Mediagazer: Archiving Britain's web: The legal nightmare explored (Katie Scott/Wired.co.uk)

6:55 AM ET, March 6, 2010

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Natalie Harrison / Apple:

iPad Available in US on April 3 — Apple® today announced that its magical and revolutionary iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France …

Mark Briggs / Lost Remote:

Lessons to learn: how the iPad will impact local media — With news that Apple's iPad will go on sale in less than a month, it's time to get serious about sizing up the opportunity this new device presents to local media companies. There are more questions than answers at this point …

Discussion: eBookNewser, TUAW and CNBC

Craig Mod:

Craig Mod - Journal - Books in the Age of the iPad — Books in the Age of the iPad — Print is dead. Digital is surging. Everyone is confused. A collections of thoughts on the future of books in the context of the iPad.

Discussion: Bits, eBookNewser, Podcasting News, TeleRead and CrunchGear

InvestorPlace.com:
New Survey Shows Huge Wave of Apple iPad Demand Striking Amazon

Discussion: Internet2Go, The Wire, MacRumors and Gizmodo

Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:

MSNBC Political Analyst Leaves, Won't Be “Cartoon Player For Lefty Games” — MSNBC political analyst Craig Crawford has left the network - in a very public way. — Writing on his blog at CQPolitics.com, Crawford says he has found the network “unrewarding for me,” - and expands on his reason for leaving in a comment to Mediaite.

Craig Crawford / Craig Crawford's Trail Mix:
A Point of Personal Privilege

Discussion: Inside Cable News, Big Journalism, TVNewser, The Huffington Post, The Huffington Post, The Daily Caller and Hot Air

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 …

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 …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Variety and Company Town

Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:

L.A. Times Sells Disney Entire Front Page for ‘Alice’ — In another first, the Los Angeles Times sold its front page to The Walt Disney Company in a special promotion for “Alice in Wonderland,” which is opening on Friday. — Instead of the actual front page, readers in Los Angeles are treated …

Discussion: Deadline.com, The Wire, BrandFreak, Romenesko, LA Observed and CJR

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.

Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Online Video News and Mashable!

Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:

Candy Crowley on Her New Sunday Role: 'Someone Will Write Me and Say: Don't Ever Wear That Again!' — Four weeks ago, reporter Candy Crowley took over CNN's Sunday political show State of the Union from anchor John King, who will be moving to a weekday show to take over Lou Dobbs's spot.

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 …

Discussion: BoomTown and Scripting News

Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:

De Niro Back For Another ‘Midnight Run’ — Universal has started the wheels moving on a sequel to the 1988 classic comedy Midnight Run. The studio has hired Tim Dowling to write the comedy, with Robert De Niro reprising his role as Los Angeles-based bounty hunter Jack Walsh …

Discussion: /Film

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.

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 …

Michael Calderone / The Politico:

Amanpour for ‘This Week’? — Still searching for a permanent host for “This Week,” ABC News is in talks with Christiane Amanpour, the CNN foreign correspondent known more for globe-trotting reporting than talking politics within the Beltway. — Amanpour, through a CNN spokesperson …

Discussion: TVNewser, Mediaite, Romenesko, The Huffington Post, Gawker, Michael Calderone's Blog and Media Decoder

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

Bobby White / Wall Street Journal:

Michael Chabon Gives His Reading on the Area's Literary Scene — The Bay Area's independent bookstores, writer's workshops and literary events have helped cultivate a vibrant community of authors, including Amy Tan and Tobias Wolff. — Another active participant in the local literary scene …

Nilay Patel / Engadget:

Microsoft's Courier ‘digital journal’: exclusive pictures and details (update: video!) — We've been dying to know more about Microsoft's Courier tablet / e-book device ever since we first caught wind of it last September, and while our entreaties to Mr. Ballmer went unanswered …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, DailyFinance, Twist Image, Mashable!, CrunchGear, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and Daring Fireball

Gillian Reagan / Silicon Alley Insider:

New York Times Rolls Out New ‘Real Estate’ iPhone App — The New York Times launched a new, free iPhone app catered to apartment hunters. — The “New York Times Real Estate” app, released March 2, allows users to search for listings and refine results; view detailed property listings with photos …

Discussion: Curbed NY