Mediagazer: Eye-Tracking Tablets and the Promise of Text 2.0 (Eliot Van Buskirk/Epicenter)

12:05 AM ET, March 28, 2010

Top News:

More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About The Economics Of The Online News Business — A TWEETIFESTO — Yesterday, a Reuters blogger named Felix Salmon attacked Business Insider for, in effect, producing content that readers want to read. — Felix didn't put it that way, of course …

Discussion: Spiersblr

Felix Salmon:
Blogonomics: Revenue per page

Discussion: mathewingram.com/work, The Corsair and The Atlantic Wire

Juli Weiner / Vanity Fair:
Tweet Fight!: Henry Blodget vs. Felix Salmon

Discussion: WE ARE YOUR FEK and Silicon Alley Insider

Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:

If you can't manage comments well, don't offer comments at all — By Robert Niles: I've long advocated that newspapers include comment sections on their online stories, to provide readers with the opportunity to discuss, extend or even correct those news articles.

Michael Wolff / Vanity Fair:

Murdoch to Sulzberger: You Are a Girly Man — It's not just that Rupert Murdoch doesn't like Arthur Sulzberger, or doesn't think he's a serious newspaper publisher. It's that he think he's weak—girly. Sulzberger—"young Arthur"—was a frequent subject during the many hours I talked to Murdoch when I was writing his biography.

Discussion: Runnin' Scared, Wall Street Journal, Mediaite, New York Magazine and Gawker

Jeff Jarvis / Guardian:

Rupert Murdoch's pathetic paywall — So Murdoch has decided to milk his dying cash cow dry, one pound at a time, and leave the future to the rest of us. Poor guy — Rupert Murdoch has declared surrender. The future defeated him. — By building his paywall around Times Newspapers …

Discussion: Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, Fast Company, Silicon Alley Insider and Press Gazette

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
John Humphrys argues in favour of newspaper paywalls

Discussion: BuzzMachine, the Econsultancy blog, Times of London, Press Association, BBC, paidContent, Editors Weblog and Jon Slattery

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Collaboration in action: Frontline, Planet Money, NewsHour team up for multimedia project on Haiti — Today marks the launch of a new public media series on Haiti — an experimental collaboration among public media partners Frontline (WGBH), Planet Money (NPR), and the NewsHour (PBS) …

Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:

Eye-Tracking Tablets and the Promise of Text 2.0 — The best thing about reading a book on a tablet (so far) is how closely it approximates reading a “real” book — which is why the Kindle's screen is matte like paper rather than luminescent like a laptop. Some (not all) fear for the demise …

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's … and Ezra Klein

Ben Sheffner / Copyrights & Campaigns:

Google may subpoena CNET reporter in copyright case leak probe; hearing reveals massive hunt for source of Schmidt depo — An attorney for Google and YouTube indicated today that the Web giants may call a prominent tech reporter to the witness stand in an effort to reveal who leaked …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and The Social

Mark Fitzgerald / Editor and Publisher:

IAPA: Two Months On, Haitian Press Still Devastated by Earthquake — CHICAGO In a special report to its biannual meeting in Aruba this week, the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) described a Haitian media landscape two months after the catastrophic earthquake that is every bit as devasted as the island itself.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and Editors Weblog

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Cisco “Live” on MSNBC's “Rachel Maddow Show” in Broadcast Debut — NEW YORK — Cisco Systems, which has a big* video teleconference business with a product called TelePresence, is entering the broadcast world with the MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, who is using the system to conduct remote interviews.

Discussion: TVNewser and Inside Cable News

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

For Fox's ‘24,’ Terror Fight and Series Near End — If any one show has represented the post-9/11 era on television, it is “24,” the Fox drama that has offered counterterrorism as entertainment for nine years. — On “24,” torture saves lives. On “24,” phones are tapped, plots are disrupted …

Discussion: Show Tracker, Variety, The Huffington Post, Gawker and TVbytheNumbers

Joe Mandese / MediaPost:

Apple Poised To Unveil ‘iAd,’ New Mobile Ad Platform Is Jobs' ‘Next Big Thing’ — Even as the buzz builds toward the April 3rd ship date of the iPad, Apple is preparing to announce its “next big thing” — a new personalized, mobile advertising system that could well be called the “iAd” — Online Media Daily has learned.