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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Twitter has 105,779,710 Registered Users, Adding 300K A Day — Twitter's Biz Stone just reeled off some key, and very long awaited stats at Chirp. The stats: — Twitter has 105,779,710 registered users. — It gets 300,000 new users a day. — It receives 180 Million Unique visitors a month.
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Mindy McAdams / Teaching Online Journalism:
What you should know about HTML5 today — If you teach online journalism, you've probably been hearing questions from students about the validity of what they are learning today. If you're teaching Web design for current standards and current browsers, they are asking, “What about HTML5 and CSS3?”
Oliver Moore / Globe and Mail:
Google and weekly paper ordered to identify online posters — Rarely known for their civility, online exchanges can degenerate into vicious slanging matches among people hiding behind pseudonyms. But a judge in Halifax has lobbed in a reminder that Internet anonymity has its limits.
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Financial Site: ‘Hot News’ Ruling Drives Away Customers — The financial newsletter TheFlyonthewall.com says that it's losing subscribers due to a court order banning it from posting early morning summaries of banks' stock recommendations. — “Defendant is presented with the day-to-day challenge …
Clint Hendler / CJR:
The Chicago Tribune Walks — Newly unsealed evidence says the paper was never extorted — High above the summit of Chicago's Tribune Tower, the clouds are clearing and the light is shining through. — A just-revealed document, laying out the federal government's evidence …
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Arianna huffs about overbooked celebs at WHCD — Like a Real Housewife of New Jersey, Arianna Huffington was flipping tables, well, at least metaphorically. — Because like most media organizations that placed a bid for White House Correspondents dinner tables, the Huffington Post founder didn't get her way.
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Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
How Did The Wall Street Journal Escape Its $80 Million Hole? — Maybe Les Hinton did deserve that publisher of the year award after all. Anyone who can take a newspaper from an $80 million loss in one year to a profit in the next year — and in this economy, no less — deserves some kind of prize.
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John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Boucher: Broadband Plan Should Not Force Broadcasters Off Spectrum — Rep. doesn't want FCC proceeding with reclamation until available spectrum is identified — House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher (D-Va.) took the opportunity of a public sidebar discussion on the House floor …
David / Information Is Beautiful:
How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online? — Recently, the UK government passed The Digital Economy Act which included many, perhaps draconian, measures to combat online music piracy (including withdrawing broadband access for persistent pirates). — Much was proclaimed about how these new laws …
David Kaplan / paidContent:
IAB Hopes To Head Off Regs With ‘Transparency Seal’ — With the online ad industry's self-policing regime constantly under attack from privacy advocates and lawmakers, the Interactive Advertising Bureau is working with the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) on doing more outreach to consumers …
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Guardian:
“Journalism in the digital age: trends, tools and technologies” — At the recent Edinburgh International Science Festival, The Guardian hosted a panel event which featured Scotland correspondent Severin Carrell, Guardian Local launch editor Sarah Hartley and Iain Hepburn of the Daily Record.
Dallas Morning News:
Some news outlets owe Jerry Jones an apology — For those waiting for an NFL suspension of Jerry Jones or an apology from the Cowboys owner ... don't hold your breath. — If anything, I think the “mainstream” news outlets, including The Dallas Morning News, that ran the video of Jones caught …
Frances Dinkelspiel / Berkeleyside:
Journalist Josh Wolf faces suspension from UC Berkeley for Wheeler Hall protests — Josh Wolf, the citizen-journalist who served 226 days in federal prison in 2006 for refusing to turn over videotapes he took at a protest in San Francisco, is facing a seven-month suspension from UC Berkeley …
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Does True/ Slant Want Matt Taibbi to Think of Better Insults? — This memo went out recently from Coates Bateman, editorial director of True/ Slant, to all the bloggers there. The subject: “Name calling within posts.” … Now! The most prominent name-caller on True/ Slant is, of course …
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Jennifer Saba / Editor and Publisher:
J.P. Morgan Forecasts a ‘Strong’ Q1 for Newspapers — NEW YORK Newspaper advertising revenue is expected to make a modest comeback this year with overall percentage declines estimated to be in the low single-digit range, according to a Q1 preview from J.P. Morgan.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Twitter COO Dick Costolo Spills The Beans On The @anywhere Platform — Last month at SXSW, Twitter CEO Ev Williams announced @anywhere, a new platform that would allow external sites to integrate some key Twitter features (it sounds a lot like Facebook Connect).
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Russian Billionaire/Former Soviet Spy to Speak at World Editors Forum — NEW YORK Russian billionaire banker and former Soviet spy Alexander Lebedev, who now owns the London-based Evening Standard and the Independent, has joined the program of the World Editors Forum, June 7-10 in Beirut, Lebanon.
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Advertising: Marketers Placing More Products Into Plots — FOR decades, the logo “As seen on TV” has appeared in advertising to indicate that the product in question is promoted in television commercials. Now the logo is taking on another meaning: the product may be incorporated into the plot line of a show.
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