Mediagazer: Mind Over Mass Media (Steven Pinker/New York Times)

8:55 PM ET, June 11, 2010

Top News:

Dan Frommer / The Wire:

Forbes Asks Employees To Help Steve Forbes Get More Twitter Followers (MEMO) — If you've been following any Forbes staffers' tweets lately, you might notice a uniform push to help their famous CEO Steve Forbes get more Twitter followers. — That's because the company is actually asking …

Discussion: Gawker and Romenesko

Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:

Google Testing New Google News Home Page (With Sharing Options) — This never happens to me. Until now. While writing my earlier piece, Google News Tests Editors' Picks, I went to Google News on the off-chance that I'd be able to see the “limited test” of editors' picks. Nope. As expected.

Discussion: The Next Web, MediaPost, Silicon Alley Insider and paidContent

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Google News experiments with human control, promotes a new serendipity …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, GigaOM, Bits, Mashable!, Silicon Alley Insider, Search Engine Land and The Next Web

Economist:

The strange survival of ink — Newspapers have escaped cataclysm by becoming leaner and more focused — “PRINT is going to live longer than people think,” asserts Mathias Döpfner, the boss of Axel Springer. Perhaps it will in central Europe. The publisher of Bild …

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …

Joe Strupp / Strupp:

Alumnus Joe Klein Hits Newsweek Reporting Cutbacks, Design — Newsweek alumnus Joe Klein, now writing for rival Time, says his former employers have suffered from reporting cutbacks and a poor redesign. — Asked to weigh in on the slew of buyers bidding for Newsweek, Klein declined to speculate.

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Newsmax Boss Chris Ruddy Says He'd Make Newsweek Profitable …

Discussion: Strupp

Luisa Beltran / PE Hub Blog:
Newsweek Auction Hits Second Round, PE Stays Home

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

World Cup Fever: Internet Has Busiest News Day as Tabulated by Akamai — Akamai, the world's largest operator of a network of computers, today is showing on its Web site that it is the busiest day for bandwidth demand for news sites. There are some 11 million visitor requests per minute to its network …

Discussion: B&C, The Book Bench, Digits, WebNewser, AdAge, MediaMemo and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim

Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Disney, News Corp target post-World Cup soccer wins

Discussion: Bloomberg, New York Times and Hollywood Reporter

Mark Fitzgerald / EditorandPublisher.com:

Boocoo.com, New Rival of Craigslist and Ebay, Launching With 300 Newspaper, Broadcast Partners — CHICAGO — Boocoo.com — a newspaper industry response to Craigslist and Ebay — launches next week with nearly 300 newspaper and broadcast partners, its developer, Ranger Data Technologies said.

Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

iPad app watch: Hits, runs and terrors — Now that we have bought all those expensive iPads - and we know who all of you early adopters are, too - what are we going to do with them? Here's the first in an occasional look at what's hot - and not - in App-Land. — Top Picks — All-Around Best: Safari

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, Friday, June 11, 2010, Fast Company and ZDNet

Steven Pinker / New York Times:

Mind Over Mass Media — NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, paperbacks and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers' brainpower and moral fiber. — So too with electronic technologies. PowerPoint, we're told, is reducing discourse to bullet points.

Discussion: Bits, Nieman Journalism Lab and Boing Boing

New York Post:

Desperate CNN wooing Piers Morgan — CNN is talking to snarky British journalist Piers Morgan about a potential slot in its troubled prime-time lineup, sources said. — Morgan, a judge on NBC's “America's Got Talent” and across the pond on “Britain's Got Talent,” is a friend of Simon Cowell's …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, TVWeek.com and Inside Cable News

Nielsen Wire:

What Consumers Watch: Nielsen's Q1 2010 Three Screen Report — Technologies such as high definition television, digital video recorders and the Internet are creating higher quality and more convenient experiences for consumers, and as a result, the amount of video Americans consume continues to rise …

Discussion: BRANDING UNBOUND and MarketingCharts

Philip Shenon / The Daily Beast:

Pentagon Manhunt — Blogs and Stories — Anxious that Wikileaks may be on the verge of publishing a batch of secret State Department cables, investigators are desperately searching for founder Julian Assange. Philip Shenon reports. — Pentagon investigators are trying to determine …

Discussion: New York Times, Guardian, Yahoo! News, Mediaite, Boing Boing, ANIMAL, Threat Level and The Nation

Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Elizabeth Spiers' media-entrepreneur summer school — This summer Elizabeth Spiers is teaching summer school, and you can apply for a seat in her class. — The media consultant, founding editor Gawker, and builder of DealBreaker, several Mediabistro blogs, and other sites is looking …

Goatse SecurityGoatse Security:

On disclosure ethics — There's some buzz about that the FBI is getting involved with this iPad email leak. Sean Sullivan at F-Secure said “the disclosure was completely irresponsible.” AT&T says we never contacted them. I want to make some things clear.

Discussion: The Snitch, Computerworld, MacRumors, CNET News, Wall Street Journal and Silicon Alley Insider

The Atlantic Wire: GOOD QUESTION!: How Much Does Steve Jobs Hate Gawker Now?

New York Times:

Guilds Are Said to Have Concerns on Miramax Talks — LOS ANGELES — Representatives of Hollywood's principal guilds have told the Walt Disney Company that they have serious concerns about the possible sale of its Miramax Films unit to an investor group organized by David Bergstein.

Discussion: Company Town and Movieline

John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:

FCC to Exempt Blog Comments from Title II Proceedings — Comments on broadband reclassification plan submitted between June 10 - 17 fall into seven-day sunshine period — The FCC has warned anybody who weighs in on an FCC blog about its plan to reclassify broadband under Title II regulation between June 10 …

Discussion: Multichannel and rbr.com

Brian Steinberg / AdAge:

Broadcast Upfront Finishes Between $8.1B and $8.7B — TV Ekes Out Gain Over Last Year As NBC Universal Wraps Talks Including Cable — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Advertisers have committed between $8.1 billion and $8.7 billion to the five broadcast networks' coming program schedules …

Discussion: Media Money …