Mediagazer: Associated Content: Hey, We Were Here First! (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM)

5:35 AM ET, March 28, 2010

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Associated Content: Hey, We Were Here First! — Demand Media and AOL's Seed project have been getting lots of attention lately, in part because they've both become poster children (although Demand more so than Seed) for the idea of a digital “content factory” — a virtual sweatshop filled …

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.

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:

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

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

Rick Forgione / Niagara Gazette:

Journalism is alive ... and clicking — NIAGARA FALLS — I was having a conversation recently about some of the changes and downsizing going on at newspapers across the country when someone cut in with a less-than-inspirational remark. — “Well, the newspaper industry is dying anyway,” Miss Opinion said.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Can NewsLabs Give Laid-Off Journalists Another Chance? — So you used to write stories for a newspaper and now you're out of work? Odds are, you are going to have to find something else to do. — But some of you may be able to transform yourselves into one-person news factories …

Discussion: Kindle Review

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

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) …

Discussion: PBS

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 …

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 CNET News

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.