Mediagazer: BBC links iPlayer to Facebook (James Ashton/Times of London)

7:55 AM ET, May 24, 2010

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Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:

At 25, AOL switches tracks: Creating content, not just connecting users — A few weeks ago, as Steve Case was flying above Sterling, en route to Dulles International Airport, he looked down and saw the sprawling campus that is home to the company he co-founded 25 years ago this month …

Discussion: Story Lab

David Carr / New York Times:

The Media Equation: News Sites Look Beyond Grants — It's telling that one of the more promising experiments in the next version of regional news is located in an industrial park near the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The backdrop seems fitting. — Joel Kramer will tell you as much.

PewResearch.org:

New Media, Old Media — News today is increasingly a shared, social experience. Half of Americans say they rely on the people around them to find out at least some of the news they need to know. Some 44% of online news users get news at least a few times a week through emails …

Discussion: Crikey

CyberJournalist.net:

Twitter relies less on traditional media than blogs — The stories and issues that gain traction in social media differ substantially from those that lead in the mainstream press, according to a detailed analysis of social media by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Anne Eisenberg / New York Times:

Novelties: PlaceLocal Automatically Creates Online Ads — NO costly copy writers or heirs of “Mad Men” are needed to write a new kind of ad for small businesses that want to advertise on the Web: computers create the ads instead. — New software called PlaceLocal builds display ads automatically …

Discussion: Screenwerk

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

With AdMob Out of the Way, Is Google Set to Buy Invite Media? — Now that Google has wrapped up its AdMob deal, what's next on its shopping list? One good bet: ad tech startup Invite Media. — Industry sources believe Google (GOOG) is close to a deal for Invite, a three-year-old …

Discussion: AdExchanger.com

Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:

U.S. Newspapers Start Selling SEO — Your local newspaper may soon offer SEO services. Heck, maybe it already is. — Two of the three biggest newspaper publishers in the U.S. have recently announced that they're selling marketing services to small/local businesses …

Discussion: Screenwerk

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

Post Publisher Weymouth Opens ‘Edge of Change’ with Talk of Journalism, Grandmother's Legacy — Katharine Weymouth, publisher of The Washington Post and chief executive officer of Washington Post Media, spoke to female journalists from around the U.S. Thursday night as part of Poynter's Edge …

Discussion: Leadership

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

NBC's Chuck Todd: White House correspondent, anchor, blogger, twitterer — Chuck Todd began tweeting at 6 a.m. — “the big race is in WV where another DC incumbent could lose a primary” — and now, nearly three hours later, he is crashing minutes before airtime.

Discussion: Inside Cable News

New York Times:

Up Front: Lloyd Grove — In 2003, Lloyd Grove, who reviews Sarah Ellison's “War at The Wall Street Journal” on Page 16, had been at The Washington Post for 23 years when Mort Zuckerman brought him to New York to work at The Daily News — and to challenge Page Six, the gossip column in Rupert Murdoch's New York Post.

Lloyd Grove / New York Times: Book Review - War at The Wall Street Journal - By Sarah Ellison

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

A Site Collects Complaints About Media — Media criticism has been boiled down to a single, painful word: fail. — The activist group Free Press has built a Digg-like Web site for such mistakes, called MediaFail, that highlights what its users think are the most egregious examples of the “media behaving badly,” to borrow its slogan.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Guy Adams / The Independent:

After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all — The great American writer left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, which is now — Exactly a century after rumours of his death turned out to be entirely accurate …

Discussion: Reuters, Gawker and Boing Boing

James Ashton / Times of London:

BBC links iPlayer to Facebook — THE BBC will forge closer links with social networking firms this week when it unveils a new version of its catch-up television service iPlayer that integrates with Facebook and Twitter. — The corporation is trying to strike a more conciliatory tone …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk