Mediagazer: Portability, Participation Rule for New Media Consumer (MediaShift)

Felix Salmon:

The economics of non-profit newspapers — Alan Mutter is a genuine expert on newspaper economics, which is one reason why his bizarre blog entry today on the economics of non-profit newspapers is so puzzling. This has to be one of the most innumerate things he's ever written:

Discussion: Kindle Review, Romenesko and The Wire

Non-profits can't possibly save the news — An amazing number of smart and sophisticated people continue to harbor the fantasy that philanthropic contributions can take over funding journalism from the media companies that traditionally have supported the press.

Discussion: Media on HuffingtonPost.com, Romenesko and Kirk LaPointe's …

Stop / Twitter Blog:

Tweaking the Twitter homepage — Twitter's homepage is a work-in-progress. Today, we're testing a new design that bubbles up more of the information flowing through Twitter. This builds on a series of changes starting last year when we redesigned the homepage to make search and trending topics …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Social Media Today, 901am, ReadWriteWeb, paidContent and Silicon Alley Insider

Twitter's Homepage Gets Newsier, Searchier — Social messaging service Twitter launched a new homepage Tuesday aimed at putting more of the quips, commentary, and news generated by its users up front. — What do you think of Twitter's new homepage? Let us know in the comments section below.

Anita Chang / Associated Press:

Journalists in China say Yahoo accounts hacked — All four affected are professionally focused on China and related issues — BEIJING - Yahoo e-mail accounts belonging to foreign journalists appeared to have been hacked and Google's Chinese search engine was intermittently blocked Tuesday …

Discussion: The Firewall, New York Times, DailyFinance, msnbc.com and ReadWriteWeb

With Hirings, Yahoo Steps Up News Coverage — SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo has recruited nearly a dozen journalists from traditional and online media outlets and opened a bureau in Washington to push into original content and increase the popularity of its online news site.

Discussion: Prof Chris Daly's Blog

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

The FT promotes its Twitter feed as alternative to newspaper — Hear first and act fast with Twitter feeds. Get the news you need as it happens, with FT Twitter feeds. Delivering breaking FT news, features, blogs, and multimedia, they'll alert you to the developments that matter.

Discussion: George Dearing

Discussion: Romenesko, Newsbroke, Talking Biz News and Silicon Alley Insider

Christopher Conklin / The Awl:

How Web Writers Get Held Responsible for the Lawyers, the Sales Guys and Even the Coffeemaker — After Henry Blodget fired editor John Carney from his role as the editor of Clusterstock last week, some clearly felt that Blodget, the Business Insider cofounder and CEO, owed an explanation.

Discussion: bookforum.com

Discussion: Vanity Fair

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

A “reader affection” formula: Gawker creates a metric for branded traffic — Influence, engagement, impact: For goals that are, in journalism, kind of the whole point, they're notoriously difficult to quantify. How do you measure, measure a year, and so on.

Discussion: the Econsultancy blog, NetNewsCheck Latest, Silicon Alley Insider and Soup

MediaShift:

Portability, Participation Rule for New Media Consumer — We're spoiled by technology. Today, we expect more from our media than we can get from print, radio or linear TV. — If you're like me — and, increasingly, evidence shows people are — you crave portability, fungibility …

Chromium Blog:

Bringing improved support for Adobe Flash Player to Google Chrome — Adobe Flash Player is the most widely used web browser plug-in. It enables a wide range of applications and content on the Internet, from games, to video, to enterprise apps. — The traditional browser plug-in model …

Discussion: Adobe Flash Player Team Blog, TechCrunch, NewTeeVee, Engadget, Steven J. Vaughan …, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, Velocity, CNET News, Lifehacker, MacRumors, Mashable!, Beet.TV and Between the Lines

Sree Sreenivasan / DNAinfo.com:

Lessons from A Week Without Newspapers — For all the time I spend talking about Twitter, Facebook and other digital journalism tools, I am a newspaper and magazine guy at heart. I believe there's still something magical about print. — My most productive mornings are when I get up early enough …

Gillian Reagan / The Business Insider:

NBC Poaches AOL's Ad Exec Cate Carley For iVillage (AOL, GE) — AOL's regional sales director Cate Carley is leaving for iVillage, NBC Universal announced today. Carly has been working for AOL since 2005, joining as sales director for their health network.

Richard Siklos / New York Observer:

The Price of Free — For the past few years, media buffs have been waiting for the elusive answer to a simple question: When is what's on TV going to really start acting more like what's on the Web? It's a two-part question, really, and the answer isn't nearly as clear as you might think.

Discussion: conky

Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blog:

Time's Tumulty joins WaPo — Time magazine's Karen Tumulty will soon be joining The Washington Post as the paper's national political correspondent, according to a memo obtained by POLITICO. — Tumulty has spent the past 16 years at Time, writing cover stories and regularly contributing to the magazine's “Swampland” blog.

Discussion: Romenesko and The Wire

Dan / College Media Matters:

Exclusive: UWIRE Set to Relaunch After Six-Month Hiatus — UWIRE is back. The predominant, temporarily dormant student press content sharing service will once again be live online- most likely later this week or early next week. According to Tom Orr, UWIRE overseer and general manager …

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

What does This American Life look like? A designer visualizes the radio — Most New Year's resolutions are as predictable as they are short-lived: Quit smoking. Lose weight. Be more patient. Stop procrastinating. Use the occasion of a sparkling new year to become happy of mind …

News & Tech:

Chicago Tribune turning old photos into new revenue stream — The Chicago Tribune is kicking off an effort to turn its dusty archived photographs into a shiny new revenue opportunity. — “The overall goal is to figure out how the company can monetize its resources that are currently archival in nature …

J. David Goodman / City Room:

Ads for Community Papers, but Are They Local? — An ad campaign promoting community papers displays images of failure with the tag line “Your Community Paper. Told Ya.” — The story of newspapers' woes is well known, and the news is almost continually dire.

Discussion: Fitz & Jen

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Automattic Opens Up VaultPress, A Safe Place To Back Up Your Blog — Over the past few months, Automattic's popular blog platform WordPress.com has taken an in-depth look at their blogging ecosystem, and realized that one of the major pain points for the 12.1 million users who self-host …

Discussion: VaultPress Blog, Podcasting News and Silicon Alley Insider

John Koblin / New York Observer:

Just Asking... Which Financial Daily Is Jumping Into the Gossip Biz? — Last week, we reported that The Wall Street Journal's New York section was starting—of all odd things—sports beats, with reporters traveling to home and away games of New York teams. — Well, now it appears The Journal's …

Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:

“Follow, Then Filter”: from information stream to delta — A year or two ago, as Twitter and FriendFeed in turn made headlines, much was made of how we were increasingly consuming information as a stream. Last January I blogged along those lines on why and how I followed 2,500 people on Twitter - why?

Mike Reynolds / Multichannel News:

Time Warner Cable Connects On YES's Live Streaming Service — MSO Becomes Fourth Affiliate For RSN's ‘Yankees On Yes Live Game Streaming’ In-Market Package — YES Network has found a fourth hitter for its “TV Everywhere” lineup of live streamed New York Yankees games: Time Warner Cable.

Discussion: NewTeeVee, MediaPost and Broadcasting & Cable

Tim Elfrink / Riptide 2.0:

More Gerald Posner Plagiarism in Miami Babylon, From New Times, PBS, and Many Others — Back on March 16, Riptide broke the news that South Beach-based author Gerald Posner's latest book, Miami Babylon, had stolen eight passages from Frank Owen's 2003 work Clubland.

Discussion: Gawker