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12:30 AM ET, March 7, 2010

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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Andreessen's Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats”  —  Legend has it that when Cortes landed in Mexico in the 1500s, he ordered his men to burn the ships that had brought them there to remove the possibility of doing anything other than going forward into the unknown.
Discussion: TeleRead and TomsTechBlog.com
Diane Mermigas / BNET:
And the Oscar Goes... Anywhere in Digital Media Consumers Want  —  The retransmission fee stand-off between Walt Disney's WABC-TV and Cablevision that could prevent some east coast viewing of Sunday's Academy Awards is just the latest stress crack in a strained television and film landscape.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Cablevision, Disney Take WABC Fee Dispute To The Wire On Oscar Eve  —  Get ready for some impromptu Oscar parties at New York-area households with Verizon FiOS or satellite if Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) don't find a way over a two-year impasse by 12:01 a.m. Sunday.
Discussion: Media Decoder
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
Foursquare and SPIN Magazine Turn SXSW Into Musical Scavenger Hunt  —  For complete SXSW coverage, check out Mashable's SXSW channel.  —  Popular music magazine SPIN is going geeky for South by Southwest's music festival, integrating custom Foursquare badges into its event presence and rewarding …
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.
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Reuters:   L.A. Times sells Disney front page for movie ad
Lynette Rice / Hollywood Insider:
Exclusive: ‘Fringe’ picked up for a third season  —  Sci-fi fans who may be concerned about the state of the genre on network TV (we're looking at you, V and FlashForward) have at least one reason to rejoice: EW has learned exclusively that Fox has picked up Fringe for a third season.
Maria Elena / Show Tracker:
Conan Twitter Tracker: How Conan Met Sarah  —  Ok, Conan, you're not such a bad guy, after all.  We admit that for a while Friday we thought @LovelyButton was a figment of your Twitter imagination (read: Freckles and the gang), but now that we've actually spoken to her and have seen firsthand …
Emilybraham / Online Journalism Blog:
Summary of “Magazines and their websites” - Columbia Journalism Review study by Victor Navasky and Evan Lerner  —  The first study of magazines and their various approaches to websites, undertaken by Columbia Journalism Review, found publishers are still trying to work out how best to utilise the online medium.
Vanessa Thorpe / Guardian:
The gender gap on the small screen  —  Study finds that females who do appear on television are often in soaps or on news to discuss ‘softer’ topics  —  Although there are more females, by a head or two in every 100, than there are males in the British population, on television women are still a distinct minority.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Cisco Wants To Kill Your Cisco Set-Top Box With Another Cisco Set-Top Box (CSCO, CMCSA, AAPL)  —  Cisco's plan to rule the Internet will be unveiled next week during a press event on March 9.  What is it?  —  Most reports we've seen so far suggest it will have something …
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:
Future fame (and why it's important)  —  Like a lot of folks, I have a Google search RSS feed based on my name.  Call it vanity or call it “reputation management,” but today's world allows a degree of feedback never known before.  —  Last week, I ran into (and subsequently made friends with) …
Discussion: Joho the Blog
Tracy Boyer / Innovative Interactivity:
Student journalism project evolves into humanitarian effort after deadly tsunami  —  In 2006, 20 UNC and Chilean students spent 10 days in Robinson Crusoe Island, off the coast of Chile, to document its land, culture, and people for their award-winning multimedia project, Chasing Crusoe.
 
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Drew Grant / Mediaite:
“The Netizens”: When Your Internet Anonymity Will No Longer Protect You
Discussion: Gizmodo and On The Media
Susan Saulny / New York Times:
Seeking a Future for a Symbol of a Grander Past
Discussion: Joel On The Road
Brendon Connelly / /Film:
Sin Nombre Director Cary Fukunaga Describes His Musical
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Paul Berton / London Free Press:
Niche journalism strengthens democracy
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Redpoint Invests $4.4 Million In Fast Growing Posterous
Discussion: VentureBeat
Benjamin Bidder / Spiegel Online:
The Russian-American Battle over Chatroulette
Discussion: Mashable!
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Former Book Designer Says Good Riddance to Print
Discussion: TUAW and Craig Mod
Jon Weisman / Variety:
TV writer finds haven in blogging
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Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Andrew Jaffe, Who Brought Clios to Adweek, Is Dead at 71
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
With 100 Million Comments, Topix Has Quietly Become The Local Watering Hole
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Gifted Hollywood celebrities help brands reach markets
Katie Scott / Wired.co.uk:
Archiving Britain's web: The legal nightmare explored
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Real-time Search Better for News Than Products
Discussion: Scripting News and BoomTown
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Murdoch's NY Post Continues To Source Articles From Bloggers With No Credit