Mediagazer: SXSW: Shirky's New Opportunities in Public Sharing (Liz Gannes/GigaOM)

9:10 AM ET, March 15, 2010

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The State of Newspapers? Think of Sand Falling in an Hourglass, Pew Report Says — NEW YORK Newspaper advertising revenue plunged an astounding 45% over the last three years forcing publishers to make drastic reductions to the actual size of the print edition, to the space devoted to news to the ranks of employees.

Discussion: Ars Technica, Broadcasting & Cable, Kirk LaPointe's …, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and paidContent

Liz Gannes / GigaOM:

SXSW: Shirky's New Opportunities in Public Sharing — Today social technology theorist Clay Shirky delivered a fitting counterpoint to Danah Boyd's keynote on privacy at SXSW the day before. Where Boyd spoke of the danger of making information more public than users intended it …

Discussion: Snarkmarket, The Social, Kirk LaPointe's … and Gizmodo Australia

Chris Tomlinson / The Texas Observer:

Big Ideas at SXSW Interactive — Tech's Future, Privacy and Sharing — THE GEEKY SIDE OF SXSW began on Friday and we're about halfway through. The big ideas being discussed this year include the future of journalism, books and magazine as well as online privacy and sharing.

Discussion: Bits and GigaOM

David Carr / New York Times:

The Media Equation: Talking Back to Your TV Set, Endlessly — Back in 1988, Joel Hodgson, a funny guy in Minneapolis, came up with a local television show called “Mystery Science Theater 3000.” In the goofy plot, a janitor was launched into space by a couple of evil scientists and marooned there …

Crikey:

Over half your news is spin — Today Crikey launches an investigation six months in the making. Spinning the Media is an investigation in conjunction with the University of Technology (UTS) Sydney into the role PR plays in making the media. — Under UTS' Australian Centre for Independent Journalism …

Discussion: acij.uts.edu.au

Steve McClellan / Adweek:

Upfront Posturing Has Early Start — The networks may be predicting double-digit price hikes, but the buyers aren't biting — Leslie Moonves isn't the lone network executive forecasting a strong upfront market this year — the CEO of CBS is just the only one predicting it publicly.

Magda Abu-Fadil / The Huffington Post:

Murdoch Targets Abu Dhabi as International Media Hub — Abu Dhabi is slated to become the hottest new international media hub, if Rupert Murdoch and like-minded moguls have their druthers, but the region's leaders should loosen press restrictions and open up to foreign competitors to thrive.

Ravi Somaiya / Gawker:

NYT's David Carr Tells SXSW Panel He Gets Scooped by Gawker ‘All the Time’ — We're going to get big heads. First Rush Limbaugh unexpectedly says he loves us, now the New York Times' (excellent, not Rush Limbaugh-like at all) media columnist David Carr says we scoop him all the time.

Discussion: bookforum.com and ITworld.com

Mark Briggs / Lost Remote:

SXSW: Highlights from online news of tomorrow — The power of the human link, all that traffic that comes from Twitter and Facebook for example, will drive the new economy for news more than pay walls set up by Rupert Murdoch and the Associated Press. — That was one of the key observations …

Discussion: CyberJournalist.net

Nick Clark / The Independent:

Guardian owner to write down Emap investment ‘by up to £200m’ — Guardian Media Group (GMG), owner of The Guardian and The Observer newspapers, is set to take a significant hit on its investment in publisher Emap, sending it to an annual loss for the second year in a row.

Steve Myers / Online:

SXSW Panel Discusses Impact of iPad on Media Consumption, Production — Among all the predictions about how the iPad will revolutionize media, I think this is among the most relevant and important: “We're hoping you can lean back with this thing, curl up on the couch and take it into the bathroom and read it …

Discussion: Brave New World