Mediagazer: Does Twitter Matter in China? (Evan Osnos/The New Yorker Blog)

3:35 AM ET, May 21, 2010

Top News:

Salahuddin Choudhary / The Official Google Blog:

Announcing Google TV: TV meets web. Web meets TV. — If there's one entertainment device that people know and love, it's the television. In fact, 4 billion people across the world watch TV and the average American spends five hours per day in front of one*.

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Google Unwraps Its Long-Awaited TV Platform; Plans To Ship In Fall

Discussion: NewTeeVee, Gizmodo, Multichannel, Lifehacker, PC World, The Atlantic Online, Faster Forward and TechCrunch

Dan Gillmor / Mediactive:
Microchanneling: One Big Implication of Google TV

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, Mashable! and Bits

Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Google TV turns on at I/O: runs Android and Flash, partnered …

Discussion: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Download Squad and MediaPost Raw

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

As CNN Considers Prime-Time Changes, Spitzer's Name Is Mentioned — As CNN scrambles to replace Campbell Brown on its wounded prime-time lineup, the most intriguing name purportedly on the channel's list is that of Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor of New York.

Discussion: TVNewser and Inside Cable News

Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:

Will Eliot Spitzer land at CNN or host for another news outlet? — Eliot Spitzer likes being on television. — The former New York governor often rises early to banter on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” talk show. On Monday, he taped an interview with Julie Menin, a community board activist for her show …

Discussion: MediaPost, TVNewser, Romenesko, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, mediabistro.com, Inside Cable News and New York Observer

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Public Parts — That's the title of my next book about the end of privacy and the benefits of publicness. I'm delighted to tell you that I've just agreed to write it for HarperCollins, my publisher for What Would Google Do? , working again with my brilliant editor there, Ben Loehnen.

Discussion: www.thetakeaway.org and Time

Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:

Fox News targets Latinos with new website — (Reuters) - Fox News plans to launch this fall a website aimed at a Latino audience as it seeks to build its coverage and links with one of the fastest-growing U.S. communities. — Fox News, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp …

Discussion: MediaPost, Mediaite, Shaping the Future … and The Wire

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

Ben Franklin Project's ‘Digital First, Print Last’ Approach Produces First Products — In April, Journal Register CEO John Paton presented the newspapers in the company with a challenge: create a Web and print product in 30 days using only free tools, and seek help from the community to do it.

Discussion: The Ben Franklin Project

David Kravets / Threat Level:

Appeals Court Halts ‘Hot News’ Publishing Order — A federal appeals court on Thursday lifted a lower court's order that a well-known financial news aggregator delay publication of prominent financial analysts' buy and sell recommendations — stock picks that allowed the well-to-do the first crack …

Seattle PostGlobe:

Judge orders filmmaker to hand over film, but stays order until May 31 — From Larry Johnson's blog, Looking for Trouble: — A federal judge Wednesday afternoon ordered filmmaker Joe Berlinger to hand over all of his footage from his documentary Crude to oil giant Chevron.

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Google wants You — Google's search for a content czar has taken the Internet giant to Wall Street, where it hopes it can find someone with deep relationships in Hollywood to overcome the stigma of doing business with one of Tinseltown's arch enemies. — According to a source familiar with the matter …

Discussion: The Daily Beast

Rafat Ali / paidContent:

Newsweek Sale Book: First Bids Due By June 2; Complete Financials — When the Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) announced that Newsweek was for sale, the top-line numbers we pulled out of SEC documents weren't new but they were stark. The first-quarter earnings released a couple of days later highlighted the rationale.

blogs.journalism.co.uk:

Independent on Sunday offers blogger damages over ‘hooker’ headline — The Independent on Sunday has offered blogger Zoe Margolis “substantial” damages after the newspaper called her a ‘hooker’ in the headline of an article she had written. — The headline, ‘I was a hooker who became an agony aunt’ …

Dan Gillmor / Mediactive:

Hacks/Hackers Uniting for iPad Journalism; But What About Apple Control? — I love the Hacks/Hackers Unite idea — getting journalists and programmers and designers together to identify good ideas and hack them together. And I was considering attending this weekend's event in San Francisco until I saw the agenda:

Discussion: blogs.ft.com, TechCrunch and PC World

Evan Osnos / The New Yorker Blog:

Does Twitter Matter in China? — Can Twitter really tie people together in a country where it is blocked? Before writing a profile of artist Ai Weiwei—published in the magazine this week (subscribe here)—I had only a vague sense of Twitter's presence here.

Simon Dumenco / AdAge:

Greyson Chance, 12-year-old YouTube and Twitter Superstar: How He Really Happened — Dumenco's Trendrr Chart of the Week — First, take a look at the Trendrr chart above. Note that Greyson — Greyson Michael Chance, a 12-year-old Oklahoma boy whose parents blessed him with an awesomely Twitter-ready …

paidContent:UK:

SeeSaw Launches Paid Options, Starting At £0.99 — By Mark Sweney: SeeSaw, the video-on-demand website born from the ashes of the failed Project Kangaroo, has launched a paid-for service with 1,000 hours of programming from 99p per episode up to £17.99 for a series.

Discussion: Guardian

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Guardian Looking For Money In API, New Readers Club — It may be sceptical that readers would pay to read its news site - but Guardian News & Media is today taking the wraps off two alternative new commercial models... Readers Club — We've known for nine months that an equivalent …