Mediagazer: Netflix Lust for ‘True Blood’ Is Unrequited as HBO Blocks Path (Ronald Grover/Bloomberg)

11:20 PM ET, August 17, 2010

Top News:

The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet — Sources: Cisco estimates based on CAIDA publications, Andrew Odlyzko — Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching and more about the getting.

Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

What's Wrong With “X Is Dead” — Technologies die violent deaths less often than we think. — This is the basic problem with the Chris Anderson-anchored Wired cover story, “The Web is Dead.” If you think about technology as a series of waves, each displacing the last …

Discussion: TechCrunch and Infocult, more at Techmeme »

Ryan Tate / Gawker:

Wired Says ‘The Web is Dead’ — On Its Increasingly Profitable Website — Chris Anderson will generate plenty of chatter with his “The Web is Dead” Wired cover, foretold here previously. Fair enough; that's what a smart magazine editor does. But all the more reason to note the rich ironies in his eulogy.

Discussion: Wired and New York Observer

Philip B. Corbett / Times Topics:

Everything Old Is Hip Again — Notes from the newsroom on grammar, usage and style. (Some frequently asked questions are here.) — We try hard to shed our old image as stodgy and out of it. Perhaps too hard, sometimes. — How else to explain our constant invocation of the old/new slang “hipster”?

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, Silicon Alley Insider, CJR, New York Observer, The Wrap and Gawker

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
Breaking: New York Times Told to “Chill” on That “Hipster” Business

Discussion: FishbowlNY, The Wrap and CJR

Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:

Apple And Google Set To Capitalize (And Compete) On Internet TV — Connected TVs and set-top devices enabling consumers to view video from across the Internet on TVs could ultimately drive online video ads and marketing content budgets. The online video ad segment should grow …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, more at Techmeme »

Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times: Google TV undergoes a trial by partisans

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Google TV Is a Tough Sell Among Would-Be Partners

Discussion: Los Angeles Times

Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:

Nine Questions on Patch's New Push: National Hyperlocal?, SEO Sauces, and the Case of the Besieged Florist — It's Patch day in the news news world, as AOL formally announces the expansion of its network of local sites. It's really a ratification of what we've been hearing …

Discussion: MarketWatch, Romenesko, New Jersey Online, NPR and Lost Remote

Edmund Lee / AdAge: Patch and Pro-Am Media by the Numbers

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
AOL's Patch Aims To Quintuple In Size By Year-End

Discussion: Crain's New York Business, Local Media Watch, Silicon Alley Insider, Media Week, NYConvergence, Morristown Patch, Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Patch, Springfield Patch, Merrick Patch, Wellesley Patch, Chatham Patch, Fairfield Patch, Port Washington Patch, Garden City Patch, Seeking Alpha and NetNewsCheck Latest

Sarah Rabil / Bloomberg:
AOL CEO Armstrong Aims for 500 News Websites in Local-Ad Bet

Discussion: TechCrunch, Forbes, Associated Press, Reuters and MediaMemo

Ronald Grover / Bloomberg:

Netflix Lust for ‘True Blood’ Is Unrequited as HBO Blocks Path — Netflix Inc.'s drive to offer its subscribers online movies from all the biggest Hollywood studios may hit a wall with HBO. — Time Warner Inc.'s pay-television channel, home to shows including the “The Sopranos” and …

Discussion: NewTeeVee, Engadget, The Wrap, Digital Daily, VentureBeat, Company Town, MediaPost, Hollywood Reporter and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »

Elizabeth Dwoskin / CJR:

Watching My Story Go Viral in Twenty-Four Hours — How Debrahlee Lorenzana became the banker heard 'round the world — Earlier this summer, I was afforded an experience that is a dream for many journalists: a story I wrote went viral. Within the span of twenty-four hours …

Discussion: Romenesko and BusinessJournalism.org …

Jason Fell / Folio:

Survey: Publishers Could See as Much as $3 Billion from Interactive Periodicals Subs — Digital consortium Next Issue Media conducts survey with global consulting firm. — Digital publishing consortium Next Issue Media recently enlisted international management consulting firm Oliver Wyman …

Discussion: Media Buyer Planner, Canadian Magazines, MinOnline, Nxtblog, MediaPost and MediaMemo

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

NewsBasis Wants To Unload 75% Of My Inbox By Changing The PR Game — Every morning I wake up and find 50 to 100 new emails in my inbox. Am I really that popular? Sadly, no. About 75 percent of it is unsolicited PR pitches. Delete. Delete. Delete. — As fun as that morning ritual is …

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Murdoch's News Corp. gives $1 mil. to Republican govs — Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, the media juggernaut that owns Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, gave $1 million to the Republican Governors Association in June. — Murdoch's firm is able to make such a hefty donation …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Guardian, The Huffington Post, CNN, Shaping the Future …, Wonkette, rbr.com, BrauBlog, Media Matters for America and Washington Post

Brad McCarty / The Next Web:

Zemanta now available for WordPress.com blogs. Your blog content just got infinitely better. — Some pretty huge news, today, for users of WordPress.com. Though Zemanta has been an available plugin for self-hosted WordPress installations for quite some time, it is now available to all users as part of the WordPress.com platform.

Discussion: WordPress.com News, Z-Blog, ReadWriteWeb and CenterNetworks

MediaPost:

Current TV Enlarges Ad Sales Team — Current TV has expanded its ad sales team with the appointments of Ryan Forbell as director, advertising sales; Jessica Kleiner as account executive, advertising sales and Kathryn McCarthy as Account executive, advertising sales.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable

Greg T. Spielberg / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Summer of (Groupon) love: Social discounting helps magazines sell subscriptions on the cheap — With Groupon growing by the day, the overwhelmed merchant is part of its lore. The Boston helicop-tour that sold 2,600 rides in four hours. The Seattle guitar teacher booked through New Year's.

Discussion: Romenesko and DailyFinance