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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 is at Chirp, the company's developer conference four weeks from now.
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Twitter launches “At Anywhere” platform, integrates tweets, profiles across the web — Twitter CEO Ev Williams demonstrated a new platform today that will spread the microblogging network's profiles, tweets and possibly advertising across the web. It's taking the hovercards it launched …
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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The New York Times Company:
The New York Times Launches New Trade Campaign, ‘Numbers’ — Campaign Emphasizes an Engaged Audience — The New York Times announced today a new trade campaign, “Numbers,” to launch on March 15. The campaign is designed to emphasize The Times's loyal and engaged audience in print …
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Editor and Publisher, paidContent, Romenesko, New York Observer and Michael Calderone's Blog
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Gillian Reagan / The Business Insider:
NYT Vs. WSJ War Continues: New York Times Ads Slam Wall Street …
NYT Vs. WSJ War Continues: New York Times Ads Slam Wall Street …
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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 …
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.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
C-Span Puts Its Full Archives on the Web — WASHINGTON — Researchers, political satirists and partisan mudslingers, take note: C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet. — The archives, at C-SpanVideo.org, cover 23 years of history …
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.
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 …
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
FCC Broadband Plan: Reactions Pour In — UPDATED: Comcast's Roberts commends plan — Comment from Washington came pouring over the electronic transom Monday as details of the FCC's national broadband plan were revealed. — Broadcasters said they would look closely at the plan …
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
NYT reminds freelancers of its ethics policies — To: FreelanceWriters1-NO_REPLY@nytimes.com — This is a reminder about The Times's ethics policies for journalists. — As you know, The Times takes very seriously the issue of conflicts of interest and other problems that might undermine the credibility of our journalism.
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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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FishBowlNY, Romenesko, Media Buyer Planner, PR Newswire, Gawker, Fitz & Jen and The Consumerist
Joe Grimm / Ask the Recruiter:
TIME magazine editor becomes freelancer, blogger — While the news industry is frantically searching for solutions and new directions, journalists' lives have been disrupted by cutbacks and job changes. Poynter Online wants to help by sharing how-they-did-it snapshots from people who overcame employment challenges.
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 …
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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Silicon Alley Insider, CrunchGear, Fast Company, BloggingStocks, TheAppleBlog, 9 to 5 Mac, Mashable!, TeleRead and Gizmodo Australia
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Bruni and Sarkozy: How two tweets have made twits out of many British journalists — It seems that two tweets can make a twit out of a great many journalists. — The Sunday Times reported yesterday that just two anonymous postings on the social media site Twitter were behind …
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 …