Mediagazer: FCC to Exempt Blog Comments from Title II Proceedings (John Eggerton/Broadcasting & Cable)

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 …

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

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, paidContent and Silicon Alley Insider

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: Talking Biz News and Romenesko

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 …

Discussion: Strupp

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

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 …

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 …

Discussion: AdAge

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: Boing Boing

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

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, Fast Company and Friday, June 11, 2010

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.

Discussion: Romenesko, Mediaite, Inside Cable News and Media Matters for America

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 …

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

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: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim

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 …

Discussion: Poynter Online, Editors Weblog and TeleRead

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.

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: rbr.com and Multichannel

LARadio:

Will Moonves Lure Seacrest to CBS with Daytime TV Talk Show? — Another month has passed for Ryan Seacrest and he's another month closer to his November contract ending deadline at Clear Channel's KIIS/fm. Earlier this year Ryan offered to the LA Times that he was going to drop one of his jobs this year …

Discussion: Gawker and The Wire

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 …

Discussion: Publishers Weekly, Editors Weblog and MediaMemo

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: MarketingCharts