.

Linking to other media companies’ content used to be unthinkable for traditional media brands, but attitudes have changed after Google made $10 billion in advertising by doing nothing but link to other media companies’ content (and run ads on other companies’ content).

Atlanta - Time Warner's CNN announced on Tuesday that it has made an undisclosed equity investment in Internet Broadcasting, an online publisher of local TV news content, and signed a strategic news and advertising deal with the company.

Here's a fact: if you get naked and run across the football field at an NFL game, you won't get on television.  The World Cup and most international soccer leagues have also instituted the same policy.  If a streaker makes it onto the field, the television cameras cut away from the action and the commentators simply fill time and the action will continue once he or she is removed.  The thinking is, if you remove the incentive of getting fame by being on television, streakers will stop disrupting games. 

New York - Sirius Satellite Radio announced on Wednesday that it has added CNN Online to its website. In addition to radio channels, Sirius offers online streams of all of its channels to subscribers. New York-based Sirius also simulcasts CNN TV programming on its satellite radio service.