Mediagazer: Air Conditioning and ‘Anti-Geithner Jihad’! Marxist Moe Tkacik's D.C. Sabbatical (Zeke Turner/New York Observer)

10:05 AM ET, August 6, 2010

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Google Book Search Blog:

Books of the world, stand up and be counted! All 129,864,880 of you. — When you are part of a company that is trying to digitize all the books in the world, the first question you often get is: “Just how many books are out there?” — Well, it all depends on what exactly you mean by a “book.”

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Guy Adams / The Independent:

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USA Today:

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Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon:

Favre's dirty pics: A lesson in shady journalism — Deadspin betrays source Jenn Sterger while covering the QB's alleged explicit e-mails. What can we learn from this? — Deadspin source Jenn Sterger — I don't want to alarm you, but you should probably go ahead and assume that anything you e-mail …

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Raffi Khatchadourian / The New Yorker Blog:

Chasing WikiLeaks — Marc Thiessen draws upon my article in The New Yorker to make his case against Julian Assange, the editor of WikiLeaks, and to argue that American “military assets” could be used “to bring Assange to justice.” Using the military for this purpose would be a terrible idea.

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Josef Adalian / New York Magazine:

Whitney Port to Act in Web Series — We still don't know if MTV will order another season of The City, but star Whitney Port is staying busy as she awaits the network's verdict. Vulture hears Port has been cast in Hollywood Is Like High School With Money, a new scripted …

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Carl DiOrio / Hollywood Reporter:

Hollywood happy kids willing to pay for content — Young consumers helping boost digital revenue — These kids are all right. — There's a spreading sense of optimism in Hollywood regarding young consumers' willingness to pay for digital content: Although members of the so-called Napster …

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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:

Time Magazine Runs Same Animal Story In 1993, 1999 And 2010 — Time really, really, really wants to know if animals can think: so much that it's done three separate cover stories on the issue. — This week's cover of Time features a story that looks “inside the minds of animals.”

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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

BrightRoll Opens Online Video Ad Exchange — A Bet That Automated, Real-Time Buying and Selling Will Move From Display Advertising to Video — Real-time buying and selling of ads through automated Nasdaq-like exchanges are the rage in online display advertising.

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Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Ex-Chicago Tribune editor: Marine interns were observers, not journalists — From HOWARD TYNER: While I have to admire the intrepid reporter whose sleuthing unearthed infiltration of the Chicago Tribune newsroom 7-8 years ago by the US Marine Corps, I also think a few clarifications are in order.

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Jonathan Stray / Nieman Journalism Lab:

How The Guardian is pioneering data journalism with free tools — The Guardian takes data journalism seriously. They obtain, format, and publish journalistically interesting data sets on their Data Blog, they track transparency initiatives in their searchable index of world government data …

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Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:

Hard times working the Patch — Boston Globe reporter Johnny Diaz today writes about Patch.com, the AOL-owned network of hyperlocal news sites that is (excuse me) sprouting up around the country. — As I noted earlier, Diaz writes that Patch is up against considerable competition in Greater Boston …

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Johnny Diaz / Boston Globe:
With Patch, AOL offers challenge to local news

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rbr.com:

AOL's Tim Armstrong now Chairman of The Ad Council — The Advertising Council announced Tim Armstrong, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AOL, has been elected as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Armstrong has been a member of the Ad Council Board of Directors since 2008, most recently serving as its Vice Chairman.

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Martin Belam / currybetdotnet:

HTML5 for journalists — I've contributed before to the debate about whether journalists need to be programmers, but whether or not you've ever wrestled with Ruby, PHP or Python, if you are involved in online publishing in any way you are almost certainly familiar with some HTML.

Julia Angwin / Digits:

Lawmakers Seek Answers on Online Tracking — U.S. Reps. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Texas, are seeking information about the privacy practice of the 15 websites that the Wall Street Journal has identified as installing the most tracking technology on their visitors' computers.

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Zeke Turner / New York Observer:

Air Conditioning and ‘Anti-Geithner Jihad’! Marxist Moe Tkacik's D.C. Sabbatical … “I grew up watching McLaughlin Group on Saturday nights, and basically all those calcified old f**kers are still around,” Moe Tkacik told the Media Mob this afternoon on gchat.

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Rebecca Lieb / the Econsultancy blog:

Q&A: Wenda Harris Millard — Wenda Harris Millard is an icon in digital advertising and media. As co-chairman of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and before that chief sales officer at Yahoo, not to mention chair of the IAB, she's long been as out there as she has been outspoken - a passionate advocate for the industry.