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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Former Book Designer Says Good Riddance to Print — A recent blog post by Craig Mod, a self-titled computer programmer, book designer and book publisher, offers a thoughtful and distinctive perspective on the move of books from paper to interactive devices like Apple's iPad.
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
A Cover Ad That Mimics a Newspaper's Front Page — The entire first page of The Los Angeles Times on Friday was an ad that looked, in part, like the front page of The Los Angeles Times, as the newspaper again tested the accepted limits on where ads can be published and how they can blur the boundary with news.
Craig Crawford / Craig Crawford's Trail Mix:
A Point of Personal Privilege — For those who might be interested - and you have every reason not to be - I am no longer with MSNBC. Three months short of my current contract I sent the following to the boss, Phil Griffin: “Phil, Just wanted to give you the heads up that my situation …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Redpoint Invests $4.4 Million In Fast Growing Posterous — San Francisco based Posterous, a fast growing publishing platform, has taken a $4.4 million investment from Redpoint Ventures. Partner Satish Dharmaraj, who is also an individual investor in Posterous, led the round and joins …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Outside.in to AOL's Patch: Bring It On — Mark Josephson, CEO of hyper-local news aggregator Outside.in, doesn't seem all that concerned about AOL's plans to pour $50 million into its own hyper-local news operation, Patch.com. That's because while AOL is trying to generate its own custom content …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Attention Is the Real Resource — Jason Snell — editorial director at Macworld — wrote an interesting piece on his personal site regarding full-text RSS feeds, prompted by Merlin Mann's piece last week regarding The Atlantic. — Snell writes: … It should go without saying that what works …
Benjamin Bidder / Spiegel Online:
The Russian-American Battle over Chatroulette — Late last year, only 500 people were using the Web site that Andrey Ternovskiy launched. Now Chatroulette gets around 1.5 million visitors daily. With Russian billionaires offering him cash and Google on the other line, the Moscow teenager has to make a decision: America or Russia?
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Katie Scott / Wired.co.uk:
Archiving Britain's web: The legal nightmare explored — Websites are gaining increasing recognition as being culturally valuable — as snapshots of our cultural history. But could a change in the law be the only way to preserve them? — An investigation by Katie Scott
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Gifted Hollywood celebrities help brands reach markets — For George Clooney, Sandra Bullock and others vying for Academy Awards, success in Sunday's ceremony may well represent the peak of their careers. — But if they miss out on a gold statue, there could be consolation in the form …
Stephen Battaglio / TV Guide Magazine:
Can CNN Survive on News Alone? — When big news breaks, as it did with the devastating earthquake in Haiti, CNN can count on Anderson Cooper to swoop in and provide compelling coverage. But even during a month when CNN had a story in which it truly shined, Fox News Channel had its best January ratings ever.
Mike Reynolds / Multichannel:
Cablevision: Oscars Telecast In Iger's Hands — Operator Says Disney CEO Will Decide Whether Retransmission-Consent Ends With WABC-TV Pulling Signal — In the latest salvo in their retransmission-consent battle, Cablevision said it's up to Walt Disney Co. president and CEO Bob Iger whether …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
With 100 Million Comments, Topix Has Quietly Become The Local Watering Hole — I'm from a relatively small city in Ohio called Pepper Pike. If I want to find out news about it, the easiest thing for me to do is Google “Pepper Pike News.” The number one result is quite useful: Topix.
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Andrew Jaffe, Who Brought Clios to Adweek, Is Dead at 71 — Andrew Jaffe, who presided over the expansion of the advertising trade magazine Adweek and helped revitalize the industry's venerable Clio Awards, died on Feb. 26 in Norwalk, Conn. He was 71 and lived in New Canaan, Conn.
Jon Weisman / Variety:
TV writer finds haven in blogging — Pomerantz shows years haven't tarnished his skills — Like writing for TV, blogging is considered a young person's game. — But Earl Pomerantz, who toiled on iconic sitcoms for more than three decades, is putting the lie to that notion.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Murdoch's NY Post Continues To Source Articles From Bloggers With No Credit — Rupert Murdoch and his minions at News Corp. have been going around banging the drum that Google and others are “stealing” from News Corp. newspapers by linking to their stories and sending them traffic.
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Real-time Search Better for News Than Products — The major search engines and many upstarts are doing their best to innovate to make search quicker, in part by incorporating Twitter's full “firehose” of results. Google, in addition to being the biggest search engine on the planet …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Another YouTube Revenue Guess: $1 Billion in 2011 — Since Google releases almost no information about YouTube's financial performance, the best we can do is make educated guesses. Here's another one: The word's biggest video site will generate over $1.1 billion in revenue by 2011, and Google will keep about $700 million of that.
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