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The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival announced an online component, the 2011 Tribeca (Online) Film Festival, which will run concurrently with the festival April 20-May 1 and be supported by American Express.

The 2011 Tribeca (Online) Film Festival will offer free viewing of feature films and short films and allow users to engage with filmmakers and industry experts. Content is divided into five areas: Festival Streaming Room, Live from …, Tribeca Q&A, Filmmaker Feed, and blog Future of Film.

Festival Streaming Room will offer six feature films and 18 short films, including two and four, respectively, that are premiering at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival.

Live from … will present live streams of events from the festival, including its opening press conference, red-carpet premieres, and awards show.

Tribeca Q&A will allow users to submit questions to 20-25 subjects including: Tribeca’s Jane Rosenthal, Geoff Gilmore, and Nancy Schafer; Whoopi Goldberg; Brian Williams; filmmakers David Gordon Green and Zach Braff; and other participating Tribeca (Online) filmmakers, programmers, actors, jurors, and film experts, and more. The top questions chosen by community members will be submitted.

Filmmaker Feed is a source for information on all filmmakers featured at the festival, including biographies, interviews, favorite links, social-media feeds (Twitter/Facebook), blog posts, and video updates.

And blog Future of Film features experts from film and technology commenting on the ever-changing media environment.

NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams is reporting live from your iPhone or iPod Touch, as the show’s app is now available free-of-charge via the App Store.

The app offers access to top news stories, along with daily reports from Brian Williams and weekend contributions from Lester Holt. It also features content from Williams’ blog, Making a Difference reports, and health and science stories. And users can follow Nightly News on Twitter and Facebook directly via the app.

Daily Interactive Networks developed the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams app.

NBC Nightly News executive producer Bob Epstein said, “Nightly’s app is just one more way for viewers to get the latest news and information where they want it, when they want it. We hope to engage more viewers in conversation about the latest news, and this is one easy way for everyone to participate on the go.

Monday May 31 “NBC Nightly News’” Daily Nightly blog will be five years old. Five years of behind the scenes information, and of course the musings of anchor Brian Williams.

Timed to the fifth anniversary, NBC has redesigned the blog, with “share” features to push posts to Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere getting prominent placement.

On May 31, 2005 Williams wrote:

We hope this will be a useful supplement to viewers of Nightly News, as both a narrative and as a window into our editorial process. We had hoped to file this inaugural issue earlier in the day, but we work in a busy place where decisions need to be made constantly… and then changed.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, and today the blog still sticks to the tried and true format.

Five years is an eternity in the blog world, so a toast on this long holiday weekend is in order. Or at least a celebratory hot dog at the annual Memorial Day BBQ.

NBC’s two-night “Inside the Obama White House” premieres tomorrow night. But producers, editors, photographers and anchor Brian Williams have been working on the special for days…and Tweeting about it too.

Click here to see the Twitpics from the last several days via @InsideObamaWH. Meanwhile, msnbc.com has set up a special page with some of the interviews already conducted, a who’s who in the cabinet and other stories related to Pres. Obama. The special airs tomorrow night and Wednesday night on NBC-TV.

NBC News has set up a Twitter feed for their coverage over the next few days at the Obama White House. NBC News sent WebNewser the image above. It shows NBC News anchor Brian Williams and President Obama on their way to get a burger today in Washington.

Follow @InsideObamaWH…

• TVNewser has details on next week’s prime time specials on NBC…

AdAge takes a look at the $1.8 billion CBS-CNet merger one year later. Calling it “the marriage of the oldest of old media with the oldest of new media,” Michael Learmonth writes that the cultures have meshed, “in part, because most CNet journalists have old-media print backgrounds, and because the CBS old guard gets that CBS News’ storied brands must be given some relevance on the web to have a 24-hour presence in the news.”

Katie Couric has embraced the medium and is pushing to do exclusive web coverage of events such as President Barack Obama’s first 100 days. She has 24,739 Twitter followers, which is about 24,739 more than NBC’s Brian Williams, who blogs enthusiastically but refuses to Twitter. A coming redesign of CBSNews.com will stress visuals and video, CBS’s strengths, and CBS has launched a number of web shows, including Bob Schieffer‘s “Washington Unplugged.”

So what are the results?

CBSNews.com’s traffic is still flat compared with a year ago, and it has a long way to go before it’s even in the same league as MSNBC, Yahoo News or NYTimes.com. [CBS Interactive President Neil] Ashe said CBS Interactive will make money on online news, and it has won at least one new advertiser in Microsoft, a longtime CNet advertiser that sponsors CBS News’ online video.

What do you get when you combine a news anchor and an A&R? NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams‘ new Web series, “BriTunes.”

Launched today, the site features Williams interviewing the Brooklyn group Deer Tick and, well, music.

Williams explains the concept:

Okay, so I didn’t name this thing, but I did come up with the idea. I have always loved identifying good music and good groups — discovering them early (bar bands are best) and following them through their journey. While we’ll interview some established musicians, mostly I’d like this to be a place where people can sample some of the great music being created every day, by talented musicians who wouldn’t dream of doing anything else.

> Update: Dan Harris, host of the similarly-themed “Amplified,” on ABC News has some advice for his new indie music news Website competitor. “Having covered indie rock here on Amplified for the last five months, I welcome Mr. Williams to the game,” writes Harris today. After five tips for the NBC anchor, Harris gave his nod of approval: “Seriously, Brian, it’s great you’re doing this. The recession is hitting indie music hard. There’s an enormous amount of talented bands out there. Attention from someone of your stature can only help.”

The NYTimes’ Alessandra Stanley writes about the recent explosion of Twitter users among TV news correspondents and anchors. (And it includes an awesome illustration with Norah O’Donnell in big fuzzy slippers; footwear we’re sure she’s never donned). “It’s tempting to dismiss Twitter fever as a passing fad,” Stanley writes, “the Pokemon of the blogosphere. But it’s beginning to look more like yet another gateway drug to full-blown media narcissism.”

Stanley, who has not joined narcissist class herself, concludes the Twitter “tic” is most noticeable “in television personalities, especially cable news stars who are already on the screen and the Web around the clock. The camera forces vanity on even the most modest correspondents, and vanity, once fueled, is almost impossible to extinguish.”

Among those cited, Rick Sanchez (59,7000 followers), David Gregory (103,067) and Norah O’Donnell (2,296 followers).

Then there are the holdouts, like Brian Williams who told Jon Stewart the other night, “It’s just not my game.” And CNBC’s Rick Santelli whose call for a Chicago Tea Party made him an instant cult hero. No worries. Fans created an account (163 followers) for Santelli. It’s ready when he is:

“Just to let everyone know. This is NOT Rick’s account, but it is a place holder for him as soon as WE can convince him to join Twitter.

(Illustration by Stephen Kroninger)

• “World News with Charles Gibson‘s” digital properties, including the “World Newser’ blog, continue to display sizeable gains week-to-week and versus a year ago. According to ABC’s measurements, for the week of February 9th on the “World News” section on ABCNEWS.com, page views were up 38% week-to-week and 109% year-to-year; video views grew 25% week-to-week and 243% year-to-year; and uniques were up 32% week-to-week and 79% year-to-year.

• On its digital platforms, “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams” continued its strong performance with more than 3.4 million online streams for the week ending February 14, 2009.

— TVNewser has the TV ratings for the shows…

> Nightly.msnbc.com, the online home for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, had a record-setting month in January with 20 million video streams. The inauguration was a top draw.

>”World News with Charles Gibson” is growing its online profile. For the week of February 2, the “World News” section of ABCNews.com was up 52% in video views and up 7% in page views compared to the same week last year.

> Twitter may have found a way to generate revenue. The free micro-blogging site plans to charge brands for using the service. The fees are not yet known. A new round of venture capital funding values Twitter at $250m.