Mediagazer: U.K. Conservatives Pushed Online Promotion — But TV Reigns (Jaron Gilinsky/MediaShift)

10:25 PM ET, May 15, 2010

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Ryan Tate / Gawker:

Steve Jobs Offers World ‘Freedom From Porn’ — I didn't plan to pick a fight with Steve Jobs last night. It just sort of happened: An iPad advertisement ticked me off; I sent the Apple CEO an angry email; he told me about “freedom from porn.” — The electronic debate proceeded from there.

Discussion: Esquire, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Runnin' Scared

Jacob Weisberg / Slate: Apple's Way — Why publishers should beware the App Store.

Sarah Kershaw / New York Times:

This Life: Google Restricts Ads for ‘Cougar’ Sites — IF you're a woman who would like to date younger men, you can find lots of articles about these relationships by doing a Google search. — But as a woman looking for a man, you might be a little confused by the advertisements that accompany these articles.

Discussion: Gawker, The Awl and Mashable!

Vanity Fair:

Co-Workers Bid Outgoing ABC News Producer Adieu With Barrage of Hateful Anonymous Comments — So Felix Gillette over at The New York Observer wrote a somewhat fluffy piece about veteran ABC News producer Mimi Gurbst, who, the story goes, is leaving journalism to pursue her dream of becoming ... a high-school guidance counselor.

Maureen O'Connor / Gawker:

Gossip Doyenne Lifted Courtney Love Tantrum Tale from Facebook — Flying from London to New York, Peter Frank and boyfriend Michael Bailey witnessed two Courtney Love meltdowns. They wrote about it on their Facebook walls. Four days later, the Post's Cindy Adams ripped them off verbatim.

Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:

Second KDMC News Entrepreneur Boot Camp begins this weekend — This weekend, 20 aspiring journalist/entrepreneurs will arrive in Los Angeles for the second News Entrepreneur Boot Camp. OJR is a co-sponsor of the event, which is presented by the Knight Digital Media Center (publisher of OJR) …

Paige Albiniak / Broadcasting & Cable:

‘Big Bang Theory’ Sold to Fox, TBS for Fall 2011 — Tribune passes on CBS' Monday night hit — Warner Bros. has sold The Big Bang Theory to the Fox Television Stations and TBS for a simultaneous fall 2011 debut, sources say. — Fox will give the show double-runs in access and late fringe …

Discussion: Variety

Jaron Gilinsky / MediaShift:

U.K. Conservatives Pushed Online Promotion — But TV Reigns — The new media evangelists who preached of a revolution in British electoral politics will have to wait until at least the next election to see their prophecies come to fruition. In this country steeped in electoral tradition …

Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:

Legal experts: LimeWire likely doomed — A federal court judge has likely dealt a death blow to LimeWire, one of the most popular and oldest file-sharing systems, according to legal experts. — On Wednesday, CNET broke the news that U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood granted summary judgment …

Discussion: Techdirt and PlagiarismToday

KHVO:

Merged Honolulu Star-Advertiser Begins June 7 — As Many As 400 People Will Be Laid Off — HONOLULU — The merged Honolulu Star-Advertiser debuts June 7, with nearly 400 people losing their jobs in the process, according to the publisher of the combined newspaper.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Sebastien Provencher / The Praized Blog:

Are Newspapers Outsourcing Core Features to Foursquare? — Megan Garber from the Nieman Journalism Lab explains in details how the Wall Street Journal uses Foursquare to offer geo-localized news: … via Location, location, etc: What does the WSJ's Foursquare check-in say about the future of location in news?

Steve Clarke / Variety:

Asian Pacific TV ad market booms — Region's revenue moves past W. Europe — LONDON — The size of the TV advertising market in Asia Pacific overtook Western Europe for the first time last year, propelled by booming economies in China and India. — Total net TV advertising for Asia Pacific …

Discussion: rbr.com

Dennis Yang / Techdirt:

Viacom Still Not Getting It — Files Bogus Takedown And Kills Some Free Transformers Buzz — Ben Brown and Micki Krimmel stumbled upon the filming of Transformers 3, and from their office window, watched as cars were thrown across the air for one of the scenes.

Discussion: CrunchGear