Mediagazer: The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets (Julia Angwin/Wall Street Journal)

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Cookie Madness! — I just don't understand Julia Angwin's scare story about cookies and ad targeting in the Wall Street Journal. That is, I don't understand how the Journal could be so breathlessly naive, unsophisticated, and anachronistic about the basics of the modern media business.

Discussion: Doc Searls Weblog, Beyond Search, broadstuff, Wall Street Journal and Ars Technica, more at Techmeme »

Wall Street Journal:

Personal Details Exposed Via Biggest U.S. Websites — The largest U.S. websites are installing new and intrusive consumer-tracking technologies on the computers of people visiting their sites—in some cases, more than 100 tracking tools at a time—a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.

Discussion: Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, Stephen Baker and Digits

Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal:

The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets — A Journal investigation finds that one of the fastest-growing businesses on the Internet is the business of spying on consumers. First in a series. By Julia Angwin — Hidden inside Ashley Hayes-Beaty's computer, a tiny file helps gather personal details …

Discussion: Brian Solis

David Folkenflik / NPR:

WikiLeaks: An Editor-In-Chief Or Prolific Source? … The shadowy website WikiLeaks proved this week it can obliterate the ability of the U.S. government and the military to smother the circulation of closely held secrets. — Earlier this week, the site's posting of more than 90,000 classified documents …

Discussion: Threat Level, CNN and Politics Daily, more at Techmeme »

ProPublica:
How WikiLeaks Could Change the Way Reporters Deal With Secrets

Discussion: Politics Daily, Gawker, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard and The Lede

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Google, China and the Demands of Real-Time News — The reason time exists, Albert Einstein once said, is to prevent everything from happening all at once. In an age of Twitter and blogs and instant publishing of all kinds, it often feels like everything is happening all at once …

Discussion: Telegraph, Epicenter and Brand Republic News

Paul Carr / TechCrunch:

Blind Item: Which Editor of Valleywag Needs to Resign? Right Now. — Criticising Valleywag in 2010 is something of a pointless exercise, like offering diplomatic counsel to the Ottoman Empire ten years after the Treaty of Lausanne. More pointless still, attacking the site's titular editor Ryan Tate …

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

28 Years as a Cable News Anchor — As we reported yesterday, one of the original HLN (formerly Headline News, and before that CNN2) anchors signed off yesterday. — Chuck Roberts joined the network before it went on the air in 1982. One of his colleagues, Bob Parker who worked at HLN …

National Post:

Conrad Black: My prison education — In my 28 months as a guest of the U.S. government, I often wondered how my time in that role would end. I never expected that I would have to serve the whole term, though I was, and am, psychologically prepared to do so, now that I have learned …

Discussion: Gawker

Reed Saxon / Newsweek:

Breitbart: I'd Like to Speak to Sherrod in Private — Conservative blogger says episode was ‘difficult for me as well.’ — Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger who posted the original video of Shirley Sherrod talking about race. — In the aftermath of the saga that thrust Shirley Sherrod …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Caucus, Hot Air, New York Magazine and Balloon Juice

The Independent:

Monocle: 'It's the media project that I've always wanted to do' — Tyler Brûlé tells Matthew Bell how his magazine turns a profit, and why ‘The Guardian’ hates him — Even among those who have never heard of Tyler Brûlé - the Canadian war reporter-turned fashion editor …

Jim / Gannett Blog:

Document: More digital publishing revenue gains — Gannett's publishing segment — the U.S. and U.K. newspapers, principally — is showing more gains in an important area: digital revenue, according to the new second-quarter financial report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

WSJ Buries Wylys Story, Ignores GOP Angle — The SEC is charging the billionaire Wyly brothers with a massive fraud involving $550 million in ill-gotten gains from a scheme it says involved insider trading, overseas accounts, and front companies — Big story, no? But how big?

Discussion: DealBook, Market Cop and Washington Post