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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
The Case Against Links — Links - are they a net negative for readers online? That's the idea being deliberately explored by a number of publishers, says writer Nicholas Carr today. — The iconoclastic author says that he has grown sympathetic to the thinking of Steve Gillmor …
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Nick / Rough Type:
Experiments in delinkification — A few years back, my friend Steve Gillmor, the long-time technology writer and blogger, went on a crusade against the hyperlink. He stopped putting links into his posts and other online writings. I could never quite understand his motivation, and the whole effort struck me as quixotic and silly.
Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
This isn't CNN's prime time — Campbell Brown's voluntary exit from the 8 p.m. slot illustrates the news network's struggles as it turns 30. — Campbell Brown says that she and her “colleagues here at CNN are still trying to do journalism.” (CNN / April 22, 2008) — Reporting from New York —
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Reporters Without Borders:
Israel - Communication severed with flotilla media — Reporters Without Borders urges the Israeli authorities to release a list of the journalists who were arrested during yesterday's raid on the humanitarian flotilla and to say where they are being held. — There were at least 15 foreign …
Wall Street Journal:
Publicis Aims for Digital Growth — After Buying Up Online-Ad Specialists, Publicis CEO Seeks to Make Them Grow — PARIS—Maurice Lévy has poured billions of dollars into making French ad company Publicis Groupe SA a leader in digital advertising.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Stanford Graduates Release Pulse, A Must-Have News App For The iPad — Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta, two Stanford grads who signed up for the Launch Pad class at the University's Institute of Design (aka d.school), could have hardly chosen a better path to try their hands at startup life.
Hollywood Reporter:
Kim Masters joins The Hollywood Reporter — Veteran journalist named editor-at-large — Kim Masters has been named editor-at-large for The Hollywood Reporter. The hire was unveiled today by Janice Min, editorial director of the 80-year-old brand, which is owned by e5 Global Media.
Kipp Report:
‘This could be very interesting’ — With 36 million users, Guardian.co.uk is one of the giants of the Internet. Mark Finney, the Guardian's head of client sales, tells us what Murdoch's paywalls could mean for it. — Mark Finney, head of client sales at UK publishing house Guardian News and Media …
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Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Yahoo signals major challenge to newspapers — Yahoo appears to be getting ready to produce local websites filled with original content that could compete with newspapers, posing a particular challenge to the hundreds of publishers who now sell advertising for the powerful portal.
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Parsing Panera: Could a name-your-own-price model work for news? — The former CEO of Panera Bread recently announced an intriguing experiment: The chain's store in Clayton, Missouri is doing away with prices. The Clayton franchise, now run as a nonprofit restaurant and renamed the …
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Elihai Vidal / Haaretz:
Is being media savvy and having a camera enough to be a journalist? — At the ‘Democracy and its Challenges’ conference sponsored by the French Embassy in cooperation with Haaretz, journalists express opinions on news in the age of the internet. — Having a laptop and cell phone …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple Pulls the Plug on Lala, Replaces It With...Nada — Remember a month ago? When Apple announced that it would shutter Lala and everyone assumed that it was going to replace the streaming music service it bought in December with a streaming music service of its own? — Now Lala's gone.
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