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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.
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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 …
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TechCrunch and Infocult, more at Techmeme »


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.
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Wired and New York Observer

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”?
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The Atlantic Wire, Silicon Alley Insider, CJR, New York Observer, The Wrap and Gawker
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Breaking: New York Times Told to “Chill” on That “Hipster” Business
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FishbowlNY, CJR and The Wrap

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 …
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MarketWatch, Romenesko, New Jersey Online, NPR and Lost Remote
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AOL's Patch Aims To Quintuple In Size By Year-End
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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

AOL CEO Armstrong Aims for 500 News Websites in Local-Ad Bet
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TechCrunch, Forbes, Associated Press, Reuters and MediaMemo

Google TV undergoes a trial by partisans — Four hundred Google employees have been testing the Internet giant's effort to marry broadcasting and the Web. The big question is whether outsiders will embrace it. — Reporting from San Francisco — Brittany Bohnet and fiancé Dave Morin used …
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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 …
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BusinessJournalism.org … and Romenesko

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 …
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Media Buyer Planner, Canadian Magazines, Nieman Journalism Lab, MinOnline, Nxtblog, MediaPost and MediaMemo


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 …


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


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


Radio, RIAA: mandatory FM radio in cell phones is the future — Music labels and radio broadcasters can't agree on much, including whether radio should be forced to turn over hundreds of millions of dollars a year to pay for the music it plays. But the two sides can agree on this …
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Techdirt, Gizmodo, rbr.com and PlagiarismToday


Video site Vimeo uses HTML5 to get more iPhone friendly — Video sharing site Vimeo says it's going to be the latest video company using the new HTML5 format as its path onto mobile devices. The site plans to release a “Universal Player” later today that will detect your smartphone browser …

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.
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Broadcasting & Cable