Mediagazer: BP and Officials Block Some Coverage of Spill (Jeremy W. Peters/New York Times)

9:20 AM ET, June 10, 2010

Top News:

Apple's Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed — Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the wireless-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking.

Taylor Buley / The Firewall:

AT&T's iPad Hackers ‘Ignored’ By Reuters, Other Mainstream Press — Gawker contributor Ryan Tate set the Web ablaze on Wednesday with a blog post detailing the alleged breach of 114,000 iPad users' email addresses. The post named names: among them, executives at News Corp, The New York Times Company and Dow Jones.

Discussion: Gawker, Silicon Alley Insider, Velocity, Journalism.co.uk, Talking Biz News, Computerworld, The Next Web, TPM LiveWire, Fast Company, Gizmodo and DailyFinance

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

BP and Officials Block Some Coverage of Spill — When the operators of Southern Seaplane in Belle Chasse, La., called the local Coast Guard-Federal Aviation Administration command center for permission to fly over restricted airspace in Gulf of Mexico, they made what they thought was a simple and routine request.

Discussion: Talking Biz News and Editors Weblog

Christopher Mims / Technology Review:

Why Instapaper Will Never Be Booted From the iTunes App Store — Creator of the popular reading app Marco Armenti on how he's managed to avoid angering the New York Times - so far. — Publicity-wise, nothing could have been better for bestselling iPad newsreader Pulse than being featured …

Discussion: TechCrunch

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Meet the Two Grad Students Who Freaked Out the NYT-The Pulse iPad …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Citizen Media Law Project, Shaping the Future …, PC World, TeleRead, Fitz & Jen and Fast Company

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

What Happens To Blogging When Twitter Goes Down — Twitter pulled a Twitter today and went down, as you well know, and thus took the blogging world crashing along with it. It is no small secret that in regards to online content dissemination (which is not a dirty word, I promise), Twitter is quickly becoming the de facto solution.

Jeremy Peters / Media Decoder:

Washington Post Reporter Cancels Book Party Appearance — Of all the image problems the media has, few are as bruising as the perception that journalists are too cozy with the powerful people they cover. — And few newspapers know that better than The Washington Post …

Discussion: Romenesko and Cision

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

AOL to Hire ‘Hundreds’ of Journalists, Reorganize Content Division — Sites to Be Grouped Into ‘Super Networks’ and Sold to Advertisers — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — AOL is planning to hire hundreds of journalists, editors and videographers in the coming year as it builds out its content-first business model.

Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Fast Company, MediaPost, Guardian, The Next Web, paidContent and Romenesko

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

WSJ editor: How many apps will merely be mediocre or meaningless? — “DOG BITES MAN, MAN BITES DOG, BYTES DOG MAN” — I normally don't get invited to awards ceremonies these days because since I became editor, the Journal doesn't seem to win many awards - so the only way to get here was to be the keynote speaker.

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:

Akamai Beefs Up Network Ahead of the World Cup — Akamai has spent the last year building up its network capacity in anticipation of global Internet traffic hitting a record high due to the World Cup, which gets under way this Friday, according to an AP article this morning.

Discussion: TechCrunch and Associated Press

Golnaz Esfandiari / Foreign Policy:

The Twitter Devolution — Far from being a tool of revolution in Iran over the last year, the Internet, in many ways, just complicated the picture. — Before one of the major Iranian protests of the past year, a journalist in Germany showed me a list of three prominent Twitter accounts …

Discussion: Guardian

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Yahoo's Old Fashion Take on Value of Journalism: Scoops Drive a Media Business — LOS ANGELES —Hiring a small group of enterprising sports reporters four years ago, who grabbed headlines with scoops, was a clear indication of the value of original journalism in driving traffic and attracting advertising dollars.

Joe Pompeo / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo! Hires Mark Lisanti As Deputy Editor Of Its New Entertainment Blogs (YHOO)

Discussion: Cajun Boy, Thompson on Hollywood and WebNewser

Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing:

Gallery: Digitizing the past and present at the Library of Congress — The Library of Congress has nearly 150 million items in its collection, including at least 21 million books, 5 million maps, 12.5 million photos and 100,000 posters. The largest library in the world …

Discussion: Gizmodo and ResourceShelf

Omar / The Life and Times of AdMob:

Mobile advertising and the iPhone — Apple proposed new developer terms on Monday that, if enforced as written, would prohibit app developers from using AdMob and Google's advertising solutions on the iPhone. These advertising related terms both target companies with competitive mobile technologies …

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Sideways: The First iPad-Only Magazine Is About . . . The iPad — While the print magazine industry is hanging its hopes on the iPad to lead it to the digital promised land where people actually pay for digital editions, it is still stuck with adapting a product designed for paper to the screen.

Penelope Green / New York Times:

Currents | Q&A: A Look Back From Departing Architectural Digest Editor — Look, there's Cher on the cover in silver snakeskin, and looking not a day over 40. She's a survivor, to be sure, and so is Architectural Digest, the shelter behemoth that seems hardly to have aged …

Discussion: Curbed LA

Mark Tapscott / Washington Examiner:

Evasive FTC wants it both ways on ‘reinventing journalism’ — Those seeking more evidence that the American people are smarter than the progressive elites think they are need look no further than Scott Rasmussen's first survey of public opinion on the Federal Trade Commission's pernicious “reinventing journalism” project.

Sue Halpern / New York Review of Books:

What the iPad Can't Do — Inside cover of David Foster Wallace's annotated copy of Don DeLillo's Players — Not long after the iPad went on sale in early April, the Ilinois Institute of Technology announced that it would be providing each member of next fall's freshman class with one of the new Apple devices.

Aaron Smith / Pew Internet:

Neighbors Online — Americans use a range of approaches to keep informed about what is happening in their communities and online activities have been added to the mix. Face-to-face encounters and phone calls remain the most frequent methods of interaction with neighbors.

Discussion: CyberJournalist.net, ReadWriteWeb, PJNet, MediaShift Idea Lab, Kirk LaPointe's … and ResourceShelf

Carole Wurzelbacher / Editors Weblog:

Despite industry problems, Japanese print readership remains high — Amidst serious industry turmoil, Japan has somehow managed to avoid the looming problems that print media faces all over the rest of the world. The Japan Times reports a study done by the Japan Newspaper Publishers …

Discussion: Guardian and search.japantimes.co.jp

Jonathan Stray / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Making connections: How major news organizations talk about links — Links can add a lot of value to stories, but the journalism profession as a whole has been surprisingly slow to take them seriously. That's my conclusion from several months of talking to organizations and reporters …

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …

James Robinson / Guardian:

Public relaxed over TV swearing — Ofcom acknowledges softening of attitudes with research giving detailed guidance on public tolerance of bad language — When the Sex Pistols appeared on Bill Grundy's teatime ITV chat show and filled the air with four-letter words, a public outcry forced the interviewer into early retirement.

J. David Goodman / New York Times:

Advertising: Drinking Game Poses Query, Who's ‘Icing’ Whom? — NO sooner had Alex Rospos arrived from Los Angeles for a Memorial Day weekend on the Jersey Shore than he witnessed, and fell victim to, his first prolonged session playing what has become the nation's biggest viral drinking game, otherwise known as “icing.”

Discussion: Gothamist, Runnin' Scared, Advertising Analysis RSS, The Awl, iMediaConnection Blog, Inc.com, Gawker and newsfeed.time.com

Regina D'Alesio / MinOnline:

min Q&A: Prevention's Murcko and the Secret to Double-Digit Growth — In this economy, magazine brands are always looking for new ways to generate revenue. According to Mary Murcko, SVP/publisher of Prevention, solutions may be more easily found than they expect.

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Glam Swings For The Fences With Glam Adapt, An Ad-Serving Platform Built For Brands — As big brands move more of their ad budgets online, what they want most is not just to capture clicks, but to capture the attention and mindshare of consumers. The buzzword in the online advertising industry …

Discussion: VentureBeat and paidContent

Rasmussen Reports:

74% Oppose Taxing Internet News Sites To Help Newspapers — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is considering several ways to help the struggling newspaper industry, but Americans strongly reject several proposed taxes to keep privately-owned newspapers going.

Discussion: MediaPost and paidContent