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Biz / Twitter Blog:
@anywhere — When we designed Twitter, we took a different approach—we didn't require a relationship model like that of a social network. Keeping things open meant you could browse our site to read tweets from friends, celebrities, companies, media outlets, fictional characters, and more.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Where Are Twitter's Ads? You May Have to Wait a Month (Or More) — Twitter CEO Evan Williams did not announce the new ad platform the company is working on today. — So when will we see it? Think mid-April. — One good bet would be at “Chirp”, the company's developer conference four weeks from now.
Nat Ives / AdAge:
New York Times' Exclusive Run at Starbucks Ends — USA Today Returns After 10 Years as Coffee Chain Cites Customer Taste for Media Choice — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — After nearly 10 years as the only national newspaper for sale in many Starbucks around the country, The New York Times …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Pew: Online News Users Don't Want To Pay—Or Look At Ads — The latest report on online news economics from Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism is one of those studies that will bolster just about any view people have about paying for news online. Want to show that news consumers are unwilling to pay?
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Gillian Reagan / The Business Insider:
NYT Vs. WSJ War Continues: New York Times Ads Slam Wall Street Journal Stats (NYT, NWS) — The New York Times just turned up the heat in their battle against the Wall Street Journal for advertisers—this time with a new ad campaign called “Numbers.” — A new microsite and ads …
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Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Joshua Newton: Tim Gray is ‘Lying Through His Nose’ — Joshua Newton, the producer and director of “Iron Cross,” has sued Variety for fraud and breach of contract over a negative review of his film that he claims undermined a $400,000 advertising campaign orchestrated by the trade.
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Peter Lattman / Deal Journal:
Michael Lewis's ‘The Big Short’? Read the Harvard Thesis Instead! — Deal Journal has yet to read “The Big Short,” Michael Lewis's yarn on the financial crisis that hit stores today. We did, however, read his acknowledgments, where Lewis praises “A.K. Barnett-Hart, a Harvard undergraduate …
Sean Blanda / eMedia Vitals:
VIDEO: The magazine stand of the future — Here, the coolest thing EMV has seen so far at SXSW: Todd Clare demonstrates how one day, we will be able to drop a tablet computer on a special table and drag magazines onto our device.
Gillian Reagan / The Wire:
Arthur Sulzberger Jr.'s Nephew David Perpich Joins New York Times To Prepare For Paywall (NYT) — We heard whisperings back in early February that David Perpich, the nephew of New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., was leaving his post at consulting firm Booz & Co. and joining the Times to help build its paywall.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
The Beck Factor at Fox: Staffers say comments taint their work — In just over a year, Glenn Beck's blinding burst of stardom has often seemed to overshadow the rest of Fox News. — And that may not be a good thing for the top-rated cable news channel, as many of its staffers are acutely aware.
Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
‘Earth Days’ Documentary to Be Seen on Facebook First — PBS's “American Experience” has sent its documentary “Earth Days” on a film festival and 40-city theatrical tour for the last year, before its television broadcast in April. Now the 102-minute film about the origins …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
For NPR, the iPad Means a New App-And a New Web Site — Like many media companies, National Public Radio is scrambling to prepare an app in time for the iPad's April 3 launch. — But the standoff between Apple (AAPL) and Adobe has prompted NPR to take on another engineering project at the same time …
Paige Albiniak / Broadcasting & Cable:
Syndication Keeping Tribune in the Game — Company hoping CW will broaden out programming to help primetime — Syndicated programming and expanded local newscasts are the foundation on which the 23 Tribune stations are working to build strong businesses in its 19 markets.
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
TubeMogul Expands Into Ad Sales — Upstart analytics firm TubeMogul is looking to take its expertise in online video measurement and translate that to ad sales. — The Emeryville, Calif.-based company has quietly been building out its own video ad network over the past year …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Apple iPad orders drop sharply — A rough three-day estimate, based on an analysis of order numbers: 152,000 units — After the initial burst of excitement on Friday that saw iPad pre-orders coming in at the rate of 25,000 per hour, there was a dramatic fall-off over the weekend.
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MediaShift:
How Journalism is Getting Better — Michael Arrington's recent TechCrunch post about old media “guys” who don't get it made me realize how far things have come — and how much better they've gotten — in the world of journalism. — I worked for more than 15 years in what's now called …
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Euthanazing the paper? Not yet. — I love this year-old Warren Buffet quote: “If Mr. Gutenberg had come up with the Internet instead of movable type back in the late 15th century, and for 400 years we had used the Internet for news and all types of entertainment and all kinds of everything else …
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Readers Are Devouring Apple Book Apps — Demand for digital book applications on Apple devices gives developers and publishers fresh ways to make money—a mixed blessing for Amazon — Michel Kripalani started making e-books when e-books weren't cool. A veteran creator of video games …