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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Google News experiments with human control, promotes a new serendipity with Editors' Picks — Late this afternoon, Google News rolled out a new experiment: Editors' Picks. Starting today, a small percentage of Google News users will find a new box of content with that label …
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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.
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 …
Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Newsmax Boss Chris Ruddy Says He'd Make Newsweek Profitable In 18 Months, Bring Back Michael Isikoff — Of all the official Newsweek suitors that have been confirmed since the first bids for the money-bleeding magazine were filed on June 2, the one that's raised the most eyebrows is Newsmax Media …
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Disney, News Corp target post-World Cup soccer wins — * ESPN to increase coverage of soccer next season — * Fox Soccer's premium channel offers more live matches — Soccer, the No. 1 sport in most of the world, is finally getting a big roll on U.S. television.
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Michael Smerconish / Washington Post:
On cable TV and talk radio, a push toward polarization — Any conversation about political polarization would be incomplete without a look at the media's role in shaping opinions. From my view on the front lines, I have seen a rapid escalation of extreme dialogue — sadly, something sure to guarantee high ratings.
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 …
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
E-Reader Maker IRex Files For Bankruptcy — Is the e-reader market about to get less crowded? E-Reader maker IRex Technologies has filed for bankruptcy, citing disappointing sales of its consumer device in the U.S. CEO Hans Brons tells a Dutch financial publication that sales of the company's iRex DR800SG …
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.
David Kaplan / mocoNews:
Scribd: Publishers Are Wasting Time, Money, Effort In Creating iPad Apps — Although magazines like Wired are reporting strong results for their early iPad efforts, for most publishers, this is still an experiment to see if they can recreate—or at least approximate—the revenue model that used …
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.
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 …
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Jaeyeon Woo / Digits:
A Record Deal via YouTube and iPhones — Kim Yeo-hee, the 22-year-old South Korean known on YouTube as “applegirl002,” is making the leap from viral video sensation to recording star. — Ms. Kim three months ago joined legions of wannabe singers by putting up a homemade video on YouTube.
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Feds Laid Foundation for Apple/Google Mobile Ad Feud — Google's AdMob served far more ads to Apple iOS devices than to Google Android devices in April, the last month for which it released numbers (chart courtesy of AdMob). — Apple has invited the ad networks of the world to serve ads within apps …
Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
Media Moves: Felix Gillette Leaves the New York Observer for Bloomberg BusinessWeek — Via his Twitter, one-third of New York Observer's Media Mob, the very talented Felix Gillette, will be leaving the Observer for the incredibly shiny Bloomberg BusinessWeek, where he will get to work in a “literally awesome” office.
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