Mediagazer: Social Network Ad Spending to Approach $1.7 Billion This Year (eMarketer)

3:30 AM ET, August 18, 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

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

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

Discussion: FishbowlNY, The Wrap and CJR

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:

Google TV Is a Tough Sell Among Would-Be Partners — Google Inc. is launching a campaign to line up TV networks' support for its new Google TV software, but many remain reluctant to partner with a service that encroaches on their turf. — The service will allow people to watch and search cable …

Discussion: Fortune

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

Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Apple And Google Set To Capitalize (And Compete) On Internet TV

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

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, Crain's New York Business, Local Media Watch, Forbes, eMedia Vitals and Lost Remote

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

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, Nxtblog and MinOnline

Marc Cooper / Online Journalism Review:

Choose Your Multimedia Tools Strategically: Story is Still King — By Marc Cooper: If everyone who has a hammer sees a world made only of nails, do reporters who know Illustrator think the world is one big infographic? — Choosing the right tool to tell the right story is one of the greatest challenges …

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, MediaPost, VentureBeat, Digital Daily, MediaPost, Engadget, The Wrap, Company Town, Gizmodo and Hollywood Reporter, 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 …

Lee Margulies / Los Angeles Times:

Dr. Laura to leave radio amid N-word controversy — Schlessinger, under fire since using a racial slur on her radio show, won't renew her contract. ‘I want my 1st Amendment rights back,’ she says, citing threats. — “I want my 1st Amendment rights back, which I can't have on radio without …

Discussion: The Wrap, Speakeasy, Media Decoder, Media Matters for America, Cal Coast News, New York Observer, Politics Daily, MultiCultClassics and Associated Press

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 …

David Bauder / Associated Press:

Survey of viewers shows extent of TV time shifting — NEW YORK - If you've never time-shifted a prime-time television series — watched it later on a DVR, over the Internet or ordered it on demand — you're now in the minority. — A survey of viewers conducted on the eve …

Discussion: Media Buyer Planner

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:

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 …

Discussion: Techdirt, Public Knowledge, rbr.com, Gizmodo and PlagiarismToday

Matt / HyperlocalBlogger:

TwitZip: Twitter's Unofficial Hyperlocal News Network — This is brilliant. Ever heard of TwitZip? It's a network of hyperlocal Twitter accounts, each one based on local ZIP codes, that sends out tweets around the clock with the latest news from that zip code.