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2:40 AM ET, August 5, 2010

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David Carr / Media Decoder:
Jack Griffin To Succeed Ann Moore At Time Inc.  —  The shake-up of the magazine industry's corner offices will continue next week as Time Warner is expected to announce that Jack Griffin, the former Meredith Corporation executive, will become chief executive at Time Inc., succeeding Ann S. Moore.
Shira Ovide / Digits:
Time Warner Looks to Tie Tablet, Print Magazine Subscriptions  —  Time Warner already has “TV Everywhere.”  Could “Magazine Everywhere” be next?  —  Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes hinted Wednesday that he wants to make tablet-computer subscriptions for the company's magazines available to people …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
IPad Apps Are Fun!  But Boring Old Magazines Are Still Big Business For Time Inc.
Discussion: paidContent
Rick Edmonds / Poynter Online:
Does Newsweek Have a Future as a Nonprofit?  —  So Newsweek has been sold to a fabulously wealthy angel, Sidney Harman.  That is one of the scenarios I have considered likely since the magazine went on the block in early May.  —  Washington Post CEO Don Graham made good on his pledge …
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Rebecca Dana / The Daily Beast:
Newsweek's Hidden Problem
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
AOL's Turnaround Turns Into a Tough Slog  —  Ad Revenue Down Steeply at CEO Armstrong's ‘Sick Patient’  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Need a reminder how tough AOL's turnaround is going to be for CEO Tim Armstrong and his team?  Look no further than the company's second quarter …
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FishbowlNY:
AOL Swings to a 2Q Loss on Charges; Ad Revenue Falls 27%
Discussion: MediaPost, The Wrap and MediaMemo
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
AOL Earnings Train Wreck Driven By Bebo and Ad Revenue Shortfall
Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:
News Corp.'s Full-Year Profits Soar on Back of ‘Avatar’  —  News Corp. said on Wednesday that the company finished its 2010 fiscal year with $4 billion in operating income - an increase of 11 percent - thanks, mostly, to the ridiculous box office success of “Avatar” and a recovering ad market.
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Joe Pompeo / The Business Insider:
Rupert Murdoch Really Does Love Those iPads, Thinks London Times …
Discussion: Show Tracker
Patrick Gavin / The Politico:
WHY BRISTOL WENT TO PEOPLE  —  As the Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston relationship drama has unfolded in the public spotlight, especially in the past few months, People and Us Magazine have duked it out for exclusive interviews and scoops on the Alaskan couple.  —  People reported on July 26 that Bristol was “taking Levi Back.”
Tim Carmody / Snarkmarket:
The generative web event  —  Last week, a bunch of digital humanists got together at the Center for History and New Media to make a new tech tool that the broader academic AND nonacademic communities could use for their work.  The catch: they had to conceive, design, and ship the thing in JUST one week.
Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Facebook Advertisers Boost Spending 10-Fold, Sandberg Says  —  Facebook Inc.'s biggest advertisers have boosted spending by at least 10-fold in the past year as the social network crossed the half- billion user mark, becoming more alluring to marketers that want to reach a broad online audience.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Judge Strikes Down CA's Prop 8, Leaked Ruling Sends Scribd Traffic Skyrocketing  —  Minutes ago, San Francisco federal judge Vaughn Walker struck down the infamous Proposition 8, a measure that banned same-sex marriage in California.  Twitter and Facebook are abuzz with the news (as you'd expect) …
Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
Deadspin Pushes Ethical Envelope Again With Brett Favre Story  —  Fading football star Brett Favre is all over the news today thanks to another one of his patented “Will he or won't he?” performances.  If you're a sports blogger, what better time to whip out a meaty bit of gossip …
John Cook / Yahoo! News:
Federal records show CNN, Chicago Tribune hosted active-duty Marines as interns  —  Much has been made of the media's practice of “embedding” reporters in military units, allowing them to file immersive reports on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while under the total care and control …
Discussion: Romenesko
Deborah Yao / Associated Press:
Dish to stream live TV on iPad, other devices  —  PHILADELPHIA — Dish subscribers will soon be able to watch live satellite TV on their mobile devices at no extra cost.  —  Dish Network Corp. is planning to offer the feature on the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and BlackBerry devices in September …
Joseph Frydl / AdAge:
How HSN and ‘Eat Pray Love’ Turn Content Into Commerce  —  Shopping Network's Promotion of Upcoming Julia Roberts Film Offers Marketers Lessons in Branded Entertainment  —  The business of marketing and the business of entertainment are fundamentally about the same thing: Turning audience attention into commerce.
Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
Boy, Could the Former Editor of Maxim Ever Tell You Some Stories  —  Q&A With Keith Blanchard, Now of Story Worldwide  —  For this latest edition of Dumenco's Media People — an ongoing series of conversations with media grandees — I interviewed longtime print guy Keith Blanchard …
Discussion: Romenesko and FishbowlNY
Molly Fischer / New York Observer:
Buzz Bissinger Makes $13,000 a Year From Friday Night Lights  —  Recent Twitter-convert Buzz Bissinger would like to get one thing straight: He is not rich.  —  After Dan Colvert insinuated otherwise (wondering pointedly whether “becoming rich by writing about others is more noble” …
Kelly Truong / Chronicle of Higher Education:
For College Newspapers, Prepackaged Online Versions Are Yesterday's News  —  The Daily Texan needed its Web site to change with the times.  Journalism has been moving from print to the Internet, and the student editors at the University of Texas at Austin publication were struggling to develop a unique online presence.
Discussion: Romenesko
Jon Healey / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Kazaa is resurrected, but why?  —  How appropriate: The day that Rdio goes live, Kazaa comes back from the dead.  —  Rdio is the new music streaming service from Janus Friis with Niklas Zennström, the entrepreneurs who brought the Kazaa file-sharing software to market as the music industry …
Discussion: Techdirt
rbr.com:
CBS still looking to sell some stations; launching local websites  —  CBS Corporation hasn't divested any broadcast stations lately, but CEO Les Moonves told analysts that he's still interested in selling some of the company's smaller market radio at TV stations - but only if the pricing is right.
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Spot Runner To ‘Phase Out’ Malibu Media Buying Platform  —  Nearly a year after its long-planned launch, web-based TV creative ad agency Spot Runner is phasing out its Malibu Media Platform, paidContent has learned.  Instead, the Los Angeles-based company wants to shift its focus and resources …
Louie / Technically Journalism:
Newspaper photog uses iPhone 4 to cover immigration protest  —  Working where I do allows me some great opportunities.  The coolest one is working next to supremely talented people who will try anything in the name of getting and presenting the news.  —  It's what that in mind that I post …
Discussion: Poynter Online
Steve Green / Las Vegas News from the Las Vegas Sun:
Legal attack dog sicked on websites accused of violating R-J copyrights  —  Websites and blogs that post Las Vegas Review-Journal content, however innocent their intent, can expect to be sued without warning  —  Steven Gibson is CEO of Righthaven, which buys copyrights from the Las Vegas Review-Journal …
Discussion: Romenesko
Prescott Shibles / eMedia Vitals:
Guide to user-centered design research  —  Design research describes any number of investigative techniques used to add context and insight to the design process.  Design Research techniques can be incorporated before, during, or after the design solution is established.
 
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Matthew Belloni / Hollywood Reporter:
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple and Google are in active talks to use Gemini to power some new iPhone features in 2024; Apple also held talks with OpenAI to use its models

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
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