Mediagazer: The future of no future — There's a semi-viral video that's … (Tcarmody/Bookfuturism)

Clay Shirky:

The Collapse of Complex Business Models — I gave a talk in Edinburgh last year to a group of TV executives gathered for an annual conference. From the Q&A after, it was clear that for them, the question wasn't whether the internet was going to alter their business, but about the mode and tempo of that alteration.

Discussion: The Wire and Kirk LaPointe's …

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

NYT readies a free iPad app for those who don't want to pay; plus first looks at NPR, WSJ, AP, Bloomberg, and USA Today on iPad — The New York Times may be preparing to charge a lot for its primary iPad app, but it looks like they're also willing to provide a limited, free alternative …

Discussion: Shelly Palmer, TechCrunch, paidContent, Time, Media Money …, Newsonomics, App Advice, Brainstorm Tech, Silicon Alley Insider, Garcia Media, MacStories and GigaOM

Discussion: MediaPost, Media Decoder, NewTeeVee, paidContent, MediaMemo, Engadget, Techland, Mashable!, Ars Technica, Zatz Not Funny!, Variety, MarketingVOX, Gizmodo, Fast Company, Online Video News, Online, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac and Wall Street Journal

A. O. Scott / New York Times:

A Critic's Place, Thumb and All — TWO weeks ago I went to Atlanta to give a talk at a conference devoted, in part, to “The Future of Criticism.” The gist of my remarks was that there is one. This was a contrarian, and perhaps also somewhat self-serving, position to take.

Discussion: The New Yorker Blog

Eric Zorn / Change of Subject:

Pseudonymity can battle the scourge of comment anonymity — Columnist Leonard Pitts writes: … This topic comes up here with some regularity, in part because of my own mixed feelings about it, and it's my sense that Pitts is only partly right; that anonymity — or psudonymity …

Discussion: Howard Owens and Romenesko

Daniel Trotta / Reuters:

WSJ cuts prices in battle with New York Times — The Wall Street Journal is cutting new subscription prices by as much as 80 percent in some cases as it prepares to confront its rival, the New York Times, with a New York City edition. — The move comes amid a plunge in U.S. newspaper circulation …

Discussion: Folio, Barron's Online, Gothamist, Media Buyer Planner, FishBowlNY and The Wire

Discussion: paidContent, eMedia Vitals and Romenesko

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Study: 52 Percent Of Bloggers Consider Themselves Journalists — According to a new study released by PR Week and PR Newswire, 52% percent of bloggers surveyed consider themselves journalists. This is an increase from 2009's study, when just one in three had the same opinion.

Discussion: PR Newswire, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and George Dearing

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

The hunt for the elusive influencer — Maybe there is no such thing as an influencer. — We keep hunting the elusive influencer because marketing people, especially, but also politicians (marketers in bad suits) and media people (marketers in denial) think that if they can find and convince …

Discussion: George Dearing

Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:

Vidyo Scores Monster $25M Funding Round — Just so you know, this is not an April Fool's joke: video conferencing startup Vidyo — the same company that powers the ultra-popular Google Talk video chat client — has raised a $25 million Series C round of financing, it announced today.

Discussion: VentureBeat and TechCrunch

Harold Pollack / The New Republic:

The Best-Covered News Story, Ever — This week's On the Media laments the low quality of press coverage in health care reform. It's certainly easy to find examples of shoddy journalism and public ignorance to bolster this charge. Every night, one could watch cable TV screamers trafficking …

Mark Fitzgerald / Editor and Publisher:

McKinsey Survey: Some Hope for Newspapers in Greater News Consumption by Young — CHICAGO A new survey of news consumption in Britain should comfort newspaper publishers everywhere, according to McKinsey & Co. Adults under the age of 35 have significantly increased their consumption of news …

BBC:

Science writer Simon Singh wins libel appeal — A science writer has won the right to rely on the defence of fair comment in a libel action, in a landmark ruling at the Court of Appeal. — Simon Singh was accused of libel by the British Chiropractic Association over an article in the Guardian in 2008.

Discussion: Guardian, Techdirt and Media Law Prof Blog

AdAge:

‘Modern Family’ Featured an IPad, but ABC Didn't Collect — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Apple may not have paid for its new and much-ballyhooed iPad device to be woven into a main storyline in last night's showing of “Modern Family” on ABC, but everyone is acting as if they did.

Discussion: Company Town, The Live Feed | THR and Silicon Alley Insider

David Cohn / MediaShift Idea Lab:

A Plan for Spot.Us to Use Community-Centered Ads — Perhaps it's ironic for me to write about advertising. Fellow Knight News Challenge winner Dan Pacheco can quote me as once saying “f*&# advertising” and one of the initial inspirations for me to get into journalism was Adbusters Magazine.

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Newsonomics of iPads and tablets, floor by floor — [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] — AppleMania meets Rummy's oft-noted trilogy of known knowns …

Felix Salmon:

Blogonomics: Monetizing passion — In my continuing attempt to come up with bright ideas for how bloggers can turn traffic, readers, and influence into money, I met this morning with interactive marketing executive Gaston Legorburu of SapientNitro. It was a mildly depressing meeting …

Tcarmody / Bookfuturism:

The future of no future — There's a semi-viral video that's been kicking around for a couple of weeks titled “The Future of Publishing.” The schtick is that the same column of text, about preferences of younger readers gets read two ways — descend and you get a sharply pessimistic …

Discussion: if:book

Alexandra Fenwick / CJR:

Stream of Consciousness — SnapStream and the future of searchable video — About a month ago, while on a business trip to New York from his tech company's headquarters in Houston, Texas, SnapStream president and CEO Rakesh Agrawal sported a hot pink wristband as he worked his way through the day's appointments.

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

AP News Registry Gets Antitrust Pass From DOJ — The Associated Press News Registry shouldn't face antitrust issues when it goes fully live the summer as long as the nonprofit news co-op sticks to the plans it outlined to the U.S. Department of Justice. AP asked for a business review …

Discussion: PR Newswire